Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1875-10-02
Gleanings.

And then her tied back was gonei
She rose from her seat with martyreC arr,
And gathered the things she wore;
She looked like one that was Wiling 70 swear
But then she never swore.
The coming man is he who owes you.
Hon. Jefferson Davis has returned from
Colorado much improved in health.
Paxton, the abscondiug teller Of the Me-
chauies Bank Of Montreal, is reported to have
embezzled over 100000.
Ned O'Baldwin, the Irish Giant, was shot
and perhaps fatally wounded by his partner,
Michael Finuell, in New York Monday
It's proposed to erect an Altar in the Fifth
Avenue. New York, Cathedral at cost Of
$3.50, 600, only
It requires Just IS days for letter to travel
around the world. The experiment has just
been tried.
The city Of New York alone spends annual
" the enormous sum Of S3,79G, 800 for educa-
tional purposes.
Among the new centennial notions is pro-
iect for the construction of an endless moving
sidewalk around the contour Of the entire area
of buildings.
When they catch man gathering Delaware
peaches at midnight they preserve whatever
good traits he mas in him 10y shooting half
pint of salt into his legs.
Gen. S,rother Porte CrsyOnl speaks Of Dr.
Mary Walker AS q "paut-o-si-ralie,' and she
estimates the Amount Of lucre necessary 70
soothe her aggrieved feelings at SO, 900.
Miss Hullett. the Chicago lawyer, will not
move in a divorce case, believing, as she says
that "auy woman who will marry man
ought to be forced TO live with him
Georse z. Boston, formerly Of Winchester
was recently murdered in the Yosemite valley
Calf rnia. His cabin was entered, it Is sup
posed by indians, and lie was murdered and
his body burnt, only the head remaining.
A bell to weigh 1900 pounds is being
made for independence Hall, Philadelphia
|, is to be cast from Union and Rebel canon
used in the late war giving Il Il national aul
centennial significance.
Rev. a. q. Haygood, a Southern Methodist
minister O. eminent ability and for some year:
past the Sunday School Secretary aud Editor
has resigned, aud the place thus made vacant
has been filed by the election Of Rev. W. u
T. Cunningham, d. d.
4 young man was killed Monday by the
accidental discharge of his gun near Mil
Creek Hundred. Delaware. he was s'audus
with the muzzle Of his gun resting against bis
side when the weapon was accidentally dis-
charged, and the load passed TIN. ugh hs body
\ new biographer Of Ar,emus Ward says
the genial humoriSt usually wrote with one
les over the arm of his chair. We had al
WAYS supposed he wrote with q pen or a pen
cIl but to write with one leg over the arm o
chair is not So difficult as to write with one
arm over the eg of chair.
Able Joseph Chabert, prominent Catholic
ecclesa,tic, principal olthe government Schoo
of art aud design at Montreal, Canada, was
arrested Saturday afternoon on q charge OF
felouious assault, alleged to have been commit
ted on a girl named Josephine BcAachamp
aged Is years, at his rooms.
or 900 houses at Iulianola, Texas, 300 wer'
DESTROYED by the cyclone. The loss OF life !.
stated at 800. Mexicans have been robbina
and mutilntiug the dead to obtain money ant
iewery--cutting Of fingers hand, and ears lC
obtain the latter. Five were caught in ID,
act aud killed.
The Alfalfa fGa] Cpnstitutioralist say
that in that city there are now one hundred
and thirry-fye LAWYERS and siXty-ive physi
clans. That number Of doctors would be
snpcriuous il pe,tiIence were raging 10 A.
lanta, and the lawyers would be drug IN lh'
market if every tizen were either plaintiff
or defendant in lawsuits.
The sheriff Of Fcntncr county, Tenn, ha
captured man who answers the description
Of the notorious Cole Younger. lie had 81
400 and offered all to tie released. He IL he
heved to be partner Of Jesse James, wh'
was killed at Pine Hill. Ky. last week. Boil
were concerned in the late West Virginia baul
robbery.
AtRamont Conn, a man named Cottin.
was awakened by a tramp, who demanded hl
moupy at the same time presenting a Ioade
pistol and threatened to blow out his brains
Getting directed him to q bureau, where he
said there was 500 The tramp, while
searching fer the money, lail d1wl the pistol
which was seized by Getting, WHO firing, kiilo'
him instantly.
Thomas McDlniels, a famous bnshWhncke
If Western Missouri brother 10 BIZ. M'Dou
iels, who was recently killed in Nebraska, ]
the name Of the Huntington Bank L 'bber ne
Gently killed in Kentucky. Tie had been al
outlaw for ten years, and had committed sew
eral murders. among other men killing Coloue
Nichols, an officer Of Sheltz's command. H
WAS engaged in the train r)bbsri Is at Cad
Hill and Muucie.
For the benefit Of those who canno: a0or,
/ Mosquito bars, we give the fullow!ng d
retiring at night, rub tie exposed portions u
tie hands and face with scented oil or Pnmade
and, though you may hear the mesquite
screaming all around, they will not touch you
aud you can calmly subsde into sleep iuhaliu
the fragrance of flowers. - Geo. Courier
Oscar Mixdorl visited the biological Gar
deus at Cincinnati on Tuesday afternoon, au.
although warned by the keeper, insisted OF
thrusting his arm into a cage containing %
srzzIy bears. The male bear caught It, du'
/ The next instant the female also grabbed it
The result was that the ann was wreuche.
from the shoulder socket and horribly mangled
| In his agony he thrust in his other arm, an.
that was ais, Iaccuted. He will lose at leas
one arm, aud likely bis life.
Hon. Reyerdy johnson, in letter decIininl
an invitation to be present at the memorial
services of cx-Presjient johnson, says: Dc.
am satisfied that a more conscientious man @
Que more devoted 20 the interest and honor O.
( lis country never occupied the office. HI
State papers too, evidenced high order o
ability. They were not only strong IN arsu
msut. but excellent IN style. The only one %
which this cannot be said is the veto message
nnaer.tnnl ~ haye boon nrenlral i-intly ly