Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1875-08-07
Editorial lettings.


An article on Meddlers will appear next
week
The Richmond Whig bemoans the extinc-
ton of yirgiuia's cdd characters.
The same paper speaks of George Eliot as
hin. Is the sex accurately stated ?
Judge Barret, has refused to release Tweed
or reduce his bail. Poor old Boss, thy cup is
FULL
C. B. Lewis, Esq, the funny man Ofthe De-
trOit Free Press is publishing isjOkes il book
form.
Miss Cash, Of Washington, is said to be the
best swimmer at Cape May. All cash emana-
ting from Washington nowadays floats easily
The Wheeling Registers eronaut went up
in balloon last week to find the Easterly
Current and may yet be sailing in space.
The Hughesyille, Pa, Enterprise has abjured
Independentsm and entered the Democratic
fold. The Hagerstown T'cice-G- Heck has done
likeriSe.
A correspondent Of the Courier Journal sug-
gests that Gen. Hickencooper of Cincinnati, or
E. NJ. Coe of Fultonham, Ohio, can throw light
on the Who Burned Columbia controversy
Well, let's have it,
A crossing has been pnt ever the uorth-e east
gutter at the corner of Twenty-ffth and Chap
line Streets W heeling Standard.
Northeast gutter! That's good, neghbor,
very good. indeed
Miss Newton, Of Delaware, poisoned herself
the other day because her mother mispro-
uouuced a word in the presence Of company.
Seusitiveness brought down to a fine point,
decidedly That daughter must have been
fresh from bee " with a spell on her.
The Parkersburg Times and Gazette men
tons our valuable paper with other of its ex
changes, as coming quite irreguarly. We re-
greet that our paper does not always promptly
reach all for whom i. is especially
such as note its non-receipt.
Arguing from the "avidity with which
the Capitol Bonds were all taken up, the
Wheeling Register processes to see little of
the silver lining to these ere clouds. Not
much, friend To quote our Parkcrsburg
neighbor-
We see no prospects as long as capitalists
do not invest their money 10 manufactures or
home trade giving employment to the many
mechanics and labOrers who are without work
and means to earn a living"
The Petersburg Star relates that horse
committed suicide on James river He walked
out to the pierhead Of the wharf, and, looking
around as ifchoosiug a spot, Jumped into the
river at point where the water was deepest,
and held his head under until the vital spark
had fed 1t really makes us hoarse. swallow
ing this.
The past week has been bad one for great
characters Among its dead are Andrew
johnson Gen. Geo. E. Pickett; Ri. Rev.
Connass Thirlwall, of st. Davd's, London
Geo. II Mumford, of the Western Union Tee-
graph Singer, the Sewing Machine inventor ;
Mrs Celia Burlegh, the Woman Suffrage ag-
tator, and Morgan John O'Counell, a nephew
of the deceased Irish Liberator.
The Wheeling Register is informed by J II.
Good Esq, chairman of the Burdett-Bennett
Impeachment committee of the Legislature,
that a meeting has been called for Tuesday,
August 18th, at Charlestown, jefferson county,
for the taking Of testimony, &c. The commit
tee consists of Good, OF Ohio Mason, of JEFF
fersou Hutchinson, of Wood; Carlyle, of Har-
rison; Stuart, of DOddridse; and ten others
whose names we have forgotten.