Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1883-12-06
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As hot as boiling tar
Awaits the man who Quits room
And leaves the door alar.
And he who softly shuts the door
Shall dwell among the blest,
Where the wicked cease from troubling
And the weary are at rest.
There is more Poe.ry than truth in the a.
boye.'
Cardinal McClosky's 5Oth clerical anni-
versary will be celebrated Jan. II in New
York.
Louis Cookery. of Frederick, has bought
the l6O-acre Lewis farm near Hagerstown
for SIC an acre.
Ex-senator Davis, of West Virgins, in
tends locating in Baltimore this winter, so
as to devote his time to his large railroad
aud coal interests.
The Virginia Midland Il. r. made S2S5,
9o5 the past year over all expenses and has
declared n 6 per cent dividend payable
halfin January aud half July next.
New Orleans cotton exposition in De
ccniber 'Si will celebrate our first cotton ex-
portation in 17Sl-the bale being sent to
England.
Harry G. McComas was accidentally
shot by his brother William in Hagcrs,own
last week-the ball lodging an inch below
the heart. vs
Mr.. Albert G. Means, of spartinsburg
s. c, has Durham COW that has given s9S
gallons and one quart Of milk in lis sue
cessiye days.
Pons comet Of 1912 is nearing the Sun
and will be visible to the eye Dec. ]. It's
maximum brilliance (about Jan. l2) will
be that of star of the third magnitude.
A Nevada woman preserves eggs for
Winter use by breaking them and bottlins
their contents corked and sealed, and storing
in the cellar-the nccks Of The bottles down.
The tie vote between DR.. VIM. Booth
tdem) and r. II. Cottrill (rep) for the house
delegates from Washington county, Nd, il
decided for the former by ? majority.
A secret treaty is said to exist between
the Chinese and the Black Flags, and the
war between China and France is now re-
garded as inevitable. Fighting has already
begun at Hai-Dzuong.
Washington's nearest collateral descend
ants are said to be two Eastern Virginia
cousins-one of them, Miss Margaret, agod
20, being grcat-grand-niecc of the Pater
patriGe.
The ropc will It IL said appoint nuncio
to the IT, s. and ask Of our government M
accredited representative to the Vatican
An American cardinal will also reside in
Rome.
A New Yorker Is stuck on 10000 hard
boiled eggs which he bought for 5000 from
a burned-put Danish steamer lie thought
to sell them at profit to the restaurants
but the embryos have turned out thoroughly
sulphurized and unfit to eat.
1000 acres Of the Disston lands in Flor
ida has been sold and On English colony
will settle on 10000 acres in ST. johns
Parish. Seven years hence South Florida
down to Cape Sable will, it is said, be
thickly settled.
The Washington Monument completes in
December its 35th year. Work thereon is
already suspended for the season. The
shaft is now 40 fee. high and the proposed
final height 55j feet to be attained July ],
1857 will make it the loftiest among tho
worlds monuments and spires
The observatory dome now being manu-
featured in Cleveland fer the University
Of Virginia will weigh ter tons when com
pleted, and measures forty-hve feet and four
inches at :hc base. Il Is much larger tha
the dome Of the Naval observatory In Wash
ington, and excels the famous observatory
dome in Vienna, which is nov the largest
in the world by four Inches.
MOTHER sT,AE's WORM SYRUP.
Iniallible, tasteless, harmless, cathariic,
~ fsvcrislnos4 regllcssncgs worms con-