Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-08-13
YEWSY NOTES.

from the Atlanta Surgical Institute-burned.
Miss Anna j. Shirley of West Virginia
has got a Pension Office Promotion to $1,000.
The 80 days allowed the ranchmen to get
their clttle off the Indian lands expire Sept.
1.
Mrs. Laura A. March has been appoint
ed postmaster at Middletown, Frederick Co.,
Va.
Martin Farquhar Upper, author Of Pro
verbal Philosophy" has just passed his 10Th
birthday.
The Washington Light Infantry of Wash
ington will have their camp at Cape May
next week.
Julio Santos, the Hagerstown man i'm
prisoned at Guayaquil. Ecuador was releas-
ed July %.
Reports from southwest Virginia show
that corn, oats, fruits and other crops are
growing finely.
Hon. Jno. S. Barbour has been reelected
chairman Virginia democratic state execu-
tive committee.
Stanly Hunter, journalist, author of the
humorous articles, the Spoopendike Pa
pers," died last week.
Rev. G.. w. Harrington of the Reformed
Episcopal church, Cumberland, has accept
ed a Brooklyn Passionate.
Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson, an authoress
Of note and a contributor to the Century,
died in Frisco last week.
Ne,cs and Courier: If John 5. Wise is sue
.cessful woe to the State of Washington and
Jefferson and Robert E. Lee.
The City Passenger Railway Co.'S office
at Baltimore and Calvert streets, Baltimore,
was robbed of 81 100 last Thursday.
The Appomattox folks have draped for
so days the Mclean cottage where Lee and
Grant signed the terms of surrender.
400 and odd delegates attended the Cath
Ollie Total Abstinence Unions 18th annual
convention at New Haven last week.
A million dollar fire on the Toronto wa
ter front last week destroyed vessels, wharyes,
elevators, factories and lumber yards.
Mr. Seth NJ. Timberlake, formerly of this
town, has purchased the Antrim farm at
Fishersville, Augusta county, Virginia.
Gov. Pattison presided at late Philadel
phia meeting to raise s. 900 to complete the
new chapel at the University of Virginia.
Cholera is now doing its worst in Mar
settles and at other points in Southern
France. The plague has also got foothold
in Paris.
Cyrus Field gave big dinner in London
yesterday week to celebrate the 9th ami
versary of the completion Of the first Allan
tic cable
The first regatta ever held in Hampton
Roads since the war will take place August
1920 under the auspices of the Norfolk
Gymnasium.
Miss Laura Braden, treasurer of the
Washington q Waynesboro r. R. in Penn
sylyania, is the only female railway official
in the country.
While Pittsburg has the monopoly of iron
manufacture Birmingham, Ala. has just
struck some natural gas wells that promise
her big thing.
Revenue Commissioner Miller and I'd
Comptroller McMahon of the Treasury
Dept spent Saturday and Sunday at their
homes in this State.
Mai. Baker p. Lee, candidate for the
gubenatorial nomination in the Virginia
democratic convention, is appointed Gus
toms collector at Yorktown.
The venerable ex-Judge James Garland
of Lynchburg, Va, died Saturday night, in
the 9th year of his age. He had been a
member Of the Masonic order nearly "A
years.
Mrs. Z. Bathurst Smith of St Louis
formerly Miss Virginia Christy of Lexing-
ton, Va.,-is a guest at Bar HarbOr, Me-,
where she gave an elaborate dinner yester-
day week.
A cyclone last week in and about Phila-
delphia wrecked two steamboats,, strewed the
river fronts with demolished buildings and
killed and injured several people-mostly
operatives.
VIM. Kearney an insane farmer of Hum
boldt (Neb. vicinity was jailed at Kansas
City, Mo. last Thursday. He was well
armed, had big cash and was coming on to
kill the President.
The bin to increase the Presidents salary
from S25, 600 to $4,000 a year was passed
by Congress on March 3, 1873, to take effect
next day when Gen. Grant began his sec
ond term as President.
Mr.. Oliver Beirne of Monroe county, Va,
who inherited the six odd millions of Mr..
Burnside of New Orleans is worth now some
ten millions. He Is - and has two mar
ried daughters by first wife.
The one hundredth anniversary of the lay
ing of the cornerstone of the State Capitol
at Richmond, Va, will occur on the 18th of
August, and it is proposed to commemorate
it by some appropriate obseryances.
The President has about reached the Ad-
irondacks for 3-weeks' trout fishing He
tarried a day or so each at Albany and Hol-
land Patent village where his brothers-in-
law live after attending the Grant obse-
quies.
1t is stated that recently when purse of
81 500 was made up for Sam Jones he took
out 5000 and handed back the balance.
This certainly gives some color of truth to
the report recently circulated that Sam was
aretormed lawyer.-Macon Go.) Telegraph.
Among the ex-Confederates who met in
New York yesterday week to render trib-
utes to Gen. Grant were Brig Gen. r. ID.
Lilley of StOnewan JacksOn's corps, Ser
geant A. NJ. Davies of the 34th Va. Infant
~, Lieut. VIM. Pinckney Peyton of the Sth
Va. Regiment and others.
For its soothing and grateful influence on
the scalp, and for the removal and proven
ti0n of 1andrnf Ayers Hair Vi0or has no