Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1883-03-29
YEWSF NOTES.

N'.'-N-f ''s-' 'N - ~"'0.
The western winter wheat crop will fall
below last years So million bushels.
The Maryland eastern sho'" waters are
to be stocked with California trout.
Col. W. p. Blair, of Lexington, Wa
West Pointers dead, aged s..
Father Ryan, the poei-priest, lectures in
Wilmington April lS-22d anniversary
Sumtcr's surrender.
Sidney Lanier, the dead poet, has aniche
in Baltimore's new temple Of fame-HOp-
KRIS Hail.
In the LIST Congress eight Senate com
mittee chairmen had their sons for commit
tceclerks.
A STRIKE ofrollmakers at I.ynchburg, Va,
has caused nearly all the tobacco factories
to suspend operations.
John T. Burrill, ex-grand secretary grand
lodge Illiroi. masons. is given years for a
s., 500 embezzlement of masonic funds.
Me,srs. \. II. Taylor and o. +. Bump,
BALTIC lawyers, had an alteration touching
legal paper last week.
The first train over the Northern Pacific
r. r. passed last week and was loudly
cheered atseveral points.
The Ches. and Ohio Canal III ectors have
ixcd the toll at 80 cts 4 ton from Cumber-
land 10 Georgetown.
An entertainment occurs in New York
April for the benefit Washington and Lee
University.
Jos. G. Cooke, proprietor Wizards Ho-
tel, Washington, since Jan. 70, is dead,
aged IS.
Walker Scott, the New York printing
press inventor and manufacturer, has sold
to r. Hoe & Co. his rater's ~ 100000.
Ex-Gov. John Lee Carroll, great grand
son Chas. Carroll of Carrollton, is the How
ard county Nd. grand jury foreman-5 ne
grocs being on the JuH.
Ed Hanlon, the famous oarsman, is
training in Washington for his race with
John Kennedy at Point of Pines, near
Boston, May so.
Ex-city collector Chas. Webb, Of Baito.
has withdrawn his libel suits against the
Ameri md HcroU-.Sose papers having
filed a retraction of charges published a
gainst Webb.
Henry Clay Thurston, OF ;. c. is living
in Texas aged 50. lie is Z feet y inches
high and wears no. - shoes on a l3-inch
foot. He served the confederacy through
out the war.
Lincoln lNeb.l physician says Z" If the
throat looks red ard small there Is no fear
of diphtheria Ii it looks dull gray-as
tho a handful of ashes had been thrown in
t. it look out: this is diphthoria's danger
signal.
The arrest in Boston OF VIM. T. Kendall,
a 55-year old forger, opens - an interest
Ing polygamous record. Marrying Penn
,ylyania lady in "a, this amateur Mormon
welded a Nova Scotian maiden in '73 and
again in 50 took to himself a New York
spouse His leisure mou'erts ~efe iilpar-
TALLY accorded these guileless and better
hliycs-we near three Quarters-who are
now comuiiagling Inc anguished tears Of
grass vidovhood,
Last years cotton yield Is officially pla-
ced at an aggregate of over 6,SO0,OCO bales
whereof Virginia i credited with 24,OOO
The ascending scale is well maintained and
makes an interesting story: Missouri,
25,co0; Florida, 81 600; Tennessee, 81 geo;
North Ca,0liEt, 452,0Gh: louisiana, $50,
O)0; South Carolina, $4,000; Arkansas,
6S- 600; Alabama, 1900; Georgia. 920,-
600; Mississippi, ,O42,OOO Texas l. $4,000.
Posma,tcr-GeneTal Howe died at his
home in Wisconsin on Sunday of Pnucmo-
MA. This death recalls the fact that there
has been "a remarkable mortality during the
past year among men who have filled the
position of Unconstitutional. Ex-Post-
master Generals Dcnnison, Maynard and
Jewell have died since May last
On Monday uc<t nc Taylor Hotse odd
Saprington Hotel in this place viii lie
opened under the management of Mr..
James Watson, and we believe we can as
sure the pubic that it will be conducted ii I.
4 manner to regain for it the old time repu-
tation Us a frst-class house
An eleventh hour senatorial enactment /
as gladlcncd the land shark. 1t permits
the sale, unlimited, Of Alabama mineral /
land at Sl.25 an acre-the government re-
ceiying elsewhere from two and a half II .
twenty dollais
De Lessups, the irdcfatigsblc, has left
his Panama canal scheme e run itself a.
while and has projected similar cut across
The I~thmus Of Malacca TIL voyage
',vixt Europe and the East will be shorten
ell four day, thereby.
The stockholders of the Virginia Mid
land railroad company elected the following
new dirccrors VIM Keyser and Skipwith
Wilmer, Of Baltimore; W. p. Clyde, J. A.
Rutherford and W. P. Cutting, Of New
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