Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-03-12
NEVSY NOTES.

mark with monument Washington's birth
place.
Authentic adyices show that thousands of
cattle have persisted from cold and stsfya-
ton in the extreme north west.
The New York Westminster Kennel club
will have its 5th annual dog show April 26-
20. SO classes will be represented.
The Arkansas senate has passed-le to
"a Joint resolution making the pronuncia-
ton of the name ArkanSar.
Orangeburg, s. c. is moving in the mat
ter of celebrating the centennial OF Brit
ish surrender there on May II, l7Sl.
The census shows 3S3 silk factories in the
L. 8. with SIS, ,S99,5O0 capital invested, a.
440 EMPLOYEES and 80, ,107, ,ss5 annual wages.
The Rev. Jas. B. Avirett, of Silver Spring
parish, Montgomery county, Nd. has been
called to important work in the Mississippi
diocese. But will not accept.
The Baroness Burdett- Coutts proposes to
bring her recent purchase over tothis coun-
try next summer. 1t will come in free of
duty
The Couttseys Couttsey -Couttseys are COM
ing. The Lotos Club will of course attend
to see that they arc properly dined and
wined.
Hon. J. Ran Tucker is chosen Il vice
president Of al initial free trade 0rganlza-
ton among the Democratic congressmcn-
elect.
In Millbridgc, Me-, at the house of Capt.
Means, there IS little girl, nine years old,
who comes from one OF the cannibal islands
of the Pacific.
The Catholic Orphanage at Hyde Park,
Scranton, Pa, burned early Sunday night
and fifteen children were taken out dead.
Two are missing.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
panv have brought two suits against the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company for dam
ages, laid at 100000 each.
u. K. Mckenzie, the oldest editor in
Tennessee, A. ). Mitchell, well known
st. Louis journalist, and John Bateman
Smith, editor of the Pulaski Tenn. Citi-
zen, are dead.
"Hyde's Tavern at Norwich, Conn,
where Washington and d" Brother Jonathan
Trumbull drank cider Flip together, Is still
used as a tavern, and no one knows the year
in which it was built.
Col. Lemuel Shovel, Of Berlin, Nd,
presiient of the Eastern Shore Railroad, had
a 81 900 watch stolen from his pocket in
, Philadelphia last week. The next time he
ought to fool 'em on s. nickel regulator.
The Rev. Geo II. Pool, native of Mon
ongahela county, w. Va and formerly of
the Philadelphia 4th Presbyterian church,
died recently Of small pox in a Long Is
land hospital and was buried in Potter's
( l.. L l., 1of afata pf
Peter B. Small, cashier of he First Ma
tional Bank, Hagerstown, died suddenly OF
heart disease Friday, 25th of February, aged
81. He had been unwell for some days,
but was out walking in his yard five minutes
before his death.
The recever0f the defunct Piedmont and
Arlington life insurance company of Rich
mond reports gross negligence in its book
keeping and that its real estate was pur-
chased at big figures from officers Of the
concern.
The old steamer Planter which piled be-
tween Baltimore and Washington before
the war and during that conflict was sta
toned for some time on Appomattox river
as medicine boat p" Grants Apothecary
Shop was sold to Baltimore junk dealer
last week.
A granddaughter of ex-Meniber Of Con-
gress Boteler, of West Virginia, who is also
a grandniece Of the late Hon. Reverdy
johnson. is now lying OF the point of death
in this city. Her illness was caused by
hemorrhagc of the lungs.-Nqh RePu5f-
can.
The daughter Of Preyost-parado, once
French Minister to Washington, who became
a nun some time ago, has gone 10 Egypt to
found convent Of the order of NOtre Dame
de Sion, mission especially devoted to the
conversion of women and girls OF the Sc
mitic race,
At Fairhayon. y. J. the colored teacher
of the coored public school resigned. The
trustees closed the school, sending its pupils
10 the white school where rebellion instantly
manifested itself The dusky children were
then remanded to their old quarters and a
teacher procured.
The Church Of the Advent, in Boston, is
extremely ritdalistic. It's four ministers
wear cassocks indoors and out, practise eel
ibacv. and live in a house by themselves.
The parish il quite successful; the church
has 500 commitments, and a new edliice i
being completed without debt.
During the last year there was built !. 100
miles Of railway in the United states. This
is the greatest railway improvement ever
accomplished in this country or elsewhere
in one year with the single exception that
7.340 miles-190 miles more-was laid IN
the United States in 1872.
The suit. for compensation. Of lawyer
Goodrich against Irene WOrrell, once no
ted actress for whom, as Mrs. Eddy, be pro-
cured n Utah divorce in '76 has been an
nulled in Chicago, the court holding that
such a divorce was invalid and worth no
confederation.
The New York graduates Of Washington
and Lee University have formed a perma-
nent association: President, c. A. Deshong;
vice.presidents, DR.. NJ Sims, r. w Pres
ton. Il. 4. Pryor, Jr: secretary, J.s. Clarke
treasurer, w. L. McCorkle; executive com
mittes: Drs. j. y. McChesney and W. &.
Ayres, and W. " Johnston.
There are now ten focks Of Angora goats
in Texas varying in numbers from 100 TO
1900 The hair of these goats sells higher
than the wool Of sheep, the product Of an
animal is larger the pelts more valuable,
the hesh As good, and they will thrive IN
the hilly scrub oak regions Of Texas where
sheep would starve. They can live in the
open air without feeding, all ltheyear round.
AT Syracuse New York, on Friday, 18th
of February, a gang of burglars thieves, and
highway robbers received sentence as fol-
lows Leon and Charles Earl each sixty
FIVE years in the State prison at Auburn !;
Emma Earl their sister and the receiver of