Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-02-25


urv. and Charles G. Cole OF Washington
CITY. to be L. 5. Attorney for the Disuic
Of Columbia.
Senator Chandler Of New Hampshire go
a severe drubbing in the Legislature of hi
own State and by republicans on Tuesday
They called him q cur, an assassin Of char
acter. 8 coward, etc. They took his meas
ure pretty we'll.
Hon. o. 5 Long. as toast master of th
Worlds Fair banquet at Charleston la
week. preiaced ms remarks by saying tina
Columbus discovered America about 400
years ago. but West Virginia has not beer
thoroughly discovered ye,"
The latest victim Of the fell cigarette is
boy who has gone stone blind from excessive
smoking. The cigarette, in these days, j
the fool-killers most effective instrument
not excepting the deadly kerosene can o.
the pistol that wasn't loaded
s-
Hon. Z. X. Wilson, Of Maryland, one o
the ablest and purest members of the UuiteC
States Senate. died suddenly at the Hamil
ton House in Washington on Tuesday
night. To heart disease i, his sudden death
attributed He was in his 10Th year
S
Beneath the surface of West Virginia are
hidden the richest coal fields of the world
besides which are OIL. Gas, Salt, Stone,
Maganese and other things 10 great abund-
ance. Her resources are simply beyond
computation-inde almost stagger belief.
Two newspaper men fought with pistols
in the streets of Columbus, Ohio, Monday
aud one of them was killed A bysiander,
a respected citizen, was also killed by a
stray bullet, and several person were hurt
The shooting was the result of newspaper
ISLANDERS
Young Man Proud of His Tail" is the
Indian name of the new Secretary of the
Treasury. Il is pleasant TO know that one
member of President Harri,on's cabinet
las something 10 be proud Of Were the
hostile red men bought of with the prom
Use of a cabinet office?
At the Charleston banquet last week Hon.
Jno. W Harris Of Greeubrier county said I:
West Virginia is commonly called a coal
State, but statistics show that timber mar
keted during the past year ia a crude state.
exceeded by about half million dollars the
entire output Of her collieries"
Is the following a bear OF a dog tale
A bear which weighed $40 pounds was
killed By Solomon F. Perry, of Roucevert,
this State, who had followed the animal
back and forth over Sassafras Mountain for
81 days. The bear killed n dogs, and his
hide showed - bullet wounds"
Statistics Of the year 1890 of the Free
Schools of West Virginia make the follow
ing exhibit: 4Sl4 School Houses. j.49l
Teachers, Sl,2O3.l649S Expended for the
Maintenance Of the Schools, and Jefferson
County was the pioneer among the counties
in introducing Public Schools before West
Virginia was a separate State.
The new Secretary Of the Treasury in
June, 1889. was admitted % membership Of
the Sioux tribe of Indians. and was present
ed with an elaborate feather-tail dress
which be accepted with the remark that IAN
Ohio man was never known % decline any
thing. The Indian name given him at the
time was interpreted young. Man Proud
ofhis-Tail."
The Richmond S1ts suggests that the
law proposed in New York 70 exempt bank
officers aud clerks from jury duty should
provide also for keeping out Of the dock
many of the class named who usually con-
trive to ge, there" A general law to keep
them out Of Canada might deliver from evil
such as have financial opportunities aud
dishonest instincts
Secretary Foster bears the uame OF Cal
leo Charley conferred in his first canvass
for the goyernorship OF Ohio from the fact
that be had graduated into politics from be-
hind a dry goods counter We would like
to be able to infer from this soubriquet that
be doesn't agree with thar other eminent
Ohio Republican, Maj Mckinley, that
"cheapness means nastiness
Gov Russell. Of Massachusetts. thanks
God for the defeat of the force bin" An
oversight. no doubt Down here In Mary
land, especially among the democratic fac
tionists, everybody is returning his grateful
scknow edgments TO German -ifos.5urq
Afining Journal
Nothing inharmouious IN what Gov. Rus
sell and the Maryland democrats did and
are doing. German was a magnificent in
strument in the hands Of the Almighty that
time.