Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-03-12
NEHsY NOTES.

Jos. I. Reese, a Richmond Va banA
book-keepcr has stolen $4,000
Edgar Allan Poe said checkers requires
more intellect than game Of chess.
In the sundry civil bill, as passed, Balti-
more gets $4,000, for her post Office.
The Petersburg VA ladies have formed
o ladies Irish land league.
4 Sl25OCO fire occurred at franklin, VA.
last week.
Edgar. son of Col. Jerome and Madame
Bonapmte, will be appointed TO West Point.
Hon. A. II. Stephens has just passed his
seth birthday.
President Garfelds was the third admin
istration to begin on Friday.
Gen. Butler has sailed in his yacht for
the West Indies
Isl counterfeit national bank notes have
been found by Treasury agents buried near
Nevada, Ill.
During February Danyilc sold 3,l7S,042
lbs t0hacco-unmanUiac SSl3,-
$3.50: an average of $3.50 per 100 lbs.
When sold in the summer, the bankrupt
Emmittsburg college will be purchased by
Catholic friends, it IS thought.
The Lebanon n. Y. Shakers were robbed
las. week OF 500 in cash. - 500 in Virgin
in Midland bonds and silver watches.
L.yv. the cornet-plavcr, is to receive $500
a week for playing at Brighton Beach next
summer.
T. Howard Peterson, son Of C. aries J.
Peterson. publisher of Peterson h1g1-inc
has been missing some weeks.
s.. Patrick's Catholic Church, at Peoria,
Ill.,, and Hurkampss mills and tannery at
Fredericksburg, Va, are burned
The Pearl hominy mill, corner John and
North streets, Baltimore, is burned. Loss,
$40 600.
Texas is abon, repeating law compelling
railway trains 10 stand still five minutes on
arriving AT the State line.
AC.&O. freight coil.ded with a material
train near Caldwell, Va, last week. Two
engineers and fremen were killed.
CITY auditor Williamson, of Petersburg,
Va, who stole $4,000 in cane, j ID coupon
bonds, is adjudgcd insane.
DEPUTY tax receiver ". J. Wharton has
fled Philadelphia with monies OF German
town residents given him to pay taxes.
Their, is bat on survivor Of tn f.ty-eight
men who framed tie Texan Declaration Of
INDEPENDENTLY Charles r. Stewart
Mr.. George Poisal, Of Martinsbrrs, brake
man on the B. * O.. fell from rim Cum
bcrland and had one leg badly crushed.
TO the humble and credulous. as well as
to the rich and skcptical, Dr. Bulls Cough
Syrup is a true and welcome friend. Price
- cents.
Or. Francis Cater. age c.. the leading
physician az Columbus, Ohio, and dean OF
the Har.iug Medical College for many
years, is dead.
A bronze statue Of Washington, by J. 2.
4. Ward, is to be placed in front OF the l..
: Treasury building, New York, where, %
years ago, the first President took thc oath.
Among the graduates of the College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore,
IS the name of Robert d. Ball, son Of the
kate Rev. Dr. Dalncy Ball.
Ro5t Garrett will be chosen president of
the T.. ". and b. L. t. and G.. G.. Haven
vice-Vrcsidout. Mcssrs. Hinckiey aid Pratt
retiring from those positions.
There are only three ladies living whose
deceased husbands were Presidents of the
United States, Nr'. Polk, Mrs Tyler and
Mrs Lincoln.
4 disposition to vomit after eating is an
ugly symptom of dyspepsia-it Is, however,
permanently cured 10y the Use of DR.. Thorn
as Mayapple Bittcrs. Sold at all Drug
Stores.
Col. John ydied at Point Pleasant, Ma
son county, this State, week before last, In
the 92nd wear of his age. Hewas born near
Harpers Ferry in 1892, and removed to
Point Pleasant in 1920.
Archbishop Blanchet, aged Sc years, for
43year, of thearchdiocese OF Oregon-com-
prisiug Oregon Washington, Idaho and
part of Montana-haS resigned. Archbish-
OPP Seghers succeeds him.
The ROYAL Palms of Florida, the same
species Of plant used on like occasions in
It. Peters. Rome, will be used in Washing
ton for the first time on the coming festival
of Palm Sunday in the Catholic churches.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who is now very
venerable i'm years, seldom Is heard from in
a literary way. He rather courts the seclu-
sion of home, and passes his time in read
ing chiefly.
A late Post Office ruling permits the wri-
ting on 4th class matter newspapers and
packages Of the sender's own name and
address. preceded by the word from, and
also the number and names of the articles
enclosed. lie may also write upon or at
tach 70 any such articles, by tag or label, a
mark or number, name or letter, for pur-
pose of identification.
Springfield, Mass. Republican.
Edgar T. Page, Esq, Druggist, writes US
from Chicopee Falls, that Mr.. Albert Guen-
Their. under Wilds Hotel has used that re-
markable remedy St Jacobs Oil, fora severe
case of rheumatism and il cured him, as if
by magic. He also used il with great sue
cess among his horses, in cases Of sprains,
sores, etc, and il cures every time.