Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-11-26
NEWST NOTES.

! more hOFses.
In Des Moinc,, Iowa, man Of % Is
suing for divorce from wile Of -.
Guiteau was burned in efigy at Lcves,
England, on the 5th-liuy EsTkcs' day.
The Virginia peanut crop will be but
900 coo bushels against 2,S5o,oeo last yesr.
SIX summer hotels at old Orchard Beach,
Msiae, are burned. Losses: $4,000.
Ia New York last week s-.tory tenc-
ment fell buryins some Il inmates.
Jno. Y. Foster, minister to Rus,is, has
resigned.
Guiteau wrote tho President snd the y.
Y. Herald asking money icr his defence.
A ten million doll.rs dedication has been
discovered in the Cubtn Treasury.
The FrSaklinyi.lc Hartford couuty) Nd
cotton mills sEe ouraed. Loss: S2',oeO.
Evidence points % Claude Wheeler As
the msu who shot nr. T. c. N.6isK st
/ Oiento1, Nd, oe election dag.
The ponjten,isry term Of Harry W. Genet,
/ of the Tweed rinS, expired isst Friday.
/ His friends paid his $e,ee9 ahe.
The Postmaster General will probably
advocate p3,t,l tciegraphy Sua savinss
banks ip his comiHy f,Po1-.
4 secret organization s formed in Bslti-
more to insure tho success of future On
oles.
Tro. R. Murray. aged 70 Yeas Who in
hcrited the nov selec; Murray Hill quarter
in New York, is dead.
( Jennings ,ritee tie =. y. BorH from
London that England msy sell Giors''er to
Spain.
james Barron Hope. oi the Norfolk
/ Laa3mqrt. repeats his yorktown ccntcnnial
ode in Ricbmoni next lu''ay
Hon. Saal. Iaeh.m, ,eci 50. e EsscX,
C)un.-M Q. in 'Sj-'39 and '5I-6l- is
dead.
Felix MunshoIr was hung az Frederick
last week for killing bis cousin, Jas. !.
Wetzel, near Emmittsburg Aag. ., ~.
Tanner metropolitan iron works in
Richmond are burned. Loss: over >loo,-
900.
Harry Jenkins was hung at Fayetteville,
W Va, last week for killing Winfield Saun-
der, StNUtailburg, May Is.
The Manchester VA ladies exhibit At
the Atlanta Exposition several bonnct,,
etc. fabricated OF lcaf tobacco.
Miss Clsr, Louise Kellogg. the operate
singer. and Mr. Whitney, a rich New York
cr, viii be married soon.
Rev. :. +. Gouchcr, Methodist, Of Bslh-
mora, offers 20 give S7,0o0 ior land for 4
theological school in FoochoS, China.
Mf>. Fannie Kccfer, Baltimore grocer,
was fatally shot the cthcr day by ". III.
| Garri-h. Jr. whose father boards With her
his invalid wife being in an asylum.
Mise Nay Christian. daughter Of the
Chief Justice Virginia Appeals Court sDd
Prof. A. T. Montague, Of Columbia Uni
versity, were married recently by Rev. Or.
Huntington.
A Rome tGa.) man has declined $ n
THOUSAND for hi, 400 Confederate bonds, be-
licying his children can sell them at par ia
after years.
VI. II. Sanford's North Elkhoru stock
farm. 5i1 acres, near Lexington, KY, with
many racers, is sold to D. SHigcFt for s5o,-
600.
The Virginia Annual Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South met
in charlottesville lat Wednesday. Bishop
Mcrycire. who recently returned from
the Ecumcnical Council in London Prcsi-
ling.
4 late Post Office Department ruling j.
that Justice % the public seems 20 sustain
The view that the admission Of = publica-
ton 20 the pound rates shall be an assurance
10 subscriber, tha; there is st least 2 reason
able prospect ct the permancncc aad rogu-
arity Of the publication
At Crown Point, Lake county, Ind, last
week. Mrs Caroline and Jacob F0r-yihc
signed q warranted deed 70 Wm. ". Green,
/ Of y. !. of an 5000 acre tract, If miles
from Chicago, Cor $1,000 9o)-S339. gol
cssh. The purchaser Immediately d1c.cd
| the land T. the East Chicago Improvement
7 Co. tor S3,oHoe0D.
The Maryland legislature next winter
will stand II republican. t0 - democsat-
/ In the Sanatc and 81 republicans to 0)dem-
ocrats in tn Ecusr-a reFga:c1a gain oi
/ = in the upper and 20 in the lower cham
/ Der. Save ia Baltimore the majority TT
the Democratic state ticket j.. cut down u
nominal fgure--the opposition elceting
/ judge.
On last Wednesday in old Trinity New
/ York. were married Mr. Howe, the Local
postma.ters private secretary and = young
/ daughter Of Prot. CharIier, Central Pars
schoomaster Dr. Dix officiating, Postmas-
ter General james .on As best man and tic
/ Presidents son an usher Cbarlier has for
bAdc the marriage and tnned out Of door
the latter with S2o-a younger daughtei
and son who favored il.