The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-03-24

row ON the streets. Things are inn
proving ON the dark and bloody
/ ground.
An exchange says: at looks as
though the butchers sell all the good
meat they can, and then can what
they can't"
Gen. Wheeler wants 10 remain i'm
the army provided there Is fighting
20 be done He is nothing Of a dress
parade soldier
The blizzard pays no attention to the
coming of Spring out i'm the Northwest.
Those people must come South, or live
hard aud die miserable.
Gen. Lee prefers tine army TO politi-
cal Ife and will not bc a candidate for
the -enatorship. While Vrginians
would love TO honor him we believe Inc
has made wise choice He is a born
soldier.
When in 1872 a number of Southern
editors visited the Northern cities no
advertising was solicited, but our new
England brethren cannot be diverted
from business by any charms of So
cial sort.
Libby prison which was some years
since moved from Richmond to Chica-
go, and for no good purpose, has prov
ed disastrous failure and has teen
pulled down and abandoned a. curios-
ity shop and section-hate breeder All
prison life is repulsive life and all Of
war is Ill"
Richmond has entered upon a ship |
building career Now let Newport |
News look well 10 her laurels.
New Jersey is reckless in the grant
ing Of charters but has decided that no
"Jersy lily shall wear birds On her
bonnet.
The Richmond Dispaich has been
waging a warm war against Rich
mond's horrible mail facilities. The
nuisance ought To be abated. We are
entitled TO the Richmond papers ON
our breakfast table whereas we only
have them for dinner. It is rare
thing TO see newsboy i'm the Valley
of Virginia with a Richmond paper
for sale, and the same is i'm measure
true of the Southwest They simply
can't get there on time.
We read the other day Of 300 white
girls wanted TO make cigarettes. If
In the future any of them should nave
he misfortune to marry cigarette
.iends they will regret ever having
made them.
sit has been nine years since our
government obeyed the law and paid
he annual $4,000, 900 into the sinking
und. 1t has been five years since our
government paid its annual ordinary
expenditures, exclusive Of the sinking q
und, with its revenues" And vet I
here are people at large and outside G
he walls of insane asylums who in :
ist upon IL that we have an abundance /
Il money, 50 much in fact that we g
re forced to send il abroad to find pro- y
liable fields for Investment. t
North Dakota requires a thorough \
hysical examination and the cerlif- D.
ate Of board Of physicians before O
cense to marry Will be issued to any "
ne This is excellent law. The coun- j
~ has as much right to guard against b
assumption and all other hereditary y
iseases As it has to guard against chol. V
ra or yellow fever. Love has no eyes cI
nd law should see for it. Fl
Gen. Otis is whipping the Fillipi- n
os every day. How long will it take NJ
beat them into good citizen shape ? OF
And now they do say that Gen. Il
lies brings charges against Eight Il
- Joe" Wheeler, but be it known to W
! men that all they could trump up OF
,ainst the old eX.Confed is that he M
oul fight even without orders He is
90 wears the white flower Of blame IN
S. life. No Southern man has been
INJECTED with any Of the war scandals. in
ley may be a little premature in az
'ht but that's a vice which leans to
rongly 10 virtues side. pa
COl Bryan believes in the free and th
limited coinage Of silver, but not i'm viz
'e and unlimited kissing. This me Oh
lphasised i'm Texas when he refused alb
kiss la Hobson There is no Mrs. a
bison, but there is Mrs. Bryan. be
e admire his caution but don't know the
lt we would have bppu "a. o,,t, r.,.,,,.,,.. or,