Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-07-16
NEWSY NOTES.


better wheat yield than was anticipated.
Prof NJ. ; Kern of Columbia, No, is APP
pointed forestry agent for the Agricultural
Bureau.
New Nork's new directory shows Il popu-
lati0n of ,5j3, 730-allowing . persons to
each name.
Burke Bros stables, in Baltimore beyond
Canton. were burned last week with %
horses etc.
Two thirds of the delegates chosen at the
democratic ward meetings in Richmond IA
vor Fitzhugh Lee for governor.
Ebeu +. Rexford, author fSilyer Threads
Among The Gold, has been appointed Post
master 40 Sheocton, Wisconsin.
Ayers Sarsaparilla Is the most effective
blood purifier ever devised. Il is recom-
mended by the best Physicit ns.
Ex-Lieut.- Commander Gorringe OF the
Navy. who brought the Egyptian Obelisk TO
New York in 1850, died last week.
The b. and O's 5-story brown stone 'Tele-
graph Office i'm Trinity Place, New York,
was burned on the 4th. LoSS-SlOO,OOO.
Peter Brown. q Scottish miner, en- route
to Scotland from Kanawha county, was rob
bed of $50 in Washington while on a spree.
VIM. X. Meade of Arizona, appointed L.
; Marshal for that Territory, is native of
Clarke county. lie went west II years ago
and is So
Mrs. G.. l.. Stone was found dead at her
home at Bull Mt. lSmiles from Martinsville,
Va, last week Her husband is jailed on
suspicion.
A railway station, 20 car loads of wheat
and mdse. and 10 warehouses with 5000
cases OF tobacco were burned at Stoughton,
Wis, lait week.
Chief Engineer j. @. a. Jeigler, L. ;. y.
Is dead lie commanded the monitor Mon
aduock on its expedition to Havana to cap
turc the ram StonewalL
Jos. Harrison. his wife and children Of
Woodbridge vicinity. Va. were fatally burn
ell In a fire at their dwelling lately. \ Mrs.
Bailey's baby also persisted.
A petri6ed brownish squirrel taken from
the heart of a pine tree near knowlton,
Wisconsin. was sent TO the President who
transferred it to the National Museum.
Jno. l.. Hickman Of Grafton who fled in
'S3 with $4,000 belonging to the Catholic
Knights of America of which order he was
treasurer has come home penniless and pen
itent.
The President has sent Gen. Sheridan
out to Indian Territory where 1000 troops
are massed 20 fight the Cheyennes. Now Is
the time if ever for the Indians TO do their
level best.
Misses Lucy and Anna Bowman Of Ham
line, Lincoln county, W. Va, last week de-
coyed their beJrayer, Ross Hammond, into
the woods, beat him severely and then tarred
and teathered him.
Gen. Buckner, the ex-Confederate, called
ON Gen. Grant last Friday. The two were
I fellow students at West Point aud when
I Fort Donelson fell, Gen. Buckucr was
Grants first prisoner.
Rev. Jno. II. Chew Episcopall, OF Wash
ingtOn. aged 64-brother of the late PrOt
Saml. Chew of Baltimore and grandson Of
ri. Rev. I. j. Claggett. Maryland's first +
piscopal bishop, died last week
Lucian Hopson of Texas has had patent
ed a proicctile invented by him when the
war opened and used against Union vessels
i'm Charleston harbOr. The Confederate gov
eminent gave him patent also.
An independence No. special says
" Christopher Mann aged one hundred and
eleven wears. died here Sunday. He was
born I'm Virginia I'm IVA, and came to this
place in lS3S." An old man, truly
The President has appointed master Ed
ward T. Cloary, of Washing ton, to W est
Point cadetship. The young man Is ne
phew by marriage of John Kelly and a
Granddaughter of Cardinal McCloskey.
It has been learned i'm Baltimore that Aa-
ron Kat. son of II. Katz oflS7 East Pratt
street. was murdered for his money IN Ari-
IONA months ago by Mexican who ac-
compauied him ON a cattle-buying trip.
Gen. d. G.. Buell. who saved the day at
shiloh by his opportune arrival with 10000
men Is 70 write up that battle for the CentH-
ru He saws that Albert Sidney Johnston
was " man of unquesti0nable military gen
ius"
Queen Victoria will commence her year
of Jubilee or the 50th of her reign, on June
20 So. Only English Sovereigns attained
that distinction Henry the Third in 1866,
Edward the Third in 1876 and George the
Third in $50.
A number of Texas eN-Contederate sol
diers have presented Gen. Rosecrans with a
pistol captured by the Texans in a raid on
his baggage train in the summer Of 1864,
On the stock of the pistol is inscribed the
names the battles In which Gen. Rosecrans
was victorious.
Louis Hansen, aged Il. a well-to-do New
York tailor Of Swedish birth, shot himself
dead on Storm Mt. near Newburgh, \. \.
ON the 4th after first trying to kill his wife
When he married her in New York June r.
1881. she was the widow of Conied officer
named Rudolph Hunter.
a wcst-bound freight train on the Pam
Handle railroad Jumped the track near Hol-
lidav's Cave, W Va. Yesterday week smash
inc l6 cars, and instantly killing Fireman
Thos. Wilson, and seriously inIuring In
giueer JAS. Mccullough. Firemen Onslaught
nes,cv and Henry McGinuesS.
A judicial decree orders the Chicago Uni
versitv property to- be restored 20 the heirs
of stephen A. Douglass-the trustees hay
inc mort.agcd 10 and suffered a foreclosure
to ensue. The deed of gift by Douglass was
conditioned ou the property's title remain
iue forever vested In the University.
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