Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1888-03-01
NERSY NOTE.

Lafayette NAld6V III ~ % "-s-H y
cyclone.
vanderburg and Gibson count Ind,
suffered las, week from a tornaco.
1t is said that coal beds, 1 to y thick,
underlie Raleigh county, this Stat
Nearly all the insurance comra es in
New York are going back to the high
rates
Jos. Pulitzs,, editor n. Y. 30 ID, is
threatened with ')tal blindness al santa
Barbara, Cal.
Mrs. 5. Eliz-Jeth Van Wrinkle of w.
Va. has a Land Office promotion at Waah-
I ington to 81, 400.
The House has passed bill to enlarge
/ the Government building at Charleston,
Kanawha county
Speaker Carlisle went to Kansas last
week to visit an invalid son. Cox Of \. Y.
presides over the House.
The Senate met for an hour on the ODD
to listen to Washington's Farewell Address,
read by ingalls, Of Kansas.
Dr.J. A. Wolf of Hartford who has Just
returned from Europe declares that Blame
is an invalid and quite feeble.
Chicago has formed the first Woman's
Cleveland Club. Its platform calls for free
trade in wool, silk, jewelry, etc
A Pocomoke, Md. farmer named John
son has a bewitched stove that waltzes
round the room and turns upside down.
Congress has ordered that $50, $40 balance
be paid Chas. McCafierty, contractor for
work ON the Great Kanawha river, W. Va
There are walnut trees in Wyoming and
/ Mcdowell counties, West Virginia, which
are said TO be worth from $500 to $1,000
each.
Anniversaries Tomorrow-birth Of Pope
Leo in 1910; death of Wesley in 1871.
Sunday-meeiing first Congress in New
York 1889.
Alexandria will erect a monument to her
Confed soldiers on the Christ church grounds
i'm that city. A recent fair melted $1,000
for the enterprise.
Brooklyn has had 1870 cases smallpox
since Jan I, and New York tenement dis
trc,s suffer also from the disease. The two
cities feel nervous about 1t.
The Moorefeld Examiner says Hon. JOS
eph Vanmetre and family, attera brief visit
TO friends in Baltimore, will so to Utah and
make that their future home
The only so-called religious daily in the
world has been published in Montreal since
1860. The experiment was once tried IN
New YORK, but it was a failure.
West Virginia paid out last year $500
567 in taxes for Federal pensions and OF
this the veterans or their survivors in the
/ State received back only Sl5S,645.
Jackson and Co., Of Maryland have
bought $4,000 acres of Florida land just
north OF Deuniak Springs They own also
$4,000 acres across the border in Ala.
The House last week refused to adopt
Senator Hoars Joint resolution proposing a
/ Constitutional Amendment to change-irom
next year Inauguration Day and the meet
ing OF Congress to April 30.
The bible that Baltimore citizens gave
Abraham Lincoln has been presented by
his son Col. Bob to an Episcopal Mission
I'm Chicago which will erect Lincoln Ne
mortal chapel on t''r suburbs.
On February 13, in New Orleans Over
500 eN. Conicd cayalrymcn met aud formed
am association with Gen. :. ID. Lee as pres
ideut Miss Winnie Davis was present and
shook hands with all the veterans.
A movement is ON foot in Baltimore to
celebrate on the 9th Of November 1889
the one hundredth anniversary of the for
nation Of the see of Baltimore, the first
catholic diocese in the United States.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland got
back from Florida Sunday-tarrying two
hours the previous morning at Charleston
Friday at 81. Augustine they occupied the
pink bridal suite at the Ponce de Leon
/ hotel
Gen. W. :. Harvey who lives near New
/ Orleans noted last week the 10th anniyer
sary of his appointment as l. ;. soldier
| His army commissions show the signature,
of Presidents Monroe, Adams, Jackson
Polk and Buchanan.
The Virginia lower house has passed a
BIN peu,ionng disabled ex-Conieds of Va
or their widows at $50 a year but limiting
the bCuciiciarios TO those having $1,000
worth OF property or less. The appropria
ton for the first year is $4,000.
Judge O.. W. Thompson, of Wheeling
died Friday morning last, after long i'll
ness. He was - years of age, aud has oc-
cupied many positions of honor and prom
iuence in our State, and was very wealthy.
He was the father of Mrs. Senator Camden
/ c. w. Thompson, Esq, and d. 5. Thomp
son, of Parkersbarg, and Col W. p. Thomp-
son, of New York
a bin creating State r. r. commission
of 3 members has passed the Va. lower
house They are to prevent freight or pas
senger discrimination by r. r in favor OF
any community and enforce the provisions
OF long and short haul clause. Free
passes. save % road employees and for char
ity. are forbidden The K. Rs. are to pay
. thec1mmi-siou 5 expenses.
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For aa AnieHdment Mass Contention.