Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1886-04-15

Street-car drivers in Baltimore now work
only twelve hours per day and get g, and
have a chance e. see their wives and chill
dren by daylig 3, No wonder they are
happy.
Il Is estimated that between $1,000 and
$4,000 saw-log Assed this place yesterday
and last night or a while yesterday they
ran at the rate fifty per minute.-BraT-
ton Democrat.
Who ever saw logs run along more swift
ly.
The Baltimore and Ohio Employees Re
lief Association from February LIST to Feb
ruary 2Sth, 1856, paid the following benefits
Transportation Department, Sl44; Machin-
cry Department, SlO1; Trans-Ohio Divi-
sion. Sl5l Pittsburg Division, SO; Physi-
clans bills, S227; total, 1904.
The Charlestown Democrat explains how
it is able to secure so much valuable and
interesting matter for publication. Now if
it will be kind enough to explain what 1t
does with this valuable and interesting mat
ter the whole question will be settled
Morganto,rn Ne,o Dominion.
At the election Saturday the local option
lists carried Wytheyille, virginia. magiste-
rial district by thirty majority. The vote
polled was very large one, filly eight
tenths of the registered vote being polled.
At Floyd Court House the dry" movement
was defeated by vote of to in favor of
granting license.
A railway accident occurred on Wednes-
dav night of last week on the Fitchburg
Railroad, between Bardwells Ferry and
West Deerfeld Station, Massachusetts,. The
whole train, an Express, was precipitated
down an embankment to the rocks below
some 200 feet. A number of persons killed
and Others injured.
Point Pleasant presents fine appear
ance lust at this time as a suitable site for a
Marine Hospital. The town is covered
with water and business, we understand, IS
suspended. We sympathize with our dis
tressed neighbors, but they have no business
with a Marine Hospital. Slate Journal
If Pit Pleasantisn't suitable site for a
Marine Hospital what kind Of a place is ;
one situated on the Peaks Of Otter?
Last Fall Miss Morris, of Baltimore,
collected 600 dolls to be sent to Hindoo
girls and the cargo was lost at sea. Anoth-
er collection of more than 1900 has been
made and were shipped last Thursday to
New York-thence they'll 90 to the heath
en- children. 1t is unique idea in mission
work-doubtless intended to make the little
girls happy; but suppose they be convert
ed into idols
Mr.. Geo. c. Laaerty who has recently
been appointed stenoprapher Of a Commit
tee of Congress at $500 per annum, had the
misfortune to- have his right arm broken in
two places below the elbow, by fall down
the steps Of the Arlington House in Rich
mond between 9 and 10 o'clock last Sunday
morning. 1t will be some time before he
will be able to do any stenographic work.
He is a son of Rev. J. J Laferty.
The vote by which the repeal of the stat
ute prohibiting x-Confederates from hold
iug commissions in the army was defeated
in the Senate last week was "a to %, Mr..
Riddleberger voting against the repeal, and
thus, by his one vote, defeating it, as Cen
eral Malone had done on 4 former occasion.
Both the Virginia Senators are thus on rec
ord as having by their individual votes de-
feated propositions for the repeal of a stat
ute that attempts to stamp with reproach
and ignominy the Confederate cause in
which both of them were engaged. Why it
should be so, they alone can tell
Mr.. Gladstone in the English House of
Commons Thursday made his promised
statement in reference to his proposed Irish
reforms, his scheme embracing an Irish
Parliament at Dublin, with powers Of local
self government, but with no control over
matters relating to the revenues of the en-
pire The speech of the premier is regard
ed rs one of the greatest of his many great
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