Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-06-04

highest ambition Is 10 promote the puOnc
welfare. And further, he is not moving too
slow.
A tenement house in Jersey City, occu-
pied by five families, fell on Wednesday of
last week and killed four persons outright
and wounded ten. 1t fell because Of sheer
rottenness.
The LIST Asst. P. NJ. Genl. has gathered a
big crop of political scalps in Virginia since
ne has been at work, aud evidently believes
in making Hay while the Sun shines.-NelDs
and Courier.
Miss Amelia Denny, of Wheeling, on Fri
day about to kindle fire with Kerosene
and was burned severely if not fatally; and
Mrs. Martin Prettyman attempted the same
thing with like result.
Secretary Bayard will deliver an address
on Thomas Jefferson at he Kansas State
University at Lawrence next Monday eve-
ming and will afterwards be rendered re-
ception and banquet.
The Attorney General has decided that
the Indian incumbeuts of some of the 10
postofices in Indian Territory are ineligible
as long as their tribal relations to the gov
eminent is preserved.
Hon. J. Randolph Tucker was in Alex
andria last week and qualified before Judge
Keith, of the Circuit Court for this county,
as guardian of the infant children of the
late President Garfield.
The Frisco Catholics presented their re-
firing Archbishop (Alemany) with purse
of $4,000 last week and the clergy of his
diocese gave him $500 His episcopal ten
ure had covered 39 years.
II is estimated that the agricultural lands
of California are capable of supporting A.
800, 900 people, providing the land be di-
vided up into 160-acre farms and allowing
eight persons to each farm.
Major Bob Hunter did not, as once re-
ported. get the place of chief clerk of the
Interior Department, but it is reported has
been appointed chief clerk of accounts IN
the land office Of that department.
Gov. Wilson appointed Felix J. Braxter,
of Braxton county and reappOinted G. ;.
White. of Hampshire, and n. n. Dowry of
Summers. rs fish commissioners for the term
of four years, commencing June 3rd
An old Baltimore city note for 81 issued
under municipal ordinance in May 1887 and
signed by f. Lucas, Jr., commissioner, was
sent to the mayors office from New York
last week and was promptly redeemed.
J.P. Burlington and August Killian, farm
ers, of Writ county, this State, fought each
other desperately last week-the trouble be-
ing that Bufington's COW had broken down
Killian's fence Both died subsequently.
Ayers Sarsaparilla is a highly concentra-
ted extract of Sarsaparilla, and other blood
purifying roots. combined with Iodide of
Potassium and Iron. Its control over scrof-
ulous diseases is unequalled by any other
medicine.
Mrs. \. Steptoe Eldridge of Philadelphia,
formerly of Virginia, has a letter written by
General Washington to his nephew, George
Steptoe Washington, the son OF his brother
Col. Samuel Neutrality-suspicious. lineal de-
scendant the lady is.
DIR. Flint is reported as having said that
many lives are lost by starvation owing TO
an over-estimate of the nutritive value OF
beef tea and meat juices. In typhus and
typhoid fevers, he says, there is no good sub
stitute for milk and eggs.
A New Yorker writes to his paper asking
fo- cure for a short memory. He says:
find il the hardest work 10 remember the
number of my house or my wite's name. l
also invariably forget, when | owe man
money. exactly where his office is
4 bushel or so of old letters mailed in go
Il 81 were found last week between the
weather boarding and the ceiling of an old
house in Quitman, Ga, which had been
used as postofiice during the war. The
missions were from loved ones at home to
the boys at the front. They were all burned.
In the Southern Presbyterian Assembly
at Houston, Texas, last week R. II. Ray
mond. ID. d. was elected Moderator and Rev.
r. p. Ferris, ID. D., of the st. Louis Pres
byfeyTaB, permanent clerk-vice Rev. DIR.
VIM. Brown who resigns after a 2O-years'
tenure.
A negro man named Townsend Cook who
assaulted and outraged a Mrs. Carrie V.
Knott near Mt. Airey, Maryland, on Satur-
day afternoon last and was lodged in the
Westminster jail on Sunday, was taken there
from on Tuesday morning 10y masked men
and hanged.
A petty scandal having been set aAoat
concerning him, the pastor of the African
Methodist church in Des MOines, Iowa, en-
tered upon an explanation of his connection
with the affair to his congregation on Sun
dav from his pulpit. He was greatly excit-
ed. and in the course Of his remarks dropped
dead.
During the Presidential campaign in
Maine last wear one of the Republican
stumpers was Col Jacob Kemple, of West
Virginia. He met Miss Nellie +. Goodwin,
one of the Bellies of Pennington, and, as the
result, they were married Tuesday evening
by Camp Meeting John Allen.-Boston
Traveller.
Capt. B. f. Bradley, Riverton, Nd, says
| in the year 1884 he used PowelPs Prepared
Chemicals on corn, and think it is the best
and cheapest fertilizer on the market The
price of Powell's Prepared Chemicals Is only
$500 per bbl-a sufficient quantity to make
one half ton complete fertilizer. Brown
Chemical Co, manufacturers, Baltimore
Nd.
The Batimcrcm says: John III. little,
ESQ. for many years editor and proprietor
of the Shepherdstown W. Va Register
! has been elected Lord Mayor of that -four
ishing city. Shepherdstown is said to con
tain more handsome women to the square
inch than any other corporation in the world
One of these long since captured our friend
little.
\ Silver City special says The bodies O
Col. Phillips and family, murdered by the