Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1886-01-14
YEVSY NOTES.


last week.
A collision at Wilmington, Del, killed
three railroad men.
st. Paul. MINI is building an ice palace
similar TO Mont Is.
Representative Golf has introduced bill
repeating tobacco taxes.
Towns about Bradford, Penn, have been
halEsubmerged by the biggest floods known
in years.
The Susoue IA at Havre-de-Grace,
Nd. was higher asst week than any time
since 90.
The average Of deaths in Philadelphia
during the past year at railroad grade cross
ings was one week.
The Virginia legislature wants a new
/ State House-built of Old Dominion gran
tie quarried by convicts.
One hundred and ninety-five years ago
Yesterday, George Fox, the founder OF the
Society Of Friends, died.
Painter. Tongue & Co., Baltimore dry
goods and H. NJ. Smith q Co., Richmond
/ hardware dealers have failed.
The steamer Armenia of the Ireland and
! Coastwise Transportation Co., Of Baltimore,
was burned and sunk at Alexandria last
week.
Representative Gibson has introduced a
bin granting Government Printing Office
employees months leave yearly with pay
on doctors certificate.
Losses by fire Jewett Il Adams 5story
mercantile building, Cincinnati-SlOOOOO
| St. James hotel, Batavia, \. $4,000
| The ladies' hall at Oberlin Ohio College
$50, 0O0
On Thursday last the West Virginia
| Congressman introduced a number of bills ::
REPRESENTATIVE Wilson got in thirteen of a
private character; Snyder 10; Golf 80 /;
| Gibson 81
Representative Ermentrout, of Pennsyl-
vania has introduced a bill to pay A. ii.
Herr. of Washington, Sl7 ,2SS for the use Of
Herrs Island, W. Va, by the Government
during the war.
Col. Bennett, ex-Clerk of the House of
Delegates of West Virginia will be APP
pointed by Chairman Gibson of Commit
tee or Expenditures Clerk of that Commit
tee-pay So per day.
Mr.. Abner Anderson, late of the Dan
willie Reqistcr, and Judge A. w. e. Nowlin,
of Washington, have bought the Richmond
W1ig for 5000 and will start it again
but on .he Democratic warpath.
In the enclosure of the Standard Oil
! Works at Cleveland, Ohio, last week, a
tank containing 10000 barrels of oil took
fire from an engine spark. The fire lasted
nearly twelve hOuIs-iOss $50, or more.
Representative Wilson has introduced a
bill allowing the East Washington colored
Methodist Church to sue the District to re-
cover damages for street Improvements and
authorizing the Treasury to pay such claims.
The story Of city in figures Here is
what New York reports for the yeaT Just
ended: 1886 deaths, 30,03S births, IL ,7l6
marriages. The year before there were
1904 deaths, 30,52l births, II, 500 mar
riages.
The State Department has bought for so
| at a Washington auction calf-bound copy
of The Virginia AlmanGck for 1913 pub
lished at Williamsburg the year before and
containing inter-leaves of memOrandas IT
Thos. JeilersOn's handwriting.
Salvation Oil is the greatest pain-destroy-
er of any age or cline For the cure OF
neuralgia, rheumatism, and wounds occa-
stoned by accidents, such as cuts, bruises,
sprains. burns, and frost-bites it has no
equal. Price only % cents bottle.
The West Virginia delegation on the
! House committees Wilson, appropriation
and manufacturers Golf, naval affairs
Gibson, rivers and harbors and chairman
of expenditures in department of justice f.;
SNYDER, banking and currency and public
buildings and grounds.
Hon. Jefferson Davis youngest daughter
sent Senator Beck, of Kentucky, last week
"a neat little water color painting represent
ing a silvery moon look NC down thrO'
a sheen of silvery clouds upon prosperous
landscape. wearing a tone of silver brillianoy
1t bore the line: "Diana's tribute to the
champion of silver
Some of the House chairmanships-ways
and means, Morrison; appropriations, Ran
dali judiciary, Tucker; banking and cur
rency, Curtin, Pa commerce, Reagan
rivers and harbors, Willis, KY; agrlcul-
ture. Hatch. Mo foreign affairs, Belmont ;
pestofices. Blouut claims, Springer; man
uiacturers, Wise, education, Aiken.
Philip Mock, Cessna, Pa, says he has
used P0welps Prepared Chemicals and find
they do fully as well as more costly fertili-
zers. Mr. Mock is one of those practical
PENNSYLVANIA farmers who would net re
commend a fertilizer that he had not tested
10 his perfect satisfaction. Brown Chemi'
cal Co., manufacturers, Baltimore, Md
Mr.. C. A. Licklider, Secretary Of the
Young Mems Christian Association in this
city. was presented with a handsome gold
headed cane by the members of the associa-
ton The cane is ebony, with forked head,
and has this inscription on the prong
"From the Y. NJ. c. A. Boys" and on the
other Is the monogram of the recipient
beautifully wrought-LyRchbUrg IIrginiQa.
From Washington Correspondence of Wheel
ing Intel gmcer.
Mr.. James NJ. Mason denies that there is
any truth in the statements that he is here
to lead a whisky lobby, and charges that
they are Republican lies. If they are lies
40 all they are Democratic lies, for every
bit of information upon which my state
ments were based was gained from Demo
Gratis who stand high in Mr.. MasOn's party.
will further say that | would not have TO
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