West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-06-15

ton for hospitality, and will be glad
to welcome the West Virginia edi-
tors within her walls" Our ex-
changes viii please make note of
the time of meeting, July 13th) so
there may be no mistake among the
Craft 'Feston Republican.
We hope you don't mean, within
the great stone walls cover beyant."
A shooting scrape came off at
Pennsboro, a few days ago, in
which Billy Horner shot Jasper
Taylor in the hand and shoulder
whisky, of course, was at the bot
tom OF the affair,-Ritchie Gazette.
Yes, and whisky's at the bottom,
top, and middle of nine-tenths of all
lawlessness.
One of our leading merchants, in
conversation with the editor few
days ago, said that the action of the
Commissioners in refusing to grant
license had already injured our
trade to the amount of thousands of
dollars, and he is, by the way, a
strong temperance Enthusiastically
Visitor.
Well venture the guess that that
Temperance man" is in active SYM
pathy with the Temperance reso-
lutions," passed by the Beer Con-
gress, recently in session in Chi
cago.
Twenty students from an institu-
ton at Charlottesville, Ind, accom-
panied by their Professor, spent
Tuesday in this city. They were
en- route for Kanawha Falls and vi
cinity, where they contemplate
spending several weeks making ge-
illogical Investigations. We ac-
knowledge a friendly call from
number of the party.-Htntington
Paper.
West Virginia is destined soon to
become famous as a resort for excur-
sionists, seeking pleasure, health,
scientific knowledge, &c, as well as
for those who come for happy
homes and wealth and to stay.
A great many good citizens of
Grafton are getting anxious to know
to what extent the liquor-trafiic here
is going to be carried to. They are
anxious to know also, what public
officials whose duty it is to look after
these matters, are doing. The illicit
traffic in whisky is daily on the in
crease, Why is there no effort
made to check the extreme state Of
affairs? There has got to be a halt
called somewhere Grafton Sentinel
The lawless traffic will always
go to such limit as the people will
allow, and it does seem that some
communities permit the curse to
TO be carried to most intolerable
extent before they can be aroused
to the sense and courage to object.
1t is the peoples fault if you have
drunkenness and lawlessness. If
the officers are worthless, it is the
peoples fault that they are worth
less. They should elect better.
An incident of the recent floods
in the West was the lifting of a
church from it's foundation by the
water. In the steeple was bell,
and as the building rocked on the
current, the tolling could be heard
above the crashing Of ice-felds and
the roar Of the flood. Youths Com
pa1alon.
The Point Pleasant Register says:
The Luella and Wall City are car
rying passengers from Middleport
to Ravenswood for ten cents.
No use, captains. You can't stop
our railroads with that sort of tenn
porary naval nonsense.
In the Mohammedan schools for
girls, recently established at Beyrut,
Syria, in rivalry of the Christian
school there, among the branches
taught, one is-"the improvement
of the temper" 1t would be well
to introduce this branch into all
nnr schools -ReLini01Ls HernLd