Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1882-11-04
NEhSY NOTES.

400 ID. mirrors. 10 by % feet, adorn the
Paris opera house.
Cats. 1t is noted, are not mentioned in the
Bible.
The National Baptist states Baptist min
is;er's average salary to be 800.
Bayard Taylor's Phila. homestead is sold
for Si40jO
Cramp, of Phila- is building Jay Gould
an iron and steel steam yacht.
Vanderbilt will give art receptions at his
9TH avenue palace this winter.
English cemeteries are being fast changed
into shrubbed and Towering gardens.
Five alleged Egyptian refugees were sent
to the almshousc in Washington last week.
$500. 600 worth of West Texas land is sold
TO an English company
The Chcs. and Ohio canal is in splendid
condition ana big coal shipments daily oc-
curing.
The Mt. Vernon NJ +. Church, BALTIC. is
raising funds to help the late DR.. Guards
children.
Atlanta will erect a 600 bronze statue
of the late Senator Hill. Half the fund is
ready.
The L. 5. monitor Nantucket collided
with and damaged the Atlas line steamer
Alene IN y. \. harbor last week. $4,000.
A 2O7 miles run from Burlington to Chi
cago was lately made in + hours. Wander
blk was aboard.
The first locomotive built south Of the
Ohio has just been finished at Chattanooga,
Tenn.
Talmage dominates Gov. st. John of
Kansas and Gov Colquitt, of Ga, as a pro-
hibi.ion presidential ticket
key West tobaccories hire readers to ar
rest the gcsticulative talking Of the native
employees.
A ten foot bronze statue of Garibaldi, in
easy military pose, is projected for Wash
ington.
Green Lake in Colorado 500 feet above
sea level-;he highest lake elevation in the
world
The P. o. department will sell stamped
envelopes at 10 per cent. reduction on pres
ent rates after January lst
Census tilic promotions last week: Ar
MIN L. Sherman to 81 100; Jos. ". Mccoy
to $l2,Oo,-all of W. Va.
Mrs. DR.. Noble Young, of Washington,
died last week at her son-in-law's, Alex.
Strousy, in Irondale, Preston county.
NJ Il. Boyer, of Sandcrsvillc, Ga. has
good pastured jersey COZ whose rich milk
churns into butter in milking.
The yari-tinted French hose, the silk en-
bro;dered Balbriggans, the Englishicgulars
all stockings are, it trahsplrcs made in
Chcmnitz, Saxony.
aondon's population is l,7SS,657 and its
po'i,cuumbers / ,234; Vienna has ,072,75
inhabitants and 2,795 police; Chicago has
53S, POS people and 800 police.
Alta Dakota late election 2,37S votes
were cast for probate judge and there were
1913 names. Every man had voted for
himself
Count Won Hatzlefcldt, the new German
foreign secretary and Bismarck's intended
successor is the divorced husband Of Miss
Moulton, an American actress daughter.
\ big canal is projected 'tvixt Liverpool
and Manchester $40 miles to obyiatc the
unloading and rail ireighting of American
cotton.
In - Birmingham, Ala. was a forest
compasscd cotton field In - it Lad $3.50
inhabitants, to-day its census is 1900
with 50, $4,000 invested in pig iron alone.
In Patrick tour'y Va, l"te needy di'-
trict, 1,l32 acres recently brought 50 and
$500 acres 81 an acre All settled orchard
land.
Robt Railcv, of Va, an old time gam
bier, once patented faro dealers box, re-
cciying 500 royalty on each onesold. The
original patent i, still preserved.
Mrs. Mary Austin, late Washington de-
ceased, had A sons, Of whom II survive.
She served in the waras surgcon-doc;or with
majors rank
Among railway jumPing-oa places the
Kansas City Mo- station is deemed the
most usej-so many liuy, oonyorging there.
Tie depot re,tauran; rents at $4,000.
Wilmington, Del, has granted right of
way thro' its streets for the b. Il O. r. Rs
now line bctwixt BALTIC. and rhila. which
will be finished prior to March /, 81.
The Hudson river tunnel has progressed
l ,Ho feet on the porth and 90 On the south
side feet being a day average. 100 men
arc employed.
\ 75-ton engine and eight cars made a 10
mile run between Boston and Providence in
: minutes and the entire distance, u miles,
in 81.
The English postal telegraph and postal
savings systems will be urged for govern
ment adoption in the Postmaster Generals
annual report.
Ed. Stokes. Hose Lightning shot dispatch