Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-08-06
YEWSY NOTES.

4 million dollar fire in Toronto on Mon
day morning.
Morri, 4. Thomas Of Nd, is made an In
dian inspector.
This monta III be elections only
in Utah and il acSy.
A colony of 500 well-to-do ex-Confeder
ates located in South Brazil.
Services in memory of Grant were held
Tuesday in ". mister Abbey.
Attorney G / Garland is summering
At Ocean View, ortress Monroe.
Fathers Brennan and Malloy, Catholic
priests Of Baltimore, died last week.
An Ocala fla boy of % has married a
widow of SO-but she IS worth $4,000.
DR.. Douglas has preserved nearly two
hundred tablets written by Gen'l Grant.
Warren is about the only county in North
Carolina that produces the beautiful curl
hickory
DIR. Shrady is of the opinion that Gen.
Grants cancer was the result oil excessive
smoking.
Hon. J. Ran Tucker is one of the House
committee to attend Gen. Grants funeral
Saturday.
Martin Van Buren,, a rich New Yorker
grandson of President Van Buren-dled
last week.
The survivors Of the 9th South Carolina
regiment are visiting the Seven Pines battle
field this week.
Edmund Hoyle, the whist authority was
born over 200 years ago and died IN London
in 1869 aged 81.
Capt. Robt. Crockett, Of Wythe, was tenn
porary chairman of the Democratic conyen-
ton at Richmond.
Jno. d. Pennybacker of Virginia is APP
pointed special agent of the land oilce as
examiner of surveys.
The President has contributed 500 to-
wards rebuilding the Buffalo music hall tha'
was burned last March.
Miss Anna NJ. Brooke of Lexington, Va
has been chosen assistant principal OF the
Abbeyille IS c. high school.
The manager of the busted Munster bank
is named OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and Is
said to have sailed for Baltimore.
c. H. Nicholas Merchant Mills at Lacey
Springs. near Harrisonburg, were burned by
inceudiaries last week. Loss-SlO,OOO.
Riel. the leader of the recent half breed
revolt in Canada has been found guilty OF
treason and sentenced to be hanged.
The London scandals are Of 4 startling
/ character Another member OF the Glad
stone cabinet is involved in serious charges
Samuel Flower, an ex-Confed. Captain
and a cousin of Representative Flower OF y
/ y. is appointed assistant [. ). treasurer at
| New Orleans.
R. W. Andrews, an aged pedestrian OF
/ Sumpter :. c., who in the spring walked
up to Boston and back, Is now leisurely
I footing it to Virginia.
Maud 5. went mile in 2.OS}, over the
/ Chenille track at Cleveland, o., Thursday
afternoon beating her previous record OF
I 2.O9l. II was the best time ever made on
trotting course.
Mrs. Baudry Garesche, sister of Hon. r
| NJ. McLane of Maryland (the minister to
Parisl-a member of the Sisters of the Sa'
cred Heort, stationed at 81 Michaols. 10.
died last week.
The Salvation Army Thursday presented
/ i'm the House of Commons a petition ! miles
long and bearing 500 900 names asking that
the age of consent in girls be changed from
ID years to IS years.
The engineer, II. G. Raworth. who raj
/ the first locomotive over the line OF the ,
I c. r. r. on its opening in 1881 has Just re
signed after fifty-four years service. This
leaves Capt. Lewis Barley the senior con
/ ductor.
The Grant burial site has been changed
I from Central Park TO Riverside Park-ar
/ irregular, narrow Smile strip bordering OF
/ the Hudson. The Generals remains are
now living in state in the City Hall, New
/ York. The funeral occurs Saturday next, Sth
The B. x 0. claims that reopening OF
/ its accounts with the Government for trans
portaton of troops and stores during tn,
/ war will show a balance of several hundred
thousand dollars due the Company. EX
/ war Secretary Belknap, rs counsel, Is push
/ ING the Company interest in the matter.
The most deadly foe to all malarial dis
case is Ayers Ague Cure, a combination o
vegetable ingredients only, of which the
most valuable is used in no other know
preparation This remedy is an absolute
and certain specific, and succeeds when all
other medicines fail \ cure is warranted
Judge Jackson, of the United States dis
/ trict court of West Virginia, has granted al
injunction Of the Chesapeake and Ohio rail
road company enioining the several sheriff;
/ through whose counties the said road runs
from collecting taxes for the best ten years
/ The total amount of taxes is over 5000, 600
/ to which ten per cent is 10 be added.
Sir Moses Montefore, the eminent Jew
and philanthropist, died in London las
week-aged 100 years and 9 months HI
was a Hebrew of the Hebrews" and haC
accomplished much for the ameliOration o
the troubles of his race As far back a
1887 he was knighted on the occasion of {
visit of Queen Victoria to the Guild hall
Near Rockportin Wood county, this State
on the banks of Jerry's Run some 80 mel
are mixed up in a local feud of the Kentuck!
pattern. Cephus Waters, an indOlent lane
/ owner who has been living on the poor fund
was recently whipped by his neighbors ant
threatened with worse treatment if he didn'
90 TO work. 5. II. Lilly, sewing machin
agent who, with his son Luther, bears bat
name. had the leader of the mob arrested
! and has since been warned TO leave th