Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-07-09

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A big blue meteor was observed last We'd
nesday A. NJ. in the southwest heavens at
Wheeling
I'M. Heiskell of Nd has been reinstated
as an examiner in the Department of Justice
at s. a day.
Jas. Tenner Tor Jerome) Lee of Md.-late
OF the State Senate-is made legation secre-
tary at Vienna
Mr.. A. PAUL, of Bridgewater, Va, an un-
Gle of Judge Paul, of the U. 5. District Court,
is dead-aged II.
Lee Camp, Confederate Vets. of Rich
mond spent the 4th with the Union Vets.
at Auburn, \. Y.
Prof Tyndall of London has given the
Pennsylvania University Sl0,S0O to found a
fellowship in physics.
Hiram Dixon, of Staten Island, n. Y, the
organizer with Alvin Adams of Adams Elk
press Co, is dead-aged IS.
Jas. Council, of Rockville Nd, is dead
aged o. lie was prominent Methodist,
aud had been blind twenty years.
The wife of r. T. Gill of Baltimore lost
$4,000 in Jewels and 800 cash in Philadel-
phia while en- route to Atlantic City.
Ii has been decided that if Austria refuses
to recognize Mr.. Kelley as Minister the L.
5. will remain unrepresented ut Vienna.
The capture of Philadelphia by the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad Is handsome VIC
tory neatly won Washington Republican.
Thomas Tenant, an itinerant Methodist
preacher. of Vineyard township, Ark, Is the
oldest minister and one of the oldest men
living. He is ia.
DIR. p. f. Pencils family at Buckhan-
non W. Va. were made i'll last week by ar
senic in the coffee. 1t was thought Mrs.
Pennell would die.
The st. Louis officers sent out to Auck-
land New Zealand, for Maxwell, the muir
derer of Preller, have got hold Of this man
and viii sail home on the 2lst.
There is no foundation to the story which
has been circulated announcing the early
marriage of Mr.. Walker Blaine to West
Virginia BELLE Washington Star
The clerk of the House says there will be
fewer contested seats in the next Congress
than there has been in forty years. Not
more than four and perhaps but three.
A 3-foot- round time ball is now dropped
daily at noon from a 35-foot iron flag pole
ON the Navy Department east front at Wash
ington-in place Of the Observatory ball
Mrs. Fanny Peyton Davis, of Canton,
Miss. q native of Loudoun and since 70
the divorced wife of Gen. Jas. r. Davis,
nephew of Jefferson Davis, is dead aged 40.
DrJS. Joaes. druggist, of the Navy Yard
section. Washington, died yesterday week.
He moved to the Capital from Martinsburg
before the war His wife died some years
ago.
Judge Lambert Tree, a rich Illinois law
yer, who ran against Logan for the l: ).
Senatorship, is appointed Minister to Belgi-
UNI. His father was p. O. Dept. official
for 10 years.
Civil service: q" 1t is the child of the re.
publican party, but unfortunately has been
put out to nurse with Il stranger, and, If not
dead now. looks sick unto death.-John 4.
Logan ot Boston lust lceek.
Rev Father Stonestreet died at Worces-
ter. Mass, last Saturday aged II. He was
formerly President Georgetown I'd. c. Col
lege aud sometime provincial Of the Jesults
in Maryland-where he was born.
Misses Sue Hunter and Mamie Doll, of
Nartinsburg, were bridesmaids at the mar
riage at Falls Church, Virginia, on Tues
day week of Rev. w. w. Jordan (Congre-
gationalistl and Miss Eliza r. Vroom, for
merly of Martinsburg.
The free use of sulphuric acid lemonade
is declared to be excellent for preventing,
or arrcstiRg, cholera. Mix 20 drops of the
dilute sulphuric acid with ounces of
water and sweeten with W hite sugar. Lem
ons may be added if wanted. Cit this o@
VIM. r. Robertson, late Collector of the
Port of New York, was the only republican
incumbent except Gen. Arthur, who had
served full term of four years since the
late Augustus Schell, the last previous dem
ocratic Collector, vacated the office in March,
1861.
The best record made last week. at the
Baltimore whipping post Is twenty lashes in
twenty seconds. The victim was, of course,
wife-thrasher. Husband thrashing is not
a misdemeanor in Maryland, hence the gen
orally good department of married men in
that state.
To most children the bare suggestion of
dose of castor oil is nauseating. Why not,
then. when physic is necessary for the little
ones, use Ayers Cathartic Pills? They COM
bine every essential and valuable principle
of a cathartic medicine, and being sugarcOat-
ed are easily taken.
The son, daughter and sOn-in-law of
Joshua Sellman, aged IS, rich Westmin-
ster Nd farmer and first cousin of the
CAROLS of CarrOllton, are seeking to have
him declared insane. Sellman last year
married his second wife, girl of 20 and has
been giving her his property.
DR.. John H. Hunter has been appointed
by the Governor one Of the trustees of the
Berkeley Springs in the place of W. IL.
Trayers, Esq, of Jefferson county, who re-
signed in favor of DR.. Hunter. The board
is to be congratulated upon having so wor-
thy an associate.-lorgm Mercury.
John r. Gillian, Esq, New Store, Va.
saws he used two tons of POwelPs Prepared
Chemicals on %, 600 tobacco hills, and made
the best crop of tobacco he has made for
wears. This is the usual result with those
who use this valuable, but economical tertll-
izer material, which costs only S. per bbl.
of 26O lbs, which is sufficient quantity to
make one-half ton of complete fertilizer.
Address Brown Chemical Co, manufacturers,
Baltimore, Nd
.KE.FRREER