Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-10-15
HERE AND THERE.


Messrs. Allen, Berry and Catchings, rep.
reseniatives-elect from Mississippi, were
Confed privates.
The Richmond city council has Invited
the President aud Cabinet to the State Fair
opening on the 22nd inst.
Jno. W. Bartlett, a cattle dealer cf Web
ster county, was killed by the carr st the
stock yards in Philadelphia
Prominent Alabamans have formed An
association at Montgomery to build Con-
federate soldiers monument there.
Entries for the big horse show in New
York Nov. 81 are coming la from all parts
of the country. The prize. are very valua-
bic
One of the curious freaks OF the tornado
which leveled Washington Court House,
Ohio, was to destroy all the churches and
leave untouched the saloons.
Stonewal Jackson Camp, of Richmond,
has presented Mitchell Camp Grand Army
Repubicl of Atlanta. Ga, with gsvel
made from pillar in old Libby prison.
Mr.. Julio r. Santos has gone back TO Ec-
uador to get up necessary evidence to sub
stantiatc his claim against that country for
imprisonment lie returns in January.
The Virginia Democratic Association at
Washington have elected General Lee and
Messrs c. T. O'Ferrall, J. w. Daniel, Thos.
Croxton and Others to honorary membership.
Gen E. f. Jones, of Binghampton, who
takes second place on the Democratic ticket
in New York was Colonel of the 9th Mass.
Regt. which was attacked in Baltimore in
1861.
DIR. John ID. Pitts, of Accomsc, Va, has.
on a second trial. been given five years for
killing Dr. Littleton T. Walker year ago
on Fauquier Island. He first got eighteen
years.
Hon. +. IIassaurek. editor of the Cinc:
natl Voiksblqtt, is dead He was minister
to South America under | incoln and wrote
a popular novel called The Heart Of the
Andes"
A German work, The Natural History Of
the Women of Berlin, has just been issued,
printed in dark blue ink ON pale green pa
per. The method is said to be beneficial 10
the eyes.
The Lancet says that DR.. Keith's recent
visit to America TO perform a surgical oper-
alton is the first instance since l776 Of an
American summonng medical aid from the
old country.
The largest Presbyterian Synod is that Of
Pennsylvania with lag, l46 communicants.
New York comes next with l39,04s; then
Ohio, II ,O39; New Jersey, 1880 and Illi-
nois, 46, 800
Oliver H. p Belmont, son Of August Bel
mont and brother of Perry Belmont, the
Congressman, has been divorced from his
young wife whom he married in New York
December q, 's2.
The venerable but still beautiful widow
of President Jas. X. Polk lives at the old
homestead near Nashville with her niece,
Miss Sadie Polk Falk-the belle at White
Sulphur the past season.
Jos. Hedrick, native Of Washington
county, Md, but a resident Of the National
Capitol since ~, is dead, aged seven y-one.
He was grain dealer and latterly route
a0o,t cor tho Pal,;mora N,fo
DIR. J. Chapman, an eminent Paris spec.
ialist, says he has cured 81 out of 80 cholers
patients simply by applying ice to the spine
10 reduce the superabundance Of blood in
the spinal aud sympathetic nerves.
Gen. Mahone's present embarrassment,
in view of the appeals that are made TO
him by his strikers for money for campaign
purposes, affords pretty clear evidence Of
the character Of his methods in the past.
Brick Pomeroy says in the exchange, in
New York City, on Tuesday, when it was
announced that gentleman from Texas
was visitor, a silence 30 sudden fell upon
the place that the big clock actually stop
ped.
Mr.. Jesse b. Martin, Of Pennington. Ma
rion county,-father Of Hon. Is. r. Martin
aged - year, died of paralysi. Of the
heart on Saturday. he arose at 7 o'clock
in his usual health and died II s-one hour
later.
-Rcpresentaiiye r. J. Haldeman Of
Pennsylvania j. Head aged 81 he va. an
atlache Of our legation at Paris under Ma
son, served on the -, Petersburg embassy
and in 'j7-'Gl va. editor Of the Harrisburg
Pgfriof and Jnioa
jas DodsOn, the Richmond hotel clerk,
whose testimony helped 20 convict Cuveriu-
the murderer Of Lillian Madison. IL dead
Cluverius Was to hang Nov. 24th, but .en-
tence will likely be staid As his appeal for
new trial cannot well be reached before
January.
The Earl Of Shaltesbury, who died last
Thursday, presided at the meeting in Eng
land which DR., Hoge addressed during the
war in behalf Of the Bible Society. A 4
result Of the address DIR. Hoge raised $40
900 with which to purchase Bibles for Con-
federate soldiers