Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1875-08-28
Gleanings.
When Freedom from her mountain height
Unfurled her standard to the air,
Her skirts, pulled back so very tight,
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Her skirts, pulled back so very ught,
Made her appear exceeding spare
The Albion Mills, Oonshecken, Pa, ARE burn
ed. Loss $25O,O00.
The Arlington Hotel, Wilkins Glen, \. Y,
is burned. Guests and traps were saved.
Gilmores Gardens in Gotham clears, so they
say, $40 900 week This is rather tall
The two Misses Wood, daughters Of Hon.
Fernando Wood, of New York are great bellies
at Long Branch.
Mr.. Wolf, retired Boston journalist, has
written play, The Almighty Dollar, to be
brought out in New York.
The Vermont Veterans reunited at Bratte-
boro last week. Vice President Wilson made
lengthy speech favoring reconciliation.
A definite statement Of Duncan, Sherman
& Co.'S affairs is made: Debts and liabilities,
S4,OlO, l3s; assets S2,s85,S5S.
Hon. Thurlow Weed, his daughter, aud
three dcnestcs narrowly escaped poisoning
last week by drinking tea boiled in water i'm
preguated with oxalic acid.
Edwin Booth the tragedian, was thrown
from his buggy at Point Chester, New York,
recently, aud had his elbow injured aud rib
broken.
Ondit that Cen Toker Schenck, and Mrs.
Hicks, the beautiful American widow Of Paris,
are to be united in matrimouy sometime dur
ing October.
The corner stone Of the Union Agency build
ing at Prospect Hill, near Muskosee, Indian
Territory was laid last week. How much more
win this hug, pile, in time, cover?
\ map agent took refuge under hly-stack
during a thunderstorm, and the lightning
struck him on the cheek, glanced off and killed
a mule, two hundred yards away. This is a
positive fact.
The Charter Oak Grocery aud Provision Cor
I poration, the establishment Of Hartford Gran
/ gers, is reported to have failed. with liabilities
yariously estimated at from $4,000 to 100000.
The Lancet which is high authority among
the followers of Esculapius, records, as it says
e another case Of inflammation Of the feet, caused
By the wearing Of socks with orange red
stripes Itsupposcs that the poisonous dye
used is coralEna.
Three old women and a lame man consti-
tute debating society at Dubuque. The
/ three old women live together, and their chick
/ ems scratched mp the lame mans garden. The
debate is held across the line fence.
One thousand ladies' Of Massachusetts, have
/ selected Eon. n P Banks, Hon. a. II. Rice
and \. Worth SpateS, of Baltimore, to present
/ memeutoes Of the late Bunker Hill Centennial
/ to ladies connected with the Southern soldiery
/ from the States Of Virginia, Maryland and
| South Carolina.
Rosie C5tterman, aged ten, little German
l girl of Bloomington, Illinois, bFavely stood in
| the way of an infatuated cow till she had put
\ four or FIVE smaller children over a fence
Her clothing was all ripped from her and she
I was badly bruised, but the mayor and police
| force, as they descended from the lamp posts
and telegraph poles were loud in praise Of hen
courage.
! ThiSyear the country surrounding Hickman
Ky, has produced al unusually large amount
Of apples, and that place is doing driving
business in this fruit, it being estimated that
more apples are shipped from there than from
any other place on the Mississippi River a
very excellent kind Of an apple can be bought
there for $3.50 per barrel.
The Kansas Fareey says tho question now
I 60 be heard on all sides is. Where can we get
stock TO feed our corn to-" People out this
way mad 40 idea that the grasshoPpers had
utterly destroyed crops Of every kind 10 Kan
sas, Judging from reports received here a few
months since Lord, how the world is given
to lying I"
Ludwig q. Miller, a wealthy German farmer,
/ residing six miles west of Ann Arbor, Michi-
| gan, was shot and instantly killed on the night
of the 18th instant, by George Burkhart, a
I German boy, 10 years of age, who is a nephew
Of Mler's wife, and has lived in Miller'S fami-
| ly for FIVE years.
Miss Susan Augusta F5uimore Cooper,
daughter Of the novelist, is devoting her life to
The support and training Of little homeless
boys aud girls, the orphauaGe being situated
on the Otsego lake, near Cooperstown, New
York.
Mrs. Mary Killerhouse died at Undertook
a few days ago,aged l06 years , months and
Q DAYS. Her maiden name was Lick, and she
was born in Undertook June II, l7G9. She
had been married four times, first at the age
/ Of Is and last at IS. She was very intelligent
and bad a retentiye memory. She leaves an
extensive progeny, scattered all over the coun-
try.
Gen. Il. L. CDlst0n, formerly professor 10
the Virginia Military Institute, but who has
for some years past been in the Egyptian ser
vice, was at las, accounts lying dangerously
III.
The Rev. Charles Cooke, D. D., of the Phil
advlpha Conference of the NJ. L, Church, died
in that city on Tuesday, aged 20 years.
The American Rife Team arrived in New
York last Saturday evening. They had a
grand naval reception and escort up the bay to
the city, and subsequently an enthusiastic
greeting from the municipal authorities.
The Atlantic cotton mills, Lawrence, Mass,
which suspended on the 10th of July last, will
resume with full force on Monday next. They
give employment to 1850 operatives. Sales
of stock on hand have been large and the pros
pect is regarded as encouraging for fall busi-
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