Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-05-14

summers county, W. Va, died last week
from the effects of a wound inflicted on him
self last fall in IN attempt to suicide.
Mr.. J. Parker Veazey, lawyer Of 80, and
sometime president board of aldermen ana
later city solicitor, is appointed postmaster
al Baltimore vice AdTean-term expired.
On TUESDAY of last week, Miss Maggie
OFT Of Harrisonburg, had fall in the ska
ting rink ofthat place and ruptured blood
vessel. and is still in a precarious condition.
The F5irmoaf Iader announces. the death
of Mr. Andrew Fleming of that vicinity
in the SSrd year of his age. Two brothers
survive aged respectively 81 and " years.
The Stuart Horse Guards of Richmond
have presented beautiful gold medallion
To J. f. B. Stuarts daughter in return for
the silk banner she recently gave the COM
maud.
A wind storm wrecked the boiler house
on the exposition grounds at New Orleans
Yesterday week and the electric lights were
thereby extinguished and the machinery
stopped.
DIR. Clendenin, the eminent Cincinnati
physician who as surgeon served, during
the war. ia Rosecrans', Fremonts and Sic
gels commands IN West Virginia, is dead
aged 56
Mrs. John Teuch of Prince George
county, Nd died on the 9th after fasting
and keeping silence over two months. From
24O pounds she had shrunk to weight Of
only -.
A piece OF land IA feet front by $40 feet
deep sold in Greenville, s c. last week for
- 9O0-and there was house on it too !
Real estate couldn't so much lower than
that anywhere.
The trial of T. j. Cluyerius, the young
lawyer of King aud Queen county, Va, for
numbering Fannie L. Madison, governeSs,
of King William, at Richmond March IL,
is progressing at that city.
Briudly Richards, who had made the songs
of Wales known and welcome in almost
every part Of the civilized world, Is dead.
His " God Bless the Prince of Wales" is
national hymn in England.
The President received from New York
last Thursday the new 3-glaSs landau car
riagc ordered by him. His lately purchased
team of mahogany bavs with their rubber
covered harness are driven to It,
The American Fishermen Society held
It's annual convention in Washington last
week At the election of officers of the So
ciety for The ensuing year Col Marshall
Mcdonald was elected President.
Mr.. Holbrook Rion of Winnsboro', 5. c.,
and Miss Helen rrv, daughter of Taylor
Berry, Esq, were married April 26 at Am
kcr,t Courthouse Va. Mr.. Berry is a son
of the late Henry Berry of ShepherdstOwn.
DR.. John Z. W. Thompson coloredl of
New York, appointed minister to Hayti. is
a medical graduate of Yale-whoSe entire
faculty recommended his selection. He
speaks French-the language used in Hayti.
At Pittsburg last Sunday week a brewery
collapsed under the pressure Of the ten thou
sand five hundred barrels of beer stored on
the upper floors, literally flooding the streets
of the city with beer and filling the air with
IDS odof
Salvation Oil is an infallible cure for
headache. backache. pain in the side and
limbs, aud all rheumatic and neuralgia af-
fections. II relieves pain and extirpates
the q sel>e that C. uses it. Price twenty-five
cents bottle.
While Gen. Sheridan and his wife, were
out driving on Monday at Los Angeles, Cal
ii0rnia, their horses ran away. The carriage
was upset and both were thrown out but al
though considerably shaken up they were
NOT seriously injured.
By placing the heel of one boot against
the toe of the other To- remove his boot, the
clerk of the Supreme Court of New York
bruised his leg Ths bruise developed into
cancer and resulted i'm his death. \ boot
Jack wonld have saved his life.
The Governor OF Georgia has contracted
with New York parties for the sale of the
pending issue OF Georgia bonds, amounting
10 % 4j5 600 bonds. bearing 4 3 per cent. in
tpr,st. and To run for thirty years. The
price paid was 5-l6 per cent. above par.
The widow of Commodore Vanderbilt
died lastwcek She was a Southern woman
and through her influence Vanderbilt Uni.
versity was founded. She was generous in
her contributions TO the NJ. +. Church,
South Bishop McTyeire attended her iu-
neral
VIM. Lennox Maxwell, the young English
man who killed his compatriot Preller az
st. Loui, hotel April and after robb;ng
the body packed it in a trunk and took the
first train next day for Frisco, has been
captured at Auckland. New Zealand, and Is
there held for gequisitiou.
The Baltimore Sun SAYS that Davis Bros.
will shortly open up their eleven foot coal
vein in Tucker County, about 57l miles
I from Piedmont aud two and a half miles
from Elk Garden. Davis Bros. Own Il, 900
acres OF coal land in the vicinity, all Of
which is supposed TO be underlaid by the
/ big vein
Thursday evening Elite knapp. of a re-
/ spectacle country family, young, Intelligent
and prepoSsessing, was found dead IN her
room at the Virginia Hotel in Stanton.
/ Near the bed were a bottle of chlorotorm
and paper containing awhitish powder.
/ Letters were found showing that she dellb-
erately committed suicide.
Many ladies admire gray hair--on some
other person. But few care to try It's effect
ON their own charms Nor need they, since
/ Ayers Hair Nigor prevents the hair from
turning gray, and restores gray hair TO its
original color. II clearSeS the scalp pre-
vents the formation OF dandrutf, and won
derlully stimulates the growth OF the hair.
The wife of DR.. J. E. Meiere appointed
consul nj NagaSaki, Japan, has got divorce
from MIN at Cent-evile, Md, on the ground
ofcruelty. They had lived apart some years
the Doctor at Leadyille, Col. Ms.
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