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West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-02-01
Neighbors Watching Us.

We clip these extracts from the
Pittsburg Advonce, which is ever on
the alert for prohibition truth and
facts:
Parkersburg voted on the 18th.
The Republicans carried the day
with an average vote of 563. The
Democratic ticket was avowedly for
license. The Republican ticket had
several strong temperance men on
it; otherwise the temperance tick
ct would have carried the day. The
WEST VIRGINIA FREEMAN did yeo-
mans work in the cause.
Keyser had once been "no-li-
cense" town but last year, through
Indifference, had allowed licenses to
be granted, The Mountain Echo,
sent to our table by Mr. John
Clark, shows how the licensed
drink-den brought drunkenness,
deDauchery, strife, and crime to the
place. Keyser voted on the 5th.
Temperance carried the day.
The "no-license" districts compel
respect for the law Wellsburg is
furnishing the violators Of its mo
license" law. Fred Springer was
recently fined $40 and sentenced to
20 days in Jail; Jno. Lewis 800
and 20 days; and A. Hebrank $40
and 20 days. The temperance folks
of West Virginia make prohibition
prohibit.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-02-01
The Irrepressible Conflict.

The conflict against the iniqui-
tons traffic in intoxicating liquors
is irrepressible, and however poll
ticians may parry the question and
try to dodge the issue, it will con-
front them again and again, and
will continue to come up till the
right prevails and the wrong is pro-
hibited.
Governor Foster felt obliged to
discuss the Temperance question in
bis recent message, and while he
discussed it in very weak and I'M
satisfactory way, it is a great deal
that he discussedit at all, for he adj
mits enough in one paragraph to es-
tablish the righteousness and neces-
sity for Prohibition. He says:
Gall good citizens deplore the
evils growing out of the intemper-
ate use of intoxicating liquors. Our
jails, penitentiary, warehouses,
reform-schools, infrmaries, insane
asylums, and other institutions of
like character, are largely made
necessary because of this evil. The
trainers of the organic law recog-
nized this fact, and empowered the
General Assembly to provide
against the evils resulting from the
sale of intoxicating liquors
If whisky controlled no votes, the
irrepressible and aggressive on
slaught against the traffic would at
once become universal, sweeping
and irresistible, and no Legislative
body would allow motion for adj
journment to prevail until they
had outlawed the miserable bust
ness.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-02-01
est diversion Of the Register, which
must suffice for the present:

est diversion of the Register, which
must suffice for the present:
The Legislators might do a good
work for their constituents and In
scribe their own names high on the
roll of honor, by enacting laws reg
ulating cookery in this State. The
frying-pan should be banished from
the kitchen; the filthy hog, with
his leprosy-breeding, scrofula-
spreading, trichina-poisoning,
should be given back seat; soggy
bread and sloppy coffee should be
prescribed; the kitchen girl should
be sent to school Of cookery and
taught the divine art of the prepa-
ration of healthy food. Wine,
which enriches the blood, and the
tonic beer, with rich glass of milk,
should be the drink of the table.
Let greater safeguards be thrown
around the kitchen and the table,
Messrs. Legislators, and the depraved
ssomach5 of your constituents will
cease to yearn for the death-dealing
hell-fre dealt out in the average
grog-shop.
1t would doubtless add much to
the liking of all friends Of the liq-
uor-trafic if this side-show should
draw well but we are very sure a
Legislature of the Ninteenth Cen
fury will hardly legislate wine and
beer to be the drink of tables, in lieu
of yielding to the universal cry of
humanity for the privilege Of vot-
ing out of existence "the death-deal-
ing hell-fre dealt out in the aver
age grog-shop," established by law.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-02-01
Guilty.

On last Wednesday evening the
twelve men who had for seventy
days patiently listened to evidence
and argument in the Assassin's
case, returned as their verdict, awe
the jury find the prisoner, Charles
J. G uiteau, guilty as indicted"
A motion is now pending for a
new trial, which if overruled, will
doubtless be followed by efforts for
an appeal. So the end is not yet.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-02-01
The Funeral of Mr.. C. n. Jones.

