Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1890-06-11

S1irsinia FREE grsss.
WYE. GALLAHER, Editor.
---
0Aarlesto,rn, Jefferson County, West Va.
June n, 1890.
Charlestown is not without its boom.
THE FREE PREE goes off every week, and
not halfcocked at that.
The Washington Post asks Are all hon
orably discharged census enumerators to be
pensioned for the injuries they receive in
the services
Sugar has advanced $3.50 a barrel in
Philadelphia, and dealers in that city ex-
pect the price to go higher if the Mckinley
tariff bill becomes a law.
The radical wing Of the House Republic
cans has, it is said, determined to force
through caucus plan for federal election
law. It may prove a boomerang.
~
The honor of the good old State Of Mary
land was brought to grief on Sunday by a
baseball game uninterrupted by officers of
the law aud witnessed by 5000 persons.
>
The cigarette men have formed q COM
bine to discontinue the use of pictures on
their packages. They have no doubt con-
cluded to kill the young men without cor
rupting their morals.
The passage by the House, Saturday, OF a
silver bill modelled upon the Window bill,
and wholly unlike what the Senate desires,
probably settles the silver question during
the present session of Congress by insuring
that nothing shall be done.
The action of the Republicans Of the
Speaker Reeds district indicate that he will
be in the next House of Representatives,
and his own actions indicate pretty clearly
that he will be a subject for count when he
doesn't vote, should a quorum be needed.
s
A New Jersey woman is seeking a divorce
because her husband deliberately danced on
her new spring bonnet. Seems 10 US she
ought 10 get big alimOny in such a case
Hepherdst0wR Register.
Yes; all the money she wants for head
gear purposes.
By the time the Census enumerators-if
they be in a state Of single-blessedness-get
through with their work, they viii have ar
rived at the point when popping the ques-
ton" may not be embarrassing, and the
girls VIII have to be on the larbOard watch,
unless the starboard be more agreeable.
Speaker Tom Reed has been re-nOminated
for Congress by reclamation OF course.
His nomination was foregone conclusion.
Il might as well be by acclamation-
wise a count Of those not voting would have
accomplished it, He viii be reelected
congressman, but not reelected Speaker.
Smother man next time.
We must watch and work as well as pray
if we expect 20 carry the Third district by
1000 majority .-C Charleston Star Rep.
The prayers of the righteous availeth-
but hadn't the Reps of the Third district
better put their figures a little less-at least
in some measure 20 correspond with the
of the petitioners?
The rattiest snake story we have seen |
comes through the Shepherdstown Register, |
stating that III out of 1l3 rats in one crib |
were killed by two boys.-WrtiRsbwg hide
pendent
Now, if we could get a couple Of boys to
kill oft 10 of 1lS newspaper rats that infest
the country, the record would be broken to
some purpose.
We have seen list after list published Of
questions to be asked by the Census enume-
rators, and in one of these lists TO be pro-
pounded by the animated interrogation point
that will interview you we find the following
2. Whether a soldier sailor or marine
during the civil war United States or Con
Federated
Q. Mother Of how many children and
number Of these children living.
Goynah Fleming, of West Virginia, sat
in a carriage with the eloquent seceder,
John W. Daniel, in the Richmond rebel
procession last Morg0Rt0rn Post
It is immaterial that the foregoing is in
correct as it gave the Post vent of its
spleen We may remark that the "seceder'
Daniel honors a seat in the L. 5 Senate,
and is a peer Of the most illustrious there
regardless Of party.
The Valley T7rginiqn at Staunton, the
ablest Republican paper of the State of
Virginia or of the South, has an admirable
editorial in the issue of the 9TH instant on
'Lee in Bronze" 1, is magnificent in its
proportions compared with the screeds of
editors Of the Eliot Shepard calibre. His
closing sentence was Not a disloyal pulsa-
ton moved that vast crowd nor disturbed
the feeling Of love and devotion which had
called it together"
ri. HI. g a., -. 30 ...