The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-02-22
CASUALTIES.

Gathered From Around the
! Tho hens may now b, said to
have "settin" ways.
The "Jamaioa" ginger drinkers
have been numerous quantity
lately.
The Carrie V, Sun and the Jesse
are out on the shore high and dry
at NIiddleport. They are in danger.
There is free location at Le-
tart for parties who will put up a
Touring mill at that place.
Some of our towns have been SO
peaceable and quiet many tax-pay-
ers wonder why they were ever in
oorporated.
Tho Virginia is tied to the Mid
dleport wharf boat, not too secure.
All the boats were safe enough un-
til the water recededs
Owing to this weather the entire
river bend has been in state of
monotonous desuetude for n week
or more.
There is a 20 foot vein of fire
clay on the old Roots tract of land
at Mason City, awaiting the com
ing of that man who has the ma
tive industry to develop it.
The most terrified man we know
of is Prof g. @. Wagner, of the
New Haven schools; can't get home
to SEQ his new born at Letlrt, Ohio.
Quilting bees are quite the thing
among the women country folks
these days, and you can hear their
merry laugh far above the jingle
of the sleigh bells as they come
and go.
The Ohio closed at Paden's Tues
day morning early, and the floating
ice is now gorged up over Letart
Falls and to the head of tho Is
land They are walking the river
at Letart.
The people of Antiquity might
as we'll be on the Fijee Islands SO
far as any communication with the
outside world is concerned, they
can't remember how far back it's
been since they had any mail.
When you make my little grnvelet,
Dig it very, very deep,
And tuck me in with caution for my
last and snoreless sleep
For I'd be free from trouble by the
man who wants to know,
If think twill soon be warmer or if
colder it will grow.
Stock has suffered intensely from
cold, and much from lack of feed.
Many farmers have lost from ono.
third to onc-half Of their young
lambs because of their gross neg
lcct in not having provided suitn-
BILE protection for them.
a man with hair five feet long,
beard five feet long, language un-
Ineligible, origin unknown, and
requiring twelve men to hold him
was captured up in jackson
county last Sunday; thought to
have escaped from Meigs county,
Ohio.
No regret will come up if the
many floating palaces of sin that
are always allowed to lie tied uE
along the shores below Middleport
arc swept away when the ice moves.
Why the authorities always allow
ed them to harbor there, has been
query to respectable society.
Poor, Ann Bailey, the heroine
of the KnnNwha Valley, lies buried
over in Gallia county, o., back of
Gallipolis; her grave neglected and
unmarked Her remains should
be taken up and inferred at Point
Pleasant, and suitable monument
reared TO Ler memory.
Miss Laura Weigand, aged about
% years, daughter of Mrs. TiIlie
Weigand, of Letart, died in Wheel.
ing, where she was employed as a
domestic in a private family, and
her remains were brought home
Monday night and inferred in tho
cemetery on Wednesday. Funeral
from the home Of her mother.
Cause of death fever
One of our debating societies
wrestled all night the other night
in discussion on the Prohibition
question. We don't know which
side camo off with the palm, but
are of opinion both sides exhausted
all their eloquence and both we're
victorious. If there is one thing
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