The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-11-03
The Proper Thing.


The county court of Cabelli
county has issued an order com
polling all prisoners in jail guilty
of misdemeanors to work out their
fines on the county roads.
Shooting Scrape.
AT Kanauga Saturday night a
drunken negro entered Capt.
Polsley's store and began behaving
badly, when the Captain ordered
him out of the room, and refusing
to go the Captain threw him out
into the road, when he fell and
called upon bystanders to help
him up. Upon their refusal to as
sist him, he grew violent and
abusive to the bystanders, and
pulling out revolver fourished it
around threatening to kill every
one in sight. At this juncture Mr..
Frank Allen attempted to quiet
him, but instead he leveled his re-
volver at Allen, who in return and
to save himself from harm drew his
own revolver and fred but the pis-
toll snapped, the negro all the time
trying to shoot Allen. Mr.. Allen
tried again and this time the pistol
went off striking the negro in the
making very bad woundl
The negro is said to be an employee
of Lock IL. No arrests were made.
There was glorious rainfall
last night and this morning, and
the steamboatmen have broad
smile upon their countenance, and
the dust that has been blowing
from the sandbars into their faces
while navigating the Ohio and Ka-
nawha rivers, on the small craft,
for the past two months, has been
sufficiently dampened by the Co
pious showers, and the only OBJ
struction they are now meeting
with is the large catfish that are
blocking the channel in order to
cleanse themselves of the stagnant
water they have had to endure SO
long.
Tt seems to us to be bad stock
as well as cruel to sell
calves from the farm to butchers
to be slaughtered for market or
shipped to other markets. The
tempting prices offered for veal
calves, seems to be more than the
farmer can withstand, and to get a
few dollars he lets the calves go
from the farm, that ought to be
kept and grazed into fine two and
three-year-old beef cattle, and reap
a good pile of money in return for
the labor of raising them.
No wonder such bad manage
ment keeps SO many farmers hard
up and mortgages on their farms.
The editor has just returned
from a meeting of the Spencer
asylum directors. The institution
is in frst-class condition, and
every member of the board is
highly pleased with the manage
ment of Superintendent L. V.
Guthrie. who is ably assisted by
DR.. e. Dodson. The inmates are
clean, well cared for and quiet
prevails all over the building.
The demeanor of the attendants is
commendable, and they perform
their respective duties with an eff
ficiency that comes only from long
experience. Although sufficient
water to supply the Institution is
obtained with great difficulty, the
building and grounds are kept
clean and in good condition. B.
L. Slack, the clerk, has demon
strated his fitness for the position
by the careful and correct manner
in which the accounts of the in
stitution are kept.-The Weston
World.
The plumbing and heating work
has been completed in the j.
Friedman & Co. building, and was
accepted this morning. The
entire building is to be heated by
hot water, supplied by large
boiler placed in the basement of
the magnificent building. and is an
improvement over the old mode of
heating stores in this city. and
should be adopted by others.
Our people do not seem to real
ize the Importance of manufacture
ing industries and the advantages
~ ia.