Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1875-09-11
Gleanings.
Ny boots are new, my carriers too,
Nv "pull-back's" fit is splendid,
For, thanks to pins, nv dress begins
Inst where EKe's costume ended.

per in Washington.
The Spelter Refinery works at Elizabeth, \.
J., are burned Loss, $4,000.
4 late War Department order prohibits pie
MICS held, or refreshments yended 10 national
cemeteries.
New Jerseys defauting treasurer is over
fltv. His ruin is attributed to bad women
aud ditto whiskey.
The publishing houses Of Lee & Shepard, OF
Boston, and Lee, Shepard & Dillingham;, oil
New York, have suspended. The Liabilities
are estimated at half million
Ruskin says man should learn three things:
What kind Of 4 world be lives in; how to get
through it; and some knowledge Of the way
to get out Of it.
Tom Thumb is a successful yachtman, his
boat, the Maggie T., winning the second prize
"a silver punch bowl, at the Oak Bluff Conn
regatta.
Hon. Gideon Weles, Secretary of the Navy
under President Lincoln, has published an
elaborate article to prove that New Orleans
was captured by Admira! Farragut, aud not
10y Admiral Porter
Edwin Booth is engaged for the Washington
stage this fall He will be the first member
of the Booth family on the Washington boards
since Lincoln was assassinaled.
Tie now famous maxim" In necessary
things unity, in doubtful things liberty, IL all
things charity lis one that Richard Baxter
dug ont OF an obscure German treatise by Ru-
pert Medcnus on the peace Of the church
It has been decided 10y the Treasury De-
partment that the new national bank notes
Shall be printed on silk fibre paper, that mate
rial being considered a good device against
conterIeitlng.
Some Of the New York physicians attribute
the marked decrease in the death rate in tina.
city within the last three weeks to the heavy
rainfall arguing that it has cleaused the city
aud carried away many Of the seeds Of disease.
Flch,er, the actor, it is said, lives like a
travelling prince. The best rooms in the hotels
are often not good enough for him, while his
bills for wines branles, beer, and extra dishes
with ali meals in rooms aud special waiter
in attendance, are said TO 6e enormous.
Rev. Cornelius Springer, familiarly called
" Bishop Springer" one of the Oldest and most
prominent members of the Methodist Protest
and church, us well as one of the leading hor-
ticulturists in that section Of the country, died
near Z,nesville, Ohio, recently, in the S5th
year OF his age.
DR.. Lnderman, Of the Mint, has left San
Francisco for Washington. lie will stop at
/ Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis and Cincinnati
to determine upon site for the new mint to
be located in the Mississippi valley, IN accord
aHce with the act passed ii tie last session 81
/ Congress.
! Wednesday night week 4 heavily loaded
/ train from the National camp meeting at Yves
I lev Grove near Goshen, " Y, while on the
/ way to Kingston, broke through a rotten
/ bridge near Shawaugunk station Five Of the
I ears went down an embaukment and twenty
/ five persons were injured, a few seriously.
The explosion Of the bank of California,
! whose basis was specie has produced the blind
/ stagser5 among the buIionists. All that the
/ New York Tribune, that able newspaper,
/ which is rarely at loss for arguments, can
say. is that the lesson Of that failure is not
/ Que of finance but of morals
The Memphis 4oalancteannouuces the death
| in that city of VIM b. Greenaw, Sr., native
of WeStmoreland county, Va, born in 1914
/ lie was one Of the most enterprising men OF
the place. His wife died about year ago in
/ Virginia, ard be leaves two sons
The Ecsning Missouri Republican st. Louis)
reaches Us, handsome il appearance and OF
sterling literary merit. Stanley Waterloo
runs It's editorial mill, as one can tell from
about the first paragraph that dawns from lis
second page: Girls can't get the form much
more beautifully outlined to the naked eye,
but they'll do it OF break something. -CoYi-
til,
Commissioners of Schuylkill county, Pa.
Patrick Conroy, Valentine Beuher and Moses
uine convicted of neglect and corruption in
the discharge Of their official duties are each
sentenced 10 two years imprisonment aud
| 81 900 fine, aud the embezzed funds to be re-
turned to the county treasury. The Keystone
State is practiciug at Reform.
1t is a newspaper axiom that when the
times are dull, that is the time to advertise
II business lags, the true rule for the merchant
is 10 90 after it aud summon it to new life
This is more surely done by liberal advertising
as some Of the dealers have found out, aud as
more will discoverif they adopt the specific
which always sharpeus the edge Of dulncss.
LBrooLya Argas.
The proprietors Of paper in Maine have
complained to the Postmaster General that
their papers have been opened in post Offices
aud republican campaign documents folded
inside and delivered to subscribers. The Post
master General asks proof IL order to dismis,
those officers who are guilty of an otieuSc
which he charlcterizeS as in direct violation
of department rules aud Of deceucy.'
Margaret Foley, the American sculptures il
Rome. was once employed in a Lowell factory
One day, the overseer, Walter Wright, dis
covered Der whiting an acorn out Of chalk
He stopped and asked her where Der mode
was. g 10 my head, was her reply. Then
this is no place for you, said Mr.. Wright
He persuaded Ter to leave and let him send
her to school In that way she received AeI
} start.
Hon. R. Holland DUEL, Of New York, has
been appointed Commissioner of Patents by
the President, vice Thatcher, resigned. Mr.
Duell is a lawyer by profession, and from 1856
to 1853 was United States district attorney oi
Cortland county, New York. lie was county
nudge from 1855 10 1889 and represented The
18th district Of his State in the seth, S7tb, 52I
and 45I Congresses. lie is about 81 years OIL
age.
The Roman Catholic priests in the neigh
5orhood Of MoristowB, y. j., from tbeil
pulpits on Sunday last, called upon each Cath
+ olic voter to scratch four Of the proposed
amendments TO the state oonst tuition. These
relate to the public schools. f,rbiddiug the APP
preparation OF public moneys for scctarian III
situations. There is considerable excitement
a.