Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-04-09
NEWsY NOTES.

Senator Cameron, of Wisconsin, was once
Senator McPherson's n. j. schoolmaster.
Land. at Newport News, Va, which
brought only SO and Sl2 month ago, l.
now selling at $50 and $50 an acre.
The Tooth anniversary of the birth of
Geo. Stephenson. locomotive inventor, VIII
be formally celebrated June 9th In England.
The three brothers Middleton, Kentucky
moonshiners, were killed during a revenue
fight last week.
Senator Malone weighs but ninety
pounds while Mrs. Malone tips the scale at
200. Here is a chance for readjustment.
Rev. Meade N. Woods, of Norfolk, Va,
has accepted the pastorate of the Galveston
Tex Presbyterian church.
small pox cases occurred last week in
Richmond Va paper mill. 1t vas I'M
ported in rags from the North.
Bp. Lttlejohn, of Long Island, laid the
corner stone of the new American Z. L.
church in Paris last week.
L. 5. Grant has gone to Mexico as presi-
dent Mexican Southern r. r. having re-
signed tie Worlds fair presidency.
The Vicar General at Rome has issued s
circular. warning the faithful anent the sale
especially in America-of spurious relig-
ions relics.
/ John p. Carney. ex-cashier of the Peo-
ple's Bank. Wheeling West Virginia, has
/ been arrested on the charge of embczzle-
ment and false entry.
5000 in bonds and $4,000 in cash were
stolen from John Connor, of Catfish, Pa: by
masked men They first brutally assaulted
! the old man.
The Tennessee lower house has passed a
4 bill to pay the State debt at par with 3 per
! ct. interest and coupons receivable Tor tax
/ es.
! Geo, ". birmingham, planter ofFaulk-
/ ncr county and John Dixon, politician OF
/ Toledo. Ark. were killed last week, the for
mer mystcriously and Dixon by whllom
/ opponent.
Miss Annie Pauliuc Scott, ofMononga-
/ hela City. Pa, has won the $4,000 Fore
paugh prize rs the prettiest woman, and
will travel months with that combination.
/ Now We shall see how pretty does.
Col. Thos. W. Knox, whose recent des-
criptivc work on Siam and Java hss tickied
/ his Siamesc majesty, is made knight OF
/ the most Exalted Order Of the White E!e-
/ phaat Such Is fameI
TtaM prints it "Tsar" and says that
Gear" is not correct. In the Russian al
phabet only single letter is used. We have
/ no corresponding letter but rs expresses the
/ sound better than any other combination.
A destructive fire at the Cotton Compress
Works. Norfolk, Virginia, broke out on sun
day night and much property was destroyed
-es:imated at $3.50, 600. Eight hundred or
thousand bales OF cotton were consumed.
Property destroyed insured
I Ssvs the London World. The universal
prediction is that Garfield will be an i'm
mensely popular Chief Magistrate. Four
wears Will not see the end Of his stay In the
/ White House. Mrs Garfield is described
as q quiet gentle lady, dear to the English
heart. soft and retiring, yet full Of tender
thoughtfulnc.s."
Mrs. ". II. Jett, Of Georgetown, d. c., a
nervous invalid, was attacked with Spasms
/ in the Washington boat house while wait
ing fcrriage to Alexandria one day last week.
Assuming that she was drunk an employee
thrust her in an inner room where she lay
twelve hours on the hard foor-and Wa
found dead Shame shame shame
Does a man ever go into a grocery store
and say, - will give you five cents pound
for sugar and expect TO De treated with re-
spec,? Not at all He asks the price OF
sugar and pays what is asked or goes with
out. But the same man will offer price 20
Der cent below rates for a given space IN the
advertising columns of a newspaper and
feel offended because it is not taken.-Ae'r
Harca Register.
Gen. Grant has been praised to the skies
bv Subscryient Southerners for hls magna-
nimity in declining to receive Gen. Lee ;
sword at the surrender Of the Army Of
Northern Virginia at Appomattox. But
Gen. Grant himself, in reply to an inquiry,
writes that d" there was no demand made for
Gen. Lees sword and no tender Of 1t offer
ed." Holiness School History should be
corrected accordingly.
The Ne,cs and Courier Malone cannot
complain that he is kept out Of MS share OF
the spois. Riddleberger, who i' to be the
sergeant-at-arms OF the Senate, Is one OF his
men. and Gilmer, the new postmaster a.
, Richmond. is his nominee. How many such
places gre the modern equivalent Of thirty
pieces Of silver
How do the Stalwarts in the North like
the idea of being dependent on a "Con!ed-
crate Brigader for their tie vote IL the
/ Senate? Whenever The party lires are
drawn close Malone must vote with the Re
publicans. or they will be beaten. Malone
knows this, as well az they do, and he will
insist on being paid well for his work. The
+ Republicans will find him a costly luxury,
and their mouths are stopped forever on the
subject of ex-Rebels An cx-Rcbel, who
/ still claims to be a Democrat, IS their sole
hone and STAY.