Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-05-28
NEWSY NOTES.
jay Gould was 40 yesterday.


Saturday will be the national " Decoration
Day"
The Herald says the Malone men IN VIZ
GINA will go July LIST.
Vice President Hendricks is to address the
Yale graduating class.
Baltimore's Confederate bazaar realized,
they now say, SlS,5OO-
David Wilson of Baltimore was killed on
the Potomac r. R. last week.
Andrew L. Elicit is appointed revenue
collector Cd Virginia district
The revised Old Testament was put on
sale in the big cities last Thursday.
Judge Henry c. Allen is appointed U. ;.
Attorney for the western district OF Virginia
Cut worms are reported as playing havoc
with all kinds Of crops in Tennessee.
A new Southern Methodist Church was
dedicated at Gaithersburg last Sunday
The French shipIsere, with the Bartholdi
statue sailed from BOuen last Thursday.
Baltimore has lately dedicated an Aged
Germans Home on the western suburbs,
The Home for Disabled exCOnfederateS
in Richmond was dedicated yesterday week.
Mrs Pauline Hood suicided in Baltimore
last week. She had lately inherited money.
Maud ;. had her portrait painted last
week for Mr.. Vanderbilt, her former owner.
The New Orleans exposition will close on
Sunday. It's to be reOpened in November.
Gen. Geo. B. Mcclellan and his wife eel
ebrsted their silver wedding IN New YORK
last Friday.
The postofice, Nliller's storehouse, gEo-
Gerry and bakery were burned at Romeo
vert, last week.
Fifteenmiilion feet of lumber were burned
last week at Oscoda, Mich. Losses not far
from 100000.
The railroads entering New Orleans are
subscribing funds to help reopen the expo
sition next year.
Eighty-eight removals and appointments
of fourth class pOstmasters in Virginia were
announced Monday.
4 street preacher in one of the Southern
cities said the other day that dancing was
hugging set to music.
Bishop A. W. Wilson preached the COM
mencement sermon Of Vanderbilt University
at Nashville last Sunday.
Thepigeon race between Liberty, Va, and
Newark, y. J.-372 miles air line-was won
by Mr.. Bond Of Newark.
Seven sea lions have srrivedin Baltimore
from San Francisco-the gift Of Mr.. Robert
Garrett TO Druid Hill Park.
Ayers Sarsaparilla hiss such concentrated,
curative power, that it is by far the best,
cheapest, and surest bloOd-purifer known.
The Stonewan Fire Engine Company Of
Chester, ). c., have been invited TO Miss
Jackson's wedding at Richmond next Tues
day.
Mrs. Emily Beale, mother Of Gen. +. F.
Beale of Washington, is dead-aged 81. She
was the last Of Commodore Truxton's daugh-
tiers.
Samuel Whisner, Esq, of Great Cacapon,
met with a severe loss of sheep last week.
Some dogs got among them and killed y or
thirty.
Mr.. John McClelland Of Washington IS
dead-aged 90 He was a machinest and
CONSTRUCTED the iron roofs on the Patent
Office.
Luther A. Brown, Of w. Va, graduated
in dentistry at the National University
medical commencement in Washington last
Thursday.
An insane man named Nuzum made q
deadly assault on Mayor Geo. W. Brown OF
Grafton last week. The Mayors hurts are
not serious.
The dynamiters Cunningham and Burton,
who caused the explosions at the Tower OF
London awhile ago, have been convicted
and given life sentences.
Hon. $. 5. Cox will leave for his ministe-
rial post at Constantinople the middle Of
July. A banquet is TO be given him by 100
prominent New Workers.
jeremiah Hayes, a horse trader living in
Preston county, and held at Washington
with his son for horse stealing in Hampshire,
was released last Saturday.
Lieut.. John l.. Schock, L. ;. ", commit
ted suicide in London on Saturday. lie
graduated as frst-honor man at the Annap-
oils Naval Academy in 1881.
Henry McRea, aged IS, Of Pocahontas
county, was successfully operated on for life
blindness al the ROmney deaf mute asylum
BY DR.. J r. l. Hardesty Of Wheeling.
Wvndham R. Mayo, appointed customs
collector at Norfolk and Portsmouth is a
Norfolk merchant. He left the naval acad-
emy in 81 to enter the Confederate army.
Geo. VI. Helms, the new revenue collec-
tor 4th Va. district, conducts several stores
in Franklin county. He was Confederate,
was wounded several times and rose to be
captain.
A fatal and contagious disease prevails
through Seward Valley, y. Y. The throat
swells, the tongue becomes paralyzed, the
patient cannot eat and he becomes double
sighted.
stephen r. Lamkins, Of Roanoke, Va
graduated last week from the theological de-
partment of Howard University, Washing
ton. His spoken address was on True