Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-09-03
YEWSY Totes.

barely reaches $4,000 so far.
Snow fell Yesterday week at Harvey's
Lake. 10 miles from Wilkesbarre, Pa
The New York Prohibitions meet at
Syracuse next Tuesday an Wednesday,
The New York State Republican Con
vention is to meet at Saratoga on me ga.
Fredk c. B. Wins, a bachelor farmer OF
Wash ton county, Nd, Is dead, aged g.
Ms, Marie DIusseaus. of Virginia has
got P. 0. Department promotion to s9oO'
Garden truck and late corn in and about
Stanton were injured by frost yesterday
week.
Jos. F. Bowen. of Philadelphia, the old
est Master Mason in the country, is dead at
ninety four.
The new census gives Dakota Territory
4l5.0o0 people and $4,000 farms. And how
many billiards.
Richard A. Kcarns, aged Is, was killed
AT New Orleans last week while playing
with an electric wire.
Ex.Gov. William smith, OF Warrenton,
Va " Extra Billy, will celebrate his nine
tieth birthday, next Sunday.
The deelcation Of W. R. Smith, ex-chief
clerk in the State auditors office at Rich
mond. vii! exceed 100000.
Mr. Darncl. of Cumberland. has, it is
said bought Bishop Johns " Malvern farm
near Alexandria, Va, for $1,000.
The house near Elicott City Of Thos.
Stanford. the Il. IL O.'s foreign agent, was
DESTROYED los lightning last week.
The smol:, of burning poison oak brush,
a-ouarter mile of, poisoned several guests
at Jessup's on the IS. * Q. last week.
Gen. Logan and his wife were pitched
into the ~. Lawrence river at Cherry Island
last week by the capsizing of their boat
Dr. Laaerty. Of the Richmond Christian
4dr0cqte. has bought farm near Green
wood. in Albermarle, 10. permanent resi-
dencc.
Vice-President. W. c. Wickham Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio, and State Senator
Callahan, of Portsmouth, say they will sup
port Gen Lee.
Fifty congressional districts in the United
States are unrepresented at West Point, O. "
ing to The Inability Of the boys to pass the
prescribed examination.
Rev. John F. Brozill, Catholic of Des
Moines, Iowa, Vicar General OF the Do
cese of West Virginia from 1853 to 1896,
died last week aged IS.
A niece of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Mrs
America \. Kemp, enroute from Texas to
Manassas applied to the Washington police
I'last Saturday for transportation.
The third heavy storm this summer swept
through Frederick county, Md, Tuesday
week. everfowing the Catoctin river and
demolishing barns, crops, etc. Loss So
600
The anti-Mahone colored men have call
/ ed a convention to meet sept 30, at Lynch
burg. to put a respectable ticket in the field.
The =" kitchen Statesman" will please no.
| tice.
lib. Washington, Col. Berkeley, VIM.
Y. Mason aud Others have formed a com
panv and leased Miss Emma Gaines farm
near Gainesville, Va, for fair ground and
race track.
Benz. f. Bigelow, late teller National
/ Bank Republic, Washington, was last week
sent TO Concord \. H. prison for years
tor stealing the bank funds. He was IN
dicted in 50.
4 cyclone did million dollars damage
i'm and about Charleston, :. c, Tuesday
week. 4 part eff the New Brighton hotel
on Sullivan's Island, near thu city was
| wrecked No lives lost
Geo. W. Reed. a Federal veteran from
PENNSYLVANIA died last week in Baltimore.
/ On his person was found a letter from JEFF
| ferson Davis advising him to 90 westrather
than south for his health.
A swell wedding at Newport last week
saw united the son of Frelinghuysen, Ar
thurs lamented Secretary of State and Miss
/ Alice Coats, the daughter of Scottish mil
| ionare of Providence, r. /.
VIM. Heeley aged 20, of Capitol Hill
section. Washington was arrested LAST week
for robbing his uncle, Martin Cogley, Of
Cameron, near Wheeling, of 5000 while
visiting him the past summer.
DIR. d. II. Gregg, a rich citizen of King
William county, Va, died of apoplexy in
/ Richmond last week. aged 81. He was of
Boston birth and a Harvard graduate but
came to Virginia early in life.
Geo. Kline, of Hagerstown, his father
Hiram and three other men robbed the
house of an old farmer named Kline near
Beuevola, Washington county, last week.
They got S240 and were subsequently ar
rested.
Allen B. Magruder, of Stephens City,
Va, who died last week, aged -, was a
brother of the late Gen. Bankhead Magru-
der 0Conlederatel. Prior to 81 he prac
tced law in Washington with Representa-
tive Chiffon, of Virginia, and helped to de
feud Daniel T. Sickles in his trial for shoot
ing Key.
The Philadelphia Necs says that NJ. II.
Gichrist. of Philadelphia, owns an import
ed shetland pony mare six years Old, -
incl Is high. weight - pounds, measuring
go inches from nose TO all, y inches round
stiae. Al round the hook, SO round the CIR H.,
and II inches from wither TO couplings.
She takes nine-inch collar.
Ayers Ague Cure, when used according
20 directions. is warranted to eradicate from
the system all forms of malarial disease,
such AS Fever and Ague, Chill Fever, In
termittent. Remittent and Bilious Fevers
and disorders of the liver. Try it. The
experiment is q safe one, and will cost you
nothing if a cure is not effected.