Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-03-05
NEWsY NOTES.

Gen. John G.. VI eem has resigned tile
presidency of the New Market SHENANDOAH
Bank, Mr. :. p Shirey succeeding.
An exciting mile race on the Hudson
last week between an ice boat and rail-
road express was won by the former by
shave
The Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill con-
tans an item of S20, 600 for the purchase by
the Government of the private papers of
THE Confederate Generals Polk and Bragg.
A beautiful little miniature barque, 26 #.
from knighthead to taiirail, fully rugged and
named in honor of the Naval Secretary, will
be borne in the Inaugural procession.
The very Rev. +. Janssens, Vicar Gen
cral of Richmond is appointed Bishop of
Natchez Very Rev. J. c. Neraz, admins
traitor of the san Antonio Tex diocese is
made bishop thereof
The South Carolina R. r. thinks of ex-
tending its Camden 5. c. branch to Char
lotte. y. c., beginning at Its northern end
AT Alexandria, Va. thence to Lynchburg
and Danville, and so onward.
On the fourth Thursday in May, Virginia
will elect clerks Of the circuit and county
courts for years each, and supervisors, con-
stables peace justices and oyerseers for two
years.
Late adyices rcportunprecedehted throngs
visiting at Jacksonville, Fla, and orange
groves changing hands at big figures An
Italian duke has paid so, 900 for Onewhlch
vas offered at eco some years ago.
In Baltimore last Saturday the south wall
of Crichton's five story distillery annex fell,
crushing the two story house adjoining and
knocking out the gable OF third dwelling.
Edward Slack aged ), was badly injured,
and Nelly fatally so-dying soon after.
A bill authorizing the building of new
iron and stone bridge across the Potomac at
or near Georgetown, ID. c., or, in the discre-
ton of the war secretary, the purchase and
opening up free Of the present aqueduct
bridge, hs5 passed Congress.
Mr. W. c. Baldwin, of Washington, Pa,
and Hiss Josephine Mccormick, Of Clarks-
burg, w. Va. were married on the 18th in-
slant. and spent their bridal tour with the
bride uncle, r. X. Helphcnstine, the Wash
ington druggist
Millionaire Keene has given Col. f. a.
Dangerfield, of Harrisonburg, Na.,-his
brother-in- -law-the trotting stallion Jim
Purdee, the winner of. big Pacific Slope
stakes several years ago. The horse cost
Keene $2S. 900, was sold by him for $4,000,
gold and repurchased al $4,000.
Col. Ed. Richardson, commissioner from
Mississippi to the New York worlds far,
plants 1000 acres annually in cotton and
runs cotton and wOoleE mill employing
700 hands. \ marble statue OF the colonel
ornaments the public square at Jackson.
Wm. r. Traycrs, of the local law firm of
Alexander and Green; H. V Newcomb,
ex-president Louisville and Nashville IL. X;
president Hyde, OF the Equitable Lie In
surauce and L. ;. Grant are among the di-
rectors of the New United States National
Bank, in New York.
Having raid It's $4,000 debt and taken
ND the 80 81 900 bonds representing 1t, the
Binchampton n. ~ lst Baptist Church
held burnt offerings service and burned
these cancc,cd evidences in the church fur
naces amid doxoiogy singing and grateful
thanksgiving
Two Cleveland brothers must have been
very poor or very idiotic TO allow an eXper-
imenting physician to cut off from each a
finger and transplant it to the others hand.
The test. however, was successful and the
men received $50 apiece.
The Rev. D.. J. L. ". Curry, agent Of
the Peabody fund, is Georgian by birth
and Georgia university and Harvard law
graduate. lie served in the Alabama leg
islature and from 81 to 81 was in con-
gress. During the war he was Confeder-
ate legislator until CT when he entered its
army. After subsequent service rs presi-
dent of Harvard college in Alabama and
his Baptist ordination he became president
of Richmond college.
The youthful appearance of Secretary Of
the Nary GoT excites much comment when
ever he appears in public. lie is tall, with
q smooth face, walks erect, and has mar
tial mien. He does not appear to be a day
older than thirty. Mrs. Gof Is native OF
Virginia. and q member of the DesPard
famiv-One long remarkable for its hand
some women. She is an accomplished mu-
sician and will prove valuable acquisition
to Washington Society Washington Citi-
zen and Soldier.
The census official has issued bulletin
giving the following information in regard
to the total population of the country -
Males. 25.520.5S2; females, 1862, ,2S4; ma
tives of the United States, 434755o6; for
eiCn born. 6,677 $50: whites, 3,4Of,S71;
colored. 6.577.i51; Indians and half breeds
not in tribal relations or reservations under
the care of the government, 65,l22; Chinese,
100 1853; other Asiatic, 255. The number
of colore1 persons to each 100000 whites Is
1873. against HOPS in 1870; the number
of females to every 100000 males is O6,519,
against 81 .80l in 1880; the number Of for
eign-bOrn persons to every lOO,0Oo natives
is u, $50, against l6,875 in 1870.
President Huntington cf the Chesapeake
and Ohio, has agreed with Virginia con-
tractors for the eastern extension from Rich
mond to Newport News, siXty-iive miles
long bv the lst of July. Meanwhile Mr.
John Echols. director, has been in Gin
cinnati arranging for the completion ct the
western connection with that city. The
road Is now built as far west as Ashland,
XIV. 40 miles from Newport, KY, opposite
Cincinnati Mr.. Huntington l. to build so
miles of this and Cincinnati and Newport
capitalists the remaining SO. The right-oi-
way has been obtained along the Ohio Xiv
er bank from Ashland 10 Maysyille, and
partly from Maysvilic to Newport, where II
IS hotly contested by the proposed Pound
Gap Railroad.-Phiia Press.
There Is good deal of importance at
tached in democratic circles to the speech
: doI;re-ad in the Senate bv Senator McDOn-