Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1884-09-25
NEWSY NOTES.

During the cholera epidemic IN France
the deaths aggregated 5000.
New York State farmers predict short
Fall and a severe winter.
DIR. Jno. J |ruce, well-known Cumber-
land physician, is dead.
DR.. Melville Taylor, the well-known Bal
timore physician, is dead.
Maud 5. trotted mile at Hartford last
week in 2.ll3.
Senators Bayard, and Gibson of Louisiana
spoke at Stanton on Monday.
Paradise hotel on the Frederick road near
Catonsville is burned.
1000 potters aroundabout Trenton, \. ).
have declared for Cleveland.
re. Marshall of Portsmouth is nomina-
ted for congress by the I'd Virginia district
democrats.
Moses Moore, the colored porter on vice
president Spencer's private Pullman, was
killed last week near Point of Rocks.
Senator Plumb rep of Kansas amiably
comedies us State triumph in advance
by 5000 majority.
At Wheeling last week Town Marshal
Burke accidentally shot VIM. Welch while
pursuing an escaped prisoner.
The sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows
met in Minneapolis last week-2OO delegates
present.
The 10000 French Canadians in n. Y.
State have formed % Cleveland and Hen
bricks clubs, and are still at it.
The Great Eastern will sail Oct 10Th,
from London, with English exhibits for the
New Orleans exposition.
Two men were killed and eight wounded
last week by steam compress explosion in
Eufala, Alabama.
Louis Baggs, BraxtOn county wv. Va
cattle thief was killed recently while resist
ing arrest.
A Savagetown (W. Va. preacher has con-
fessed to numbering Braxton county stone
mason named Shoemaker in '7S.
Farmers in the Ohio Valley of West Vir-
ginia are feeding new wheat to hogs, hav-
ng no old corn to spare.
A Winchester letter to the New York
Democratic committee says that Frederick
county will give Cleveland 900 majority.
The b. & o. Telegraph will expend 81
600 900 in extending its lines TO st. Paul,
Kansas City, Richmond aud throughout the
Atlantic coast.
Den Piatt, executor Washington capital
and a shrewd political observer, thinks the
chances in Ohio are favorable to the dem
ocrats.
The Fredericksburg and Spettsylvania
ex-Confeds held their I'd annual reunion at
the former place last Thursday under the
auspices of Maury Camps.
The sale Oct % of the government prep
erty at Harpers Ferry ought to amount to
something after so many fruitless attempts
in that direction.
The Rev. Mother Superior Mary Francis
Xavier Wade, founder of the order of Sis
tiers of Mercy in America, died last week in
Manchester, n H. aged -.
At Coal Valley, w. Va, last week, Smith
Alden killed Alex. Fincher with on axe,
for demonstrating with him for stoning 4
boy. Both men wood choppers.
The opening up of the B. & O's new tel
egraphic lines to Boston and other eastern
points gives that Company complete cir
cult between New England and st. Louis
\ daughter of railway contractor Maur
was killed recently, on the line of the new
West Virginia road, by limb of falling
tree piercing her face from cheek to cheek.
R. T. Walker, stenographer for the Nor
folk and Western r. r. at Roanoke, is ac-
cused of bigamy- Philadelphia lady hay-
ing appeared to contest his local marital re-
lstiOnS.
Oliver Wormald, aged35 a Buffalo painter
proposes to shoot" the Niagara rapids in
a l5-foot rubber ball filled with compressed
air and hermctically sealed The wager is
/ $1,000.
An earthquake shook up the people of
Michigan, Iowa, Indiana and Ohio last
Friday afternoon-and even touched the
Northern panhandle Of this State Little
damage done.
The Order Of Good Samaritans comprising
800 lodges and 10000 members met in
Pi:tsburg last week Delegates were present
from ". Va, Maryland, Kentucky, and
other sections
Jim Blaines friends, the Know Nothing
lists, paraded under the name of the A.
merican Political Alliance, have nominated
Capt W. L. Ellsworth of Pennsylvania for
President and Chas. H. Waterman of n.
Y. for Vice President
From TIE Boston Transcript Rep.
at is fine morning, Mr. Blaine" said
neighbOr meeting the candidate the other
day. "Sirw exclaimed the incorruptible
patriot, the weather S All issue which does
not enter into the national campaign. I
prefer. not to discuss it, S.r-not to discuss
it."