Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1889-08-15


nickers against mapping it on the grass. a
recent item tells Of rual snOrer into whose
ear fat worm crawled, and before it was
gotten out the man suffered agonies.
bishop Newman Northern Methodist,
who was President Grants pastor at Wash
ington has got this Christian science
healing business down to aliterative fine
ness. He says it Is void Of sense, science or
salvation.
A Richmond special to the \. Y. Herald
saws that Dudley's blocks of five voting
methods will be operated by Malone at the
Virginia elections His best leaders admit
that plenty money for campaign uses will
come from the north.
The Morgan Mercury is enlarged to eight
pages. and is improved From the way ed
itor Frey INDUCES in politics the reader
might infer the canvass Is on now and red
hot. Outside of politics the Mercury Is
good paper-ireighted with general and lo-
cal news.
A vail comes from Wyoming for women.
Land aud climate are excellent, writes a
ruralite to old man Rusk of the Agricultu-
raj Department and then exclaims with
naive vexation-" but I'd like 10 know how
this territory is going to be settled without
few women"
Which died first? is the question sgita-
ting the Cambria county Pa courts in the
case of a Johnstown couple The husbands
will left his estate-largely cash-to his
wife. and the brothers and sisters of each
are fighting for it, The legal claim rests
of course on the question ofpriority of death
in the big flood
The suggestion from some one in the
Washington Nqr that the violet be made the
national flower is neatly supported. The
color. he says, is made up Of red, white and
blue commingled; aud if the stars on the
Tag were wreathed with this flower itwould
be a symbol that the Union shall always
remain inviOlate.
Astatue representing quote the Wash
ington S'ar-" John Brown a female figure
(the genius Of John Brown and cannon
and guns is TO be put up in the proposed
emancipation park at Washington. We
would like TO have the privilege of furnish
ing she inscription, which would be- "John
Browns first victim, etc.
Uncle sam finds himseIfin pretty pickle
having first paid the bogus widow of
Pennsylvania veteran his Sl700 pension and
then, on the real widows suit, paid her
$500 also. The effort to recover from the
original recipient-the only source Of re-
coupmeut-is met with a swapping Of fin
gers and a derisiye smile.
Something new in Hoosier politics was
the midsummer auti-tariff picnic held the
other day at Bloomfield, Greene county,
Indiana. The meeting wasn't generally add
vertised and no political organization bad
IL in hand-but 10000 farmers gathered all
the same, TO hear VOORHEES,, Niblack and
other authorities elucidate in simple lam
guage the tariff problem.
The cessiou by the Sioux of eleven mill
lion acres Of their South Dakota reserva-
ton opens up TO settlement a tract as big as
Massachusetts and New Hampshire CONF
bined. The Indians are 20 receive 81. % an
acre for an lands sold in three years, - Cts.
for all sold i'm the two following years, and
50 cents for the residue. Congress must
ratify the transaction which was consum-
mated last week
Gen. James A. Walker, whose name has
been suggested as the republican candidate
for Attorney General of Virginia, on a tick
ct with Gen. Malone for governor, states
that be would not accept the nomination If
madc-that he Is not a republican, but
protection democrat, and would stump the
State for Mckinney it nominated 10y The
democratic convention. This is gratifying
to old "S,onewan Brigaders'
~
Henry Jones of Nebraska City has got
good scare for his Jemerity in flying in the
face of-and actually embracing time
honored marital bugaboo. In 50, having
heard Of the death of his clipping wife, Hem
~ promptly made up 70 aud married-bis
motherinlaw Mrs. Jones number one re-
turned poor, peniteut, in fact an armful Of
pityiuluess. Her husband, however, got a
divorce and she is now his s,ep-daugh,er
who was once his wife.
There is refreshing candor aud am admir-
able directncss ia the manner in which Re
publican needs in the Queen City Of the
West is pointed by an obseryaut
correspondent Writing to the New
York Tine, he simply remarks IF this
Administration does not distribute some
pap in Chicago pretty soon the party viii
90 to pieces" The basis for this vail is
found, presumably, in the bankruptcy of
the big Republican club in Cbicaso-the
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