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NETsY NOTES.

week.
Colorado will be ten-year-ol3 State
next Monday.
Congress has removed Gen. w. II. F.
Lees disablii,
Representative O'Ferrall will surely be
re-nominated next Wednesday.
JOS. Libbey. the Georgetown I'd. g.
lumber merchant is dead aged 62.
Gladstone l. tired from office and the
Marquis Of Tai. Jury takes the premiership.
Rev. Peter A. Armstead of the Pilgrim
Church, Wilderness, Va, is dead aged 81.
John T. Cox, Washington detective, is
dead aged &C. lie was an ex-Confederate
officer.
Twelve English notables were injured in
a rail mishap 'twixt London and Ports
mouth.
Thos. Conway aged II Baltimore en-
gineers son killed himself rather than go
to work.
Miss Cleveland they tell us is now peg
ging away at another novel called "Ex-Rex
and Rex"
Ex-Gov. VIM. Smith fell down stair
way at Virginia Beach last week and was
painfully hurt
Two little daughters of Sol Joyner,.
Southampton VA farmer, killed him for
whipping them.
The Vermont prohibitionists have put a
full state ticket in the field with Prof. See
ley at the head.
Gov. Lee of Virginia had daughter
born to him last Thursday. He has now ,
boys and 3 girls.
Mrs. Cleveland was % yesterday week.
May the fair little woman have many re-
turns of the day
Col. John S. Mosby will take to lecturing
in the Fall, his first discourse treating OF
'Stuart's Cavalry.
Thos Jesup Miller, son of the late DR.:
Thos Miller of Washington, is dead aged
80. He was lawyer
Johnnie Main, a Petersburg lad, has been
crazed because of having accidentally killed
his brother Willie while hunting.
Jas. Henry, aged &C, is jailed at Lancas-
ter. Pa. for horse stealing and barn burning
in Carroll county, Md, last April.
Stafford county, Va, has elected dele
cation unanimous for Gen. w. ii. F. Lee
for Congress from the eighth district.
Chas. A. Grigg, aged IS, Petersburg
carpenter, fell from sixth floor window IN
Washington and was instantly killed.
The Columbus Kansas P. NJ. is under
sentence for trying to blow up the county
c. H. to destroy proof of land frauds.
A Louisianian of 90 with his wife of y
called on the President last week. They
told him they had 20 great grandchildren.
The House concurred in the Senate
amendments to the oleomargarine bill
taxing bogus butter , cents etc-by ia to
70.
A fve-story -four warehouse in New York
fell i'm ruins last week. Four men injured.
Six hundred tons of stored bread-stutf scat
tered.
Nellie Grant Sartoris is said to be return
ing home to her mother because of her
scapegrace husband having practically de-
serted her.
VIM. Hunter, aged 81, second assistant
secretary of State, is dead. He was of
Rhode Island birth aud had been in the
Department 81 years.
Hog Cholera is raging to an alarming ex-
tent in Botetourt and several other counties.
Some cases have been reported of farmers
losing one hundred head in a week.
Gen. Charles GrosvenOr was in Washing
ton the other day telling his friends that
jeff Davis could get more Republican votes
in Ohio now than John Logan World.
VIM. D. C. Murdoch aged so of Wash
ington. the last male descendant of VIM.
Murdoch a Maryland colonial representa-
tive in the STAMP act" congress of 1903, Is
dead.
Armed men are searching through Litch-
field Conn vicinity for Chas. Lockwood,
a farm hand near East Morris, who assault
ed Matte Randall, his employers daughter,
and then killed her.
Stephen Brodie, aged 90, the New York
HtMNbON HfQtoblldu ACA hiiil7NAA NiNH '''NN
Friday l20 feet from Brooklyn bridge into
East river-on a 500 wager. He emerged
unframed. This is the first time the feat
has been done. Bob Odlum, of Washing
ton, was killed last year trying it,
Sheriff Cost on Sunday last at Hagers-
town arrested Henry Robinson, a colored
desperate, for creating disturbance. Up
on reaching the street Robinson knocked
the Sheriff down and stamped upon him.
The Sheriff regained his feet and placed the
nippers upon his man, but was again furi-
ousiy assaulted, when he drew his revolver
and shot him, inficting probably fatal
wounds.
The divorce case of Mr.. Donald Crawford
vs. his wife and Sir Chas. Dixie has-on It's
second trial-gone in plaintiffs favor.
Dixie has sold his English estates and gone
to France Sir Charles is 49, Radical
and the Queens good son. He came to the
bar in '66, visited the L. S that year and
since '6S represented Chelsea in Parliament.
He owns the AtbenGam and Notes and Qne-
ries. Lady Dixie Mrs Mark Pattison)
became his wife last year.
The Greeabrier IqdepeNdent, Of last Thurs
day. saws.