Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1876-01-29
Editorial lettings.


Mr. Beck Of Kentucky and Mr. Lamar of
Mississippi is result very satisfactory to Tie
public at large.
Butter will remove tar spots, soap and wa
ter will atterward take out the grease stain.
Such items as the above the Charleston Jour
Ra' classides under " Grains Of Gol1I'
Lyuchburg is joining hands with Baltimore,
Washington, Trenton and other places in fight
ing the outrageous gas mOnopolies existing in
these places.
ExGov. Francis Thomas, Of Maryland, late
Minister to Peru, while walking on the track
Of tie Baltimore and Ohio Railroad near his
home at Fraukyille. Garrett county, Saturday
afternoon, was struck by an engine and Instant
ly killed
The Baltimore Gazette sees something SIN
suIarly happy in the election and recent iu-
stalla,ion Of Governor Carroll: After years of
scclusiou The descendants of Charles Carroll Of
Clrrol'tou again step to the front to assume
the leadership in My Maryland
Lightning" an exchange reminds us,
"ueyer strikes twice in the same place And
vet Grant IS foolish enough to think that he
knows a place in which it is going to strike for
the third time COTier-JomHdi
Bat, then, its Jersey Lightning" that his
Exce,cacy is thinking of.
Ia 1878 Grant sail 10 his message re-
new my previous recommendation to Congress
for general amnesty. The number engaged in
the late rebellion yet laboring under disabIi-
ties is very small, but enough TO keep up a
constant irritation. No possible danger can
accrue to the government by restoring them to
eligibility 70 hold Office.
Tue Park Commissioners Of Druid Hill Park,
Baltimore. have determined to ask the Legisla-
lures permission to establish a biological col
lection in the park for the instruction and
recreation Of the people We know nothing
Of the instruction, embraced in this wise pro-
grammo, but if any Of the aforesaid zoolosicals
were to escape some fine day, our word tor it;
the recreatiye portinu Of the intended measure
would be fulfilled to its very letter 10y the
people present.
C.. X. lands, whose trial for the Carruth
murder isnow progressing at Bridgeton, y. j.,
viii, it Is said, try TO make two points under
which his counsel hope to save him: Firts
that surgical interference was the sole cause Of
Carru;h's wound lin the head proving fatal
and Second that, for years past the murderer
has been subject to fits Of alteration, disease
Inherent with his family The emotional iu-
sanity dodge, then, is again looming up
BeecLor's lately famous expression rcciting
his earnest wish to be gathered unto his father
Is to be found in q. WHITE Nelyilles charm
ing novel Maud or Nina PIP. rs. The
conscieuce-stricken Dorothea, laden down with
sjn-aud scanty clothing, remarks to &" dark
flowing river" on the brink Of which She
stands 80, wish was dead wish WAS
dead. But not Just then docs she shanlc OF
this mortal coil.
The Louisville C0wier-Jognal says Charles
Francis Adams is said to be worth $4,000 600.
And yet some people blame him for being AZ
istocratic. Give uine-teuths Of US two nil
lion, aud half each, and the poor man who
darcs to come betwixt the wind and our uobil-
ity lal better been born a dog than answer
our walked wrath Give almost any man you
chance to meet that much Of tn Jeggarly
elements Of the world, as the wealthy preach
ers call it, aud in passing under cloud tue
mex, day he would instiuctively stoop to keep
from knocking his hat of.
The Independent thinks that Mr. Faulkner
should remember Martinsburg and her inter-
es,s While ia Washington and try to turn some /
Of tle capital, lying loose around the metrop-
oils every session, towards Berkeley. It ven
.ares tie assertion that men eau he found
with not near Mr.. rs experience, to say moth /.
ius Of ability, who will manage during one I
term ofservice in Congress TO establish two, if /.
Do, three, manufactures in Mar,iusburg, with .
outside capital that will be Of iucalcuhJie ad- .
vantage to the people Of the whole country. .
Yes, and while serving local interests. how
would the higher and more important State
interests prosper?
Ifwhat the Independent says be true, that
inferior men could accomplish SO much, pro-
badly each congressional district had better
hunt up such and send them to Washington,
aud each term Of congress would result 10 the
establishment Of six to uiue hundred mauulac-
tories Any Of our school-boys can approx
mate ,lo number Of manufacturing establish
ments the country could boast and attribute
TO congressional activities, by the time another
Centennial rolls around, if such men as the
aforesaid editors should be chosen TO occupy
congressional seats aud give their iuexpcri-
euce, 30 say nothing Of ability" to tic gather
ing q the " outside capital which Irs around
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