Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-10-08
NEWSY NOTES


last Saturday.
The public debt was reduced twelve mil
lion last month.
A recent cyclone in India destroyed five
hundred villages.
Lev :. Fon er is made postmaster at
Chester wn, Md.
Flood Rock in New York bay was blown
up yesterday a. III.
Hog cholera is making serious ravages
aroundabOut Stanton.
Next Monday Gen. R. Z. Lee will have
been dead just 10 years.
The President has declined au invite to
attend the Frederick fair.
To-day is the 10th anniversary of the
death of President Pierce.
Senator VOORHEES, of Indiana will speak
at Leesburg next Monday.
p. NJ. Stomple is appointed postmaster at
Altamont, Garrett county, Md.
The jOth anniversary of the Boston pro-
slavery riot, occurs this month.
Prince Bismark has sent the President
his portrait handsomely framed
BIB. Kercheyal, 81 War Dept clerk, died
in Georgetown, ID. c., last week.
Ex-Repre>cntative Ellis, of Louisiana,
will take the stump for Lee in Virginia.
Richard J. Ashby is appointed postmas-
ter AZ Charleston vice Gibbons, suspended.
Bishop O'Suiliyan ordained nine candi-
dates Tor minor orders al Cumberland last
week.
Danviue, Va, sold S7OlS, 600 lbs. of
leaf tobacco at $3.50 during the year end
ing Sept. 80.
Edwin r. Carlin, leading merchant of
Alexandria, was found dead in bed Saur-
day morning.
A 6ur-story mercantile building in Chi
cago collapsed Yesterday week at night.
No one injured.
W. L. Powell, of Virginia, is appointed
Indian agent at Neah Bay agency, Wash
ngton Territory.
Seventeen men were scalded in Clarke Il
Co.'S iron mill at Pittsburg last Friday.
1 Several have died.
Its late census gives Boston 800 ,4O6 in
habitants-a gain of 27,S7O since 1880
The women predomnate.
F.T. Marsh, of Wilson's Station, Nd,
where he lives with his brother John, at
tempted suicide last week
Canon Farrar, of Westminster Abbey,
spoke last week at Johns Hopkins 10th an
/ nuql Oneuinp I'm Baltimore
Mahoues unruly son was bailed in 5000
at Petersburg last week for helping drunk
T en- companion to resist arrest.
/ An Alexandria county n. c. chicken
/ has yielded up one thousand dollar emer-
ald-embedded in its gizzard.
John Hill, a Randolph county, N. c.
white man Of 65, is born idiot and has
been chained to the floor most of his life.
At Portage, n. Y. last week Prof. Dele
on of Springfield Ohio, walked a 35O-foot
tightrope stretched 200 feet above the Falls
The b. Il o. Telegraph Co. has reorgan
/ lied and an exclusive lOug-term contract
entered into with the United Press Asso'n
The Young daughter of Sheriff Hubbard,
of Kanawha county, died last week from
/ injuries received in a buggy mishap year
ago.
Hon. L. Boyd Faulkner having declined
/ the consul -generalship to Cairo the Presi-
dent ON Saturday appointed John Cardwell
Of Texas.
Near St Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday, by
a railraad accident five men of John Rob
/ inson's circus were killed and thirty or for
/ ty wounded.
1000 musket cartridges were found at
/ Danyille last week in the house lately oc-
cupied by ex-Reyenue Collector Raulston
"a republican.
Revenue Commissioner Miller and APP
poinlment Clerk Hassler Of the Interior
department have returned to Washington
from their West Virginia homes
The Maryland Presbytery of the Southern
PRESBYTERIAN Church has dissolved the pas
/ toral lations between Rev. J. McMurran
aud Mt Washington Church, Baltimore
suburbs
Atlanta adyces indicate that Robert b.
+ Toombs. the old war-horse of the Confed-
eracy, is approaching his end. Paralysis
benumbs the Generals left side and his
mind is wandering.
Messrs. Geo. w. Mcclure. Usher Clabaugh
/ :. VI. Gyle and DIR. H. +. Zolikofer, of the
Baltimore Corn and Flour Exchange died
within three days last week. Thirteen
members have died since January.
A peculiar virtue in Ayers Sarsaparilla
is that while it cleanses and purges the blood
from all corruptions and impurities, and
thereby roots out disease, it builds up and
invigorates the whole system, and makes
one young again.
Rev. Jas. Spilman Petty, local preacher
of the NJ f. Church. South. since about
1925, died last Thursday at Front Royal,
aged 10 He spent much of his life in
Wauenton and Falmouth. but lived at
Washington from 81 TO go He leaves a
widow and three sons there, another son, 4
minister i'm Tennessee and four daughters
at Front Royal.
4 Claysylle Pa. special says; The
aeroite. which caused the loud detonations
throughout Washington and Allegheny
counties on Saturday last, fell upon the
farm of Mr. auckland, in Jefferson town
ship. near the West Virginia line Ellis
Jones, a mail carrier who witnessed the
fiery mass in its flight, says it moved with
incredible velocity, and was as large as
the largest barn he ever saw There APP
pearcd 10 be attached to it an immense