Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-02-05
NEWSY NOTES.

BanniSlCr gram titNatoIS ~ L SViid, liz,
are burned. Loss $4,000.
England imports 100000 worth of
fertilizers annually.
During the present season the peanut
crop of Virginia was 100000 bushels
Levi B. Stiles of Accotink, va. was killed
by a fall on his farm last week.
In Malone, y. Y four young children
left alone in the house were burned to death
General Garfield is the first active Knight
Templar who has ever been elected Presi-
dent.
The Lynchburg society for protecting
game offers 80 cents apiece for hawks
scalps
Two miners in the Empire mine, near
Wilkes barre, Pa, were buried under 1000
tons of top coal.
A railroad is building between Norfolk,
Va ard Elizabeth, y. C.-adistance OF Al
miles.
Marshal Fitzsimmons, Of Georgia, has
successfully met the charges against HIM
aud will be retained in Office.
Mr. Geo. r. Frazer, of WATERFORD, S: c.
is furnishing under contract 800 parirldges
for Central Park, New York.
-Four postal and one express agent on tie
Erie road were burned to death in their cars
in u recent rail miShaP.
persons were injured last week by the
rolling down an cmbankment OF a coach OF
the Cincinnati express.
Oscar Z. Perrigo, a Richmond VA en-
graver and patents solicitor, has been ar
rested for having three wives.
Bishop Quintard, of Tennessee, will build
a house at Rugby, the Tom Hughes colony,
and make his home there.
Senator Blaine is largely interested in a
Virginia railroad now being constructed
between Richmond and Clifton Forge.
Havti has entered the seventy-eighth year
of its independence and the occasion was
celebrated with rcjoicings and festivities.
A. W. Edelin,. of Charles county, Nd. fell
from his horse in Washington last week
and broke his leg.
VIM. Cummins, fireman, was killed at
Tiffin, Ohio last week by the collision OF
sections Of a B. x o. freight.
Jno Mason a deckhand on the Eastern
shore steamer Northampton, lying at Nor
folk. was accidentally shot last week.
The price of admission TO the presiden-
tial inauguration ball has been fixed ut -,
but visitors will have to pay for refresh
ments.
Give it to the children. Physicians pre-
Scribeit. Thousands use it. Sold by drug
gists. DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup. Price -
cents.
Jno. Thomas Hughes, of Howard county,
Md. was run over and killed at WatSon'S
cut ON the Washington branch, b. x Q. X.
r.
James b. Henderson, trustee, has sold to
Leonidas Wilson and Mary Waters for
$4,000 three hundred and tiity-uinc acres
of land in Montgomery County, Md.
St. Louis has " two-Ji, bonn 1t j. a
popular fund for the poor, made upot TWEEN
ty-fve cent contributions. " Twc-bits' in
the West means quarter OF dollar.
Three masked burglars robbed the South
Chicago iron and steel works safe Of %l0,-
600 One has been caught and S-4p99 ye-
covered.
A fire burned out the New York Metro
politan hotel dining room lately. The loss
of mirrors, chandeliers AMI vases alone ag-
grcgatCs $4,000.
The steamer Warrington, from New Or
leans to Hamburg, was ran into and sunk
by the Gamma off Halifax. $4,000 bushels
Indian corn and 754 bales cotton are in part
destroyed
The wife of Lieutenant b. f. Conrad OF
Uppcrville, was so severely burned by the
explosion of an oil lamp, on tie Esd Of Jan
uary, that she died in few hours
In Broadway, close to Stewart great mart
and WaILtck's theatre, is run q select bar
for women, where the fair New Yorker out
shopping can enter alone or with friends and
take smile.
The Ohio legislature has passed q mea-
sure fning and imprisoEing any landlord
OF boarding house Keeper who docs not ac-
quaint his guests with the composition OF
the table butter.
No less than Young lawyers of Harrison
burg, Va, have died in the past few months:
Messrs. j. b. Armstrong, W. b. Stands, c..
\. Nancey, II. b. Converse and Il. 3. Ra-
gans.
The Spirit Of the Valley mentions the
killing OF three bears near Rawley Springs
Rockingham county, on the list OF January
one weighing 3OS pounds; and three Others
on the 18th.
Body snatchers are beginning to ply their
ne.lriou' trade in the Alexandria lNa.)
cemeteries. Two remains were disturb Ell
last week in the Methodistan Presbyterian
burial grounds.
Beth Eden Baptist Church, beautiful
Gothic structure. aud Horticultural Hall,
in Philadelphia, were burn ID Monday
morning. Several adjoining houses were
more or less injured. Loss over $4,000.
\ fire on Broadway, New York, last week
brook Il Co., dry goods importers, Lawson
Bros, importers of laces and embroiderlcS,
and ID. Il VI. Dawson, shirt manufacturers
Archie Carter son of the late Dale Car
ter, a >igner ct the Virginia secession ordi-
nance, was fatally wounded by his wiic'S pa
rents and brother in Russell county, Va.
last week during a little family alteration
The household. in number, of Benz
Fawcctt, of the CheSapeak and Ohio canal
residing at Colc>yille, Montgomery Co., Md,
were nearly poisoned bv arsenic in their