Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-12-10
YEVSY NOTES.

Gov.-eleet Lees official majority over
Wise is 1904.
John sherman is elected president of the
Senate protein.
Our Senators desks were covered with
flowers Monday.
The $1,000 bid for the Richmond Wig
was not accepted.
ia lIutcl N is appointed Senator
X enu: secret.
Beutei~ bank at Freedom, Pa, was rob
bed of So coo last week.
Sunday will mark the 2Srd year since the
Battle of Fredericksburg.
C. 5. Bohannon, aged so, of Smithton,
No, is dead after 81 days fasting.
Six persons injured in train collision
on the Brooklyn bridge last Saturday.
Senator Harris Of Tennessee received the
democratic vote for President Of the Senate.
R.A. Dickson, of Hinton, W. Va, was
found drowned at Quantico, Va, last Sun
day.
Rankins wooden factory in Augusta
county is burned. Loss $4,000. lnsur-
ance $C,oo0
Albert \. Wilson of that city is appoint
/ ed L. =. Marshal at Washington vice
McMichael
The widow of Gen. L. Pope Walker, Con
tolerate war secretary, died at Huntsville,
Ala last week.
Next Monday will be the oath anniversa-
ry of the death of Prince Albert-Queen
Victoria's consort.
A natural gas explosion in Pittsburg last
Friday wrecked dwellings, killed wom-
en- and injured many.
The old L. $. Steamer Frolic has been
turned into q coal barge for southern waters
and is renamed ,he Aaude Mclean.
The American Public Health Association
+ lDr.Ja f. Reeves, of Wheeling, PRESIDENT
is now holding it's 18th annual meeting in
Washington.
Robt. Lawson and Co., saddlers, of Balti-
more. and the Gallego Mills Manufacturing
Co.. of Richmond have talled-the latter
for S426,OOO.
The only new house officers are sam Don
nelson of Tennessee doorkeeper and Rev.
W. II. Nilburu, q" the blind preacher, "ot
Illinois, chaplain.
Miss Anna Archer Of Parkersburg, Is
bailed in 500 ut Wheeling on charge OF
firing the Kanawha Station school-where
a rival. a Miss Lottie Mann, was teacher
In Baltimore last Thursday week, VIM
Holland aged p shot his wife formerly
Eliza McSbery Boylan Of Martinsburg)
AGED II for refusing to live with him. He
ieit her in 50.
Bishop Keener of New Orleans, whose
official visit here some years ago Is pleas
antly remembered, is presiding over the
session of the South Carolina Conference
which opens in Columbia to-day
Az Atlanta. Ga, Wednesday of last week
the entire citizens ticket was elected for the
city council. overwhelmingly defeating the
prohibition nominees. Only the week pre-
yious the prohibitionists carried the city.
James +. Tucker, son of Beverly Tucker
and nephew of Randolph Tucker of Nir-
rinia, is appointed assistant appraiser Of
merchandise at Frisco where he has been
a Pacific Mail steamship purser since 70.
Mr.. Robert Garrett, president Of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad, is building the
most expensive residence ever erected in
Baltimore. Exclusive Of furnishings the
cost of 10 will amount 20 more than SI0O,OOO.
The Junior Senator from Virginia promi-
Sc, again to indulge his whim to be known
as the Clone fisherman" of the Senate. In
his newspaper he prints a classified list OF
|.r II in I1Gf A.
only Independent.
Judge J. NJ. Jackson, Of the Circuit Court
of Wood county, W Va, on Wednesday OF
last week decided the noted Baltimore and
Ohio bridge tax case in favor of the State.
The decision involves taxable property to
the amount of S3lS,00O.
Hope for season bids the world fare
well. " when a man finds himself in the rent
less grasp of neuralgia, but he smiles and
takes heart and courage when his wife
brings IL bottle of Salvation Oil, the great
est cure ON earth for pain.
Robert j. Por.erfed, a druggist, of Lew
isburg. was taken with a hemOThage last
/ Thursday evening while riding out to his
residence. a few miles from town. The
next morning he was found in the road COW
cred with blood and liteless.
Forty years experience, in every cline
ON earth. has proved Ayers Cherry Pecto-
rail To- be the most reliable remedy for, colds
coughs and all lung diseases. Neglected
colds often become incUrable ailments.
Deal with them in time, snd prevent their
becoming dcep-seated in the system.
DEAD. Hon. Henry F. French of Mass,
ex-Assistant Treasury Secretary, 72.-Jon-
athan T. Walker of Prince Georges, Md,
formerly a Washington builder, 7j.-Col.
Jno. d. Van Buren, of Newburg, New York
IA relative of the late Presdent.-Commo-
dore Chas. Lowndes retired So, of Talbot
I county. Nd.
c. w. Scott, ESQ, Arendtsyille, Pa, says
he used about POO los. to the acre of compost
made with Powel's Prepared Chemicals
for corn and wheat, with very satisfactory
/ results. This economical fertilizer material
costs only $500 per Dbl, sufficient guam
titv to make one-half ton of complete fertil-
izer. Address Brown Chemical Co., Balti-
more, Nd.