Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-06-18

We are glad to know that our old frlent
Mai. A. B. Stuart, now in his eighty-nintl
year. is able to go about. On Monday las
he rode on horseback from Swoope's Station
to his old home, distance of % miles
Lexington { Va Gazette.
Acute rheumatism is an inflammation o.
the Joints, marked by pain, heat, redness
and a tendency to suddenly shift from one
Joint to another. With these symptoms ap-
ply Salvation Oil, the great pain cure, tC
the affected parts without delay. Price q
cents bottle.
Mrs. Emily II. Tubman, OF Augusta, Ga,
is dead-aged 81. She was native of Vir-
ginia but went to Georgia in 1918 from Ken
| lucky where she was the ward and personal
| friend of Henry Clay. She had given much
money to charity and helped to maintain
the colleges of the Christian or Campbellite
church in West Virginia and through the
West.
The need of merit for promoting person
sonal aesthetics is due to j. {. Aver 4 Co.,
whose Incompatible Hair Vigor is uni
yersal beautifer of the hair. Harmless, eff
fective, agreeable, it has taken rank among
the indispensable articles of the toilet. To
scanty locks it gives luxuriance and with
cred hair it clothes with the hue of youth.
The real name of Maxwell, the murderer
of Arthur Preller the English drummer
at the Southern Hotel in st. Louis months
ago, is Hugh NJ. Brooks. His father is a
| HYDE Eng school teacher and Brooks fled
to this country after forging the old mans
name to cheque. st. Louis officers are
now en- route to Auckland, New Zealand to
bring him back.
L.G. Dennis of Gainesville, Fla, the
Massachusetts carpet Dagger who made
Hayes President by planning the Archer pre-
cinct frauds which gave the republicans
209 more votes than were cast, died drunk
ard last week aged to. Dennis was after
wards offered an insignificant revenue APP
pointment in Ohio for thus stealing a state,
but he Indignantly declined it.
Gen. Grants war tokens and the gifts
made to him on his European tour have
been received at the war Department and
| will be placed on permanent exhibition. ~
mong them, as listed, we note: A gold mod
ell of the table in McLean's house at APP
pommattox on which Gen. Lee signed the
articles of urrender-presented by eX-Con-
feds, and an iron headed cane made from
the Rebel ram Merrimac.
DIR. Geo w. Blake, aged II, of Lower
Salem, Washington county, Ohio, died there
yesterday week of blood poisoning con-
tracted in a surgical case. He was Of Ma
ryland birth and prior to SO lived at the
national capital. where he was Il printer on
the Star and student at the Georgetown
Medical College The President recently
appointed him surgical examiner of The
Pension Bureau He leaves widow--a
Hagerstown lady-and , children.
Mr. Simon b. Buckuer, of Kentucky, and
Miss Della Claiborne, daughter Of Maj. Jno.
II. Claiborne, of Richmond were married
yesterday week Gen. Buckner IS remem-
bered as a gallant Confederate officer, while
his bride has been one of Richmond's lead
ing bellies. She is Il lineal descendant on
both sides of the Washington and Gusts
families Miss G, visited Mordington,"
in this town Il summer or two ago, and Gen.
Buckner was here, also, at that time.