Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-11-05
GATHERED HERE AND THERE.

Rev. Dr. Curry, Minister to Madrid will
sail November 5th.
Thirteen men were lost in big gale on
Lake Superior last week.
Malcolm Hay, of Pittsburs, lst Assistant
/ Postmaster General, is dead.
Mrs. Colonel VIM. Preston Johnston died
at Lexington, Monday week.
Edwin Booths mother was buried in Bal
timore last week. She was S.
A Pittsburg girl swallowed her only dia- /
mond in a plate of soup the other day.
Jno. W. Nixon has been acquitted of
forging the viii of David Hizou at Lees
burg
Rome adviees indicate that Archbishop /
I Gibbons. Of Baltimore, viii be created Car /
diuaL
The Richmond soldier boys entertained /
Seward Post q. A. r., of Auburn, n. y
last week
Rev. 5. Scoliay Moore Episcopal of
Herudou, Va. is called to Ashland, near
Richmond.
The Government is suing eN-Agricuitural /
Commissioner Loring To recover 100000 .
mi,appliel bureau funds.
Consul Webster at Sheffield, Eng, has
bought Tor sl00.he gold mounted pen-kniie
ne gave Gen. Grant in 1877.
Ia its waning days let Us not deny the
hustle a vindication sewing girl in Chi
cago totei BIER savings therein.
Jas. w. Coy, of Warreuton, and Eliza c.
Ward. OF Clarke county, took ont a mar
riage license ia Washington last week.
Rev. John f. Bushnell of the Roanoke
+ Lutheran church and Miss Annie TerriI, of
Salem. Va, were married their recently.
Heath Conrad, aged Is, second son of T.
W. Conrad accidentally shot himself while
cunning near B'acksburg, Va, last week.
The two daughters Of ex-"Boss" Shep.
herd. of Washington, were married there
last Thursday 20 Edw Quintard, of New
York, and Walter Brodie
5. j. Campbelrs gray PAGER, Fritz, valued
at $4,000. dropped dead on New York
race track last week lie ran a mile at
Cleveland IN August 81 in 2.1S.
Out of goo white voters i'm Danville but
one white man viii admit an intention to
vote for Wise for Governor. This admit
one" should be for q reserved seat.
A young man who went from Ohio to
attend the Winchester Fair aud operate a
Wheel of Fortune, died of pulmonary dis
ease a few days AGO In Winchester.
Two thousand feet of the Boundary-st.
sewer i'm North Washington is - feet in d.
ameter and a connecting section of five
thousand feet is 20 feet b * o. palace
train might run through it easily.
The river division of the Ohio Central
Railroad, extending from Corning, Ohio to
Charleston, West Virginia was sold yester-
day to the trustees for the boudholders for
5000 o0o- Washington Critic, last Friday
A 2l-year old Jersey matron Joined last
week the small army of fminine clippers
whose companions in guilt have been hand
some roller skatists She left two young
children and husband-to sympathize with
the other fellow.
Minor Bolts, eldest son of b. B. Bolts and
grandson of Hon. John F Lewis, died of
typhoid fever In Harrisouburg, Sunday
morning week, aged Is wears. and his sister
aged about II years, is lying critically IN Of
the same disease
The Page Courier SAYS 1t is rumored
that the Iron Company of Mines will re-
sumo operations next Monday, having Sc
cured means to meet promptly its current
. expenses. Hon William Mines. as here
totore. viii have charge Of its business man
agemeut
Abingdon T7rqniqa. We are glad to
state that Judge Wards physicians report
him as doing we'll lie will soon be upon
. our streets again" That the Judge will be
able 70 vote again win be severe blow to
. his would-bo assassins
Daniel Anderson. q colored man. has been
arrested and confessed that he killed Mr..
Lakewood. of Neirs county. Ohio, in Ma
son county, this state. several weeks ago.
The body of the murdered man was robbed
of $500 When found he was hanging to a
tree with his hands tied
Thomas A. Galloway, Esq, aged seventy
f one years. died suddenly of heart disease at
his residence I'm Fetterman on Friday He
was born at Baltimore in 1914 and was ed
ucated az Emmettsburg He was a class
mate of Dom Pedro. Emperor of Brazil, and
the late Bishop Whalen, of Wheeling
Tn the Virginia synod, az Lynchburg. on
Friday night, the complaint of Rev. $. p.
Ramsay against the Abingdon Presbytery
was decided The first specification was
that thepresbyter has done complainant
personal wrong i'm condemniug him with
out trial, and Oh this point the vote stood
. for sustaining the complaint, four; for not
sustaining IT, one hundred and sixteen
On the charge that the action of be presby-