Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1869-09-16
Scissors Brevities.


His Holiness, the Pope, says the London
Morning Post, is about to make great efforts
to convert the negroes in America, and two
hundred ofthem are now studying for the priest
hood.
Five claimants are quarrelling for theposses-
sion Of mastodon's tooth lately found in ex-
cavating for city sewer in Cleveland-the
man who dug it out, the foreman of the job, the
contractor, the owner of the nearest lot, and
The city.
4 real estate agency in Alexandria, Va, has
made sale to Northern capitalists of three
quarters interest in 100000 acres of land "
ing in the counties of Logan and Wyoming,
in Southwestern Virginia, belonging to Mr..
Robert Lawson, of Wythe county.
Manassas tva.l is rapidly improving
It has now about eighty buildings, two
churches, three schools, lone colored,l two
hotels, one steam mill, one sumac mill, five
stores, one newspaper, one tin shop, two wheel
wright shops.
The Treasury detectives in New York have
a clue to the whereabouts of Autograph stone,
from which halfa million spurious five dollar
notes have been printed, and have possession
of the stone used in producing imitation five
dollar bills on the Jcwctt National Bank.
There was brilliant tournament at Pros
pect HILL near NIilwocd in Clarke county, Va,
on Friday week. Mr.. H. NJ. Nelson, knight Of
Lowlands, selected as the first maid Of honor
Miss Jennie Friend, Of Petersburg, Va.
The subscriptions to the fund for the relief
of Mrs. Rawlins, in New York, alfeady amount
to $2i, 500. \ fund is being raised in the
same city forth relief of the Avondale mine
sufferers.
Captain James Barnes, company X, fifth
United States cavalry, has been ordered to VIZ
sinia with detachment of twenty men to en-
force the revenue laws.
A recent assessment of real estate in the city
of Wheeling, West Va footed up $6,O7G, $50.
The population Of Wheeling is estimated at
over 5000
Thcnrmbcror barns, stacks, wheat machines
agricultural implements, &c, destroyed this
season, by fires, is unusually large, over the
country, but particularly in Virginia.
A PRISONER confined in the Moyamensiug
prison, charged with murder, committed suicide
in a novel manner, by holding his head in a
bucket of water until life was extinct.
Thomas Lee, Esq, son of Judge Lee, Of Hall
fax county, Va, remembers 4 drought in 1888
in which it did not rain on his fathers planta-
ton from June until December.
Chas WhittIcsey, the defeated Republican
candidate for Cougressin the Aexadria District
has been appointed 6y Gen. Candy Attorny
| General, vice Bowden, resigned.
The teller of the Ninth National Bank OF
Boston has the credit of having used up be-
tween ninety and a hundred and thirty thou
sand dollars Of the banks funds.
The boiler Of a freight engine on the Della
ware Division of the Erie Railroad exploded
Friday killing the engineer, fireman, aagman
and brakcsnian.
Rev Mr. Suter, rector Of St. Paul's church,
Episcopal in Lynchburs, has resigned that
charge He has accepted call TO WyckliG'e
church, in Jefferson county, w. Va.
Two uudredthousand dollars worth of wills
key was seized by the Internal Revenue Col
lector at San Francisco Thursday.
The venerable Archdcacon Of Montreal who
is over sixty, has married young lady Of
| sc7enteea.
Gov. Walker, Of Virginia, has contributed
$500 towards the Rawlins family fund.