The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-24
FAYETTE
Col. BrOomsedge Tells Of Wicked
est County of West Vir-
ginia.

Slu1d.
Fayette county in the valley of
the Great Kan4wha has the repu-
tation of being the most utterly
utter corner of the commonwealth
of West Virginia 1t is land
of high hills and deep valleys of
coal mines and smoky towns, of
Roanoke niggers and general mis-
behavior
The first sight, while in search
of hotel, was carpenter shoot
ing iuto beard How'd" WAS
his salutAuon as 1 came along. Il
broke the point off of my three
eight Auger bit aud Tm boring the
holes with a Harrington. And
then .itAs- gOad way 70 keep in.
practice. Kill two birds at the
same time you see. 1t beats driv-
ing tscks. Sometimes you need a
gun in this country" But this in
PRODUCTION was tame to what soon
followed. At the hotel entrance
was a shoe black boy trying with
pailing to pry apart the legs of a
man whose attention he wanted to
secure and whose shoes he wanted
to shine. He got the mans atten-
tion, for the next moment the boy
was pitched into the middle of the
road and the man was run into by
bike The vehickle was immedi
ately upset and the rider went into
free for all scrimmage, the secon
Diary result being that the rider
came out second best. No arrests
were made.
DO you people allow suoh fight.
ing as that?" l asked.
On, we fiue them if the squire
and constable have been loosing at
poker or are short on drinks But
they We had good run of luck this
week, and l suppose they don't
want to coin very bad, was the
landlords reply.
Where's the mayor?' 1 then
asked.
why, he don't make no account
of suoh little scrap as that. Fsot
is, when couple OF fellows want
to settle difficulty. they generally
go into the mayors back lot and
have it out He rents the lot for
that purpose at a dollar a fight.
That thing is we'll understood
among us people here. But you
see the mayor is busy just now
getting up lynching bee. There
he comes now"
The mayor knocked with his No.
10 shoe on the door of neighbor.
ing house and woman presently
appeared.
Mrs Redhair. we want your
clothes line to lynch another mig.
ger with"
You can't have it till you pay
me the dollar you promised me
the last time you used it. And
then l want pay in advance this
time. You generally bring it
back full of dirt and l haye it to
clean"
well. you're about right, OBJ
served the guardian of the law
Here's the two dollars Yours is
the first rope we used in a neoktie
party that didn't break
want to be showed to your
room?' now asked the landlord.
The proposition was agreeable
and l was taken to an upstairs
room with two windows wide open.
Don't walk very hard in yon
corner of the room," said the r.an.
There's trap door under the car
pet l havn't had time to fix yet.
Over there WAS a man fell thro into
the bar room and knocked over
keg of beer and over a gallon ran
out. 1t made the boys so mad to
see the beer wasted that they drew
their guns and went to popping at
him. They took off an end of his
ear and skinned several her
places. L had to send him to the
doctor and pay the bill That took
the profit off. 1 was 8, veral dol
lars out besides the beer"
but your floor squeaks tremen-
dously l said Won't that dis
turb the boys and send them to
shooting up thro the floor"
"Oh, I've looked out for that.
There's double layer of two inch
oak plank under the carpet. Bull.
let's won't go thro them"
Thus assnrad rranE - g.