Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1886-07-22
NEWSY NOTES.

Is assured,
The 9TH Maryland regiment is camping
at Atlantic City.
Grasshoppers cleared 80 wheat acres in
Dakota last :.
Several eAeur-ionists lost by capsize in
Albemarle Sound.
Big forest fires in Miehigan-resulting
from big drought.
A heavy rai ID wind storm visited Bal
timore last Tbs lay.
Tomorrow will be the first anniversary
of Gen. Grants death.
York county, Va, reports ten-minute
snow storm on July s
Mr.. Robert Garrett has been elected Pres
ident Of the w. q z. K. r.
Yesterday was the 18th anniversary Of
the first battle OF Manassas.
Philip L. Moore, late reading clerk Mary
| land house of delegates, is dead.
Eight St Louis couucilmen have been in
dicted for bribery aud drunkenness.
A big black bug, quarter of an inch long,
is damaging the potato crop in Illinois.
VIM. r. Smith, the Richmond auditors
clerk, gets two years for embezzling State
funds.
The Minneapolis minnesota Postofice
was robbed last week of $4,000 in money
and stamps
The river and harbor bill has passed the
Senate with a uniform reduction of % per
cent. by Il to If.
Agricultural Bureau adyices say that'the
corn acreage in Maryland and Virginia has
slightly declined.
Late enumerations give St. Paul, Mimi,
1888 population and Minneapolis 1920.
That's a close race.
Helen Armstrong an illegitimate daugh-
ter of Robert Burns, the poet, died recently
in Motiat, England.
Rear Admiral Werden, retired, who in
90 shut the Confederate ram Stonewall up
in Havana port, is dead.
A 800, 600 fire occurred in St. Louis on
Sunday. twenty-five million feet of lum-
Der destroyed in four hours.
Forepaugh's circus train was wrecked on
a Maine Railroad Several persons injured
twenty-five horses killed.
The b. 4 O. has an item in the Defcien-
CIV bill for SO, 7SS for government transpor-
tation in 81 and prior years.
Mrs. Eleanor Cole, aged 50, mother of
the dead Maryland Congressman, died IN
Baltimore Just after her sons funeral
The Lake Side Sanitarium at Chicago
was wrecked by cyclone and 10 children
with their mothers and nurses barely escaped.
The Senate has passed House bill pen.
sioning at S25 a month Miss Mary \.
Thomas, volunteer army nurse at Frederick.
Chief Clerk Gay, of the Pittsburg pen
sion Office, and Nebraska bank president
fled to Canada last week. Big defalcations
Gen. w. II. F. Lee who will probably
succeed Representative Barbour, is a son of
Robt. f. Lee and a cousin of the Governor
of Virginia.
The Baltimore end Ohio Railroad was in
corporated in 1872, 1t has had seven Pres
idents Mr.. John w. Garrett was President
for twenty-six years.
Rev. Augustin Toxin, the first colored
| Catholic priest of American birth, has been
given parish at Quincy, Ill. He is 80 and
was Missouri slave.
A riot at Belfast last week between Cath
/ olics and ProteStants resulted in some twen-
/ ty-fve persons beine injured and the wreck
ing of several houses.
Virgins, the Canadian weather crank,
predicts biz storm throughout the United
States Sept %. The month, he says will
open cold and blus,ery.
st. Paurs Episcopal church at Norwalk,
Conn.-the first church consecrated in
America-celebrate the centennial of that
event last Thursday.
Jas. :. Hallowell, the Montgomery coun-
ty farmer, is dead aged 90. He was
nephew of Ben Hallowell whose old-time
school in Alexandria had wide fame.
Edward Z. c. Judson l"Ned Buutline")
died at Stamford y. y. last Friday aged Go.
He was chief of scouts in the late war and
since 1898 had worked at story writing.
Geo. Beasley who at Charleston last De-
cember was acquitted of murder in having
killed Henderson Moore his wife's lover,
last week slew the little woman herself
The proposal TO send an NJ T. Frame to
Congress to succeed General Golf, of West
Virginia, may have striking merits, but the
majority of the people prefer frame with
a picture IN It,
Albany, New YORK, closes the five-day
celebration of its bi-centennial to-day.
Gov. Thos Dongan granted its charter July
-, 1856 President Cleveland honored the
occasion by his presence.
Henry X. Brown, of Newburgh, \. Y,
a sculptor of note, is dead aged y. He
executed the Scott and Gen. Green statues
in Washington and the Washington and
Lincoln statues in New York.
The House has managed to pass one pen
sion bin over the Presidents vetO-a mea-
sure for the relief of Jos. Romizer. The
veto stood Us to 3S-nOne Of the w. Va.
delegation upholding the veto.
The House yesterday week adopted by
207 to 81 Mr.. Morrison's resolution reduc
ing the Treasury surplus to 100000, 600 |
and keeping it at that figure. Representa- !
tives Wilson, Snyder and Golf voted aye.
Gen. Schuyler Hamilton, aged ct, Mex
lean veteran and a soldier in the late war
until '63, and Mrs. Louise Francis Paine
Cavanaugh were married in New York last |