Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-06-19

Minister DENLY cables from China that
in the recent riots a; Cheug Tu the Ameri'
can property was not much damaged and
that no Americans were hurt.
We mentioned last week that schuls, a
West Virginian graduated No. l at West
Point in a class Of 50. Another, Edward R.
Stewart. Of Morgantown, leads the second
class which will graduate next year.
Senator Stephen B. Elkins is said to have
entered the field as a candidate for the pres
idency Of the National Republican League,
which meets to-day in Cleveland, Ohio
This is put a preliminary Of the presiden-
tial game. The Senator holds a pretty full
hand.
Greenville. Ohio, was in the hands of in-
cendiaries on Monday. Stores, printing
offices. churches, &c, were burned-loss
1925 900. and wholesale robbery perPe;rated
during the raging of the conhagration.-
Something of the same kind appears TO have
occurred al Cameron, in this State, last week.
Messrs. VIM. T. McQuilkin and Newton
Vanmetre sold part of their wheat crops to
W. n. Lemeu on Tuesday at so cents per
pusbel-Siep. Independent. Glad 70 see
that some of the farmershad wheat on hand
to sell. The statement had gone forth to
the contrary. and that only spectators were
deriving benefit from the advance in price.
A telegram announces The hospital
camp at stanton is nearly deserted. Dr.
Catletti is preparing TO burn mp the bindings,
and nearly an traces of the epidemic will
have been ex|tinguished 10y Wednesday to-
dayl. No e cases Of local genesis have
occurred. The country people are resuming
their normal relations with the city We
are pleased to note the above.
Nearly an Of the employees Of the govern
ment printing Office in Washington City
have been put under the civil service. Those
already employed there will not be required
to stand examination, but future appointees
must get there under civil service require
ments. About &. 500 are affected by this late
order. Fifty-dye thousand positions under
the government are now in the classified
service.
The Charleston Mail was two years old
last Wednesday-has quit the sugar rag and
the bottle. and may now get down 30 solid
food and continue TO grow. 1t is strongly
partizan-we 90 not believe unfairly So
and a good paper. I'm everything but ITS
politics we wish 10 success. Just think what
the newspaper possibilities may be when
the Mail gets to the present age of TIE
FREE PRESS.
Carl Brown Of the Coxey army, and Ma
mic Coxey, the goddess Of peace of the Com.
monweal. were secretly married at Massilon,
Ohio. last Friday. Her father says of it
"She has chosen TO overlook my advice and
there is absolutely nothing more that l can
say than that my home viii be open to her at
any time in the future should She repent her
bargain" That's the best thing we've ever
heard Coxey say.
The Louisville Courier-Jourual says: "In
his speech at Memphis, Senator Turpie, of
Indiana. said he regarded iron a more useful
metal than gold or silver, but objected TO it
as a money metal on account of its abund-
snce. Now, I'm saving this, Mr.. Turpie
gives up the whole controversy If iron is
too cheap for money, it must be so on ac-
count Of the necessity Of putting a dollars
worth of it into a dollar. Ifit Is sufficient to
put only a fraction Of dollars value intoa
dollar, iron will do well enough
When Chauucey Depew departed from
New York. a few days ago, TO attend the
Republican League meeting at Cieye-
land. Ohio. he left his grip-sack in the sta
ton building. It was discovered ley the of
icisls. and in forty minutes thereafter a
special engine was speeding after him at
the rate Of a mile a minute. If that satchel
had belonged TO some Yves, Virginia editor
who so publicly processes his friendship for
his penciLdriying brother as to use toward
him the language of the Governor of North
Carolina 20 the Governor of South Carolina,
il would have been confscated for the sake
.ofits contents by a bibulous station master.
DR.. J. NJ. Miller, of Romney, w. Va, iu
renewing his subscription writes 'Tbe
Register, in my judgment, is the best couu-
ty paper in the state. "-Sip Register. The
DR.. has more patience than patients if he
reads an Of the county papers Of the State
80 carefully as 20 form such a decided opiu-
ion.
OF" a Kearneysville correspondent of
the Shepherdstown Independent writes TO
that paper as follows The first issue of the
Independent arrived on Saturday. We are
glad to welcome it into our midst. May il,
be true to its name, and when We read an
item in its columns, may it be set down as
the truth. and not have It's foundation built
on prejudice. as most Of our county papers
are" A second Daniel come to judy
ment," Ell?