Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-04-30


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Medical advice has forced Rev Mr. SUI
ter, of Christ p. e. church, Alexandra,
Va, to retire from work
Gen. N. W. Gary's death so gricved his
mother that she died within two hours after
she had heard of her loss.
The Missouri Land Company of Scotland
have bought l3S, 900 acres in Barry county,
Mo- for Scottish settlers.
Hon. J. Ran Tuckerlectu in Richmond
May on: Virginia as -he was, is and Is to
be.
Rev. r. y. S.edd, of the NJ Z. church
South, is made president Virginia Bible So
ciety, vice Bp. Doggett, decd.
Augustine Toutsnt Beauregard, aged &C,
eldest brother of Gen. p. G. 7. Bcaurcgard,
is dead.
Metzner and Schelhaus' furniture factory
in Wheeling, W. Va, is burned. Loss:
$1,000
In q quarrel about wonlan III Frederick,
Nd. VIM. Heard stabbed JOS. Nelson Is
times with penkniie. Not fatal.
James O'Bricn, the peuured Morey Chi
rese letter witness, Is sent to prison for
years.
Capt. Boycott, Of Irish tenant fame who
is in this country intends settling on Il south
crn or western farm.
In Ke.shaw county, S. c. it takes S1.74
worth of fencing to keep Sl65 worth of stock
from eating $24j worth of crops Pretty
dear stock, that; or very worthless fences.
In Albany, Buffalo and New York city
disastrous business fires occurred the same
day last week. Average losses: $4,000
each.
Mr.. Geo. Haulcnbeel, late Of the War
Department. is made stcnographer and sec
retary to the general counsel B. and o. r.
X. in BALTIC.
Judge Jno. CLANCY, aged 50, Of Colum
bus, o. is dead He was of Maryland birth,
Jackson presidential elector in '32 and an
NJ. c. in $40.
Mr.. c. r. Hogan, mine host Of the Malt
by House. Baltimore sends 500 cheque to
the prospective Catholic fair in Charleston,
:. c.
Tho Northern Presbyterian general as
semblv meets at Buffalo May 18th and the
General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church South at Staunton, Va, on same
day.
The Y. NJ. engineers have surveyed the
extension from Leaksylle, \. c. to Dry
Fork and are engaged on one up the Dan
river from North Danville to Cascade
Pittsylvauia county
The Mount Blanc Farm, in Fauquier
County, has been sold to John b. Strother
and Thomas r. Foster $50 acres to the for
mer at $ll.25, and 22O acres to the latter at
$25.50 per acre.
The Dun mercantile agency reports l,76l /
failures the first quarter Of 81 with S24,- /
Az $50 liabilities, against l,432 the first /
quarter of last year whose liabilities were
but $l2,777O74
The census coal and iron bulletin shows
that West Virginia increased its production /
from 72,337 tons in 20 to l47, ,4S7 tons in |
80, or 104 per Ct, giving it the seventh /
place last year
lie Dues Georgia tea crop will average I
500 lbs this year. Messrs. Thompson, Lon 1
don importers, pronounce the American /
growth equal to the finest hill teas of Chi
na.
When a man and his wife are ont walk 7
ing and see "a love of bonnet in a show
window they are both of the same mind
She wants to 90 buy it, and he wants to 90 /
by it too.
Col. Pey;0n executive clerk of the Uni /
ted States Senate, lost his family residence,
uear Leesburg. London county, Va, last (
Saturday night by fire. Is was one Of the /
finest old family residences in Virginia
Senator Burton. Of Fort Bend county, /
Texas, is $50 600 colored man. As aslaye I
in Virginia his mistress taught him the 3
r :. and as a freeman, after the war, he I
supported his then aged and INDECENT bene- /
factress until her death On her daughters .
marriage he gave her = 600 cheque.
c. W. Hoffman Jr., shipped from Front
Royal 10 New York city, last week, 5000 I
dozen ccgs, purchased In that and adjoining /
counties. and shipments Of ground bark are
also being made from the same place for
London. 4 gentleman also Of Front Royal
has shipped over $4,000 spokes, and has
10000 more.
4 late censu, table shows that nearly ID /
Of the people Of the L = live below 100 #. /
above sea level. G along the seabosrd /
and in Southern aliuvial districts; more
than % below 500 f. more than 81 below
900 f and ~ per cent below 1000 IT.
The mean elevation Of population above
the sea j. 70) f. and the mean eleva-
ton Of the surface Of the L. :. $500 #.
Fiftv-four short horn COWS and bulls own
ed bv Hon. George Brown, were sold at
Chicago lest week for S27 ,9lj. John Went
worth bought the Duke of Kirk Levin
ston" for II .760, G. A. DcGraf, Of Wis
consin. bought the Duchess Of oxford 2lst'
for 5420O: II :. Stout, of Dubuque, bought
The Duke of Oxford 10Th" for $3.50, and
" Kirk Lexington Duchess 26th' for 1850.
The swiftest bird, probably. il the eagle
of the sea, or frigate-bird, often measuring
sixteen feet from tipto tip. II hovers at an
elevation Of 10000 feet when a storm sweeps
over the ocean. If it wishes to travel, says
a French naturalist, it can almost annihi-
late space II can breakfast in Africa and
dine in America. This bird repOses on its
great moti0nless wings, literally sleeping
on the bosom Of the air"
The widow of John Brown has in her
possession solid gold medal, dedicated 10
John Brown By a society in France. 1t IS
two and half inches in diameter, and
weighs about pound. 1t was procured by
ten thousand ten cent subscriptions, under
the supervision Of Victor Hugo. On one