Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-02-26
NEWSF NOTES.


been blessed recently with twins,
Stanley Matthews nomination will not
be reported from committee.
The late Fernando Wood was a Quaker
by birth and early profession.
There are 80 Chinese pupils in q Boston
Sunday-schOol.
4 Pullman sleeper, it is said, costs Sl2,-
600 and carus 81 600 a month.
Window seats on Pennsylvania avenue in
Washington for the 4th March are hiring
already at five TO twenty dollars.
Tune up your Voice" and stop coughing
bv taking Or. Bulls Cough Syrup. Price
% cents.
A son Of JnO. II. Dellingcr, Of Shenan-
d0ah county, Va, was crushed to death last
week between two logs.
The Ncwburg Herald, edited and pub
lshed by G. II. McCatIerty x Co., at New
burg W. Va. is a promising new paper.
Tn, Johns Hopkins University, Balti-
more. has conferred the title Doctor Of Laws
upon the President.
The State of Kansas Is going TO place a
statue OF John Brown in the National Cal
lev at Washington.
Gen Geo. b. Mcclellan succeeds the late
Gen. John Love as manager OF the soldiers
home near Washington.
G. d. Gunter. of Benton county, Ark, a
brother of Congressman Gunter, shot anu
killed L. b. Gamble during an alteration
The S-vear-old daughter Of Jos. Marshall,
Of Littleton W Va, was burned TO death
last week from a locomotive spark.
Cassiu- VI. Clay is in his list year, enjoys
good health and IS Interested equally IN
politics and agriculture.
Ennis. pedestrian. has won, in l0h. 59m.,
the 100 mile skating match in New York.
Stake, $1,000.
Gov Blackburn of Kentucky is pardon
ing 800 Carter and Lawrence county rcgula-
tors who have promised 20 amend.
The Rev DR.. Mcintosh has arrived from
Belfast, Ireland 20 accept the pastorate OF
the 2d Presbyterian church Of Philadel-
phia.
From the Delaware Braakwater last week
the ocean appeared frozen far as sight could
reach: experienced sailors said 80 miles
out
Prof Baird of the Smithsonian attributes
the decrease of Shad in the Potomac to the
gas tar I'm that river which he says Is fatal
to young fish.
The demand for George Eliot's books has
been so great since her death that the Lon
don publishers have not been able 70 meet
IT,
Mr.. Schade is the owncro Of the plain brick
house i'm Washington wherein Abraham
Lincoln died, and wishes to sell II to the Co
vernmcnt
Daniel O'Kane and john Burke, land
league refugees. arrived in Baltimore from
Ireland last Friday rs s-owaways on the
ship Peter Young.
Mr.. John ". Aler, Agent of the B. x o..
at Harrisouburg, who was injured by rail-
way accident on Sunday last, died on Tues
day.
According to the Boston Literary World
Mr.. CARLYLE has siguited his purpose of
bsqueathing the greater part of his large and
valuable private library to Harvard Col
lege.
Admiral johnson, q survivor of Trafalgar
where he fought on Nelson's ship, The
Victory-who died recently, had lived in
an inland county since his retirement in 'i3
and had never seen an iron clad.
Menlo Park. y. J.-Edisons homes
now lighted twice a week by 62O electric
lamps. 10 Is promised that 300 local Edison
electric companies will be working in the
L. :. in go days
Nearly one-hfth Of all the cotton raised
i'm this country in 1850 was raised in Texas.
That wear Texas produced 100000 bales,
or eighty times Is much rs she produced IN
1870.
Mr.. Ensler, Of Memphis, would thus help
along mdicious taxation: Never tax any
thing that would be of value to your state
and that could and would run away or that
could and would come to YOU
Mrs. Akerman, the widow of the Late
Attorney General, living in her pretty little
home near Gainesville, Georgia, engaged m
preparing her five boys for college. She
taught them all they know, and one Of them
is reading Caesar and another Virgil.
To obtain fund, for erecting Il memorial
stone ON the poet Timrod'S unmarked grave
a Columbia =. c.. committee are Offering
al small cost q literary souvenir Of the dead
Carolinian. Address Col. ii. =. Thompson,
treasurer, Columbus.
ON Monday evening last Col. VIM. =.
Craighill, at the request of the brotherhood
of -. Peters p +. Church, Baltimore, de-
livcred "a lecture On " Approaches by water
to Baltimore. including the Ship Canal be-
tween Chesapeake and Delaware Bays.
Richard jackson, of Indiana. accidentally
crushed a potato bug in his hand iaStSpring
and touched the inside OF his ear with the
stained fingers. The poison spread gradually
through his system reaching ~ last his heart.
lie died las. week.
Tne race ON the l4th of February between
Hanlau. of Toronto. and LaycocS, of sgd
new. y. =. W. over the Thames champion
ship course for the championship of Eng
land. the Sportsman challenge cup and 81,
600. was won by Hanlan by four lengths.
Tom Hughes English coloni,ts in East
Tennessee nave, already, brick and terra
Gotta works, q stone quarry, steam saw mill,
coal mine and fire brick kiln. In plantug
their first crop they will follow English me-
thods and first feed thoroughly the soil.
NIessrs J. NJ. and 4. Hoyt, of New York
and langdon and Barber of Washington
have purchased of the widow. for S313,UOO,
the Ola Stone estate. of l2l acres, on the
northern suburbs of Washington. IL will
be- plated into building sites and put ON
the market.
Iunatit Livingston, the eccentric A.
merican who many wears ago caused great
sensation in Florence by driving six, eight
and ten pair, of blooded bays az "a time, still
boom .,,,, his 1l1usemcnt lie has lived in