Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-07-23
NEWSF NOTES.

LlI "a -AtlAulA Ma7 ANNAA--
JOS. C. Hawley Of Va, $1,000 clerk in
the ?. o. Dept, has resigned.
Tuesday was the twenty-iourth annlver-
sary of the Firsl Battle of Manassas.
Wheat transactions in BALTIC. last Thurs
day aggregated one million bushels.
The Hessiau ay is doing big damage in
The wheat fields iu Western New York.
Mrs. Mary Brown of Virginia has got
Pension Office promotion from $1,000 to
$1,000
IS young ladies took the veil at the Con-
vent OF Notre Dame in Baltimore last sat
urday.
Postmaster =. VI. Yost at Staunton has
been suspended and William A. Burke APP
pointed.
Henry Carter, a Prince William county
farmer living miles from Dumiries, hung
himself last week.
Barkley and Co.. coffee dealers, and Fran
els q. Cole and Co, hat manufacturers, Bal
timore have failed.
Ascension Episcopal church at Cath
crsburg. Nd, was consecrated last Friday
10 Is q Gothic frame.
The National Cotton Exchange met in
9th annual convention mt White sulphur
Springs last week
sam Jones. the Gainesville Ca revival
list. will visit Wheeling next week lie Is
now at Plattsburg, Mo.
NJ. ID. Months, aged S. of the Treasury
Dept.-untii lately Past GrSad Master, l. o..
/ %. F.-died last week.
Francis III. Underwood of Boston, a Ken
tuckian By birth, succeeds Bret Harte, the
poet, as consul at Glasgow.
Ex-mayor Rand, of Minneapolis, his wife
and two children and SIN other persons were
drowned in Lake Minnesota.
Mr.. Robt. Bell, aged IS, an old and es-
teemed resident of AleXandria-Sometim
I foreman of the Ga-ctte-died last week.
Fred Millerof Charleston, Kanawha coun-
I a.. struck q big vein OF quicksilver While
boring well last week on his premises.
Jas q. Wintersmith. aged 10 of Louis
-Doorkeeper of the Housc-died last
week. He was an Aide on Gen. john Nor
cams staff In the Conted. army
Valentino VENT, a Carroll county far
mer and the Z. VI. at Melrose, Nd, SUclded
/ last week because the local democrats wanted
/ him bounced as an offensive partisan.
The MARYLAND Prcsbytery has refused TO
/ dismiss Rev. Dr. LeFeyre OF Frankhn-Sq-
church. Baltimore. so that he cannot accept
the Davidson n. a. College presidency.
Col VIM p. Craighill of the Engineer
/ Corps is one of am examining board appoint
ed To report on suggested changes IN con-
structing the new reservoir at Washington.
The Monroe Uafcbmap advocates the pur-
chase of the odd Sweet Springs property
i'm that county for the new Insane Asylum.
The owner of chat property offers 1t Tor SOU
600,
Hon. Jas. b. Elam of Louisiana died last
week. He sat in the Secession Convention
Iof'6l. was Speaker of the Confederate House
during the war and Representative in Con-
gress 1870.
jeremiah Z. Bartholow, a - Louis coal
dealer. killed himself the other day. lie
was of Carroll county Nd birth aud for
mcrly I'm the hardware and fertilizer bust
ness at Washington.
2l miners. mill men and engineers headed
by Capt j. T. lmboden the Coined. Cen
erals brother, have gone to Iuscaran IN the
Hynduras Mts where Capt |. Is consul
towork the adjacent Paraiso gold and silver
mines.
The Board of Public Works, consisting
OF Governor. Auditor, Encouragement, Su-
perintendent of Free Schools and board
clerk are ON q ten DAYS tour of railroad IN
spection. for the purpose of fixing the tax
assessment.
The Posts combination at 10Th and ID
streets i'm Washington was burned out last
/ THURSDAY That paper the RepEbbcan, the
critic and the Sunday Gazette suffered big
losses. Pending repairs they are issued from
other offices.
Miss Alice Jouc aged IL. living with her
mother miles from snow Hill near flney
Grove. Md. poisoned herself with arsenic
last week because her lover, Chas. w llson,
who had betrayed her, refused tomarry her.
Mr. VIM. B. Webb, a Washington lawyer
of go. Is appointed District Commissioner
vice West whose term is expired. The gen
/ tleman is a native of Washington, Column
5ian University graduate and conserva-
tive republican.
Washington STIR: Wheeling W. Va. IS
much excited over the success IN Italy OF
one of her tlire,t daughters, singer named
Mrs. Rammelsbcrg She IS said to have
pure, sweet soprano voice and to be very
beautiful in person.
A lady writes. Il have used Aver Sar-
. saparilla I'm my family for many years, and
could not keep house without 1t. For the
relief of the pains consequent upon female
weakness and the irregularities, l consider
10 without am equal
Anna Flemmer, the fascinating swindler
who some time ago got 81, 600 and diamond
ring from Capt. McCloskey of Parkersburg
while living sumptuously, and on credit, IN
that city, is wanted by che Pittsburg police
for forgeries and blackmail.
q. L. stone. Jr. and his father, of Mar
dusyine vicinity, Henry county, Va, have
been arrested for causing the death OF the
formers wife through brutal treatment.
The finding OF the womau's body near bui-
Nj was noted Boo last weeks FREE Press.
The Virginia republican state convention
40 Richmond adjourned at an early hour
Thursday morning after nominating John
: Wise. OF Richmond. for Governor, h. {.
Wood. of Scott county, for LleUtenani-Goy-
crnor. and Frank = Blair for attorney-Gen-
eral