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duly elected Governor Of West Virginia
The Democrats were solid, and President
Carr. Of the Senate, voted with them
We are indebted to Hon. B. d. Gibson
for the following telegram:
CHARLESTON, Feb'y 4th, 1890.
w. W. b. GALLAHER:
Gov. Fleming will be inaugurated Thurs
day at u o'clock NJ. b. ID. GIBSON
Speaker Reed is blind partisan. He
does not recognize democrat
Three X's-ex-Goy Wilson; exit Gov.
Golf; His Excelency Gov. Fleming
A case of " Tom and Jerry for the Bal
timore Courts on Tuesday night Tom Lal-
" shot John Jerry.
To the members Of the Senate and House
ofDelegates: Well done, good and faith
ful servants como home
Mr.. Cleveland is confident Of the ultimate
triumph Of Tariff Reform, and says the Re
publican leaders are drifting upon the rocks.
The Washington Sunday Gazette appears
in new dress and has new head. And
in perusing its columns we noticed change
Of heart IL is now democratic
Hon. sam Randall thinks the Democrats
Of the House are right and should continue
to antagonize Speaker Reeds arbitrary ru-
lings until House Rules are adopted.
Mr.. Kee. democrat and Chairman Of
the Gubernatorial Contest Committee, ai-
firms that oyertures have been made to Sc
cure his vote in Joint Assembly for Gen.
COT,
Smith, contestant of the seat occupied by
Hon. Mon. Jackson Of the 4th West Virgin
ia District, was seated on Monday The
Republicans got quorum of their own for
the first time.
Judge Fleming gets In 90 the vineyard
at the eleventh hour He was declared
Governor at the llth hourof the 18th month
Feb. (. 800 instead of March 4. $50 Better
late than never.
Thirty-seyeu people were killed iu the
United States by electric light wives last
year. There are 10000 persons in the
United States dependiugso,ely onelectricity.
This does not include undertakers
Some men need guardians when they get
into the Legislature-tor instance: the
member of the Virginia Hou,eof Delegates
who proposed a removal OF the capital of
the Old Dominion from Richmond to
Lynchburg
Now that Judge Jackson has been relega-
ted TO his home in West Virginia, and Mr..
Smith is added to the Congressional roll TO
help Tom Reed in his coun, of quorum,
perhaps Republican members think Poca-
hontss did 'em good turu when she saved
the Smith family.
Some writers I'm Bolivar, contributing to
the Satael have been exchanging COM
plimentary observations ON the subject of
licensing a saloon tbere-aud in the course
1.-THE compositor viii please spell course with
NJ of the discussion have INDUCED some
hcentious expressions
Stollings, who is accused of Offering a
bride TO Delegate Harr, makes a general
denial, but admits that whatever ne did say
on the subject 20 Mr.. Harr was iu the ma
ture of a Joke lie thought Mr. HAIR "a
weak man, therefore didn't appreciate
harm in a joke guiIeless young man.
The appointment by Speaker Reed of
Committee on Rules carried with it the idea
that the House should have Rules but the
Speaker, regardless of the public good and
in the absence Of any instinct of propriety,
prefers 20 be a law unto himseif-espe-
cially as De has such subservient followers.
Mr. Boomers Sons paid Mr.. Whittier
81 900 for his last poem. The Captains
Well. which he wrote for the New York
Lelq0 Bonner's sous will get 81, back by
gratuitous advertising. We donate our
mite. Ifhe had written his last poem be.
fore Barbara Fritchie we'd held him I'm
more grateful remembrance.
Congressman Wilson introduced a bin TO
pay the Catholic Church of Mar,insburg
-, 900 for damages inflicted by troops dur
ing the war. The ~ f. Church in this
town was damaged during the was by the
United States s0ldiery 60 The extent of q
thousand or more dollars, and ID our dis
tinguished representative would Introduce
bill and get it through in that behalf i,
would be a good work.
Ex-senator Bruce .colored Of Mississip-
pi has been appointed recorder of deeds for
the District of Columbia Was it i'm am
ticipation Of the appointment of this color
ed man 70 the lucrative position tha, Sena-
tor Ingalls-the Kan,a, South-ha,er and
protested lover of the uegro-introduced
the proposition % reduce the pay 90 5000
The recorders pay has been, according 20
the fees received, amounting Co from twenty