Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1878-05-18
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Consulate place worth $l20000 for tho
four years, BE paid big price for the share OF
one man in the LOUISIANA villlany.
Miss Susan Stuart, apablic school teacher
a, lions church. Norfolk county, Va, was
found dead in her room over the school house
Monday evening Ie' pockeibook was riled
of its contents.
I Tha largest gold bar in the world was
nodded from one taken from Nestats Pcnobscot
Mine, Montana Territory. Il measured 20
inches in length. inches broad at iop and
bottom, 81 inches deep, and weighed 5,SSa.92
ounces, aLd valued at $54 ,262.62,
The Cleveland, Ohio, Herald says on
Monday afteTncen the village Of Lodi, Neciua
county did honor to Lomer Griffin, It's oldest
linhabitan, and probably the oljcs, living
human being 10 the United States. by obser-
wing the 10th anniversary Of his birthday
;. A conntryman. who took passage on the D.
& O. r. Il. at llarper's Ferry, Saturday.
counted his money. $40 in all, and placed u
! in his vaIisc When he reached Piedmont 10
discovered that the yase had been cut open
and the money extracted.
The coIoroI people are warned against
! approaching kNU tAat ~ khN VIC w
attached 20 John R,binson's circus aud m' nag
eric. as one Of sail o.cpAints killed an o.d
colored man while on the Tpad from Orange
to Madison C. H., last week.
old Commonwealth, lh'risonburr, has
( changed editors aud proprietOrs {. IL. Nan-
derfcrd, ESQ. having sold the entire establish
ment and good will to McssTs. Jos h. Smith
aud + B. Dulauy.
Walter Cherry, Robert Thompson and iiar-
ris Atkinson. all oolorod, were convicted ~
Goldsboro', n. c., on saturday, foF the murder
4 Of Jas Worley, farmer. and his wife, near
( that place on the ! lib Of February last. They
were at once sentenced 10 be hausol on the
| l4th Of June next.
Catching wild pigeons with nets is m i'm
mensc business in Forest county, Pa, ond at
least five hundred persons are engaged at u IN
one township, most Of them clearing $40 a
day One day recently three and hall tons
OF pigeons were sent over tbe river division oi
the Allegheny Valley Railroad, consignei to
dealers in game in New York city. There
have thus far been caught l63, 600.
The Cumberland lMd) Alleganian says
gentleman living short distance from that
city had his will prepared and properly attest
ell on Friday last. Among the bcqws.s Is
the sum Of fifty dollars 10 the B. * OR X.
Company. No argument or ad,i,c could
induce him TO change lis mind in the matter.
Il appears that he has been M cmployo OF tho
company for number OF years, aud thinks
perhaps he owes this amount ior past hyors
Mr.. NJ. Erskine Miller, who owns lot as
saSsed at 1902 10 a town In lliiuos, has received
bis. tax bill which Is, fof etnral purposes,
! $54, railroad tax :6.77-toial $62 II. Thoso
Of our fellow laborers In Virginia who talk
about high taxes will find food fcr reaoctioa
lu this item-ospccially II they have besn
casting longing eyes towards the West. Six
dollars and half on tho hundred while 10
Staunton nc pay only ono dollar l-Sfduni0n
HiHdicdtOr.
Tho Hsmbloiohian stallion RisinghsD.
owned by Or. JAS A. Schultz, Of Nijdleiovn.
n. u, vas killed by bis ownes on Friday. he
being considered unsafe 90 Keep. DR.. Schultz
says tho horse wns nsano beyond n doubt
lie was twonty-oDo years old. and for nIne,con
years has been n confirmed mAn-eator. Moro
than twenty keepers have been crippled by
him, aud he has killed thrco persons outright.
No professional hofse-irainer could eubduo
him. and all systems Of horse-!raining aud
breaking have been tried 10 vain.
The Richmond tVa) Disyqici bas bccn
Informed by Henrico county farmer that be
had examined the wheat fields on twenty four
farms 10 thai county aud found that The wheat
had been so injured by rus, that in no case
would the yield be larger than tho quantity
seeded. The Petersburg va luicx Appeal
also states on The authority Of hrmcrs 10 that
vicinity that the rust has seized on the whoa,
crop. and that lis effects have been very dam
aging. rfr
Color prejudice isn't all Soutb. In Justice
Bloomer's court at Marlborough, Ulster county,
n. 7, jury Of eleven white men and ono
colored was chosen few days ago the latter
was for 25 years a slave in the cotton fields of
the south, but bad lived In Marlborough sever
al years aud built home by hard work aud
economy. Three or four Of tho white jurymen
said they'd be --i II they'd serve" end
were fined Sl5 for contempt Of court for
falling to answer when the justice called tho
names Of the jury.
Kate Southern, who fatally stabbed Miss
Cowart IN q ballroom 10 pickcns county, Ga.
10 iit Of jealousy, year o. two ego has been
found guilty of murder aud sentenced % 30
with Mrs. So1thern's busb and, and was killed
while at bic side Southern took bis wilo's
arm, drew his pistol and forced his way out
guarded by relatives. The couple rc;rcaisd t.
North Carolina, where they were captured
three months ago. The trial was intensely
exciting Mrs Southern nad her baby in her
arms when she was sentenced Her husbands
case was continued An appeal has been
made FOR stay Of sentence.
Francisco Peralto, Mexican rider. a,lemp,-
ed at brooklyn, ~ T., Saturday. the feat of
riding 305 miles in u hours. lie began at
4. ~, having fresh horse for every mile
lie accomplished the 6rs. 100 miles 10 4 hours
and 20 minutes, averaging per mile minutes
aud 80 seconds. Atthe 235ih mile he was 7
minutes ahead Of time. After this throe
heavy showers fell 10 sTceession, tie track
became very muddy and tbe time ranged from
$50 to 3.l3 per mile and when De was on
the 302d mile the judges declared tie tirne
was up. Peraito continued, however. making
the 30j miles 10 l5 hours 10 minutes. Ills
fastest mile was the l3slh IN 2:I3 aud the
slowest the 295th in 3.ls
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Our State University Is favorably mentoned
BY a Pit,sburg paper. We append an extract
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