The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-09-06

LnlI6Ly may uElnh W Iu0IE bdIl6lbC-
ton, and raise subscription and
purchase and send to the grounds
several wagon loads of water-mel-
ons. This will be treat to DIR
visitors, and one that they will APP
probate.
A BAD WRECK
On the Chesapeake and Ohio,
at Russell, Ky.
RUSSELL, KY.-Sept. "a dis
astrous wreck occurred on the Lex
ington division of the O. 81 o., at
3 O'Clock yesterday morning. Two
passenger trains had head on
collision at the depot and both en-
gines and a number of oars are to-
tai wrecks The engineers were
both killed. Their names are o.
l.. Robinson and Ernest Wheeler,
and both lived at Huntingdon
The firemen saved themselves by
jumping, both were injured. a.
M. Sharp, road foreman, who was
riding on one of the engines was
badly hurt. Several passengers
were more or less injured.
"The area of West Virginia is
$4,000 square miles and 10000
square miles of that area is of
coal land. There is in the aggre-
gate eighty-nine feet of coal
measures above the water level.
The veins of coal range from
twenty-six inches to twenty three
feet in thickness, and our output
of coal last year was 100000
long tons of 2,24O pounds to the
ton. Gov. Atkinson.
When drummer goes on the
road and makes a success of it, the
house almost invariably calls him
in. The drummer, as rule takes
this as compliment, but some
times it may mean that he needs to
be watched over just little to de.
eide whether to discharge him OF
not.
Tyler county has as yet failed to
secure a commissioners to re-assess
her real estate. Three persons who
were rot applicants have been APP
pointed by the court but they have
refused to accept the appointment,
claiming that the maximum remun-
Grafton is not sufficient for the
work required.
The Point Pleasant Register will
soon be fat and forty. 1t has en-
tered upon its 38th year. We wish
you political misfortune and finan-
cial success Winfield Irrepressi-
BILE.
The absorption of the West Vir-
ginia and Pittsburg railroad by the
B. & o. will result in changes and
extensions. There will be new
route from Clarksburg to Weston,
the present containing too many
steep grades, and the b. 81 o.. is
considering an extensionito Char
lesion or Gauley so as to connect
with the Chesapeakeand Ohio. All
of which is but another. link in the
marvellous railroad activity in West
Virginia this year.
The laws of Mexico provide that
a Mormon who wishes to take a
second wife must present certifi-
cate signed by his first helpmate to
the effect that she is willing, and
he must also have the express con-
sent of the second wife and her
parents.
Every thoughtful man, says an
exchange, whose observation of
man and things is valuable; every
man who was obliged 'to rely upon
himself for advancement, whose
aspiration has been high enough
and his will strong enough to adj
vance himself; every man who re-
cognizes the ladder by which he
climbed, and is not ashamed to nc
knowledge he was once at the bot
tom round, has good word for the
home paper, which is the barome-
ter of business and the artery
through which it is increased and
kept alive.
When man can persuade a girl
to go in bathing with him he has
good reason for believing he is in
the swim with her if he can man
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