Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-05-28

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George w. Woods, of Rockingham county,
Va. who was tried for the murder OF Jacob
Lincoln. a appointment citizen of Lacy Springs,
and sentenced to the penitentisry for elgh-
teen years, has been pardoned by Gov. Cam
erOn.
Mr.. Henry C. Allen, the new district at
torney for the western district OF Virginia, Is
a resident of Woodstock, Shenandoah coun,
ty. He has served in the legislature ana
was at one time Speaker Of the House OF Del
egates.
ELLEN Chew" colored, fre-tiend In
Stafford county, indicted for setting fire to
Powhatan Moncure's dwelling, and with
firing the Jail three times, plead guilty
and was sentenced to the penitentiary for
twenty-five years.
Mrs. John Glen, wife of prominent En-
plishman Of Bedford county, met sad death
by drowning in small stream near Liberty
on Monday afternoon. The buggy in which
Mr.. Glen and his wife were seated upset.
Mr.. Glen with great difficulty escaped.
After trip thro' some of the richest coun.
ties of Virginia the state commissioner OF
agriculture reports the condition of wheat
and oats as wretched The Old Dominion's
wheat yield this year will not, he says, be
over million bushels. Last year it was Z.
Badness NAV be avoided by the use of
Halls Hair Remover, which prevents the
falling out of the hair and stimulates it to
renewed growth and luxuriance. 1t also
restores faded or gray hair to It's original
dark color, and radically cures nearly every
disease of the scalp.
Enoch Wells, of Morgantown, w. Va,
was nearly killed lately by wrong prescrip-
ton accidentally administered by Dr. ALI
sup who treated him for heart disease. The
Doctor subsequently took the balance Of the
physic himself to prove its harmlessnes and
narrowly escaped death.
Two Troy men have invented machine
which, it is claimed has been operated to
make "a, 900 perfect matches in minute
and its capacity is expected to reach 10000
600 in ten hours. The paper lamp lighters
will be at a discount after few of these ma
chimes are put into operation.
Professor Riley, of the agricultural de-
partment, says the seventeen-year locusts,
whose visit he has predicted, are harmless
to growing crops and do no injury except
to the twigS of the forest and fruit trees.
It is probable that the use of kerosene emul-
sion sprayed upon the trees will protect them.
The following gentlemen recently gradua-
ted from the Methodist Protestant theOl0gl-
cal seminary: G. W. Pool of West Virginia,
assigned to Parkersburg w. G. Rymer of
West Virginia, assigned to Henderson Co.,
y. c.; b. W. Kendley of Frederick county,
to Mt. Tabor near Georgetown G. w.
Blades of Worcester, to Frederick county.
Robt. E. Odlum, aged SO, of Washington,
a professional swimmer, jumped from the
Brooklyn Bridge height of l40 feet-into
the East River Tuesday week. The shock
broke five ribs and affected lis heart. He
was taken out dead. Odlum came 10 Wash
ington from st. Louis in rs and opened
swimming school which didn't pay. He had
since saved many lives at the seashore.
There was a full attendance of delegates,
clerical and lay, on the assembling of the
Southern Presbyterian General Assembly at
Houston, Texas, Thursday last. The retir
ing moderator, Rev. Dr. T. d. Witherspoon,
preached the opening sermon. The Rev. II.
R. Raymond, d. D., of Alabama, was chosen
the new moderator. The Rev. DIR. II. z. Fer
ris, of st. Louis, was chosen permanent clerk.
Frederick I. Frelinghuysen, ex-Secretary
of State, died yesterday week at Newark aft
er a long illness-aged 6S. He was of Jer-
sey birth and the adopted son of his uncle,
Theodore Frelinghuysen-th Wing candi-
date for vice-president on the Clay ticket in
III. He was attorney general of New Jersey
'6l-'66 and a U. s. senator for IL years sue
ceeding. In December 81 he entered Mr.
Arthurs cabinet.
Thos. H. Brattan, Esq, Snow Hill, Nd,
says in the year 1884 he used fertilizer
made with Powell's Prepared Chemicals, 200
lbs. to the acre, on corn with very satisfac-
tory results. This economical fertilizer is
commended by farmers in three-fourths of
the States of the Union, and can be bought
for $6.0OpeI barrel-a sufficient quantity to
make one-half ton of complete fertilizer.
Brown Chemical Co., manufacturers, Balti-
more, Nd.
Mrs. Simpson, while fishing on Pumpkin
Vine creek, in Paulding county, ia, last
week, got bite and attempted to land the
fish. The order was reversed, however, and
the fish pulled her into the water, and, not
knowing how to swim, she was drowned.
The body was found about sixty feet from
where she was fishing. The fsh-pole was
found floating, and when pulled up the fish,
catfish weighing twenty-five pounds, was
still on the hook.
Paris adyices indicate that the late Baron
ess de Fahnenberg tnee Strotherl did not, as
stated recently in the big dailies, leave q
million her aunt-the mother of Gen. Nor
gan, the cavalryman but only $4,000. Her
family Jewels go to the Strothers of Virginia,
her books, paintings and statuary to her
first cousin, Col Richard Morgan, and she
leaves 100000 to open at Lexington, KY,
home for aged men and women from New
Jersey, Nd, and KY. There is an item Of
$4,000 for big tomb at Spa for herself
and mother-while the titled husband of the
good lady is let ga penniless. Her relatives
in Kentucky and Virginia will try and break
the will.