Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-06-25
NEWST NOTES.

Fredericksburg, Va.
The French ship Isere" arrived AZ New
York last week with the Bartholdi Statue.
Tomorrow will be the 9th anniversary /
Of Virginis's adoption of the Constitution.
Alice Sniyely, aged l6, hanged herself at
her home in Waynesboro, Nd, last week.
Ely ;. Prime. u. ;. guager at Baltimore,
was killed last week by fall down stairs
14O lives were lost b. colliery explosion
near Manchester, England, last Thursday.
The viii of Robert Treat Paine of Boston
gives his entire fortune 10 Harvard College.
Robt IL. Graham, Washington carriage
builder, Is dead-aged "a. He was born IN
Thos. II. Hodgsou has been appointed
postmaster at Berkeley Springs, vice J. Ru-
fus Suith, removed
The sons. Frank and Gerald, Of the late
Bishop Parker. of the NJ. E. Church, South,
have been licensed TO preach
Saml Ii. Gatiord, a rich farmer OF Centre
Vile Nd vicinity, committed suicide last
week by drowning. He was 20.
Jno. y. Twiggs, the new mint assayer at
san Francisco, is a son of the General OF
Confederate and Mexican war fame.
Advices from the Southern counties of Nir-
pinia indicate that the crop prospects are
better than they have been for years
Frank Gordon. son of the Georgia senator
Is appointed principal clerk of surveys IN
the general land otice-Interior Depart
ment.
Father James of the Benedictines has
been made Abbott Of the Abbey of Newark,
M. He is the first native born American
Abbott
The MICA of Richmond have bought
a building loo for a, 900 and have had Sll,
600 pledged them towards erecting a club
house.
Mrs. Angelina Simpson daughter Of Capt.
Peter Lenox. one of the original settlers OF
Washington, died in that city last week.
aged S..
Chas. Blackwell Norfolk and Western K.
r. of Roanoke. was a delegate nc the rall-
way master mechanics convenuolln Wash
ington last week
]. IL. Puryear of Dinwiddie, Va, Is jailed
40 Iynchburg for poisoning with strychnlne
his wife. aged 22-the daughter Of Duncan
Webb of Dinwiddie.
Samuel Lautz. of Lautz Mills, Shenan-
doah county, committed suicide last week
by taking poison. Financial emoarrasS-
ment prompted the act.
Roberts. Mcleod and @. B. Samuels, run
aways. aged Is, from Front Royal were re-
turned % their homes last Thursday by the
Washington City police
All. Shipmau. of Rochester, \. Y, has
started ona Years tour of the western rivers
and lakes aboard his yacht, the Laura May,
which he had built At Wheeling.
The L. :. Ship Iroquois has gone to
Guayaquil, Ecuador, to demand the release
of Mr.. Julio r. Santos .of Frederick the
American citizen imprisoned there.
An old man named Schenck of Snow
Mountain. - miles from Wheeling, shot his
elder son dead the other day while trying 20
part him and his brother who were fighting.
Grafton Walker and Mr.. Slate were killed
bv lighting last week miles east of Salt
Vile. Smyth county, Va. Mr.. States little
boy had one tooth knocked out by the shock.
Mr. John W. Birch. of West Virginia, is
appointed Consul at Nagasaki, Japan, and
ex-representative P. NJ. b. Young OF Geor-
gia. Consul General at st. Petersburg.
Jno. r. Mclean. Of the Cincinnati En-
guirer. and VIM Henry Hurlburt have
bought John Helly's organ, the New York
star, and are issuing new daily from It's
Office.
As estimated by the Agriculture Bureau
the wheat average for the past years was
4l2. 255,699 bushels. This years estimates
are 230,779, 600 bushels shortage of ISL
576,699.
DIR. Nicholas L. Dashiell and wife, of
Baltimore, have given st. Bartholomew
Episcopal Church In that city for rectory
the go by 100 foot lot valued at $1,000 next
20 the church.
There Is am end % the iron-workers strike
and the starting mp of the mills has the effect
of q general revival of business in the IRON
working localities I'm Pennsylvania and the
northwest
Col. Jesse 5. Burks, a prominent farmer
of Bedford county. Va, is dead. He was a
brother of Judge Burks of the Appeals
Court and commanded the 42d Virginia In
fantry in the late war.
Another rattle-brained advenMrer has
come To- grief, apparently, In the person OF
" Captain Jack Trainor, who started out
some time ago 90 row across the Atlantic in
q dory, and who Is now given up for lost
Ayers Sarsapariila operates radically up
on and through the blood. and Is a safe, reli-
able and absolute cure for the various dis
ease. complaints, and disorders, due 20 de-
bility, or TO any constitutional faint or in
fiction.
Thec0ngregatiou Of New Providence, Va,
at a late meeting, adopted resolution in
viting the Synod of Virginia 70 hold It's cen
tennia i'm their church in 1SSS. The first
meeting of this body was held at New Prov
ideuce in l7SS.
The Hampshire Rcriorsays the wife of Rev.
Wesley Hammond took. by mistake for
quiuuc mixture, a swallow of aqua ammonia.
Her mouth and throat were badly cauterized,
but it is not thought that she Is injured IN
terually 90 any serious extent.
Samuel L. Graham the new marshal for
the Western district of Virginia. was for
merlv clerk of the Circuit Court of farewell
County aud is no presenta resident of Buc-
hauaan. He was one of the delegates 70
Charleston Convention of 1860.