Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-10-22
S'irgimia free grsss.
W. ". d. GALLAHER. Editor.
Chariestorn, Jefferson County, West Va.
October -. 1885.
GATHERED HERE and THERE.

Lloyd Harding is jailed at Rockville,
Md, for seducing his niece.
The Virginia Supreme Court has granted
q writ Of error in the Cluverius case.
The Easton, Nd, Episcopal diocese will
elect a successor to Bishop ay Nov. is.
Property-real and personal-in Virginia
has increased in value sixty millions since
1880.
The Massachusetts, Democrats have nom-
mated ex- x-Mayer Prince, of Boston, for Gov
ernor.
Col. l.. V. Baughmal is chosen chairman
Frederick county Democratic central com
mittee.
The editor of the Atlanta tGa.) Sammy
Smith is thinking of ESTABLISHING his paper
a. Washington.
Col. Thos. Smith, Of Warrenton, son Of
ex-Gov. Smith, is appointed t. :. Attorney
for New Mexico.
2$2, ,269 emigrants landed in New York
during the past nine months-34, 1872 less
than in the same period last year.
The American Free Trade League calls a
national conference at Chicago November
Hip in the interests of revenue reform.
Chas Reade abscondng agent Southern
Express Co., AT MOrristown. Tenn, has been
caught in Mexico His steals were $4,000.
President Cleveland has been chosen
member of the trustee board of the Pea
body Educational Fund, vice General Grant.
The quinine manufacturers in New York
and Philadelphia have organized to effect
the restoration Of the protective duty on
that article.
Henry Heilelfnger aged 50, Of West Con-
shohocken, Pa, is jailed for shooting John
Smith-one OF gang OF boys who were an
noying him.
Reports from school superintendents
throughout Virginia show marked ad-
vancement in the number of schools this
year over last.
Oyertures are pending looking to union
of the United Presbyterians and the Asso-
ciate Reformed Presbyterians. As one
body they split on the slavery question.
H. 4. Stewart of Virginia is appointed
on the Presbyterian Educational Fund and
Samuel A. Green, Of Boston, is made gen
eral agent, pro tenn, vice DIR. Curry-the
new minister to Spain.
Agricultural Bureau crop reports put the
condition Of cotton at 78 and the expected
yield at 32-l0O of bale In wheat Vir-
ginia averages to 9 bushels an acre. Her
corn yield falls below 30.
Fifteen masked men took Miss Nancy
Hoover from her fathers house on Blue
Mt. five miles from Clay county c. H..
this State, the other night, and beat her
until she was insensible. The rascals were
friends or relations Of a married man who
suspected the girl Of an intimacy with her
husband.
Five young women Of Chambersburg Pa,
who were receiving the attentions Of one
man, heard that he was in the habit Of ex-
tolling each to her face and abusing her to
the others On Saturday night they lay in
wait for him and thrlshed him soundly with
umbrellas. That's a new way to take
young man in out Of the wet.
Gen. Fitz Lee was escorted into Lebanon,
Russell county, Va. Wednesday, by thirteen
hundred and twenty mounted democrats
Gen. Lee admitted that the demonstration
surpassed anything OF the kind he had ever
seen and said that even the fat cattle" in
the fields welcomed him with their lowing
IS he passed along. The ladies in the South
west now appear in the mounted professions.