Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-07-09
NEFSY NOTES.

VIM A. Rockwell is appointed legation
secretary at Pekin, China.
The wife of Richard Hidden, Baltimore
coal merchant. suicided last week.
Secretary Lamar of the Interior has APP
pointed his son his private secretary.
A l5-year old century plant is a-bloom in
the National Museum at Washington.
Rev. DIR. J. A. LaFevre of Baltimore has
accepted the presidency ofDavidson College
y. G.
Ice is reported to have formed in Wythe
and other Southwest sections Of Virginia
June S0th.
The wife of John Dieter, Of Gardenville,
Baltimore county, was g0red to death by
cowrecently.
DR.. ID. A. Dow, surgeon on Grants staff
at Donelson and Shiloh, has been sent 70
the insane asylum.
Naval cadets =. W. Armistead, of Va,
aud Jno. NJ. Ellicott of Nd, have been des-
iguated to be ensigns.
Robt. Stein. of Nd, is appointed stenOg-
rapher at 5000 of the geological survey, In
terror Department
Al. Dumont, late naval officer at New
Orleans and Chairman Republican State
Committee suicided last week.
The lady regents haze chosen H. Powell
Dodge. of Riggs Bank, Washington As SUI
perintendent of Mount Vernon, vice Col.
Hollingsworth.
Mrs. Dudley. who shot at O'Donovan
Rosa in New York some time ago, has been
acquitted on the ground of insanity, and
sent to an asylum
The Cunard steamer Galliawith ;. ;. Cox
and ex-senator Conkling aboard has been
sighted in midocean making her way to-
wards Queenstown disabled.
one hundred and nineteen "rascals - were
turned out of the engraving aud printing
bureau last week. Despite a civil service,
the good work goes bravely on
;. W. Blair aged IS, an employe Of Bal
timore produce store since 1850, fell from
Sd story window of his boarding house the
other night and broke his neck. He was
from Fredericktown, Ohio.
Dun's Mercantile Agency reports 6,OO4
failures I'm the six months ended June 3Oth,
with S74.722. 255 liabilities. There were
800 failures during the same period last
year with liabilities Of Sl2L39l
Rev. Sidney II. Russell Presbyterian,
AGED % of Long Island, committed suicide
the other day. He was an lllinoisan by
birth and "a recent graduate OF the Union
Theological Seminary In New York.
The b. &O.R. r. has abundant cause to
congratulate itself and the public on the
completion of its through connection with
New York which is assured wits handsome
success i'm Philadelphia Washington Re-
pnbhcu.
Atthe Grand Army National eucampment
az Portland, Me, last week Gen. =. > Bur
dett of Washington was elected commander
in-chief The gentleman Is a lawyer, was
an VI. c. from Missouri 6j-69 and afterwards
land office Commissioner.
The fund raised for disabled Coniederates
by the Ladies Confederate Relief Associa-
ton. about SO. 900. has been placed in the
hands of Capt. +. NJ Colston, Treasurer Of
the Society of the Army and Navy of the
Confederate States i'm Maryland.
Miss Ella Shafer, pretty schoolteacher
of Clarksburg vicinity, Iowa, was attacked
the other day and terribly beaten by Miss
Fornev. whose lover, Horace kerns, she
had stolen. Mrs. Forney helped in the as.
sault Local feeling againstthe mother and
daughter is very strong.
Virginia appointments last week Julian
Taylor 20 State Department clerkship;
IL. Carlisle rs special examiner Pension
Office; Mrs Lizzie F. Sawyer, as labOrer
i'm Patent Office 40 5000; Richard w. Law
son. tOpographer Geological Survey, pro-
NOTED TO $50 J. +. Warner special eX-
aminer, Pension Office, removed.
Meredith Workman, aged 81, an ex-Bap-
list preacher and a colonel in the COnteier-
ate army has Just been sent for the third
time from Wayne county to the Mounds
Vile penitentiary-tO serve three years for
forgery. He has thus far spent twenty
seven years i'm lock-ups in Va, W. Va, KY,
Pa, and Ohio. He Is q workman of whom
even M0uudsyille will be ashamed.
Almost every person has some form of
scrofulous poison latent in his veins. When
this develops i'm scroiulous sores, ulcers, OF
erupti0ns or takes the form ofrheumatism,
organic diseases, the suffering that ensues is
terrible beyond description. Hence the graf
itude of those who discover, as thousands
yearly DO. that Ayers SaTsaparilla will thor
oughly eradicate this evil from the system.
Governor Cameron, Of Virginia, says that
he apprehends no trouble from coupons
forced upon the State treasury by the Court
that there Is 100000 in the treasury at
present. and there are bonds held aggregat-
ing 81 100000 that can be used by the next
Legislature in December, if it becomes nee
essary. Until that time the Executive can
control financial affairs against the rulings
of the Courts.
The President sister has had copies other
book of ESSAYS specially bound, with hand
painted covers, for presentation 10 Queen
Victoria and the following ladies who pre-
ceded her as mistress of the White House:
Mrs james X. Polk of Nashville Mrs. Phil
lin cambridge, formerly Mrs. Betty Taylor
Bliss of Winchester Va, Mrs John Tyler
of Virginia, Mrs, Harriet Lane johnson OF
Baltimore. Mrs Martha Johnson Patterson,
Mrs Grant Mrs. Hayes, Mrs Garfield and
Mrs McElroy.
Alexander Watson, poor Young farmer
of Page county, and Miss BERTHE. the IL year
old daughter oi Chas Adams, another farm
az. eioped June 9th Co LUray, % miles dis
tant. and were married Wats0n's brother
iu-laV. an engineer on tac :. V K. r., took
them I'M his locomotive. The Young bride
Is q graduate of Catholic college i'm Mary
land and q fine musician. An attempted