Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1873-01-18
General News Items.


business on the 9th day of December, 1872, the
loans and discounts of the First National Bank
amounted to 1886, 1865. Individual depos-
its, S245, l4ls9. At the close of business for
the same date, in the National Valley Bank,
loans aud discounts amounted to SS4O, 97o.S1
Individual deposits, SgO7, 55O.ss.- Tradica-
tor.
The TTaiicdtor calls Augusta Cotnty the
Banner whiskey county of Virginia. During
the year 1872 there were so, 496 gallons of
spirits from grain and 1923 gallons from
fruit
RABBIT TRADE.-There were received at the
stores in this place, during the past ten days,
about ,, l5O RABBITS, most of them sent t. East
ern markets At other stores in this county,
we are informed, the number on hand and al
ready shipped, amounts in the aggregate, to
1880. Total number, ROmney Int.
SMALL THINGs.-During the last year 1000
lbs. of Walnut kernels were shipped by rail
from Broadway depot in this county. They
sold in the Baltimore market at 80 cents per
pound, bringing the handsome sum Of $500 for
these small and seemingly worthless things
These walnut kernels were gathered mainly by
peor children in Brooks Gap. who had no o.
Their way in which to turn an honest penny
They are used in making candy .-RoeE Reg.
Miss Amelia Pegram, daughter of Col. W.
B. Pegram, of Covington, Ky. accidentally
shot herself by striking pistol lying on the
bureau with a dust brush She died almost
Immediately. She was a lady of great beauty
and accomplishments
Mrs Lydia Sherman, who was recently SEN
fenced to the Connecticut State Prison for life,
for numbering three husbands and several
children, has made a full confession of her
crimes, aud now coolly admits that she sue
cessfully tried her skill in poisoning upon eight
persons This enterprising female seems to
have done a wholesale business IN the killing
line, and yet she managed to escape a convic-
ton of murder in the first degree, and thereby
escaped paying the penalty of her crimes upon
the galIows.
| Philadelphia can Justly lay claim to the crsl-
it of indulgng in the fastest criminal proceed
ing on record. Recently an individual was ar
rested as the proprietor of "pauel house at
10 o'clock at night, was examined the next
morning at I, indicted the same day by the
Grand Jury at noon, tried at half-past one,
found guilty at 8, and was Immediately SEN
fenced to two years Imprisonment.
The report of the Grand Jury shows that Of
the ten thousand, one hundred and twenty
tw1 prisoners received during the past year,
the large proportion of eight thousand, one
hundred aud sevenV-three were committed
for drunkeuuess.-Ba Gazette.
The residence Of the late Judge Perry, in
Cumberland, Md, was sold to O. c. Gephart,
Esq, for $4,000.
The compositors of the New York Tribune
office, propose that the printing Offices Of the
country shall all contribute Cue or more
pounds Of old type for the purpose Of making
a statue Of Horace Greeley to be erected over
his grave, aud that all cornpositora of the coun-
try shall give the proceeds of one thousand
ems, set up on February Sd, the sixty-second
anniversary of the birthday of Mr. Greeley, as
a fund to carry ont the design
Napoleon's son, nearly seventeen years old,
is now, under the Napoleon dynasty, the heir
to the throne of France of the Imperial regime
The chances for the succession, uader present
circumstances, are but slight Bu. there is no
knowing what may happen.
It requires $8sOOe worth of twine per an
mum to tie up the dead letters which the Post
Office department fails to deliver.
The Legislatures of thirty States are now in
session, or all except New Hampshire, Yer
mont, Connecticut Delaware, Maryland, Cali
fornia and Oregon.
The old liberty bell was removed Monday
morning from Independence Hall, Philadelphia,
to the yestibue, where it is to stand in future.
As an experiment the clapper was attached
and thirteen strokes given 10 commemorate
the change IN location.
The Secretary of War has directed 7. to be
announced to the corps Of cadets at West Point
that it is the intention 70 require the presence
OF the corps, with its officers and the band, at
Washington, on the 4th cf March next, on the
occasion Of the Inauguration of President Grant
The Iyuchburg News says: " We under
stand that the negroes in this aud adjacent
counties, to man almost, Absolutely refused
to hire themselves out on farms for the present
year, at any price The consequence IS THAT
our farmers, not being able to obtain labor,
are at a complete loss what to do, and COM
plain that the prospect before them is glsomier
than it has been since the close Of the war"
ON THE HIsHwAY OF LITE.-On January
2ud, 1878, in the middle of the S;auuton and
Harrisonburs Turnpike at Burketown, by the
Rev. Mr.. Tallhems, on horseback, John White
sell Of Burketown, aud Miss Jennetta Bowers,
the bride and groom occupying fronts seats in
a buggy.
Col. VIM Allan passed to Baltimore Sunday
where he will be Joined on the 2Oth by Col