West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1891-02-26
ABOUT WASHINGTON.
Interesting Items Not Generally
known.
wAsHINeToN's TOUR.

ing in his own carriage. In the
"Reminiscences of Worcester" q
spectator describes his cquippage as
follows:
"1. A gentleman in uniform on
s beautiful dapple. gray horse.
go. Next, two aids on dapple-
gray horses in uniform.
80. Bay horses, with two negro
boys as riders, the horses attached
to travelling carriage, in which sat
General Washington.
"a. Behind was the baggage wag-
on, with two bay horses, containing
the baggage"
In every place through which the
General passed the inhabitants of all
ranks. ages and conditions testified
their JOY at beholding the man who
had won independence for the colo
nies, and WAS now the first citizen
OF the new Republic.
wAsHINGToN's WEALTH.
According to an almanac OF 1890,
General Washington had good
deal Of personal property. This
book of one hundred years ago says:
General Washington possesses 10, =
900 acres Of land in one body, whore
he lives; keeps twenty five plows go
ing all the year, when the weather
will permit, sowed in 1897 some 600
acres OF oats, 700 acres of wheat,
and prepared as much corn, barley,
potatoes, beans, peas, etc. has near
SEQ acres in grass, and sowed $50
with turnips. Stock, 140 horses.
liz COWS, 22j working oxen, hcif RS
and steers and 500 sheep. The
lands about his seat are all laid
down in grass; the farms arc scat.
tcrcd around at distance OF two,
three, four or five miles, which the
General visits every day, unless the
weather is absolutely stormy. He
ia constantly making various and
'xteusiye experiments for the i'm
provcment OF agriculture. lie is
stimulated with that desire which
,lways aetuates liim to do good TO
mankind. In 1886 he killed $50
,iogs, weighing 1880 pounds, for
bis family use, exclusive of proyis-
ION for his negroes, which wss made
into bacon"
wAsHISGToE's DEATH.
1t was 1882 that George Wash
ington WAS born, and now it is 1891.
One hundred and fifty-nine years
ago, then, it was that he first saw
the light. and it is only in recent
years that men have begun to COM
prehend the true greatness Of the
man. When two years ago the one
hundredth anniversary Of his inaug-
uration as President Of the United
States was observed by The Ameri-
can people, public attention was
extensively drawn to a serious con-
temptation of his character as man
and as statesman. Men who have
given much Of their time to a study
of history turned tl,eir attention to
that portion of tune covered by his
eyentful life, and discov red moth
ing new Of course in point of fact,
but many new phases Of his noble
character.
Washington was approaching his
sixty eighth year when he died. He
was not an old man. Many men Of
to. day regard themselves as in the
heyday Of youth a. sixty-eight. lie
walked about his farm when the
snow was falling and took slight
cold, which rapidly grew worse, aud
in few hours proved fatal. "Acute
lsryngtis," the physicians Of the
day called his disease. How little
the medical men Of those days real
ly knew about diseases and their
treatment They bled him. and
when they found that this did no
good they held consultation Of
physicians and bled him again. Ex-
cellent physicians Of the present
diy say that the disease which at
tackled General Washington wa by
no means necessarily fatal. and
that with the knowledge possessed
by the medical profession Of to day
his life might easily have been pre-.
served, perhaps, for many years.
The wonderful advance which both
medical and surgical science have