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W.W.B.GA LLAHER, Editor.
0AarIsstO,SH, Jefferson County, HssiVa.
June ,, 1891
The Youngest grandmother in the country
lives at Almira, Iowa. She is thirty years
old.
Hon. VIM. /. Wilson is 10 deliver an sd-
dress at Crozier Seminary, Pennsylvania,
this week.
Three New York lawyers recently receiy-
ed fees of $500, 900, 100000 and $4,000
respectively
The British government assents to the
proposition Of the United States that 800
seals be taken this year.
William X. Vanderbilt has built the big
gest hen-house in the country, pending
$4,000 on the structure His name ought
to be Henry.
The japanese policeman who attacked
and wounded the Czarewitch while he was
recently making a tour Of Japan has been
sentenced to penal servitude for life.
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The Wheeling Register Of Saturday con-
tains a list Of at least $50 corporations that
have forfeited their charters because Of nom
payment of license tax for the year begin
ming May /, 1891
Mrs Mary Mason Jones died in New
York Friday in her Wst year. She was re-
lated BY blood and marriage TO the Masons
and PendletOns Of Virginia and the Allstons
Of South Carolina, and leaves an estate val
ued at S4,OOO,OOO
A New York paper says the three graces
of this administration are Raum's son,
Blsine's son, and Harrison's son." Not
witbstandiug all these sons the administrs-
ton appears to be under a cloud. The dis
graces are too numerous to mention.
Bardsley, the defauIting treasurer Of
Philadelphia, contesses bis shortcomings
and admits that his crimes brought upon
him the fortunes of the damned" He is
willing to accept punishment as a relief
"The way Of the transgressor is hard"
An Associated Press dispatch from san
Francisco Tuesday announced the death at
that place on Monday Of the Rev. Presley
B. smith, who for almost forty years had
been a membero Of the Baltimore Conference
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Mrs. Mckee, daughter Of the President,
and Mrs. Russell Harrison, daughter-in-law
Of the President, will sail for Europe to-day.
The wide-awake newspaper correspondent
of the Sun says "the President kissed his
daughters afectionately aud told them he
was too busy to accompany them to the
station"
Mr.. Charles Broadway Rouss has made
the munihcent donation of s. 500 for the
erection Of an iron fence around Mt He
B.ou Cumvsui, at Winchester. 10 includes
the Stonewall Cemetery, in which over four
thousand Confederate dead, from every
Southern State are buried Mr.. Rouss's
parents and a son are buried in Mt. Hebron.
Ex-senator Ingalls, recommended to his
party courage and conscience as essen
tials to success next year. Mr.. ingalls, not
long ago declared that the Decalogue and
the Golden Rule had no place in a political
campaign, but having recently emerged
sadder and wiser, il seems-from contest
Of his own, he is prepared to give advice
based on personal experience.
A souvenir Of Hon VIM. l.. Wilson's pO-
litical educational tour to the Northwest,
and one he will prize very highly, is a copy
Of the Ttlegram-a newspaper published at
Seattle, State Of Washington. IL had six
teen pages, and was prettily printed on white
silk, and contained an account of Mr.. viii
sons reception there and his great speech
on the occasion. The whole was eucased in
morocco and inscribed thereon in gilt was 3:
Presented TO Hon. VIM L. Wilson of West
Virginia by the Democratic Club of Seattle,
State of Washington, etc.
The frontispiece of the Century Naga-iae
for June, a handsome portrait of the late
Vice President Dallas, accompanies the Sc
cond instalment of extracts from his diary
while minister TO Russia Among the at
fractions of the number are: Colonel
William Byrd Of Westoyer, Virginia. by
Mrs. Burton Harrison; Pensions and So
cialism lPreseut-Day Papers, by w. NJ.
Sloan; Play and Work in the Alps by
Joseph and f. r. Peunell more selections
from the Talleyrand Memoirs; contribu-
tious TO the California series; etc. Two se-
rial stories are in progress, by Edward Eg-
gleston and Frank r Stockton.
The Washington Correspondent of the
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