West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-11-15
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the prohibition amendment be sub
mitted and ratified, there would
be quite a tumble in the rental
value of store rooms in Charleston
Not altogether an overwhelming
argument against prohibition.
When they quit drinking whisky
they'll want bread and meat. You
can rent your saloons for "Feed
Stores"
DEATH ON THE c. 4 0. r. R.
Last Saturday fiat car was left at
lock No. 6, to be loaded with stone,
and this morning as the construc-
ton train was coming up with
number Of negroes sitting on the
cow-catcher, it ran into the fiat car,
owing to the heavy fog, resulting
in killing VIM. Copeland, Jim
Smith, Andy Sunders, and serious
ly wounding VIM. Brown. DR.. w.
Tompkins, who is physician for
the C. & O., was called in and did
all he could for the wounded men.
All four are negroes and are from
Virginia. The accident occurred
about Z 80 o'clock this morning.
Call.
The mail train was delayed three
hours yesterday, owing to the fact
of three freight trains colliding at
Lowmoor. Conductor Wise was
killed, an engine and fifteen cars
passing over his body,-CaU.
What's the matter with the G.. &
o. R. R.? Scarcely a weeks paper
but that brings details of some sort
of accident on that road "A man
wants to be able to read his title
clear to mansions in the Skies" be-
fore buying through ticket
Wouldn't it be good plan to
petition the B. & O. for Miss Jennie
Smiths services?
w. II. Knight, a school teacher
in Charleston, shot Barney Hagens,
a conductor, for squirting water at
him from his engine. Possibly
Barney thought a little practical
prohibition might DE helpful.
w. C. Lindley has the most
promising crop of celery we ever
saw Albany, o., Echo,
Come over, friend "Dick," and
we will show you a crop in we edit
or's garden, grown from the same
variety of seed, cultivated by our
I-better-half, which will totally
eclipse your crop. We have never
made a thorough examination, but
if there is as mnch under ground as
there is on top, the stocks are eight
feet long, as thick through as those
telegraph poles along your new rail
road, and as numerous as spectators
were when it first arrived.-Cres-
cent.
You can afford to run an indie
pendent journal with that sort of a
wife as backing.
We don't want to intimate or say
anything that would be unpleas-
ant to anybody, but it is our i'm
preston that it isn't just the thing
for ladies to use beer, and 'other
drinks of like nature" in a room
with strange gentlemen with the
outside curtains drawn.-Wetzel
Messenger.
Wherein is the improperly =?
Is it in the fact that the gentlemen
were strange or the curtains drawn :?
Are cheer and other drinks Of like
nature" just the thing for ladies
under any circumstances? Are
they just the thing for gentlemen :?
The Wayne Advocate is trying to
read the Johnsons out Of the Dem
ocratic party, because the Parkers-
burg FREEMAN chose to support
anti whisky men in preference to
the Democratic demi-johns, who
were candidates for office at the late
election. Don't be in a hurry with
your reading out, Bro. Advocate.
Give them a little time in which
to reflect, and they will leave their