Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-10-15
NEHSF NOTES.

command-will visit Charleston and Allan
t. after leaving Yorktown.
Land at Newport News, the terminus loi
the Ches. & Ohio K. X. is assessed at 81 >
l0l by the official board. 1t is chiefly river
frontage l00 Il. average depth, and the
owners value il NJ $50 cr running foot.
1t is lawful to kill deer in Virginia be-
tween the lst of September and 18th OF JG-
ly; any waterfowl from September TO May
|; wild turkeys from October ID to ebrUa-
ry /.
Fall elections occur in Iowa, MINI. Va.
Mass. Ohio and Wis. for governor and state
officcrs-the legislatures in the first four
electing L. :. senators. Nebraska, Col. y.
Y. n. j. Penn. and Nd. elect minor officers.
\ colored boy, named McAbcc, was
caught in the smut machine, in ATmlller' 5
mill at Falling Waters on Thursday last,
and crushed to death. His neck was bro
ken, and his body mashed out of shape.
The Rev. John A. Kern, Of the NJ. +.
Church. south at Alexandria, Va, has had
a telephone attachment fitted up to his pull
pit. by means of which he breaches resu-
larry to an invalid member atsome distance
,
and the lady hears the sermon distinctly and
every part Of the services as well ,t
Only seven days of national fasting and
humiliation have been appointed By Presi-
dents since the establishment Of the Gov
ernment, and they have been az follows
May 9. 1898, by Adams; January y, 1915,
by Madison; the last Thursday Of Septem-
Der, 1851, April 80, 1863, and the first
Thursday Of August, 1864, by Lincoln
May 25, 1860 postponed to June ~ by
johnson, and September 2j, 81 by Arthur.
The dry goods and grocery store Of John
". Miller, in Hcdgcsville Berkeley county,
was broken into by burglars Thursday night
18th, and the safe robbed of upwards Of
800 in cash. Entrance 20 the safe was
effected by drilling the parts adiacent to
the lock and the piece being priced out
No clue 50 far to the thieves, but it is sup
posed that they are the same parties who
broke open the safe of the Ilannis Distiliing
Company last Saturday night The thieves,
after accomplishing the job, went to the sta
bic Of ex-Sherit NsdcnboDsch, took his
horse ar& byrery, and drove to Martinsburg,
leaving the vehicle standing in the street
near the Baltimore and Ohio depot
The largest land owner on the Continent
Col. Dan Murphy, of Hallecks Station,
Elko county, went to California in 1911 and
NAV be said 10 have made the county pay
him well for his time lie is now probably
the largest private land owner on this
continent. He has four million acres of
land in one body in Mexico, sixty thousand
in Nevada, and twenty-three thousand in
California. His Mexican grant he bought
four years ago for two hundred thousand
dollars or five cents per acre. II is sixty
miles long and covers beautiful country Of
hill and valley, pine timber and meadow
land. 1t comes within II miles Of the city
If Durango, which is to be station on TIE
Mexican Central. Mr. Murphy raises wheat
on his California land cattle on that in
Nevada. lie got fifty fye thousand sacks
last year and ships six thousand head Of
cattle year right along.
On Thursday last the Court of Appeals Of
Virginia, sitting al Staunton, decided the
litigation growing ont Ct tiin e1'its involved
in the cases of the ". q 0. Railroad Com
pany, affirming in full the DEGREES made by
Judge Wexford, of the Richmond Circuit
Court, 1T the April Term, 1850. 1t atlirms
the decree fOT sale and TIE order OF prorl-
ties of liens as therein established, which
are first some small claims on the lots about
the Depot ir Alexandria. The second, con
tingent liability for the bond Of indemnity
to Clarke.coonty for 100000. The third,
to secure the State Of Virginia in about
$4,000 The fourth, 70 secure the \. l.. q
II. bond amounting to about the same
and lastly, the bonds Of the w. & O. Rail-
road. The sale will take place about the
lst OF February next, which will afford am
pie time TO agree upon some plan OF re-or-
ganization, by which this important public
improvement may be extended TO Winches-
ter and the Coal Lands at an early period.
-LeesbTg Washingtoniaa.