Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1896-02-12
NelCsy Notes.

The slOO,OOO,OOO of per cent. bonds will
go to 7S2 bidders.
Original pension issued Jan. 16, 1896 to
Eliza II. Wharton, of Martinsburg.
Wheat last week in Baltimore sold at a
cents-in this county II. A slight improve
ment
Mr.. William Miller, resident of Berke-
ley county, died two weeks agO near Falling
Waters. He was Sc years old.
Harry Voorhees,, aged IS years, died at his
home in DaIkesville last Thursday week
His remains were inferred at Shepherdstown.
The Shepherdstown corporation election
is approaching, aud the 'wets" and the
"drys" are "wetting their whistles" and
whetting their knives.
We hear that Mr.. George w. Show "a for
mer citizen of Shepherdstown has bought a
business property in Hagerstown, on South
Potomac street for which he paid $1,000.
Our thanks to Hon. S. B. Elkins for q
copy of his speech Against the Sale of
Government Bonds by Private Contract"
delivered in the U. S. Senate Jan. 1897.
Mr.. Charles D. Wysong has bought the
lot on Princess street, Shepherdstown, i'm
proved by the large livery stable occupied
by Mr.. A. c. Morrison, for the sum of 5000
cash.
From the Lothrop Publishing Company,
of Boston, we have "The Pansy" for Feb
ruary. 1t is handsomely printed and pref
tily illustrated. Contents good. Only Sl.OO
per year
Property which originally sold for 5000
in Martinsburg recently brought SlS.OOO.-
The Wilson tariff and sound currency do
not appear to retard progress aud thrift in
our neighboring city.
The Clarke Courier says Hon. Marshall
Mccormick will he a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Congress. Maj.
Turner, the present incumbent will ask
nomination for reelection.
Mr.. Il. 5. NJ. Hoffman has bought from
Mr.. Geo w. Show, of Hagerstown, field
containing about four acres of ground along
the Halltown pike, short distance south
of Shepherdstown. The price paid was
about $500.
Hon. VIM. H. English of Indiana, who
was the Democratic candidate for Vice
President on the ticket with Hancock in
1880, died in Indianapolis last Friday, in
the 74th year of his age. He had been i'll
with La Grippe two weeks
The first State meeting of the Kings
Daughters and Sons of West Virginia will
be held in Charleston Februsry Is, IA and
Is. The circles of Charleston will enter
tain all delegates, the names of whom should
be sent to Mrs Malcolm Jackson, No. 1875
Morris street
Bishop B. w. Arnett, Of Ohio, a noted
coored orator, President of the Board of
Trustees of Wherefore University, Senior
Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church and President of the Negro Authors
Club, was refused admission at three of the
principal Boston hotels because of his color,
w. A. Gentry, of West Virginil, neph-
ew of the late Senator Kenua, gained $lO,-
600 by a dream. For three nights in sue
cession. while he was in Cincinnati, he
dreamed a wagon would run over him. He
took out an accident policy, was run over
in the manner revealed to him in his dream,
and now he is $4,000 richer although mi
nus his left arm.
Warren, the fye-year-od son of Rev. J.
c. Jones, Of the Uppervile Methodist Epis-
copal Church, South, last week fell head
foremost into a well thirty-nue feet deep
aud ten feet Of water He chung to a pump
brace when he rose to the surface and held
on until a rope ives lowered, which he sez-
ed and was pulled up. His only injury was
Sigh. cut on the head.
The Prohibitionists purpose having a
State ticket in the field this year. The
State convention is to be held at Mounds
Vile in July. Delegates to the Prohibition
National Convention, which will meet in
Pitt-burg on May 9TH, have been chosen by
the State Executive Committee. There are
more abstainers from the use Of intoxicants
in Moundsville than any other town in the
State of its population.
Mr. John Spangler, aged eighty-two
years, died at his residence, in Martinsburg
last Saturday night, of apoplexy. He had
been ia feeble health for a number of years
aud his death was not unexpected. Before
the war he was employed in the United
States armory at Harper's Ferry as a gun
smith. He was twice married and leaves a
widow aud six children His children are
Elmer, William, John and Emanuel Span
gler, Mrs Joseph Fayman, Of Kansas City,
Mo, and Mrs, H. Smurr, of Martinsburg,