Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-08-20
NEWSY NOTES.

Inc ponce Censusj Coui plcttu Aast wen
gives Baltimore a total voting population OF
S3,344.
Saturday will be the thirty-seventh ami
anniyc,ar AIRY of the annexation of New
DIR. Lewis W. Miner of Norfolk. son of the
distinguished Confederate surgeon, Is dead,
aged SS.
The Democratic State Central Committee
of Virginia has its campaign headquarters
at Alexandria.
y men were killed at the West End coal
mines at MOcanague, Is miles from Wilkes
barre, Pa, last week
The Ohio branch Grand Army of the Re
public have bought Grants birthplace at
Point Pleasant, Ohio.
Col. Z. f. Hoge of the Atlanta Journal
and Daniel Mcpherson, the Jersey Senator's
father, died last week.
More than two. thirds of the 80 persons
executed in the United States last year met
their death by lynch law.
Prof. Joseph Salyards, an eminent educa-
tor, died at his home in New Market Nir-
ginia, last week-aged IS.
Gen. Jno. A. Logan went to the Luray
Caverns last week He found that the South
wasn't solid Whereabouts.
Chas. Wright of Weathersville, Conn, a
leading botanist after whom many plants
are named, is dead-aged "A.
Nearly a million deaf mutes in the world
There are 397 institutions for their educa-
tion-9S in the United States.
The New York lEorids Bartholdi statue
pedestal fund has reached the sum of SlO2,-
600, from 10000 contributors.
Mr.. A. A. Haw, of Upper Sandusky, Ohio,
claims to have the original of Gen. Lees
last order issued April Is, 90.
The money taken into New York by those
who went to witness the Grant funeral is
estimated at ten million dollars.
Fitzhugh Lee opened the Virginia cam
paign last Monday. His appointments are
mostly in the Southwest counties.
Gen. Turner, ex District Judge of Vir-
ginia and late chief justice Nevada supreme
court sucided at Frisco last week
Lloyd Dorsey's barn and entire wheat
crop in Anne Arundel county, Nd, were
destroyed by lightning last Thursday.
The St. James Gazette claims that no one
at the North, Lincoln excepted, could COM
pare with Lee Jackson and Beauregard.
Joseph Slaughter has been appointed post
master at North Mountain and Mrs. NJ. +.
Poisal at Hedgesville, Berkeley county.
The expenses of the four companies of
Virginans to the Grant funeral are about
$500 and the bill will be paid by the State.
Montgomery Ala. capitalists are making
a manufacturing city out Of the town of
Calera 20 miles north of the former place.
The Littletown pa Era, published by
A. :. Gouldin recently of the Martinsburg
Herald, was lately destroyed by fire. Insured.
A. 5. Abel, Esq, proprietor of the Balti-
more SIN celebrated his 18th birthday on
the 10th instant. We offer tardy congratu-
lations to our honored friend and contem-
porary.
The short hand writers of the L. 5. and
Canada are holding their 9TH annual con-
greSs at Buffalo this week-to-day and to-
morrow
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, of England.
and Mrs. Amy Augusta Jackson Lawford,
an American lady, were married in London
last Saturday
Miles Kennel, aged, 16, of Cabell county,
this State, was killed last week by the Daw-
son brothers, whose l0-year-old sister Rem
nell had assaulted.
Mr.. Henry Saunders, of Ashland, Va,
probable the biggest man in the State, fell
from his buggy last week breaking his neck.
He weighed 400 lbs.
Col Alex. Thompson, aged Is, an old cit
izen of Hanover county, Va, and at one
time its Sheriff died last week at Providence
hospital, Washington.
Yesterday was the second anniversary of
the death of Judge Jeremiah ). Black and
last Sunday Senator Hill of Georgia had
been dead three years.
Rev H. L. Singleton Presbyterian of
Baltimore thinks Senator German the
strongest man in the Democratic party and
his nomination for the Presidency in 'SS
would not surprise the clergyman.
The L. 5. steamer Swatara is ordered to
New Orleans to bring five millions in silver
from the sub-treasury there to New York
The Yantic will go along as a guard.
1t is announced that Miss Cleveland's
book is already in Its twelfth edition. The
Emperor of Russia, it is said, has written
10 Miss Cleveland, asking that the book be
translated into the Russian language.
Margaret Kealey, a young domestic, lately
from Ireland, died Wednesday of last week
on the farm of Edward p Hunt, near Cam
den \. j., with symptoms of cholera.
Wesley Grove Camp M. f. South at
Dorsey's on the B. & O. Washington Branch
closed a 2-weeks' session last Thursday.
There were $50 tents and 40 conversions.
The Ottawa government has refused to &C O..
cept Jas. Whalen of Buffalo as consul at
Fort Erie on the Canada border because he
was active in the Fenian invasion of 1866.
A new church M. f. South was dedi-
Gated at Markham, Fauquier county, Va,
last Sunday by Rev. DR.. :. X. Cox who
Will also dedicate one at Dumfries, Va
Sunday after next-Aug. 80.
The Farmers Assembly of Virgininia
met in the Hall of the House of Delegates
Richmond, last week. Forty-two counties
were represented. Major III. L. ID. Lewis,
OF Clarke county was made permanent
chairman.
Mrs. Mary Barefoot, aged uinety-three
Ill 10