In the Huntington Argus we have
the full and sad particulars of the
funeral of Mr.. Charles n. Jones,
whose instant death by railroad
accident is noted in our news col
umns.
1t seems that Mr.. Jones, as en-
gineer, was expecting distractions
on the track and was slowly feeling
his way in the dark, when his en-
CINE running into the slide turned
over, crushing him to instant
death. This happened near Nut
talburg.
A Committee of the Masonic
Lodge of Huntington, going to the
scene of the accident, returned on
Monday with the body of their de-
ceased brother, when the funeral
took place in the Congregational
Church, the large building being
crowded, with many unable to get
inside. The services, conducted by
Rev. NJ. Bib, of Hinton, were sol
emn and impressive. The Argus
closes this sad chapter of sudden
sorrow, with these facts:
"Mr. Jones was born in Hanover
county, Va, in the year 1850, where
he lived until 1868, when he enter
ed the service of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad Company, and
continued therein until his death.
He came among US several years
ago, and by his genial ways, be-
came one of the most popular young
men in our city. About three years
ago he united with the Baptist
Church, and we believe has since
lived consistent Christian life.
He became acquainted with Sal
lie, the adopted daughter of Rev.
w. T. Walker, a most estlmable
young lady, and on the Goth of last
September these two loving hearts
were united in the holy bonds Of
wedlock. They were married four
months when the grim monster
death stepped in and separated
them, and now she is left mourn
er in this vale of tears.
We give these sad particulars be-
cause Mr.. Jones was we'll known
and highly esteemed among our
many readers in the Kanawha Val
ley, and because the grief-stricken
young widow, in her younger years,
was known and universally loved
among the many of our readers in
this section, who were SO fortunate
as to be acquainted with Rev. W.
P. Walkers family,
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-02-01
The Greenbackers Stirring.
Special Dispatch to the Wheeling Register.
PARKERsBURG, Jan. %.

topCCldl IIlSpdtcI W ulie w HeelluS heSiSteI.
PARKERsBURG, Jan. %.
The Greenbackers of this Con-
gressional district will hold con-
vention at Pennsboro, Richie Co.,
Feb. Is, for the purpose of etfecting
an organization Of the party look
ing to vigorous campaign during
the next general election, when
they hope to receive the member Of
Congress from this district. Romeo
Freer, Esq, formerly of your city,
and now a resident Of Calhoun coun-
ty, is in Parkersburg in the inter
est of the Greenback party, and if
all reports are true, is in training
for the Congressional race, subject
of course to the action Of the nomi-
mating power when the proper time
comes. 1t is proposed at this con
vention to appoint speakers and
workers for the cause, and from that
time forward the work will be
pushed call along the line" Our
Greenback friends in this section
are very enthusiastic, and confident
that success will some day crown
their efforts. f.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-02-01

We favor railroad on account of
the rising generation. When a
young man has sweetheart in
neighboring town, and can't get at
her by rail, the chances are that she
will get away from him. A girl
without railroad facilities is an I'M
certain possession.-WstzeJ Demo-
crdt.
Now, boys, for the railroad. AS
you want the girls, don't let the
railroad get away. AS everybody
wants the railroad don't let the
girls get away.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-02-01
What We Need.

One large manufacturing estab-
lishment is worth more to a commu-
nifty than a dozen banks. Not that
banks are not of very great benefit
and convenience to the business in
terests of a city; for a suffic-
lent number Of banking in
stitutions to accommodate the
business have long since been a ne
cessity in every city or town of any
considerable size. Beyond suffi-
cheney, however, we need some
thing more than banks. We need
misunderstanding, matchmaking,
capital-making enterprises.
Every dollar put into mill,
foundry, machine-shop or factory,
small or great, more directly gives
labor to earn wages, to buy food
and clothing, to make wife and
children glad, ard build up happy
homes.
A happy home is the sum and
end of all earthly toll and aspira-
ton. Find a community Of happy
homes and you have a paradise in
deed.
The city that has the most profit
able and paying manufactures, is
best prepared for the reverses Of
hard times, and plows straightest
through the whirlpools Of panics to
to the safer currents beyond.
The great mass of our citizens
are frugal, honest and industrious,
and only want honorable, steady
employment, with fair and honest
wages, to give them happiness and
contentment, and the man, or firm,
or company that furnishes these in
the largest degree, brings the great
est good to q community.
1t is a most solid consolation to
all the citizens of our sister city of
Wheeling to know that the extern
sive iron, coal and glass industries
Of that city are a constant surety Of
material prosperity and sure
guard against all forms sof business
panic and disaster, and the larger
the profits on capital invested in
such enterprises, the more secure
are the many operatives in the
brighter assurances of continued
employment and prosperity.
The Wheeling Intelhgencer notes
that the Etna Iron Works declar-
ed a dividend Of ten per cent. out of
it's last six months earnings, and
that it has surplus fund Of $116,-
900. These are the kind of indus
tries that build up in permanent
way, the community in which they
are located.
1t is we'll remembered how that
our coal-equipped, iron-clad, solid
sister city passed through the great
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-02-01

