Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1890-05-14

Tuesday OF last week. farty lines are H.
WAYS drawn there, and such excuses as an
"off year" don't count in the HO0sier State.
Speaker Reed on Saturday announced
the appointment of Mr.. Blount of Georgia,
as q member of the committee on rules. and
Mr.. Mutchler, Of Pennsylvania on appro-
preparation, to I'll the vacancies created by
the death of Mr. Randall
Saturday last was the anniversary Of the
death of Stonewall Jackson, The wri-
ter of this paragraph had the honor Of be-
ing body guard to the great soldier the
night succeeding the day Of his death-the
night Of the 10th of May, 1868.
The Grafton Eagle Sentinel says Mr. Nc
Kinley will pass his bill 1t is quite in or
der for one man to pass bill in the present
House, but Speaker Reed is usually the man.
We have no doubt, if he sees proper the
Speaker will pass Mr. McKinley's bin.
The United States Senate on Saturday
passed the army appropriation bin, iuclud-
ing the amendment providing that no alco-
holic liquors, beer or wine shall be sold and
supplied to enlisted men in any canteen or
building in a garrison or military post
The King Of Ashantee has 1888 wives
They all live on one street in Coomassie,
and when they go out all in a body for
walk, preceded by the euuuchs, everybody
else has to walk in the gutter. With all
his wealth of wives he lives In q shauty
Senator Ingalls, is charged with plagia-
rism. It is said that the Kansas Senator
took his famous eulogy Of the late Congress
man Burnes, Of Missouri, from one of the
sermons of Father MassilIon, bishop of C.er-
mOuts, delivered nearly two hundred years
ago.
Gen. Scott Ship, of the Virginia Military
Institute, has been appointed by the Presi-
dent visitor 10 the United states Military
Academy, West Point The President de-
serves commentator for that appointment
and we see in it the hand Of our Senator
Faulkner.
The clever editor Of the Richie Gasehe re-
fers TO the recovery of the editor of THE
FREE Press from protracted sickness, and
establishes the statemen, by producing a
paragraph or two. Strangely enough, the
selected paragraphs were better evidence of
weakness than of vig0r.
A sensible thing-the Martinsburg L3e-
pendent has changed its form from a quarto
to a folio. We will now be able, without
fatigue, to get at the whole paper 1t has
entered upon its nineteenth year, and we
hope it will have many years Of existence
under its present genial editor.
Volume /. No I of the Kqaaciq Daao-
crat, published at Charleston, has appeared.
It is Democratic in politics, declares in en-
pbatic tones its purpose to make war upon
trusts, monopolies and similar private af-
fairs, and advocates government control Of
railroads and Geographic and telephone
monopolies.
Mr. Lurty Of Virginia, who applied for
the L. ;. judgeship of Oklahoma, but got
the L. ;. marshaiship instead, seems TO be
well pleased with the change. lis under
stood that the fees Of the marshalship viii
amount TO more than the salary of the Judge
ship. Goodbye, Mr.. Lurty-unless you
wear a coat of mail
Bill I'VE writes 70 the bald-headed man,
who asks for his advice on hair restoratives
as follows "Take your hair restorative
money and buy town lot in a growing
town that supports its home paper and ado
vertises aud goes ahead, andyou viii be6xed
and the man who is fixed don't care wheth-
er he has any hair or uo,'
Referring to the Inauguration of the statue
10 Gen. R. f. Lee at Richmond by the
Southern people, the Richmond Tme is
led TO remark upon the singular fact that
the North has not yet erected fitting mon
ument to Grant That his memory is yet
unhonored by an efigy worthy of his dis
tinguished services Is reflection upon the
sense Of gratitude of the people whom he
especially served.
When we referred, two weeks ago. TO the
methods adopted by the people of Augusta
county to obtain analysis Of minerals, min
eral waters, soil, etc, we ought to have stat F.
ed, as we do now, that the Experimental .
Station at the West Virginia University was .
established for that purpose and citizens of /