Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-09-17

A silver dollar weighs nearly an ounce.
Hence any letter not heavier than a dollar
can 90 for a single Two cent stamp. sill
yer five cent piece added will give the ounce.
If YOU have not the dollar, five nickels and
4 copper will give an onnce.
\ live toad and petriied snake were
found together in vein of blue limestone
at Wet Union, this State, the other day.
The snake was hanging to the toad's leg
and looked as if it was trying to swallow
him when they were buried.
Rev. John A. Coliyer, the leading color
ed Baptist minister in Virginia, declares he
will vote for Gen. Lee and advises all of his
race to do so. He is Republican, but as
between renegade Democrats and regular
Democrats he prefers the latter.
Little Billy Malone is said to weigh only
90 pounds and by recent combination of
circumstances beyond his control he has
even less weight than that in Virginia pol
itics lust now-especially in reference to
Federal appointments.-Erchange
]. w. Taylor's four-story factory building
at West Falls avenue and CRANKY street,
Baltimore was burned last Saturday. The
owner, n merchinist there, lost S2j, 900. H.
Diehl, furniture; Gosnell & Co., wood
mOuders, and j. H. Dttman and Pines q
Miller, furniture dealers lost heavily.
DR.. Francis d. Cunningham, of Rich
mond, Va, is dead, aged 40. He was of
Goochland county birth and held high po-
stions amoug the State and other medical
associations. He was a surgeon in the Con-
federacy and in '19-3 medical director of
the trans-Mississippi department.
The Directors of the Baltimore'and Ohio
Railroad have extended the payment of the
bonds of the company due October ] for
fifty years at four per cent. interest paid in
gold semi-annually. The original amount
of this loan was S2,j00,000, but payments
on account have reduced it to Sl,7l0,000.
William LLOYD, a native of New York
but resident OF Baltimore FOR about Thirty
five years twenty-six years of which time
he was employed by the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company at his trade of lock-
smith at Mt Clare shops. died Thursday
morning at his RESIDENCE 22i Hollins street,
in the 10th year IF his age,
AT East Haven, Conn, the other Sunday,
as the pastor of the Congregational church
was announcing his text: saw the spirit
descending from Heaven like dove and it
abode upon Him" vertable dove alight-
ed on the open Bible 1t remained about
the chaucel and when the pastor gave the
benediction perched on his head.
Mr.. c. Clayton Paxson, who died'of ty-
l. T,o.Io,r Loot MO hnria1
from Catoctin Church, short Hill. Loudoun
county, Va, on Wednesday, Rev. John w.
| Wolf officiating, and the funeral was one
of the largest ever seen in the county. The
cortege was mile and a-half long, and the
number of people present was very great
Geo. X Judy, Esq, Mooreiield, W Va,
says in the year 1888 he used six barrels of
Bowells Prepared Chemicals, mixed as di-
rected. 200 lbs to the acre, on wheat, and
got one third more wheat by using it, The
wheat fortified had no rust, while other
did, and following the Chemicals he got
perfect stand ofgrass. This economical fer
tilizer material costs only Sc per bbl.-a suf-
ficient quantity TO make One-half ton of COM
post fertilizer. Address Brown Chemical
Co.. Baltimore. Nd.
A few weeks ago Mr.. J. +. Weed, of West
Virginia, arrived at Cononchet, R. l., on a
visit to his sisters, the wives of ex-Gov.
William Sprague and his son William
Sprague Jr. He was suffering from dys-
pepsia, and on Friday II was found that he
had taken an overdose of morphine. Med
ical assistance was summoned, but he died
Friday evening. His family strenuously
deny that it is case of suicide. Mr. Weed
is said to have been clever and intelligent
young man, with fine business prospects.