Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1884-05-15
giraiuia free gress.
". W. u. a. j. " GALLAHER,
Publishers.
~. II. u. GaLLAHER, Editor.
CLariestows, Jefersom County, West 70.
May 10, 1884.
l,EFERRED PARAGRAPHS.

An attempt was made last week with
wired fuse to blow uR the Toronto parli-
ament buildings.
Lucy Jones, aged q, late of Front Royal,
Va. committed suicide in Washington last
week. A lovers quarrel.
sam'l A. Janncy, aged5l Of Montgomery
county. Nd, died in Manchester, England,
last week.
Jacob Dodson was lynched last week in
Logan county for the murder of ex-Sherih
Adkins of Boene.
A Red River TEX cattle ranch COM
prises % 900 acres more than docs Rhode
! Island
TIVE slaves formerly owned by JEFF Davis
now own his plantation, but they paid $500,
600 for it.
Charlotte, n. c., will celebrate May 2o-22
the lOpth anniversary Of the Mecklenburg
declaration.
In Washington last week pool player
threw ball at the restaurant keeper VINO
shivered it with pistol shot.
The Martin Luther statue fronting Mem
orial Lutheran Church, Washington, will be
unveiled the 22d.
The once noted Chcvalier Wykof, Louis
Napeleon's friend and the lover cfthe actress
Fannie Ellsler, died in England last week.
Weather permitting, the Washington
Monumen. will have reached June 1st an
altitude of 40 feet.
The flagship Thetis Of the Greeley relief
expedition sailed from New York last Thurs
day.
The Government printing Office finished
last week big volume of 10000 pages,
weighing 40 pounds and lG inches broad
Henry Irving, the English actor, has gone
homo after giving us lSl performances which
netted him $lO5,00e.
Maine. Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Ca'ifor-
MIA, Nevada and the Virginias declared 70.
Blaine last week.
Meteorological statistics show last month
to have been hecoldest April in ten years
fact that was patent enough to anyone.
The great and only Virgins who brought
all Canada TO It's knees Lost Spring claims to
have foretold England's recent earthquake
and predicts another about the 20th.
Miss Mary and Miss Mildred, Gen. r. f.
Lees surviving daughters, live at Lexing-
ton with their brother Custis Lee-presi-
dent Washington and Lee University.
A voracious Florida item recites that a
Palatka ex- -Confed picks his teeth with a
splinter Of his skull shiycred eff by Yam
kee bullet.
At the Blue Bears Head inn at Leicester
the 4-post beadstead is yet shown wheron
Richard the Sd slept his last night on earth
that of August q, l4Sj.
Chicago's high license law has frozen out
some coo saloons, but 5000 have taken out
permits-yie'dng the city nearly one and a
half million for the year.
Two marble tablets bearing the names Of
students who served in the Confedcraoy are
to be placed in the North Carolina Uniyer-
sity.
The Richmond fair for the Confederate
soldiers home will open next "Wednesday
and on its close June I'd q months military
encampment and picnic at the State Fair
grounds will be inaugurated.
The result of the state conventions Give
Blaine clear lead. while he lacks perhaps
30 votes to nominate. His friends claim
for him $50 or at least $40 votes already, and
Il more would pull him through.
&C. Watson, of Brooklyn, \. Y. has
bought at auction the old Braddock House
in Alexandria with entire contents Of 80
rooms for IS, 400. The sale excludes con-
tingent dover right of Mrs. Brown-wiie oi
the owner.
The State Line steamer City Of Florida,
from New York April II for Glasgow, is
lost of her open boats having been pick'
ed up at sea. She is thought to have suffer
ed at the hands of dynalniters who, it Is
rumored, were aboard.
w. il. Tenney Of Georgetown d. c. has
a copy, a white satin print, Of President
Jackson's proclamation of Dec. 10, 'S2 a
eainst the South Carolina freetraders whS
had declared null the L. S. tariff laws anc
threatened secession if they were enforced
in the State.