panic without a suspension, and
with hardly case of business en-
barrassment.
Let US have more enterprises OF
the labor-giving, capital-producing
sort.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-02-01
WEDNESDAY, FEB'Y 1, 1882.
Diversions.

In recent number we said that
the servants of the liquor power Of
the State would be lavish with
side-issues, and fruitful in cunning
lv-devised diversions to draw the
attention of our Legislators away
from the main question that now
most deeply concerns the people of
West Virginia.
The Wheeling Register is particu
larly prohigate in these diversions.
That the question Of temperance
and prohibition is uppermost and
foremost in the minds and hearts of
the people, it can but know. This
fact, as a journal of prominence, it
must recognize. Not being advised,
however, as to the political outcome
of the matter, it chooses to beat the
tom-toms of pious generalities
around the walls of the Legislative
Jericho till the temperance siege
assumes more compact and threat
ening shape, or until the whisky
citadel seems to be secure against
all assault, as the case may turn
out, and then we may expect bugle
blasts from the Register echoing over
the mountains, and ringingly har-
monious with the issues of events
as they may happen to be.
But we set out for the "diver-
sions." Just now these slde-attrac-
lions seem to be the burden of the
Registers editorial ingenuity, and
it will pay to invest nickel and
enjoy the novelty by way of recrea-
ton, if for no solid benefit.
Some of these entertainments are
comic, some farcical and others SER
io-comic, the evident purpose being
to draw away such of the members
of the Legislature as the Register
would seem to regard as tickle and
curious, from the main question of
Constitutional Prohibition and
amuse them, while the minions of
the liquor power rivet more securely
the chains of slavery upon the peo-
pie. How this shameful trifing
with the dignity Of our State Leg
islators, and the Importance of the
greatest of all political questions,
now at issue, can be made to- &C
cord with the dignity and duty of a
great journal we cannot under
stand.
In the issue Of January oath, the
Register, speaking of the pending
amendment, says:
"Of the effect Of such measures,
we can only judge by the experience
in other States and countries, and
the Register has read this history in
vain if measures Of this character
have anywhere accomplished the
good expected from them by their
friends"
This should perhaps be styled
serio-comic.. serious in it's seeming
honesty, comic in the fact well
known, that the Register persists in
taking the testimony Of the enc
mics of the prohibition measures
referred to, to prove what has been
accomplished, and what the friends
of the measures expected.
We give the following as the lat
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-02-01

Scientists have now discovered
that they can illuminate the human
stomach and adjacent ''insides" by
electricity.-RHchie Democrat.
Well, if it's all the same to sci
ence, we guess we'll continue to
allow ours to dispose of its daily al
lotments of hash in the dark.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-02-01

The Red Men of Barbour have
sued for peace, and have represen-
tatives now in Wheeling trying to
make terms Grafton Eagle.
Let the terms be full confession
and surrender, and for the honor of
our State, let this be the end of all
red-men business.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17

NOT Much PRoSPECT OF A STATE
GovERNMrxr.- Washington dis
patch of the l1th instant says that
Delegate Brents' bill for admission
of the State Of Washington has been
reported from the House committee
on Territories with amendments,
which wholly strike out the provision
for including part Of Idaho Territory
within the boundaries of the pro-
posed State, and which also stipulate
that the State constitution shall pro-
vide that the money nor the credit
of tie State or of any city, town or
other municipal corporation therein,
shall give or loan to or in AID OF any
association, corporation or private
undertaking, and that the ag@re-
gate debt of the State. shall not at
, any time exceed 81 per capita OF
population according to the last
general census. The amended bill
| further provides that half million
ac,es of public land granted fol-
school purposes shall not be sold
for less than So Per acre, and tina
the funds derived from such salt
shall be kept inyiolate. There II
but poor prospect of the bill be
coming a law.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17
To nc continued.

