Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1875-10-09
Gleanings.
"Autumn hangs upon each frOstgeumes
stalk.
Uer cold and purple hues"


to church.
There are $50, 600 acres devoted to the cul-
tivaton Of opium in India.
Claain & Co., of New York, sold : 900 cases
of Prints in one day
A few days ago three men were killed in
New York by the breaking Of patent ladder
for Firemen.
A young lady in Chicago whose father is
worth million dollars has been Imprisoned for
stealing.
The bible has been discarded from the pub
lie schools Of Chicago BY vote Of the Board
Of Education.
To paste anything whatever upon postal
card renders it unavailable as postal card
The Sultan of Turkey, short lime ago, ex-
pended $4,000 in fireworks, the occasion
being his birthday.
There are $40 NAL. houses 10 the United
States, costing over SlOOOOOO0 employing
], 100 hands and using capital Of $4,000
900.
Thirty of the mills on Fall River are con-
troleI by nine families There are about
fourteen thousand work people employed.
There are, according to Mrs. Crawshay 5 cal
culatious, 900 900 women IN the United King
dom for whom there is no chance OF marriage.
The National Grange will meet in the city
Of Louisville ON the third Wednesday OF No
yember next.
An old man named Goodwin was kicked to
death by his three sons in Jersey City on Mon
day.
Five tobacco barns in Robertson county,
Tennessee were burned down during the past
week, involving loss Of 10000 pounds.
Rev. Alexander II. Stephens is announced
to deliver series of lectures in Chicago, for
which be Is to receive 5 600.
A tract Of land situated twenty-five miles
west Of Santa Rosa, Cal. yielded this season
fifty bushels of wheat per acre.
A bill of foreclosure en- the Chesapeake y
Ohio railroad first mortgage has been filed at
Richmond, Va, aud At ParGcrsburs, W. Va.
It is stated that the fraudulent certificates
of Indebtedness issued by George NJ. Pnney,
clerk to Pay Inspector Spaulding, amount TO
| $3.50 600.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company Is
| having sign boards put along the n ot the
road. similar to tn re seen on west RI roads
| They are a source of information to travellers.
Millnrl Carpenter, millionaire Of Evans
| Vile Indiana, is going to give 100000 to-
wards the endowment of great educational
/ institution to be established in that city.
Miss Bereuice Morrison, young lady Of
wealth, of Howard county, Missouri, has dona-
| ted one hundred thousand dollars to PrilChett
! Institute, belonging to II. E. Church, South,
located at Glasgow, Missouri.
VIM. Pauling, Familiarity known as " Uncle
! Billy" a blind man who has long had news
| stand on Newark avenue, Jersey city, has been
! left legacy Of EOS 900 by the will of George
! Clark Pauug, engineer, of Manchester, Eng
| land.
The latest social hobby is " Autumnal Leaf
! Parties" which is the name chosen by those
who gregariously go forth into the woods and
country lanes for the purpose Of gathering the
/ briiaut-hued leaves that arc shJweget about
/ by the fall breezes.
Buffalo physician, who has undergone the
operation which was 50 accurately described
IN the case Of Clara Morris, says it is absolute
| iy painless. Iron at white heat produces
merely a tickling sensation on the flesh.
A horrible murder and suicide occurred at
Gainesville, Illinois, on Tuesday. Charles
/ Brink. IN fit Of anger, shot Mrs. Deborah
/ Hall. hi, mother-in-law, and Ellen Brink, lis
wife, killing them instantly, aud then killed
himself by placing pistol to his right temple.
No good cause eau be assigned for the deed.
A young school GIL, aged about Il years,
was brutaly outraged and murdered at Penn
broke, n. H., on Monday. Her head was
severed from the body, and found a hundred
wards from the spot where the foul deed was
prrpetratcd. A man named Bill Drew has
been arrested upon suspicion.
The almost unmarked grave of Edgar Allen
Poe. author Of THE Raven" was opened in
Baltimore a few day ago, to lay the iOunda-
ton OF the monument about 10 be erected 10y
his admirers At depth Of five feet the cof-
On was found, in good preservation, after lay
ine there nearly tweuty-siN years.
Pope Plus X. has conferred on Major John
d. Kelley, late OF Richmond. Va, amt now Of
Of New York, "a brother Of Mayor Kelley Il
that city. aud president of the New York 81.
Michaei's Assnciaiiuul the honor Of The Grand
Cross. or Knight Comuat der OF the Order u
81. Gregory the Great IL j. the third time
that this grade OF the Orler OF 81. Michael has
ever been conferred on any one n tie United
States.
\ boat containing man md two women
capsized 81 River Poat, Z the other day
when q couple # men were fishing near by
Z with great eXerton got them ashore. The
rescued man was rroluse iu his thanks and
invited biz rescners home. where, rs a reward
l"r their services, lie presented them with a
watermelon. II it was well grown melun,
nothing larger could have been handled in lit
tie Rhody.
The Rev. Dublin J. Walker, formerly school
commissioner Of Chester county, South Caro-
! lima. and now member Of the State Senate,
was convicted in Chester on Friday week, IN
the Court of Quarter Sessions, on the charge Of
issuing a fraudulent school certificate f"r sew
euty dollars The jury which rendered the
verdict was composed of one white and eleven
/ colorcd men. Walker is leading colored
preacher 10 that section. Six Of the jury that
found him guilty were communicates Of bis
own church.
Little Josey Sullivan, Of New York City,
| whose mysterious disappearance about three
/ weeks ago from his home caused a stir among
citizens aud police was found dead on Tues
day not block from his home lie had gone
into hay store and was playing among the
bales. when they toppIed over on him aud
caused his death.
/ Near Altoona, Pa, on Saturday afternoon,
whilst Mr.. and Mrs. Ictrick were going 70 tie
. Il I L Isl. I I'd.