Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-01-08

given at 81 zoo.
The revised census figures give West
Virginia a population of 6lS,l93.
The Bernhardt pudding is the latest-a
sort of dessert of Sarah.
The Burkeville Va. Sogthsids Sentinel
was burned out last week.
Chestnuts don't have wings but they are
sort of buried like.
VIM. Wait. the legal writer, author of
Waits Practice, etc. is dead.
The Parisians have square umbrellas but
they're Just like the other kind-neyerrOund
when it rains.
The telegraph and express Offices and
passenger depot at Chatham, Va, are
burned.
The Rev. DR.. McClosky, president Of Mt.
Il. Mary's College, Emmitsburg Md, Is
dead.
Recent SHOWS have crushed in the Corinth
Babtist church at Fort Union, Fluvanna
county, Va.
4 national wool convention will be held
IN " uellllEkNlA THIS iiltA4AAA ~ NFNeA"A-NAA
odical wool exhibits.
On Saturday last at o'clock a. m. the
thermometer marked IA below zero in
Washington-the coolest there in 40 years.
The repeal of the law requiring bank
checks TO be stamped Is one of the proba-
bilities during the present session.
Gen. J. D. Gilmore, formerly proprietor
of the Gilmore and Eutaw hotels, Baltimore,
is dead.
The Cowpens centennial ceremonies have
been postponed pending the action of sever
al state legislatures, which meet this month,
in the matter of cooperation.
Land in the Alabama cotton belt which
sold at four and five dollars in 70 now
commands SD an ac.e. The same land
was cheap at $50 before the war.
4 colored woman runs baby farm in
South Chester, Pa. and her wee charges
come from Washington, Baltimore and sur
rounding points.
Jim Keene. the millionaire, offered
$4,000 for the king of English racers Is
onomy," to replace Blue Gown but his
price was refused.
Drs. James NJ. Vest and Charles r. Nor
rison. Richmond druggists, are believed to
have been drowned last week in the lower
James whittier they went duck shooting.
Hon. 4. /. Akerman, of Georgia, attor-
ney general under Grant, Is dead. lie was
Gen. Bob Toombs' ordnance storekeepcr
during the war.
Ex-clerk Mcpherson of the House, an
experienced authority, makes thenext House
stand: republicans, las; regular democrats,
1876, re-adjuster do, ,; greenbackers, ).
4 new treaty with China is being ratified
whereby the United States Is conceded the
right of properly restricting Chinese imml-
grafton.
Henry Bernhardt, an Alexandria lamp
lighter. licked a lamp post with his tongue
the other night and the CAB member had 70
be cut oil. The fools are not all dead.
Vick's Floral Guide is one of the hand
soonest works of the kind published in this
or any other country, and contains large
amount of very valuable information.
Col. Sam. R. johnson, of Alexandria, is
made roadmaster of the b. and o. K. K.
vice Bradshaw. resigned Ex-auditor Kirk,
of the Pittsburg division, is made assistant
road auditor vice Shenck, resigned.
The recent ball of the New York Seventh
Regiment was grand affair 5000 persons
attended and vet the dimensions of the az
mory ball roOm-300 it. by 2OO-sutficcd to
r.r.,aDt tho laaSt croyydinp
4 car load of silk worms and eggs, val
ued at 81 DOC. 600, destined for Hayre and
Paris. has been transported over the Penn
,vlvania railroad to New YorF. They are
from China, and reached California by
steamer.
Parson Murray used to say that we stand
NJ a grave and beside a cradle: the grave OF
a past cpoch-the cradle of newborn era.
Ifthi- be 50. urges the New Haven Register,
let Us FIJI mp the one and rock vigorously
t'othcr
That was a strange departure from the
eternal fitness of things when Henry Ward
Bcechcr. the alleged divine and known a.
dultcrer, was assigned the reply 10 the Pill
grim Father, toast at BrOOklyn'S New
England dinner.
Ex-Gov. r. r. Scott, of South Carolina,
resident in Napoleon. Ohio, shot and killed
Walter Drury, local Grug clerk, for har-
boring over night SCOTS intoxicated SON.
The murderer is jailed at Defiance. He
was a reconstruction carpet bag Governor.
Gen. Loring, who is named as competi-
tor of Senator Jones for the L. :. Senator
ship from Florida, was Il gallant confederate
soldier. and afterwards a trusted officer in
the service of the Khediye of Egypt. He
is wi,hal a genial, accomplished and talent
cd gentleman
The house Of L. Waddell. EDITOR of the
Charlottesville Chronicle, was destroyed by
fire on the morning of the 2lst December.
Every thing in the house was burned, the
family barely escaping with their lives.
There was no insurance on either house or
furniture.
In a recent speech in the chamber, Seua-
tor Brown, of Georgia, maintained that the
great need of the South Is better cduca-
ti0nal system, that the teaching of so many
ignorant blacks Is more than the States can
accomplish by themselves and that Federal
help should be given.
Geo. W. Williams, the colored member of
the Ohio legislature, has returned from an
investigating trip to New Mexico and ear
ncstly warns his people against proposed
exodus of Southern negroes to the Sebastian
Martin grant in the territory named. The
New York Land League Is pushing this
scheme.