Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-05-21
vEWSY NOTES.

DR.. r. ii. Hereford, q brother Of eX-Sen-
ator Frank Hereford, of West Va, died III
Missouri Inst week.
Virginia has sent to market the past sea,
son over q million bushels Of peanuts, and
finds 4 quick cash market for MI she can
produce.
sir. Jefferson Davis thinks Stonewall
Jackson was the great general of the civil
war on the confederate side, We can't see
e in that light. Roberto Lee was theman'
-Nt7r York Sun.
Mr.. A. Z. Bancroft, who about veyears
ago purchased q fine estate in Clarke corn
ty. where he resided up to last year, died ut
Bournemouth, England, on Friday, the I'd
of April.
Unlike all other patent medicines, it Is
not necessary to take pills to operate on the
novels when YOU use DR.. Thomas, Mayap-
ME bitters. as they are the most gentle APP
perient we ever tried. For sale at all Drug
Stores.
Old Commodore Ericsson. in New York
Is still busily engaged on his solar engine
which is to drive a locomotive across the
Desert of Sahara by means of heat from the
suns ravs focused on mirrors and directed
upon q boiler.
To prevent lavender or any delicate color
liz wash goods from fading, let the article
lie for half an hour in Il solution OF sugar
of lead. Five cents worth of the poison,
for such II is, tothrce quarts OF water. ms
will set the color once for all.
When the Dukc Of Sunderland was in
RichIfoud he expressed a desire to cat "a
real old Virginia dinner" and the proprietor
of the hotel set one before him. Hcdeciar-
cd il 10 be the best meal he had eaten since
he landed in this country.
The Car reviewed $4,000 troops AZ st.
PETERSBURG Wednesday week. He rode IN
an open carriage through the streets and on
the field of review. The CosSacks guard
was dispensed with, but a brilliant cohortot
mounted officers attended him.
A newspapc, with a paragraph on Born
stcrne Bjorson was accidentally dropped
from the deck of nm ocean steamer II IN
FIVE minutes a dead whale rose to the sur
face. The miserable monster had persisted
from lockjaw.
To wash colored good without fading -
Put iatc Il pail of water two great spoons OF
turpentine. and soak the article from twenty
to thirty minutes. Have ready soapsuds.
and proceed TO wash. Rinse in a pail OF
water with one great spoon of tVrPenune,
and dry in the shade.
"The English" say- an Englishman
" are not vcrv %art,culate, and have such q
difficulty in managing the small amenities
which soften life that if q kindly or agrate-
ful feeling could not be expressed in q gra-
tuity it very often would not be expressed
at alt
AR. Wade Ilamptcr. o. Virginia, las in
his possession q German bible which Was
printed at Strasburg in 1919. II was con
iccturcd by some Lutheran ministers, whose
translation of the manuscript accompanies
it. that it was written by Luther him' cli or
was copied from his writing.
Harrisburg Pa Independent
For five years. says Mr.. J.. Echtcr, this
CITY. I have bccn afflicted with rheumatism,
and for two years have had sore Oh my
leg the size of q silver dollar, which nothing
would h al. =. Ja,O)S OF cured the rAeu-
matism aud healed tlc sore.
4 company has been organized at Front
ROYAL Va. to be known as the " Warren
Manufacturing Company whose business
will be the manufacture of spokcs, rims,
doors. sash, blinds and other articles Of
manufactures. Several cntcrprising
Peun,ylvani&ns are connected witH ,bcc com
pauy.
TIE maddest man in Nebraska is a saloon
at Lincoln. He had been buying
lottery-tickets, and some loafers put up a
lob" ON him by publishing q fictitious teie-
cram in the local paper that tie number
held bv him had drawn $1,000 prize
His bar was free FOX the entire day. and all
the loatcrs in town got drank az hi expense.
Itia rrmorcj that n syndicata Of north
ern capitalists has been formed for the pur-
pose OF constructing a railway from Pitts
burg. Pa. through West Virginia and the
Valley of Virginia, crossing into Madison
County. and uniting at Orange with the
Piedmont, Fredericksburg, and Potomac
Railroad. which latter will be chagcd into Il
broad gauge road.