Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1875-04-10
Gieanings from the Press.

Retail cigar dealers are to be afflicted with
a patent cigar-box, which tic commissioner of
internal revenue has invented. The box has
perforated coupons on the inside edge, cor
responding with the number of cigars in the
box. The coupons are furnished by the
government in place Of stamps, and when a
cigar is sold coupon has to be destroyed be-
fore the purchaser. The design is to make
the smokers detectives, but, Ike everything
else Of this kind, the smokers wont watch,
aud the patent box will incite good deal Of
profanity among retail cigar dealers, who do
not like TO be continually suspected of cheat
ing the government. A sort Of government
bell-punch. you know.
Whatin the world is Patti going to do with
all her diamonds? At the conclusion Of her
recent engagement at St. Petersburg she was
presented with magnificent diadcm of dia-
monds aud sapphires, BY far the handsomest
gift she has ever received during her several
visits to the Russian capital
Goraonsvine boasts Of pos sessiog the most
extraordinary COW 10 Virginia. Mrs d. II.
Partlow owns her, anI sells weekly more than
seven penuds Of butter all made from the
milk Of this one cow; or sometimes sells two
gallons of milk daily, and from the residue,
sells tweuty-four pounds Of butter, besides
using it in abundance ut home.
President Grant aud Attorney-General
Williams are troubled to know what they
shall do with an Indian who kills another as
the Indians are not subject to our law. The
truculent New York Herald suggests that
when they catch an Iudian who has undoubt-
eddy killed another Indian, the true course is
to give him new gun and five dollars.
On last Wednesday evening, as Mr.. c. S.
Moor, Of this city was coming up the grade
near North Mountain station. b & o. rail-
road, with his train he noticed something
struggling in a stream Of water near the track.
He Jumped from the train and found it to be
a youth aged l6 years, who had fallen into
the water in an attack Of epilepsy. Mr.. NJ
was Just in time to save him from drowning.
The train was running rapidly when Mr.. NJ.
at the risk of his life leaped from it, sprain-
ing his ankle in the fall. The boys name was
HouG Mariinsburg Statesman.
John E. Brossiux, president, and Thomas S.
/ Armistead, cashier of the Dollar Savings Bank
at Richmond, Va, an institution which col
lapsed during the panic in September, 1873,
were arrested on Saturday on warrants chars-
o them with embezzling fourteen thousand
dollars Of the fusds of the bank and with
making fraudulent entries to conceal the same.
They were committed to Jail, bail being re-
fused
Mr.. S. A. Heath of Fairfax C. H., Virginia,
was found dead in his his bed recently, and
circumslautial evidence pointed rather severe
ly to his wife as the criminal, Her recent
exami nation, however, has happily cleared
away all such suspicious, and it is believed
that Mr. Heath's DEATH though sudden is at
trbutel to natural causes
President Garrett Of the B 6; o. r. R. will,
| it is thought, become the owner of the Chesa-
peakc and Ohio Canal, which is now repre-
scented as losing money fast If the Railroad
King takes it, it will shake of its present leth-
arsy aud become busy trade-conduit.
The marshes in Prince George County, Ma
ryland are full of snipe, and gunners from
Washington aud surrounding cities are enjoy
ing rare sport.
The new steamer for the Norfolk Washing
ton route made its first trip last Saturday. 1t
is called the George II. Plant, after the owner.
Henry Morford, author of the play " Cheya-
lier Paul" has sued John f. Owens, the actor,
for whom it was written, for $l,0OO-the
price agreed upon for it. Owens thinks it stu
pid. although the incidents were furnished by
him.
Governor Kemper has appointed General
| Fiizhugh Lee, of Stafford L. NJ Tidbll Of
Winchester, and DR.. Robertson, of Lynch
burg. as fish commissioners for Virginia, TO
aid in the propagation of fish in the waters Of
the State.
A horrible instance Of fanaticism IS related
| from Cuba, where a woman took out the eyes
of her son and afterwards attempted to tear
ont her own under the pretense or ha'ucina-
ton that she was acting under orders from the
spirits.
/ Mr.. John Williams has received an order
from a gentleman in New York for preserved
specimens Of all the FISH and reptiles that in
habi. the waters Of the Potomac, and is en-
gagged in filing it.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad enters
into the war Of competition with Scott and
/ Garrett for the trade aud travel Of the West,
aud its rates have been reduced to St. Louis
all other cities in the Valley Of the Ohio and
Mississippi-Alerandrid Gazette.
President Miller, Of the Valley Agricultural
Society. Informs the Winchester Times that
he has invited distinguished gentleman Of
Virginia, who is one Of the best farmers and
at the same time one Of the finest pubic
sneakers in the State, to deliver the Annual