Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-08-13
Yirainia 3ree grtss.
GATHERED HERE AND THERE.

A Sandusky Ohio girl wears number
% shoe-l9 inches long and Il inches wide
That's a shoe-store
Anthony Eickofl. the new 9th auditor OF
the Treasury, is a German resident of New
York. He was in the 10th Congress.
Senator Logan has bought of Gen. Nelson
Miles forSSO 600 the Stone Mansion with
its acre Of ground on the hill at at the head
of 18th street i'm Washington.
John Wise is marching on, more or less,
in the State where John Browns soul isPre-
sumably restless ghost because of John
Wise's father.-Augista lGa.l Chronicle.
Cultivate a small quantity Of land, and
cultivate it well, raise your own supplies
and keep out Of debt. In my opinion this
is the truest secret of successful farming"
The largest apple tree in the United states
is growing at Cheshire. Conn. 1t is 60 feet
high. spreads 100 feet and yields from 70 to
100 bushels of apples per year on alternate
sides Of the tree.
The gold mines in Georgia now yield 49,
600 monthly in bullion A very rich vein
traverses the state near Columbia county
and has only been worked in that county
and OglethOrpe.
G.. W. Calderwood, late editor Americgn
P,oRibifi0aia reiteratcs the charges made by
him that the last few Temperance Cam
paigns in Ohio have been maintained by
democratic funds.
Wasbiugton's first Cabinet consisted of
Thomas Jefferson, Secretary Of State; Gen
eral Knox, Secretary of War; Alex Hamil-
ton. Secretary of the Treasury; and John
Jay, Attorney General
To is stated that Mr. VIM. w. Clements Of
this county and late Master of Transporia-
ton Of the B. q o.. is to De known as the
general manager in the new position TO
which he has been called with the Erie Rail-
road.
C.L Webster, publisher of Grants mem
oirs. has bought from Dr. J. X. Wallace, Of
Bantam. Conn. for $500 the original UNI
conditional surrender letter written by
Gen. Grant to Gen. 5. b. Buckner, the Con
federate, on Feb. rs, 1862
July has been q fatal month for Presidents
and ex-Presidents. John Adams and Thorn
a. Jefferson died July 4. 1876; Monroe, Ju-
ly 4. 1881; Taylor, July 9, 1850, while in
Office. and Grant July y, 1850, while Car
field received his death wound upon the ID
of the same month. lSS1.-B0sf0a Post.
The NIorgantown Post saws there is an
other place in West Virginia where coun-
ties are numerous. A man can sit on the
summit Of q mountain with one foot i'm Nc
Dowell, the other in Mercer. pick buckle
berries in Wyoming and spit tobacco Juice
on grasshoppers in Tazewell county, Va.
NINE. Kate Rolla, nee Rammelsberg, of
Wheeling, recently sang with marked sue
cess at Aquila, near Rome. She goes next
Winter to the Apollo Theatre i'm Rome.
Nine. Rolla was offered an engagement for
the approaching season of English opera at
the Academy of Music under Mr. Thomas
direction. some months since, but she de-
clined to accept it.
A Morgantown fellow, who probably has
no credit with the girls of his acquaintance,
advertises in the Kingwood Journal for
lady correspondent Object matrimony.
The address is Box l75, Morgantown, W.
Va. Now, some of our boys who can write
fine hand. should help the anxious party
out ofhis difficulty Hts'n Democrat.
If he can write fine hand with horse
whip.
julio r. santos. the naturalized American
who has been in prison eight months i'm Ec-
uador for an alleged inciungof revolution, is
one of seven brothers whom Mr. Henry On
derdonk. Of Hagerstown, educated. H6
came from Ecuador I'm '65, graduated 90 the
University Of Virginia where he was after
wards Professor of Applied Mathematics
was naturalized July Is. "a and later on be-
came Professor of Chemistry i'm the Uni
versity Of Alabama.