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". ". Z. GALL1HER, Editor.
Charicstown, Jefferson County, Vest Va.
FEBRUARY II, 1854
NEUSF NOTES.

January saw the national dcDt cut Gown
y millions.
The second Washington and Ohio pur-
chase payment (Sl42,000) was made last
Thursday.
Col. \. ". Sheldon, newly confirmed an
Arizona associate Justice and late managing
editor Baltimore lo.erica,, Is dead.
The State of louisiana defaulted last week
in payment of her per ccnts-known As
"baby" bonds.
Hon. Charles Davies lectured last Thurs
day evening before the Carroll Institute,
Washington, on Longfellow-A National
Poet"
Wm. II r5auyh, aged 81, of Ringgold
Washington County, ma has suicided.
An Adams Codnty, Pa lady had rejected
him.
The widow of Gilbert Cameron, who built
the Smithsonian Institute in Washington
30 years ago. died in that city last week
aged 65.
TIE /. 5. District Court at IIarrisonburg
has in li.tcl w. b. Blackwell, of Augusta
county for iatimidlting voters at elections
in 1853.
\ coming Virginia wedding of historic
moment is that of Miss Mary Thornton
Maryc, of Marye's memorable Heights, and
Mr.. J. 5. b. Thomson, Of CUlpeper.
A Cincinnati Ea3p;rcr canvass Of Iali-
ana preferences shows 80 per cent. of the
democrats for Mcdonald and - per cent.
of the republicans for Blaine.
story's statue of Chief Justice Marshall
will reach Washington from Rome next
month. 1t will occupy Site on the west
Capitol froot.
OF Virginia's lamonted Letcher the Wash
incton star says "hc was instrumental in
bringing into notice, perhaps. the two great
est generals of the Confederacy-Lee and
Jackson"
Chas. Cope, Jr., rich Baltimorean's ~
year old son. who last week married Miss
Mary Porter, aged - has been placed in
the county house Of refuge by his father for
incorrigibility.
The bronze Lee statue, atop the monu-
ment at New Orleans, will pc unveiled Feb
ruary 22-associate Justice Chls. +. Fen
ner; cx. Colonel Army Northern Va, making
the oratioa.
W. y. Lynch Of Wheeling, representing
in part the iron yorkers' association, testi-
fled before the House labor committee last
wccl; regarding the importation of cheap
foreign labor.
The Nc,S aqd C,,ricr's Washington
special tells funny yarn ofthe daily con
traction and expansion of the CLpit,l dome
by the hea. anl Of the p,rceptible swaying
of the Washington Monument shaft in a
strong yiud,
The Hos>o biii rc-instatiag Fitz John
Porter is passed by ISL Including 10 repu1-
licansl 70 1S-One democrat voting against
it. Little opposition is ap?rehended in the
Scnate-the same tiii having passed there
last Congress By 80 to y.
The annual Sunday school convention
POO delegates) Baltimore Conference y. T.
Church. South, will I'D. " be held in
Rockville. Nd. Jaly auI II, next. Bish-
os y. W. Wilson of Baltimore apl Senator
Colquitt of Georgia arc among the invited
speakers.
The opening of railway communication
with the C1y Of Mexico ria the Mexican
( Central ]. Il. will be celebrated in June.
/ Schedule time 'tyixt JERSEY City and the
/ CITY Of Montezpmas will be six days. The
Pullman Company is already building palace
sleepers for the Mexican road.
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