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

Neaos, that the $3.50 Indebtedness of
the Brooke county Agricultural
Fair has been raised by subscrip-
ton, and that the annual Fairs
will be continued.
SToRER CoLLEGE.-The colored
people of West Virginia are trying
to raise $4,000 to endow profess
sorship in Storer College, at Har-
per's Ferry, to be known as the John
Brown Professorship, and to be fill
ed by colored man, so says an ex-
change Free Press.
TRIBuTE.-The M. Z. Church
South Sunday School at Ripley,
passed resolutions and paid appro-
pirate tributes of respect to the
memory of Robert Mcclure, the
young victim of the recent bloody
affray in Jackson county. Mr.. Nc
Guire was member of this Sunday
school.
| w. VA. AcADEMY.-The contract
for building the w. Va. Academy
was signed, sealed and delivered to
Mr.. Kitson, Of Weston, last week !;
he is to receive for the work $10,-
100. So we are to have the Acade-
my after all you persons that sub
scribed to the building of it, not
expecting to be called on to pay
the money, might as well begin to
hunt it mp, as you will have to pay
it. -Buckhann0n Banner.
KILLED ON THE G. & O.--It is
with peculiar sorrow we hear of
the death by railroad accident on
the goth inst, near Nuttalburg, on
the c. & 0. R. r., of engineer Mr..
c. N. Jones. The only particulars
we have to this time give a wash
out as the cause of the accident,
and that no one else was fatally
hurt. Many of the FREEMAN read
ers will remember Mr.. Jones' recent
marriage to Miss Sallie Walker, of
Huntington.
STIR AT BURToN.-A dispatch to
the Register notes the closing of
James Bradshaw's store and his ar
rest by Speidel & Co., and other
Wheeling parties, on charges of
fraud and thereupon the Wetzel
Democrat notes the quashing of the
attachment and order of arrest by
Judge Stealey, and Bradshaw's dis
charge, and thinks the Wheeling
parties may have smaller bank ac-
counts before the prospective suits
for damages are ended.
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK.-In ref
erence to this new resort, *" in
the Pittsburg Advocate says: Work
is steadily progressing, and the
park will be in readiness next
summer We ought to have said
before, that there is no antagonism
existing in any way between the
two Associations at Moundsville
and Mountain Lake Park. Both
are needed, and each has its own
field and special mission, The
summer resort idea will largely pre-
vail in the management of these
places.
POWDER, THIS TIME.-The wife of
Alex Scranage, Of Taylor county,
was very seriously and perhaps IA
tally burned recently, while kind
ling fire from a package of pow
der. A terrible explosion was the
result of her strange carelessness,
which brought her husband in
time to extinguish the flames that
had enveloped her. In noting the
accident the Grafton Eagle says:
"What a warning for people to alb
stain from the use of oil and pow
der, in starting fres;" but it does
seem that people will not be warn
ed.
OUR RAILRoAD.-Now that the
final survey is being made in this
county, and owners Of property
know just where the road will be
located, the question Of advantage
to be derived or damages to be sus-
tanned, becomes an interesting one.
That the county and State at large
will be greatly benefited there is
no reason to doubt In view of all
tbaca facts we AGAIN 11rua that all |