Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1870-03-07
Pummeryism.

Ile worst sold man IN America HFes ~
Lafayette, Indiana. lie has been winding up
clock every night for seventeen years, and
last week, by accident, found cut that !, was
an eight-day clock.
A man in Michigan who shot a stranger
because he didn't give him all the side walk,
has been sentenced to prison two years aud
half Numbering is getting so cheap that the
poorest people eau indulge in it.
On an Indiana railroad train woman was
given a whole car to herself. She had under
the seat jar Of sour-krout, and the passengers
couldn't stand the smell, One man got out,
saying lie never had been vaccinatcd. He
thought the woman had the smallpox.
At lawsuit in Crawforlsville. Ind, the
principal witness got drunk and the lawyer
made speech OF several hours duration, to kill
time until the man could get sober enough to
testify. He touched on everything including
the fifteenth amendment, aui finally lis man
came to time.
, After an attack of seventy-eght years Of
matrimony, as couple may set Chicago at de-
isucc Jonathan Buxton, Of Smithfeld, RI,
laws his hand in Saloma's, aud they look back
over their pleasant domesticacy with two souls
with but single thought, and two hearts that
beat as the father aud mother Of q seventy
eight year Old kid
A.. o,.rr-,,,, I'm. a ,,;r, ,.,,,,s, ,,,,p ,tf,
a sheet around him TO scare a Dulchman.
The Teutouic gentleman SAYS " Shust Jump
my wagon out, and vip der gost all tho time
/ would yip him If he was whole graveyard
Some one asked the young man what allied his
black eye, and he said lie had received bad
news from Germany.
Since the story has been told how Judge
Breckenridge married country girl tlat 10
saw lump over rail fence with pail on her
bead, it is said that out in Orange county, all
tue young women are putting walcr-pails on
their heads and jumping rail fences from morn
ing till night. As soon as they see a carriage
come along the road with man in it they
snatch their pail and go for the fence.
There IS a man in Rock county. Wisconsin
81 years of age, who is the father Of a chiIdt
months old
An engineer in a mill in Indiana dosent
wear long English whiskers any more. They
caughtin a shaft revolving 600 times min
ute, the other day, and the result was clean
shave.
Whittier being asked for an autograph tho
other day, a. once complied by penning
The name is but the shadow, which we find
Too often larger than the man behind
THE MouGAN AFFAIR OF FoRTY YEiRs
/ Ado.-1herc is at least one gentleman ia this
city who knows every incident connected with
the abduction and subsequent fate Of Morgan
the Mason. There is no mystery about tie
affair now. 1t is uotimprobable that the en-
tire story will be Laid before the public at some
future day, and so set at rest the spccuIatious
which the writer IN Packard and many others
have wasted their ingenuity upou.-Ne Kor.
Times.
A chap in the interior Of New York IS max
ing money by committing suicide lie goes
to a hotel tells pitiful story Of loss Of funds,
and that be has no one t. love or 70 cares
him, and finally goes 70 lis room aud takes
"piseu' The crowd rush to bis room, give
him an eneic, be throws up the "magncsa,"
a purse is raised for him, and be gees 10 Ito
next town and performs again. This is the
sharpest practice yet and if Dis stomach holds
out he is good for fortune.
4 notable case of death from tight laoins
occurred in Chester. Vt, recently. 50 rcso-
luteIy bad the foolish girl plunged into martyr
dom, tlat after death It was found that herribs
wcro tapped over each other, and that one lulg
had been rendered useless by the pressure of
the brea.t-bone upon it For several months
previous to her death, this poor victim bad been
obliged 70 sleep with corsets on and tightened
to the last notch, for the looseuiDg gave such
pain in the internal expansion that sAe could
not bear it.
"CAEaY ME BACK TO ON vmefyiA. 49,
Some Of the freedmen who lcft Montgomery
County, Va, some time ago % work on farms
and railroads ia the South, have recently -
turned TO their homes, with the declared inlen-
ton Of remaining in yirgiuia. it is tie expo
rioEce, wo believe, Of whites and blacks alike,
who emigraie from Virginia, wi.h the hope Of
bettering their fortunes that they bad better
remain AZ home-Lyachjwg RepuLLcat
Wel,lra uat Sir. Edwin Shumaie has re-
caiyci the appo.ltnen. Of depot Agent from
tle p. s. o. J. r. Company, i3r the depot to
ba crested a: the station near Eewtown. Nr
s. IS just the man for the position active, eGer-
gctic, andof good business capacity 49, Uneies-
Ter SentiHd
u tie Maryland Legislature last wocok, 4
petition was presented from c. r. Wcnner, aad
one hundred other citizens, t. Incorporate
Company to baild Bridge acres the Potomac
River st Berlin, IN that State.
A man IS going about the country passing
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