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


ieriy is dead.
John r. Niernsee, a leading Baltimore
architect, is dead.
Robert E. S. Niche, of Virginia, gradua-
ted at West Point.
Cholera is spreading in Spain and has got
a foot hold in Madrid.
Saml NJ. Graham is appointed U. S. Mar
shall for the western district of Virginia.
Yesterday was the 10th anniversary Of
the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Six prisoners escaped from the Fayette
county Jail yesterday week.
Mr.. James Boyle, member of the Balti-
more City School Board, is dead.
John P. Robinson has been appointed
customs collector at Alexandria, Va.
Lloyd Reed is appointed Postmaster at
Clarksburg, vice w. f. Richards, suspended.
Col. q. c. Goodrich, of Brunswick county,
a venerable Nirginian of great wealth, died
last week
Next Monday it will have been four years
since the Egyptian obelisk was placed in
New York.
The Master Car Builders Association
met at Fortress Monroe in 10th annual con-
yention Tuesday week.
Jas. p. Wilson of Loudoun and Katie V.
Middleton took out a marriage license in
Washington last week
The Indian department ofthe Information
al Interiors Exhibition at London was blot
ted out by fire last Friday.
Jno. G. Reguault of Richmond. grand
treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Masons of
Virginia, is dead-aged 20.
4 marriage license was issued in Wash.
ington last week to Henry +. Brande5urg
and Ella p Taylor of Winchester.
The public printer at Washington reports
that Part First, Volume y of the Rebellion
Record $50 called will be ready July LIST.
Fifty three selected stones from those pre-
scented the shaft will be inserted in the in
terror walls of the Washington monument.
Is men were killed and 20 injured by the
cave-in last Thursday of a tunnel on the
Cincinnati Southern X. r.. near New River,
Tenn.
Smiths Union hotel, its stables and adj
Joining dwellings AZ Wo0dsbOro' Frederick
county, Nd, were burned last Friday. Loss
$4,000.
Senator Blair has been nominated by the
Republican members of the New Hampshire
Legislature to succeed himself in the United
State Senate.
For the first time in 20 years Gen. Fitz-
hugh Lee Joined last week in the annual din
ner of the West Point Alumni-comprising
over 100 veterans.
The honorary degree of L. l.. ID. was con-
ferred upon eX-Goy. J. b. Jackson by the
Regents of the West Virginia University at
the late session.
Prof Lyell, of Lexington, was orator at
the memorial exercises at Stanton on Tues
day week when the corner stone of soldiers
monument was placed.
Crop prospects have been greatly i'm
proved by rains in Southeast Virginia and
East Tennessee. Wheat corn, oats, clover
and grass are doing well.
The youngest son OF Chas. B. Beall, dep
uty clerk of the L. S Supreme Court, had
his right leg badly broken by yelocipede
in Washington last week.
Representative Johnnie Wise and
Capt Tazewell Elicit, sou of the new rev.
enue collector at Richmond, got into little
alteration in that city last week.
Jack Huffman of Highland county, Va.
=. g. d.. .,,prflor Of bis
nephew lad who died lately and and whose
eNhumed body shows knife wounds.
Geo. NJ. Sehafer, aged 80, well-known
paper hanger of the First Ward in Wash
ington. was killed on the Metropolitan
Branch, b. Il O. r. r. last Thursday.
Geo. p. Frick, of Baltimore, is dead-aged
SIS. He was a son of the late Judge VIM.
Frick He had been dry goods merchant
and later established several street railways.
Among the Presidents callers last week
were Senator Logan and Mrs Reside, aged
50. of Woodbury., Md The lady had not
been at the White House for half century.
In Washington last FRIDAY n,aniel Car.
rlgan was .e fenced to 6years imprisonment
for presenting false vouchers on the bureau
of medicine and surgery, Navy Department.
Twenty people were crushed to death and
100 injured yesterday week by the fall of a
massive stone staircase in the courthouse at
Thiers, a town in the department of Puy-de-
dome, France.
In the distribution of foreign appoint
ments Virginia has got the Austrian mis-
sion and the Hong Kong consulate, Mary
land the French mission and the Berlin and
Leeds consulates.
The Richmond folks are raising funds to
erect a monument over the grave of Fannie
L. Madison. Her murderer, Cluverius, re-
ceived last Thursday a bouquet from lady
at White Plains, va.
Fearful waterspOutS have destroyed many
lives and much property at Pueblo Cuaranta
and Guanajuata, Mexico. At the latter
place the Singer Sewing Machine Compa-
ny's Office was inundated.
Rev. Father O. Sullivan of St. Peters
church, Capitol Hill, Washington, and some
time ofthe Banesvillea and WestenpOrt Nd. J
pastorates. has been made Bishop of the
Catholic diocese of Mobile, Ala.
The border counties of southwest Virginia
those which suffered heavily last year
from scourge and drought-haye raised but
little grain this season and distress for food
threatens the people Corn is 3 bushel
The Lecsburg UasLmgtyniaa says Mr.
Anthony Dibrell, killed, on Thursday even
/ inc last. on the banks of the Potomac river