Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1875-09-04
Our Own State.
Henry f. Baker has been appointed a Notary
Public for Grant County by Gov Jacob.
State Senator Dickinson's health is declin-

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cd down as G certainty.
Boone has a new postoAico "CoOn's Store,
with Esau Coon as master.
The Harrison County Fair will be held on
the I s, and 9th.
TAe value of real estate aud personal prop
erty in Wheeling is Sl4, 800, 900.
The Monongalia Ovorseers of the Poor have
contracted for twenty acre farm at $1,000.
\ new hotel is to be erected at the White
Sulphur Springs to cost $4,000.
Braxton County is to have an Iron Furnace
for the manufacture Of pig iron.
Corn twelve feet high was grown in Monon-
gala County.
The West Virginia State debt amounts to
about s per copite.
John George, an INDECENT young man from
Coalsburgh, died at the Alexandria, Va, In
Urinary last week
Union, Monroe County, has just received new
street lamps from Baltimore. They are tired
of darkness.
Mr. Hill is the County Superintendent of
Kanawha County for two years beginning
January !, 1876.
Two frame houses on Virginia street,
Charleston, were destroyed b. fire on Tuesday
night week.
Napier's Ridge is the recently established
pcstoflice in Wayne. Pat Napier is master Of
tbs post.
John Smith 10 carrying on lumber operations
on Lick Greek, Monroe County. lie ships
walnut lumber 10 England.
Mr.. John Hall, Of Wheeling, and Miss
Maggie Reed, of Pease Township, have passed
on the sea Of ma;rimony. Bon Voyage.
Arrangements are being made for building
a Southern Methodist church aud Masonic ball
combined, at Fayetteville.
Burglars entered the residence Of Rev Mr..
King, in Marshall County, recently, and stole
bis pocket-book containing So.
The stockholders Of the Little Kauawha
bridge have agreed to sell their charter 20 the
county so that free bridge may be erected.
T. r. Throsber, Of Monroe County, was
Killed in aa alteration with Woodson Harvey
On the 22nd ult.
At Wheeling on Monday bank Of earth
caycd in on a small son Of Mr. Charles Kin
dleberger resulting in immediate death.
Rev. Henry Wissler, Of Duncannon, Pa, is
elected to the Passionate Of the MechauicstOwn
Charge Of the Reformed church, lately served
by Rev. n L. Gids.
Rev James A. Latane, formerly Of Wheel
ing, organized a reform Episcopal Church in
King aud Queen County, Virginia, recently.
The Kauawha County Poor House farm be-
came so poor that the County Court sold 1t TO
the Sheriff, for less than oue-hal Of what it
cost
Elder C1e announces that the Lewisburg
District Conference, NJ Il. Church, South, will
be held on the 9Th prox =, at HillsbOro, IN Poca-
hontas County.
A terrapin has been discovered in Preston
County on the back Of which is marked " \
f., 1916" making it sixty years since marked.
There is no idea how old 1t is.
Four mills on the dollar, says the Wheeling
Standard, is the rate of city taxation the en-
/ suing fiscal year as fixed By the Second Branch
OF Council.
A woman named Carrie Sims was outraged
at Bridgeport, by twelve men on Saturday
night as She was returning from Tie Circus at
Wheeling. Some Of the parties have been ar
rested.
On Thursday, at Jef'crsonyillc, Indiana,
Nancy Mckee shot and fatally wounded llensy
j. Louttcr, Of gainesville, West Virginia
She says he failed in his promise to marry her
Hon. J. Proctor Knott, of Kentucky who
made lbe famous Duluth speech while IN Con-
gress. will deliver the address at the Martins
burg fair this season.
A company has been organized and intend
to build, right away, large rolling mill and
blast furnace at the mouth of Davis Creek,
four miles below Charleston
Godfrey Shaflcr, Of Barbour County, was
killed near Danyiile, Oh Thursday week whilst
thrcshiug wheat, by being drawn into the ma
chine by lis Shirt sleeve.
a Granger in trouble. During tie perfor-
mauco Of Bamum's Circus at Wheeling on
Saturday night, Fred Granger fred several
pistol shots, which caused eXci,lucut aud he
was arrested aud duly fined.
Mr.. Burt Whitson, formerly Of Hartford
County, Nd, died near Martinsburg, W. Va.
on the 27th ut., in the SD year Of bis age
Mr.. WLitson was highly respected, and was q
soldier in the war Of 1912.
The people Of Pocahontas polled a large
vote against the school levy thisyear because OIL
q" the general incGiciency Of teachers and the
buuglng shape the Legislature has got the
school law into
Lincoln County claims the finest courthouse
in the State. & was built by N. ". Rusk, Of
/ Charleston, aud cost Sll5 Lincoln hasn't
been to Charlestown lately. jefferson has th,
finest.
J. II. Diss Debar, Of Pafkersburg, has been
in the Valley for some time soliciting material
aid for the hand book Of West Virginia. lie
desires to place it in the archives Of tie Cen
tennial Exposition, at Philadelphia.
Work on the New Bridge over the Little
Eanawhl commenced last week aud we are
Informed, is to lie completed on or before the
/ 9th Of November next
Hon. VIM c. Brown, Of Kingwood, Marion
/ County, was recently attacked by internal
henorriaee and came 50 near bleeding TO death
that his relatives were called in t. bid hin
their last farewell He is now couyalescent
Chinese is to lie taught at a Wheeling select
school Tie girls are determined to lie nc
longer ignorant 81 what Is written Oh fire.
cracker packs aud tea chests They intend to
take it to the next Legislature Of West Vir-
ginia.
From the Weston Democrat we learn that
Isaac Perkins, Ellis Perkins and David Wise,
have been indicted in Braxton County for the
murder of Jemima Green, announced some
time since Two Of the parties have been ar
rested and are now in Jail.
During the fiscal year ending Nav 3ls,