Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1883-05-17
HEHsT S6TES.

The mother Of Archbishop Nlooohs OF
Baltimore died in New Orleans last week.
Nine Jersey COWS sold in New York las;
week at figures ranging from 1900 to 1885.
Joe Brady was hanged in Dublin on
Monday for the murder Of Lord Cavendish.
The Secretary of the Treasury on Mon
day issued a warrant for $4,000 to be paid
to the Lee heirs as the price Of Arlington
Ex-Governor Israel Washburn, of Maine,
died of heart disease in Philadelphia Sat
urday.
Capt J.C. Graham of Alexandria is dead
aged so. lie was a prominent shipmasteT
for 80 years.
Gen. Crook is making sharp campaign
againt the Apache Indians-the Mexican
troops cooperating.
Edward o. Russell of W. Va. is promo
ted from twelve to sixteen hundred dollars
in the Interior Department Washington.
The Cakes Ames interest have purchased
the Washington and Western railroad at
100000.
A German carp weighing nine pounds is
reported to have been caught in the Mo
nocacy.
Johnson C. Whitaker, the ex-colOred
cadet, is filing a professors chair at avery
Institute. Charleston. :. G.
The seasons first strawberries sold in
Boston iast week at 60 cents. from Nor
folk.
The Baltimore harbor board has contracted
with Maj T. P. Morgan Of Washington for
dredging 25O,OOO cubic yards of the harbor.
Mr. Andrew Rentch, an old and we'll
known citizen of Washington county, Nd,
uncle of D. S. Rcntch, ESD OF SheP-
herdstown, lied or Tuesday week, in the
S5th year of his age.
The Okeechobec company have launched
at Kissmimee, Fla, the President Arthur,
the largest dredgc in America, to chi ca
nal which will reclaim 100000 acres OF.
sugar lands. Nee compliment that 10 our
aesthetic "chct"
\ Lcesburg youngster has found bird
shaped like a loon, wcb-footed, icet fastened
so far back that it cant get along on land,
eyes bright pink, plumlge giistening, and
mainly whitish, bill sharp. The bid is ey-
identity the young of some fishing species.
Mrs. Sarah E. Berry, daughter Of the
late Samuel MeKenney, AMI rclict of tie
late PhilipT. Berry, died in Georgetown
and lIr. IIoratio Berry, brother Of the lac
Philip T. Berry, died at his residence in
Baltimore.
In Baltimore last week taa rearportion of
the Misses Adams residence, Madison st.
near Howard, was burned. }Er Adams IN
old gentleman, paralyzed, was sutiocated,
and the colorei cook burned 70 death. The
colored house girl Jumped from third
story window, broke oao OF her arms and
was otherwise seriously injured.
A cyclone passed over South Western
Missouri Monday. Damage to the extent
Of 5000, 600 at Kansas City, and Il number
of persons killed At Macon City five PEI
sons were killed and fifteen injured. The
town Of Oronogo was entirely Destroyed
six killed AMI thiry-three wounded. IN
other places and in III, co'nt!y much dam
age to life and property is reported.
The claim has been long made Tia the
Rev. Josiah Henson who died May in
Dresden aged 81 was he original Of the
character drawn by Mrs. Harriet Bccchcr
Stowe in her celebrated anti-slayory novel
of Uncle Tom" Some years aga Mr..
Henson was presented to the Queen Of Eng
land as ~ prototype Of Uncle Ton, but
Mrs. Stowe is known to have declared THAI
no single individual furnished her with a
model for her hero, and that Uncle Tom
was a creation-a character moulded from
long observation and study OF slavery.
Col. c. J. Carroway Of Polh,on, y C.
advertised lately in the Baltmo S.a Cor
wife. He received letter from a Baltimore
lady, enclosing her photograph WIKI a de-
scription of herself, and WIS We'll pleased
that he concluded to 20 to Baltimore and
see the lady in person. When h- returned
he brought the lady home with him, having
married hera few DAYS after he fist saw
her in Baltimore Is there anyone about
here who don't believe in advertising after
that?
The ladies viii thank us for noting the
peerless Langtry's opinions given cutie re-
Gently anent American women:
think American women have very prot
ty faces, so bright and winning One secs
many more pretty faces here than in Eng
land. Then [ think they have beautiful
hair and very pretty bands arj feet. Their
manners are charming, go free and open.
The American women ar 50 independents
and there is such delightful lack of self
consciousness about them IbeF are tc3
very bright in conversation, and the free
dom and frankness OF their manner inn
presses one instantly; it Is SO different from
the reserve of the general run of English
women. They dress too smartiy fuE the street
and too simply for the thcatCr. l think
they mix their colors badly and have too
many bow. and ends ON their dresses To
my taste a woman cannot be too simply
dressed FOR the street. = dress of simple
neutral tints ulcascs me best. Ii struck me
that every woman in Baltimore was
beauty And 7 think that Baltimore Wa