Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-12-03

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Reeeh,ser ,, 1881
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Neekt;e socia5les are very popular in the
4ir Vest. They usually occur in the open
an and are found very hem?royin'.
Veunor predicts an ugly .DeeemOer.-
What are we to understand from thar con
corning the beautiful saow2'
The Connection; Supreme Court has deci-
ded that limited railroad ticket is worth
less except for the trip between the dates
specified.
The London Spectator says that after the
North won victory over the South it shed
less blood thar any nation so provoked ever
vet had done. Now YOU don't say!
The bar of prominent Washington hotel
sold 1000 WHISTLES straight the past year.
No wondcy legislative wisdom is deteriora-
ting euS that shameful bargains are possi-
Utilities
Che death last week in Philadelphia of
pr. Robert shelton Mackenzie, following
so soon ON the demise Of DR. Holland, will
be painfully appreciated by lovers OF Amer
lean serial literature.
English turfmen can little boast this sea-
son. Thirty-fyc American horses spedover
their tracks one hundred and forty-eight
simes. and eight of 'em won eighteen races
aad ten bagged Sl4So00.
Urged therco By the success of the b. *
ORR. Relief Association, formed some
time since. the Pennsylvania Road will OPP
gauize amoag is employees similar socie-
" and as handsomely ondow It.
Boston is making the wryest sort o. faces
because of its drinking water 3-toot ellis,
weighing 81 pounds, having wrigglcd their
shiny selves into the city, scrv,cc-piPes.-
Esthetic Boston has much Co endure.
The 59th annual report of President Gar
rctt read az the late annual meeting Of t5c
-stockholGers ofthe b. * e.. r.. r.. ut Camden
Station shows the net earnings for the year
20 be Sll.l22. 259.56 andthe expenses $500
6437I. The present officers are reelected.
Aha. And now Missouri IS looking trem-
blingly under the bed forapossiblc Malone.
The carving last Fall of five congressional
districts by the repuolico-greenback coai-
ton is looked back upon now as a warming
ofimpending trouble.
Mrs. Langtry. the peerless beauty of Lon
don. VIII. It's said. make her dehu, on the
stage in New York next month. She has
already won golden opinions i'm private the
atricals. The Jersey Lily viii draw ' im-
mensely-admirers, not critics.
The reaper manufacturers: Mccormick,
ofChicayo lcapital Sl0,OooOooI and White
lev. Of Sg,ingfeld Ohio capital 81 100000,
have pooled ,Ae;ti,,ucs &c coatrol the worlds
trade in scythes and things The Ohio man
never gets left i'm placing his money.
The time and type worn recipe for max
ing pumpkin pie comes up smiling these
crisp DAYS in the domestic column of q me-
tropolitan press. The thing is about played
out. What we want to know Is how 60 freeze
on TO one Of these golden bits of pastry.
The Baltimore SINS Petersburg corres-
ponden. notes Hon. JAS Nee,ou, of Rich
mond. Judge A. d. Dickinson OF Prince Ed
ward. Hon. ". r. Staples, and Capt ID. g..
Hinton Of Petersburg, as probable appoiut-
ees to the Appeals bench. The legislator,
conye1es on the 9Th.
Two American operate stars are about to
take TO themselves mates and hereafter tune
a fragment Of their bird-hkcvoices 90 infant
lullabies. sweet and low: Clara Louise KEEL
logg Is o. mlrry Mr.. Whitney and Annie
Louise Cary "a Mr. Losillari both New
York men. Coi1cideu, their middle names
The Confederate boadhoiler- committee
in London say they intend by per,i~tcutap-
peals % congress and the American public
10 create the opinion that the time has come
for the l4,b amendment constitutional Zee
strictions 20 be removed So far as they pro-
hibit southern States from -ettljug thcirovn
debts
Tn Philadelphia q $1,000 600 enterprise Is
under way for the manufacture %; glucose
sugars doubtful couu,ertcit-by the john
son .aeeharine patent, tou~ewhich 100000
has been paid. With jutteriue. oleoms1ga-
rine. glucose and ,he other limitations an O.
riginal article OF diet vii be q rarity ia o
few years.