Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1884-03-20
a'irgiula Sree gresa.
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". ". u. GsLLAHER, Editor.
jefferson County Wes! Va
Narch 20. lSSA


Gen. and Mrs. Grant are s2journing a,
Fortress Monroe.
Dakota is to be cat in half and tha anoT.h-
ern portion elevated into 4 district territory
called LiGtoln.
New Orleans 247 Exposition acres will be
electric lighted viii have four lakes aud a
railway connecting the buildings.
Dr. Ro3t. Coleman, aged 81, prominent
Richmond physician, is dead. Hewas chief
surgeon of Stonewall Jaclson's division and
late medical inspector Army Northern Viz
ginia.
The executive committee of the democrat
ic congressional committee has organized
with Senstor German of Md as chairman.
Senator Kenna of ". Va samember there
of and one Of its subcommittee on fnahec.
II. Grim Martinsburg; F. n. Reynolds
Keyser; }. D. Staley, >hepherdstOwn and
Bentley Kern, Winchester, were delegates
lat ~.ect to the Lay Conference NJ. Z.
Church. at Washington.
Prudent Georgians are now digging com
modiou5 storm pits beneath their houses
with trap door entrances, and the next biz
zard will fad EN- making faces at i: from
below.
a simple wire gauze mating costing two
cents a square foot, which experiments
prove 10 be imperyiou, to flame and non
conductor ofits owa heat where exposed to
fire, has been introduced.
The two orphan daughters of Gen J. B.
Hood WHO were adopted by Mr. Adams Of
New York are great p,;' Of Gen. Geo. b.
Mcclellan, aal accompany him every Sun
day to the Madison square Presbyterian
church.
The Union league nationll council h,ei
last week in Washington to brace up for the
campaign. Hon. Nathan Gof was placed
on committee on Bourbouriam and Mr.. c.
f. Scott, also Of n. Va chosen 4 vice-pres
ideut.
An old volume containing the regulations
Of the postal service in l1J} gives the act Of
May Sth 1874, which established tie pres
cnt Post Office department. The list Ofpo,t
offices comprises 1888, ahi now there are
4S.OoO. A big increase in ninety years, GER
tainly.
Il viii bc III great credit to the compile
ted Washington Moaumeat-the coincidence
that its final height f55] fecti will describe,
in yards, the con5inltioa OF lying figures
that was tie burlsa of Zach Caanllers dis
patch in November 70: Hayes has ls5
votes and is elected :"
The dsaFectel elements over the Rhine
have formed German Liberal Party based
upon imperial and constitutional allegianee
and demanding the freedom of the Press
equality before the Ia*, universal suffrage,
religious liberty, just taxation aRA other ul
ira democratic rights How Bismarkian
empire is to be brought to these terms we do
not pretend to understand. Germany IS no;
yet ripe for revolution.
". {. Colweil, a New York rachinist.
has discovered 4 steam-cXcelling motor in
the evolving Of bi-sulphide of carbon into
yapor thro' the transfer Of generated heat
lof lis degrees into q carbon filed vessel.
4 2j-miljoa syndicate, including eI-Goy.
Hubbard, Of Texas, aad Collector Baird,
of Boston is already formed to control the
invention. Eeely may now join his mis-
sing mechanic link in the great Nowhere.
Ex-Goy. Hubbard Of Connecticut who
died recently, belonged to Hartford whist
cl1b, one Of whose members was slovenly
and dirty in dress. This gentleman wore At
one of the meetings Z beautiful white roseia
his soiled button-hole e say, Hubbard, ="
he called out, "aint that lovely rcse?-
Where do you suppose ! q. it2' And
Hubbard, CHANGING gnizzicaily Z. the bloom
and its strange resting place answered =
Looks as If it might have grown there