Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-04-09
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az AAN AN'tllN arr t'tr--.f ~'N'f
Tomorrow viii be the 9th anniversary
of the death of Thomas IL. Benton.
The mother of Hon. ;. ; Cox, minister
to Turkey, died last week At GAINESVILLE
Ohio.
Mrs j. 5. Miutou Of Smithville. Va. died
recently at Chattanooga en- route TO New
Orleans
The wife of Rev Maybury Goheen OF the
VI. +. Church. South. died recently IN ha-
gerstown-
Gen. A. G.. Darlington OF North Carolina
Ia personal irienu Of Jefferson Dayls-is
dead, aged 50.
A freightcoad. ctornamed Ray was caught
between cars 10 sandy Hook, last saturday
night. and killed.
Robert Waters. an old Washington shoe
maker. and guard ar the District JAM since
the war Is dead, aged 50.
Mr.. John Malone of Fairfax, an ante
be.ium railway contractor ana builder IN
part of the Manassas Gap road Is dead.
weeping willow from Napoleou's tomb
no II. Helena has been planted IN the Con
t,derate soldiers cemetery Charleston, 81.
W.D. Cushing, of Wheeling. after being
detect "a iu serle, of endorsements from
his employers. committed suicide recently.
Cen. Bancroft the historian has given
Worces .,r. Massachusetts $4,000 TO found
"a scholarship 10 memory OF his deceased
parents.
The Easter carnival 90 Fredericton Mon
dav comprised a military aud maSque pa
rlie. Bog trade display aud Dali ln the
evening.
Michigan led Oh on Monday with the tirst
election OF the year and the only one tins
spring. Utah ana Kentucky come next
IN August.
The colorcd potter whom Butler Malone
fired at white drunk IN Welcker's Hotel,
Washington, on February 18th, has sued
The YOUNG man tor $1,000.
lIr. Jno. r. Garrison OF Virginia Is made
deputy hrs, controller Treasury Depart
uient. ami D. =. McCalmont of Pennsylva-
mia commissioner OF customs.
Ex-Governor NcLane of Maryland our
minister to Paris Is oroIher-lu-aw OF B1-
ron De B0rain, Formerly member of the
cuam0er of deputies IRON savoy.
Judge Thurman father was minister OF
the Methodist Episcopa. Church and for
wears % member OF the Virginia Conference
wherein he was admitted M lSO>.
Secretary Lamar has invited a lIississip-
POI lady. Mrs. +. y. ID. Miller, 70 become
his private secretary. and she has accepted
,Le po-iuon.-irr.s1e -U'sS.l t|W'oR.
The President withdrew last week the
nomination of Alexander Il. Lawton Is
minister to Russia-the Georgian's politl-
/ cal disabilities never having been removed.
The Exchange National Bank of Norfolk
I ha, failed It's business was the largest IN
the state and it practically built up Nor
folks cotton trade It's charter expires the
/ 25,h.
The widow and SON OF c. H. Mccormick
of reaper fame have given the Presbyterian
/ Theological seminary 40 Chicago, another
+ Sl00OUD-makiug this donation half mil
/ lion
Mr.. William NJ. Clements, recently re-
,ieutd Master of transportation ON the Bal
tmore and Ohio Railroad, has been elect
ed President of the Grafton aud Green
b7ier Railroad
/ A brother of the President was an assist
amt I'm the Federal recruiting Office 40 New
/ Orleln, I'm '65. After the war he established
I d stores ard hotel no Nassau. He was drowned
/ I'm - "a route to New York.
Wie.ented Is Co.'s wholesale clothing
/ house so. 2+2 West Baltimore street Balti-
\ more and adjoining buildings were badly
I damaged by 6Icmd water Friday night
/ tue probable loss being 100000.
Bishop s. W. Wilson ofthc NJ f. Church,
south. arrived so his home lon Baltimore,
from Hot Springs. ou Saturday, improved
. I'm health and assisted i'm the Easter servl-
ce. 40 Trinity Church ON Madison Avenue.
The new Second Assistant Postmaster
f General. Mr. 4. leo Knott, OF Frederick
county. MIDI. Is ot New Market birth and
aged l6. He is a lawyer, has served in the
legislature and rom 81 % 20 was states
/ Attorney so Baltimore.
" a continual dropping ou very rainy
. day and contentious women are alike.
. SO wonder. poor souls, they are such slaves
|l headache One twenty-five cents spent
. TOR q bottle of Salvation Oh. will restore
. harmony iu thc household.
The oldest railroad eating house bell in
. che world 8, vet hanging in the fork of a
cedar tree at Woodstock on the South Car
olina r. R.-wbere "a breakfast house was
opened and the beIl hoisted in It's conyeu-
lent perch along about 1928 or 80.
Mr.. =. Miller. the new commissioner
of Internal Revenue, has rendered q decis-
ION with regard Co cubeb cigarettes which
holds chat the cubeb being "a substitute for
tobacco within the meaning of the law, Is
subject TO the tax imposed on other cigar
cites.
NargueriteG. Cleveland. theoldest daugh
ter of John L. and Esther Greeley Cleveland.
died Sunday morning az The Coleman House,
New York. Of pneumonia. Her mother Is
"a ,istcro of Horace Greeley. and her father was
tor many wears the financial editor OF the
Tribune.
Mr. john King of Baltimore the new pres
ment OF the Erie Railroad has begun his
control bv cutting down his own salary from
forty t1 ten thousand dollars. The carrid-
rc- Eep- for the use of the directors have
been sold and these gentlemen will now get
tw1 instead oi twelve thousand a year.
sydney +. Tyler. president $ V. r. r. is
1uuoiuted receiver OF that company and de
fault has been made ON It's general mortgage
bonds .6 per cents amounting To- live mil
lions When the roads first mortgage bonds
TEN due January 1T Philadelphia bankers
purchased hv arrangement the coupons.