Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1877-05-05
Topics of the Times.

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The limit Of the loss Of life at the hotel FIRE
in ST. Louis is now put by the city papers at
fifteen
The daughter Of Provost Paralol, who be-
came a Catholic at tie time Of her father S sui
eide at Washington. while ambassador from
France. has taken the veil at Paris.
Gen. W. T. Sherman viii he invited to de-
liver the Grafton aud Bayard Taylor the poem
at the coming reunion Of tie army Of the To-
tomac.
One Of the last utterances Of Parson Brown
low was a declaration in favor Of Hampton
for President in preference to any Northern
democrat.
Ex-Goy. f. F. Moves Of Ohio, has accepted
lie appointment Of Minister 10 France, but will
MT sail until The Senate shall have confirmed
bis nomination Gov. NoyeS was executive Of
The state Of Ohio in the years lS72-73.
An invention by a Capt. Warren is being
tried at Portsmouth, in England. 1t is for
sheaihing ships with paper fixed on with
peculiar cement. 1t is claimed that seaweed
will not grow on nor barnacles adhere to it.
Many Canadians are proposing that mas
much as Victoria will have completed the for
tieth year Of her reign on the goth Of June,
Canada manifest the national attachment by
requesting her to take the title Of Empress
of Canada
70 NAV be that General Joseph E. Johnston
will become president Of the East Tennessee
University lie likes Tennessee end its pe0-
PIE. and would have gone 10 Nashville at the
closc of the war if it had not been for better
60aucial prospects in Savannah.
8Iessrs. Robert II. and Stephen A. Douglas,
IT,, sons Of the late Stephen \. Douglas, are
now living in the western part Of North Caro-
Ina The young Stephen is studying law with
Chief Justice Pearson Of that State He is
said to be a young giant intellectually, and an
eloquent orator.
The State Of Georgia has sold the labor Of
the couyicts in its State prison for $4,000 o
year. which is at the rate Of about 81 a year
f1r each convict Tie State appears TO have
been bally swiudlcd, as the contractors are
now successfully sub-lctting " the couyicts at
SEQ year apiece.
TheButiSh Parliament has defeated, by . vote
of lG4 o. I'D. the Annually recurring motion
o. abolish logging in the navy. IL does not
appear that this means Of punishment is used
% any great extent. but My Lords are unable
% see how discipline Is to be maintained unless
tie power to Gog seamcu is kept in reserve"
Willie Chapman, a Gve-year old resident Of
New London, Conn, while playing with his
top near a mill-lume, lell in, was carried under
breast water-wheel in motion and through
the covered raceway tin he caught project
inc timber aud was G>hed out. First words,
"Where's my top?' Not heroic, nor yet pa
thetc, but natural
Two hundred aud fifty additional discharges
from the Bureau Of Printing and Engraving
were made on Monday last. This batch swellS
The number Of dismisSalS from the Bureau hu-
ring April 10 five hundTed and fifty. The
force has now reached It's proper working ca
pacity-iour hundred and fifty.
From statment prepared 10y tho bureau
&C statistics 10 appears that during the
fifteen months ended March LIST 1877 the i'm
ports Of wheat into the United Kingdom
amounted to 81 .95i ,S5S cwts.. OF about 1O0,-
600 coo bushels Of which 46 per cent. was re-
ceived from the United States, and less than
20 per cent from Russia
True bills have been found against two hun
dred men Of Edgeield and Barnwell counties,
South Carolina, by the grand jury Of the L.
$. circuit court IN Charleston, Cor participation
In the Eilenton riots the grand jUry-also re-
Questing the district attorney % send in bills
against the men who participated in the Ham
burg affair.
The Secretary Of the Navy intends asking
Congress to appropriate S5OO,OOO at the APP
preaching extra session for the purpose Of tit-
ting 0ut eight vessels for service in case Of
emergency. It is feared that the eastern trou-
Die may possibly leopard American interests,
and il is proposed 10 have these vessels ready
g. lin the European and Asiatic stations
Il is expected that an unusual number Of
Cardinals will be assembled at the Vatican at
the beginning Of next June. OF the thirty
two still living who have been created since
1870. the twelve resident abroad are TO be
notified 20 come 10 Rome at the end Of Nav TO
receive their hats from the hands Of the Holy
Father. Others no doubt, will attend for the
occasion Of Plus ks episcopal jubilee.
Rev. John Lancaster Spalding, nephew Of
the late Archbishop Sp3ulGiug. was consecra-
ted Bishop Of Peoria, III, on Tuesday last by
Cardinal McCloSky. in the New York Clthe-
lral Father Spauldinc is the youngest bishop
IN the American hierarchy except Bishop j.
J. Kahn oi Wheeling. lie was born in Leila
non Kentucky. and is now in his thirty
seventh year. lie comes e excellent stock,
his ancestors being Of the band Of pilgrims
who founded The colony Of Maryland in 1884.
fourteen years after The landing Of the pilgrims
a. Plymouth