Tacoma Ledger: Mr.. Coyle, while
prospecting in the hills in the vicinity
Of South prairie about u fortnight
ago, discovered ledge OF iron. 1t
crops out a considerable hight on the
top of the eminence, and has every
appearance of being a true vein. De-
tached portions of the ledge, Of two
or three tons in weight, are found
and indicate the ore to be what is
known rs gray hematite. The value
of the ore is not yet known, but Mr..
Coyle-who is familiar with the iron
ores of Pennsylvania, Lake Superior
and Oswego, Oregon, having been
employed at all these points in ex-
tracing the minerals of opinion
that it is sufficiently RICH to work
with profit. He commenced work a
few days since to ascertain the extent
of the vein, under the direction Of
General Sprague, as it is on railroad
land, section II. The find is about
three-fourths of mile from the rail-
road, and the work of building a
track to it would be very easy. If
the discovery is as valuable as Mr..
Coyle believes it to be, South Prairie
will ere long have big boom.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17

CRANKEY.-Horace Greeley must
have been daft when he said: elf
you want town to keep from thriv-
ing, don't erect any more buildings
than you can conveniently occupy
yourself. If you should accidentally
have an empty building, and any
one should want to rent it. ask three
times the value of it. Demand q
Shylock price tor every spot OF
ground that God has given you stew
ardship over. Turn cold shoulder
to every mechanic and business man
who seeks to make q home with you.
Look at every new conner with a
scowl. Run down the work of new
workmen. Go abroad for wares
rather than seek to do business in
your midst. Fail to advertise or in
any other way to support your news
papers, so that the people abroad
may not know whether business il
going on in that town or not
Wrap yourself within yourself with
a coat OF impervious selfshness
There is no more effectual way tc
retard the growth of a town thar
actions like those enumerated.
Did you ever?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17
The Effect of the AppOrtiOnment.

The Portland .>tamlard has classl-
fed the political change. effected
under the new apportionment bill fix
ing the members of the House OF
Representatives at 325. As 1T has
become a law, the article, which we
quote, is interesting.
1t adds thirty-two members to the
House over the present number, In
creasinr the Electoral College from
500 to 401, and will require 2oI
Electoral votes to elect President
and Vice-Presldent, instead OF lo5,
as in the last two presidential cleo
tions. Under the Constitution III
the first Congress there were only
65 Representatives, but after the
census of 1873 the number was In
creased to 105, with ratio OF pop
ulation of 33 900 to each Represen
tatiye. With the exception OF one
decennial period, representation ha'
been increased, until now we have
325 members with a ratio of popula
ton of 154 900.
The Republican States in whicl
o,o;po ora made are as follows.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17

