Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1875-04-17
Gleanings from the Press.

yesterday to attend the centennial celebration
Of the Battle Of Lexington, on Monday next.
The executive committee of the Martha
Washington Tea Party, recently held in Balti-
more, have contributed 5000 to aid the
Ladies Mount Vernon Association.
WOman's rights. San Francisco's new
three million dollar palace hotel will contain,
among other features. alies' billiard room,
furnished in princely style.
Young Walworth, the parricide, now con-
fned in the Auburn Asylum for insane con-
victs, is rapidly declining in health, and it is
said he cannot long survive.
Alexander Leeds has been transferred from
the Weyerton and Hagerstown route in Mary
land aud promoted to assistant clerk in the
railway post-ofiee between Washington, D..
O., and Grafton, West Va.
The widow Of engineer Joseph Knepp, of
the Cumberland aud Pennsylvania R. R., who
was killed last summer, has got verdict a.
gainst the Company for $4,000.
A $4,000 ERE occurred down 10 Atlanta,
Ga, recently Five business houses were de-
s,roycd Insurance, $4,000.
Sunset Cox has progressed so far in bis
training for the Speakership of the next
house, that be never says it is bed time" but
gravely observes "that the hour Of adjourn
meut has arrived, and grieves that he is not
then allowed to lay himself on the table
Ohio State Journal
T. ]. MaHkeu, rich widower Of Sacra-
mento, married pretty and educated young
Octoroon whose afric blood was scarcely per-
ceptible. His first wife's children opposed the
union, and "cut their step-mother. Mill
ken died the other day leaving no will. His
estate was worth $1,000, 900, Of which, how
ever his Octoroon widow claimed only her share,
-oue-third. Her step-children cOntes, her
right to anything, basing their suit on the
fact of Mrs. NJ. being partially negro, the
State laws forbinding such unions. The de-
fence declares the lady to be neither negro nor
mulatto, her blood being Caucasian. The
suit is still progressing.
There are fears expressed that the great Salt
Lake Of Utah will soon grow too large for its
confines. Since 1861 there has been steady
rise, aud it is eating under the land on both
sides at a tremendous rate.
Judge A. A. Atocba, of the New Orleans
supreme court, died las, week. He was pro-
vost marshalof the Crescent city whileit was in
the possession Of the United States troops un-
der General Butler.
Las, year, besides lighting the public build
ings and fourteen hundred street lamps, the
city Of Ri .hmond realized a profit of eighty
thousand dollars by furnishing gas to her citi-
zens at two dollars aud eightyfve- cents the
thousand feet.
The house of Wm. Brown, at Circleville,
Va, was destroyed by fire on the lst, toseth-
er with some furniture and family clothing.
Insurance, $4,000.
Henry Chabanue, Frenchman has pur-
chased a portion Of the Phillips tract OF
l,ul near Bristoe Station, Va, aud will settle
there with his family.
A colored convention is called to meet in
Richmond, to consider political and all other
questions touching the interests and prosperity
Of the negroes Of Virginia.
Mr.. March, an eccentric millionaire Of
Charlestown, Mass, died recently and, among
other requests, left sufficient amount to sup
ply all poor, respectable people in his vicinity
with theatre tickets free Of charge.
Cardinal McCIoskey will make his appear
ance for the FIRST time as such at the dedica-
ton of tue new Washington-street cathedral
10 Boston, which will take place in May The
Cardinals New York friends presented him
last week with a fine carriage aud pair of
horses.
Disclosures concerning the Louisville Libra
ny Lottery, as furnished by the Chicago Inter
O,ean, seems TO indicate that that scheme has
been all along strongly tainted with more than
The suspicion Of job. In fact one of the
managerS-Juseph NJ. Simmons-stated to the
Iuter-Oceau that all the five library lottery
schemes were frauds of the FIRST water, and
that the project was conceived in sin and born
in iniquity. Ii is charged that the bill grant
ing tue charter was engineered through the
Legislature by nine persons, Of whom two
Henry WatterSon and Walter n. Haldeman.
Of the Courier-Journal, and by the terms Of
the bill, the library--which il was proposed
90 build-waS to revert 10 the original niue
;ncorporatOrs, after the hnal drawing. Ii APP
pears also that at present the Courier Journal
Company is erecting a building to cost over
$3.50 .OOO. but whether that fact has any refer
cnce 10 Wattersous connection with the lottery
is purely conjectured. Concerning the last
drawing. il is stated that instead of but S.
600 tickets having been sold. as reported by
the company, the sales aggregated 10000
tickets, and that measures are already on foot
to compel the company to restore to ticket
holders the price of their tickets, on the
ground that fraud was perPetrated in the
drawing. Parties in Chicago and Louisville
are advertising 10 pay twenty-five cents on the
dollar for all tickets which did not draw prizes
intending to sue the company for the full paid
up value.
Circuit Court.
Unusual interest in the proceedings Of the
Curt has been manifest within the past few