Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1899-12-19
Items 81 Interest.


0ne New York firm has paid out ips
app es at Martinsbarg. this year sss, $50
Hon. ". g Brown, Of Kiggwood, and
DR.. A. 8. Wander. Jr, Of Grafton. and
Col Monroe, Of IIampshfre hunted in
Pocahontas county and secured three deer
Watson & Co and Clarke & Co, larg-
est coal producers in the Fairmont region,
December 1st advanced the mining rate.
tn employees five cents car or fifteen per.
cent. This is the second voluntary ad
ance within three months making the
mining rate higher there than elsewhere
ia the State o her miners in the Fair
mont region followed the fret advance.
and are expected to follow the second in
crease. Four thousand men are affected.
President Williams, of the Chemical
National Bauk, New York. Gays The
fear of God is, consider, the 6rst essen.
tial of success. Next to that cannel
TOO cmphatically impress upon young
men the absolute indispensability of pc
itcness. Politeness is the Aladdin'-
lamp of success" Senator scott. Of Wes'
Virginia, says "In business, from NJ,
-.alliest rccollsclions, 1 had deletminn,
ton always 10 do what was calledsupon
10 do better, if possible, than nybody
else who was doing the same thing ]
have made it rule to be good nafurediy
md industriously aggressive in snppoIt
If my convictions, in behalf Of my friend-
and in justice to myself"
We acknowledge from Mr.. Abner j.
West, of LnganrpOr1. Indiana, a copy OF
he Industrial Edition of The Daily Re
porter of that city = 80 pages, illustrated
Among the portraits is one OF air. West,
of whom the Reporter says:
Zone of the employees is A j. West,
the Mergenthaler operator, who began n
foreman of the Reporter when it was ts
tablishtd Oct. 1, 1889. His ability H.
MS present line oil work is mentioned IL
The writeup of the Mergenthaler linotype
machine The linotype of the Reporter
Office is operated by A j. West with Kir
by Reist IA assistant: Mr.. Vert speD'
the necessary time in Brooklyn, N. Y, as
student in the factory, whore the u.a,
chimes are manufactured, to make him
thoroughly acquainted with it. He il
the only operat@r in this city POSSESSED ui
his experience"
From the Daily Register of Mobile,
Alabama. December lst, we take the fol,
owing
1.-The funeral of William E Welded.
tOnk plMce Yesterday from the residence.
No 16I Nnrth Joachim street, at p M,
Rev ID. a. PlankcOn1uating theseryices
The remains were theu taken To the Mo
bile and Ohio train for shipment To Okn
Iona, Miss, where iteintermpnt will fake
place. The paIlhearera were: Howard
Evans. James w Cex. George Ehcriein,
j. w. Sptstley, John Aston, George
I, ulmin
MIR. wcddrll was a graduate of THE
FREE Press Office a little while before
the war of 'Gl-5 As member of cur
household for number ofytafs we have.
kindly recollcctions of him, and Of hi.
fidelity as an ollice boy During the war
he was gallant Confederate suldier IL
Cen Hoods brigade. After the war he
resided in Mississippi and married there,
ana ior many years was Postwaster.-
Peace to his ashes Free Petss.
A Romney special to the Baltimore
Sun is as follows: Col, Thomas D Da.
Wis will not DO candidate for the Demo.
cratic nomination for Governor. He
made this announcement for the first time
here last night to State Senator CornwelI,
who repeated it TO tie Suns correspond
cut This decision, which Colonel Davis
says he reached after mature deliberation
and much thought, is final lie says he
feels greatly BATTERED at having received
hundreds of letters from Democrats
throughout the State urging him to allow
the use of his name and offering him their
support. But for various reasons he says
he cannot allow the use OF his name The
chief of these is that his time is entirely
taken up with Lis business Affairs. He
does not regard the talk OF the nomination
of his brother, Hon. H. G. Davis, serious
ly, for The reason, as he stated, that his
brother is even more engrossed in Lusi
neaa than li,naelr and would mt FIR