relation Of the settlers to the Hud-
sons Bay Company is discussed,
and the necessities of the restraints
of law for the we'll being of commun.
ity indicated.
1.-The Territory must populate.
The Congress of the United States
must say by whom. The natural
resources of the country with a we'll
adjusted civil code. will invite a
good community. But a good COM
munity will hardly emigrate to a
country which promises no protec-
tons for life or property. Inquiries
have already been submitted to
some of us for information OF the
country. In return we can only speak
of country highly favored of ma
ture. We can boast of no civil code
We can promise no protection but
the Interior resort of self-defence.
BY whom, then, shall our country be
protected? By the reckless and
uupriDcipled adventurer, or by
the hardy and enterprising pioneer
of the west? BY the Botany Bay
refugee, by the renegade of civiliza-
ton from the Rocky mountains, by
the prohigate deserted seaman from
Polynesia, and the unprincipled
sharpers from South America Well
We are assured that it will cost the
Government OF the United States
more to reduce elements SO discord-
ant to social order than 10 promote
our permanent peac. and prosperity
by timely action of Congress. MOI
can we suppose that so vicious a
population could be relied on i'll
case of a rupture between the Uni
ted States and any other power.
Our intercourse with the natives
among US. guided much by the same
influence which has promoted har-
mony among ourselves, has been
generally pacific. But the same
causes which will interrupt harmony
among ourselves, will also interrupt
our friendly relations with the
natives. 1t is, therefore, Of primary
importance, both to them and us,
that the Government should take
energetic measures to secure the
execution of all laws affecting lndiar
trade and the intercourse of white
man with Indians.
Nothing better than this eloquent
petition could exhibit the status o
the American population of Oregon
o. that period.
| 1889. In the fall of this year
Rev. j. S. Griffin aud wife accom-
panied by Asahel Munger and wife
having that season crossed tho Rock,
mountains, arrived at Fort Vancou
yer, They had designed to establish
self supporting Indian mission
independently o: the patronage o
) any Missionary Board. They ex
pected the Indians would return
! labor for the teachings bestowed
J but they very quickly experienced
that such theory with such PEG
pie was barren of results. Mr.
Griffin and wife came to the Walla
met Valley. Munger afterward
attached himself to the Methods
mission and became deranged. II
: was o blacksmith and good mechan
ic. He fancied that Christ woul,
work miracle to convince the peopl
that certain doctrines he entertained
were communicated to him by God
: Going one evening in to his shop, b
fastened ono hand by nail to tn
: side Of, or above, the fire place an
then hung himself thereby into tn
fire. Before his situation had be
come discovered. he was so seriousl
injured that he died within tire
! days.
To ha
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17

The deodorizing punkaL, or chem.
ical lung, has not come too soon.
1t is cheap, effective, universally
wanted, and Of universal applioatioa,
1t is simply q rough towel, streached
and kept saturated with carbolio
acid or caustio soda in solution.
This, waved punkah fashion in siek
room, purifies the air in a very short
time. At triAing cost, work-rooms
full of old and young people craving
for oxygen can be made sweet and
wholesome.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17

" UNION Water CO., is the oor.
parate name of a company, which
has filed articles with the Secretary
of the Territory, 10 bring the waters
of Lake Union into the city of Seattle
for general purposes. Edgar Bry-
on, James McCoombs, Walter Ora
ham, VIM. T. Graham and David T.
Denny are named as incorporators;
its capital stock is fixed at $4,000,
in shares of 500; its principal off,
ce, is at Seattle, and the duration Of
the corporation is placed at twenty
five years.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17

ALTHOUGH it may seem i'm pertinent
to some folks, we cannot refrain Civ
ing little DISTINGUISHED advice to our
neighbors who dwell in Portland ON.
Wallamet:
Dredge. brothers. dredge, dredgc with
caire, VIII
!mDreuge the bottom Of your small riyaire
Inat steamships may come with the mas.
Sengaire, ' pos
II they pass the bar without disastaire
RDredge' otothers, dredge-do not despair
Dreuge the shoals in your suall riT aire,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17

ARTICLES of incorpo ration of the
Medical Lake Powders Co., have
been filed with Secretary Owings.
Its principal place of business is al
Medical Lake city. in Spokan county
its capital 10000. in shares of SIC
each, and its object to separate,
manufacture and sell the medicinal
and useful ingredients contained in
the waters Of Medical Lake." Its in.
corporators are George W. Brewer
W. d. Bishop and Smith Darling.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17

Tue Seattle Post telligenccr says
that President Anderson, of the
Territorial University has received Z
letter from Mr. Henry Willard, in.
forming him that he will give "A. ZOO
in aid of the University during the
years 1854 and 1888; the money to
be paid semi-annually, 81 900 at :
time, and to include the 81 900 sent
in January last. Mr.. Willard does
this in the expectation that citizens
of Seattle aud the Territory will give
about $4,000 more, to repair the
buildings, refurnish the school, and
put the fence and grounds in piopsr
order.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17

A SPECIAL committee on Woman
Suffrage was appointed in the Z. s.
House of Representatives, on the
18th instant, consisting of Camp,
White, Sherman, Stone, Spring,
Vance and Meldrum. This indicates
progress.