The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-10-26
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about grave yards and other places
of the dead at all hours of the
night of the darkest and gloom-
lest, misty and rainy nights of the
world, just to look purposely for
ghosts, and never could find one.
This midnight wanderer or won
derer, which ever he Is, had been
down the night before where a
drowned man had been buried
about so years ago, just beolw and
opposite the Letart Falls, and who
the people said had been getting
up out of his grave and starking
about at nights in his old clothes,
soaring the wits out of everybody
passing along. There was sing
ular coincidence happened about
the uIstanoes of tbs man. He
was an employe on big Pittsburg
tow boat that tied up below the
Falls and laid there all one sum
mer, unable to stem the rapids,
and while thus lying there. this
man with mallet and chiseI carved
his name on a huge rock near the
rivers edge with the American
flag above II. Soon after the river
came up and the boat passed on
up stream. In week or such mat
ter man, drowned, was found in
the drift lodged in against this
big rock. and on investigation it
was found that on his arm was tat
tooed the same name and flag, as
upon the rock. The man was
Union soldier and had been lost
overheard from the boat and
caught up by the rock bearing his
name He was buried under the
shelf of an over-hanging rock near
by, and large black cross painted
on the rock marked the place of his
resting. Here his remains lay un-
claimed for years, till the train of
Government wagons came through
and took up his remains and bore
them off to our State National
Cemetery at Grafton, in the upper
part of the state, where peace be
to his ashes. His remains were
never claimed by any other than
the nation. Where he first slept
the o. R. R. is now laundering
along by day and night, and what
passers-by took for ghosts were
nothing but jack o'lanterns pass
ing in the night.
Not everybody knows it, but the
people who drive up and down the
river road by Graham Station, pass
directly through and over the
graves of an old cemetery near by
the cross roads. No tombstones
now mark the place of graves,
they having been torn down long
years ago. but dead lie buried there
yet, and no one thinks any more
of them these days in passing
along over them. nor do they think
of ghosts, any more.
There is a squeeze in the Flint |
Hill mines at New Haven and
many of the miners have refused
to work there. The mines ere
long will probably be abandoned.
The striking miners at Syracuse
have gone to work again for less
wages than they struck for.
The caving off of the river bank
above Letart, Ohio, discloses what
was once an Indian burying
ground. Several mounds are near
by and a skeleton and some relics
have been found.
Peter Bentz and Hall Alexander
of Letart. opposite Letart, Ohio,
are loading produce boat each.
preparatory to going south, in
about two weeks.
Joda Bentz has sold his store
boat and is having another large
one completed at Antiquity, for
trading between Pittsburg and
Louisville
The Cooper District schools
viii open November 1st
The Mason City schools will
have a school library.
Probably Hartford City and New
Haven have the least and poorest
school apparatus and appliances
of any schools in the county.
Johnson's coal miners both of
West Columbia and near Locust
Grove, are getting out great deal
of coal this fall, and farmers for
miles around are driving in and
getting their winters supply.
Farmers everywhere in this end
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