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lawyer, Is dedu.
The bill Just rendered ior Gen. Grants
funeral is Sl4 1870.
Col. S. J. c. Moore declines a reelection
as Mayor of B rryyille.
Treasury promotion: r. F. J. Allen of
West Virginia to Sl2'D.
Saturday will be the fourth anniversary
of Pre.ilent Garfeld's death.
jacob Depue, Of Virginia, has got 20.
Department promotion 10 81 400.
Seth A. Holton of Nd, a s14OO Treasury
clerk, is discharged-from Sept. 80.
The Army of West Virginia reunion took
place this week al Portsmouth, Ohio.
St Louis second annual exposition open
ed Yesterday week. 1t closes October a.
Madison Folin. formerly of Warrenton,
Va. died in Washington last week, aged H.
The Swatara left New Orleans last Fri
dav with SO. 400. 600 for transfer to New
York
Thos. NJ. Jones. of Virginia, is appointed
Indian agent at ShoshOne Agency in wy
oming.
The late Hon. inc. B. Skinner of Buffalo
left the Presbyterian foreign mission board
$4,000.
f. Douglas, Of Rockingham, was kill
ed last week by the accidental discharge OF
his gun.
Rear Admiral .luo. " Livingstone, and
ex-RepresentatiYe scott Lord, Of New York,
are dead
The Alexandria Va Academy celebrat-
ed the centennial of its cornerstone laying
last week.
4 big hsil storm in the Port Tobacco
| Nd section has PLAYED hagoc with corn
and tobacco.
The Army of the Cumberland and the
1 Sons of Veterans reunion Is now on at Grand
Rapids. Mich
Jim and Pink Ice, the noted Texas des-
peradoes aud cattle thieves, were killed last
week by officers.
There are still public lands open to set
tiers in 10 States and s Territories at from
/ 81, 2j to $3.50 an acre.
OF the 4S.42l fourth class postmasters
there have been 5000 changed so tar-aoout
one-eighth of the whole.
Mr.. Ct. W. Adams, of Marion county,
went 10 the Wheeling Fair and had > 300
picked from his pocket.
Prof Clarke an educator, died at his
home in Baltimore last Thursday, IN the
/ pinatv-6ftb wear of his are
A prominent Petersburg DemocraJstates
that many white Republicans there are
working hard for Gen. Lee.
IF. Davis, of Portsmouth, Ohio, sold in
one wear fourteen thousand boxes Of " Sell
lers' Liver Pills" Try them.
Coal miners from West Virginia, Penn
sylvauia and the west met at Indianapolis
last week to discuss labor interests.
Near Somerville, in Orange. the other
day, the son of Adolphus Canaday, acci-
dentally killed his 5-year-old sister with a
towling-piece.
Louis Mem. Mutton, of Virginia, has
passed the examination for a naval cadet
ship. He Is a son Of Capt. JOS. \. Mutton,
OF Winchester.
Father James Clarke, professor of math-
ematics at Georgetown College, is dead,
aged 76 He graduated from West Point
with Robt. Z. Lee.
VIM. Ducher, of Brooklyn, has got a
thousand dollars prize and decoration from
the Empress of Germany for the best design
for a portable field couch
\ Captain and Lieutenant of the Saliva
ton Army are holding services in Hagers-
town. Both these officers are women, Agile
Bush aud Sarah Morehser.
The Sarah Zane and Friendship Fire
Companies of Winchester are on a visit to
Harrisburg, Pa. They will be guests of the
Citizens Company of that city.
Ell. Rauch, editor of the Mauch Chunk
Democrat, has in his possession the first screw
auger ever made His grandfather was the
inyentorand maker-AHentOpn PENN Reg
ister
A newly discovered Natural Bridge on
the Atlantic and Pacific R. r. 20 miles
north of the New Mexico-Arizona bound ry
spans a canyon 30 feet deep, 50 long and 10
wide
Official records show that Mr.. Herbert
Fay of Columbus, Ohio, was the youngest
Federal volunteer soldier in the war. His
age at enlistment was - years, II months,
and 9 days.
The annual convention of the Maryland,
Virginia and West Virginia Bee Keepers
will be held in the Court house in Hagers-
town. on Wednesday, October Dist, during
the agricultural exhibition.
A cyclone Tuesday week struck Wash
ington Court House, a town of 1000
inhabitants - miles west Of Cleveland,
Ohio. 400 buildings were wrecked and
many people killed and injured.
The Harrison Democrat says the corn in
that section has been kept growing and grow
ing bv the recent rains until the average
stalk is about 90 feet high. This may do as
the day for snake stories has passed.
The indelatigable Methodist " church-ex-
tender" Chaplain c. c. McC9be, who set
out TO raise one million dollars for mission
work this year, nov announces that he has
$4,000 Of it positively in sight"
The we'll soaked celery specific for rheu
matism conveniently appears again as the
cool weather draws nigh. Germans make
a soup OF the stalks or drink the water IN
which cut-up celery has been boiled
Miss Anne Upshur Jones who died in
New York last week, aged 90, left her en-