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

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il did not become a law.
Mr.. Ashmead- Bartlett, who married the
Baroness Burdett- Coutts, is the son OF
Mr. Ellis Bartlett who spent his lie IN III
erary pursuits.
The Barbour Estate, Of 81 acres, on
+ Georgetown Heights, ID. c. has been chosen
as the site for the new naya! observatory.
Price: $4,000.
/ Senator Jones, of Florida, Is an Irishman,
q deyout Roman Catholic, and carpenter
+ by trade. He is tall and erect, has p falf
/ complexion and an excellent bearing.
VIM. II. Welsh, Esq, editor of the Balti-
more Ga-etfe. will make the commencement
Grafton before the Princeton College literary
societies next June.
Tarlionit the Italian danseuse, is still living
in London, quiet, little, gray-haired old
woman. who teaches the Prince Of Wales
children TO dance.
We have had our first maa who ever came
into the Waite House By crooked and
criminal ways; il is to be hoped we have
had orr last-N T. Sun
George Graham, one Of the Oldest citizens
Of Cincinnati, is dead in his eighty-second
year lie made the address of welcome IN
1924 70 Gen. Lafayette when he visited
that city
John Randolph used to wear a blue ri
ding coat and buc6skin breeches in the
. Senate Chamber He nearly always rode to
. the CIpitol. attended by a black servant,
WHO was as well mounted as himself
CHICAGO is appealing for outside help to
pay the expenses Of her republican conyen-
ton last summer. The eXtOrti0ns practced
at that lire renders her cry somewhat
vain.
Jane. R. Smith, colored, was arrested in
Washington last week on police adyices
from Stanton. Va, charged with robbing
M Shoemaker, Of that place, OF gold
watch and Sl2o.
The postal authorities at Havana do not
recognize stamped envelopes conveying let
ters from the United States prepayment
for postage. aud double rates are collected
en- letters under such Enclosures, the same
IS on letters not prepaid.
While Hayes endured 70 the end Of the
war ike little man and refused to become
a candidate for civil promotion while 1t con-
tuued. Matthews and Garfield left the ten
yea He.a c'h.Ioh1Cu 10y u S"J o"o''l, "j M Me",
nome torclior ONCE i"l! oAe ''F ilo!Va
Frank Burt of Warrington. W. Va. ad-
y,rti.,s i'm the Charleston IS. O. Ne,r, and
Co.y-,. for information of sword and re-
yoiycr take1, presumably, from the body OF
Lieut. 4. c. Burt who va, shot down near
seven ilh's IN l,'A' ol i'.'"llIoH' va NJ
= ISOI supplementary news IeEa'uii's
to.. bUl' s bor!di' t-c'' Il also ueSIeu'
And 30 sam Carey has emit politics and
turned revivalist. This is the worst blow
the Anne .iclp bra1,ho OF thccEurch militant
has evarrccciyed. Emerson once character
iz.d CARLYLE as "a trip-bammer with an
.Folc4u attachmcutN Carey is q bag of
WIND ui,n gong &''"cn'le.l #ha gus"
ann -'''''''Is H.PH',''>'''
tbs Presidents Gmii.. fe4idon; at the
Tv,.nt;r. Mansion. consist, of his wife. his
mother n. Daughter 3Iollic. aged l3 and
Two YOUNGER bovs. The two older sons
James ard Henry. Is and Us vca-7 of ace. are
tu.oriag for Williams c1legc-vhich they
will enter nsxl Fal!-at Col R0clwclrs To-
cal resideu-, where they have been some
time.
Ncay Filkens. of Clifton. \. Y. a gem
tcnan o. some GO years. is rejoicing over
tlc feet that hc has now nearly fun sci OF
teeth for tine third time. Mr.. Filkius. pre-
yjous 10 last summer. had been toothicss for
some wears, but now the teeth are showing