Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1886-01-28
NEWSY NOTES
Ex-senator Farley of Cal. is dead.

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The President attended the Baltimore
charity ball on Monday.
VIM. y. Deck of W. Va, has got $1,000
War Office Apo. nent.
The Miss. legislature has reelected Sen
ators Walthall and George.
c.. J. Brewer, Of Washington, Virginian
by birth, is dead-aged 81
Ten thousan 5 have died Of measles
within fifteen IA Of Beloit, Wis.
Chas. j. Canda of New York is appointed
assistant L. ;. treasurer in Gotham.
Geo. u. Mayo, of Abingdon, Nd, a chief
of division, gent land Office, at 81, 500.
Peter Gallagher of Va, is appointed In
dian agent at Fort Hall agency in Idaho.
The National Board Of Trade met in 10th
annual meeting in Washington last week.
The steamer Raleigh sunk last week in
Craighill channel, l2miles below Baltimore.
Nearly 10000 cigar makers in New York
struck last week because of reduced wages,
Fire recently destroyed $4,000 worth of
business property in Anderson, Monroe
county.
The Virginia NJ. E. Conference opens in
Alexandria February 2j-Bishop Ninde
presiding.
Next Monday will be the 10Th anniver-
sary of Washington's first election to the
Presidency.
Baltimore's new Chesapeake Gas Compa-
ny has put down the price to 90 cents
thousand feet
Prof j. W. Mallet of va. is on the assay
commission appointed to meet in Philadel-
phia February 10.
Marshalls street works of Sheffield, Eng,
are to moved TO America. The plant en-
ploys 5000 hands
J.B Lippincott, the Philadelphia pub
Usher who died recently, left an estate es-
timated at $1,000, 600
On Monday Mr. r. F. Newcomer of Bal
tmore gave $4,000 to endOw an Orphan
Asylum at Hagerstown.
Armour, the Western beef packer and
several grain men are manipulating a huge
corner i'm wheat at Chicago.
Mrs. Anna Maria Green, daughter-in-law
of Gen. Nathanial Green, of revolutionary
fame, died at Newport, r. l., on the 18th,
aged l02 years.
Twenty-Five houses were washed away
and several hundred flooded by big rain
at Los Angeles Cal. A woman and two
children drowned
Mr. Arthur Van Meter, son Of Hon. Jo-
seph Van Meter, of Hardy county, is an
applicant for the t. :. Alarshalship of the
territory of Idaho.
During revival services in the NJ. +.
Church, South, in Harrisonburg-a meeting
still in progress-about sixty persons have
protested conversion.
Salvation Oil kills pain every time. For
cuts, bruises. sprains, strains, burns, scalds,
and frost bites it is an intallible cure. Price
only twenty-five cents a bottle
Mrs. Elinor c. Percy, widow of the late
Douglas Percy, died at FrOstburg on Mon
day morning, age seventy-eight. She only
survived her husband six weeks.
The Va. senate has adopted the commit
tee report censuring the management OF
the colored normal institute at Petersburg
and recommending a change in Its directory,
Congressman Eustace Gibson, of West
Virginia has succeeded in inducing the
House to allow his committee a clerk at
SIS a day. Col. Peyton was appointed and
sworn i'm.
Gen. Jno d. Freeman, Of Colorado, is
dead. He was attorney general of Missis-
sippi prior to the war, a whilom Represen-
tatiye thereirom and author Of Freeman's
Chaucery Reports
Mount Vernon NJ E. Church, South, at
Danville, was dedicated last sunday week.
| Bishop A. W. Wilson preaching the conSe-
Grafton sermon. 1t is one of the finest
chu ches in Virginia.
The Grafton Standard says the b. d 0. Il.
/ r. Co. harvested 1876 car loads of ice at Val
/ lev Falls last week. The cars will average
| $1,000 pounds, making a total Of 6,S6O,OOO
pounds or 8, 43O tons.
Ayers Sarsaparilla, being highly concen-
| tratcd, requires a smaller dose, and Is more
effective, dose for dose, than any other
blood medicine It is the cheapest, be
cause the best Quality and not quantity
should be considered.
President Garrett of the b. & O. gave
l 81 600. and Mr. A. = Abel, Of the Balti-
more Sun, 500 70 the poor of Baltimore
/ during therecentco cold snap. Both were bless
| ed with the wherewithal to carry out their
| generous inclinati0ns.
Ayers Pills cure constipation, improve
/ the appetite, promote digestion, restore
/ healthy action, and regulate every function.
They are pleasant to take, gentle in their
operation. yet thorough, searching, and
powerful ia subdUing disease.
The wife of ex-senator Joseph II. Sher-
rard died in Bath county, Virginia, on the
/ eth. Mr.. Sherrard is son of Judge Joseph
Sherrard. of Winchester The deceased
/ lady was a daughter of the late Col. Cam
er0n. of Bockbridge. Six little children
are thus left motherless.
The newly completed tunnel under the
/ AIersey is a pretentious affair of 5000 feet
and directly connects Liverpool and Birke-
/ head-formiug an important commercial
outlet TO the South and East. The long
pending project Of $500 foot tunnel meath
/ the Hudson is now likely to receive an i'm
/ petus.
Mary Augustine died in New Orleans Fri
/ day at the extraordinary age of l2j years.
I She was born in Africa and brought here
when twenty years old and sold in the slave
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