Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1886-05-27
NEWSY NOTES.
v Gould is fifty to day.

tue burning OF , Us ~ 'hV ONi4iiii"
The Presbyterl.n General Assembly will |
contain nearly $50 commissioners this year.
The Presbyterians have founded medi-
cal mission at I .berias, near the Sea oil 0ai-
lice.
The Presbyl, General Assembly has
SUNDAY, June 18th, as "Childrens
Day"
Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, is cf-
fcially notified of his election to the cardi-
nalate.
The Presbyterian home mission board
started 1875 new churches and $50 Sunday
schools last year
The cornerstone of the Lee monument
in Richmond will be laid October 2Sd. Col.
Chas. Marshall of the Baltimore Bar will
be orator.
Gov. E. w. Wilson and wife attended the
May Festival Of the Cincinnati Musical
Association.
Col. Jno. B. Folsom, of Erie county, \.
Y, grandfather of the Presidents BRIDE
elect, is dead.
Three train wreckeTs were convicted AT
Clarksburg last week and sentenced to ten
years each in the penitentiary.
Mrs. Margaret Douan, Lincoln county
w. Va widow, killed her three young
daughters and herself while crazy.
Geo. Baum. Volcano w. Va farmer,
is under arrest for feeding his family on
dog flesh. He came near being lynched.
Thirteen sheds and barns of the Boston
and Albany r. r. at Brighton, a Boston
suburb, were burned last Friday. Loss,
$4,000
An over heated stove set fire to the home
of Il Mrs. Mooney, near Akron, Ohio The
building and Mrs Ms four children were
consumed.
Richmond 90 sip has it that Representa-
tive Barbour will be reelected despite his
wish TO return next March, and the same Is
said OF Mr.. Tucker.
Mr.. Hanuis, of Huntsville Distillery
fame. died in Philadelphia few days ago.
He was at one time very wealthy, but died
comparatively poor.
The Presbyterian clergy in Maryland are
agitating a change III the State Constltu-
tons proviso declaring ministers from hold
ing seats in the Legislature.
The Court of Claims has decided that the
L. :. Government is liable for the rench
spoliation claims that have been before the
country for almost a century.
There are now published in the United
States l4,l60 newspapers and periodicals OF
all classes The net gain Of the year has
been 666. The daily newspapers number
1.2l6, gain OF 80.
Incident to the recent presenting ban
ner to a Charleston Is. c.. benevolent soci
ety there was an escort Of 3S little girls de
noting the States. and Miss Natalie Patal
represented West Virginia.
"Dan1." observed The President, 81 think
we had better begin TO get the tobacco
smoke out of these curtains, and DaRl, !
will have to ask yea to stop laying your cl-
gar stumps on the mantelpiece."
Mrs. JOS. Sohooley, of Deer Park, says
the Oakland Democrat, was struck and killed
by lightning on Wednesday night Of last
week. while in bed between her two chill
dren, neither of whom were hurt.
The Richmond 4 Danville railroad,
which lately gobbled the Virginia Midland,
has bought the old Republican building,
18Th street and Peunsylvania-ave., in
Washington, for an Office. Price, $4,000.
At Apple Point 20 miles from Point
Pleasant. W. Va, last Thursday during an
inter-amilv quarrel Jas. Guefin, aged 49,
killed his aunt, Mrs Thomas, and was In
turn shot dead by the woman's l5-year-old
daughter.
Mr.. John f. Smith, wcii-kaown Phila-
delphia type-iounder has endowed one bed
i'm each of seven hospitals in that city by Il
gift of = 600 to each, making 600 in all.
He did this charity in memory Of his lately
deceased wife.
The coal miners at Cumberland, after a
three months strike and loss of wages
amounting TO two hundred thousand dol
lars, have gone to work again on precisely
the same terms that existed at the time
they first struck.
The New York alderman, Jaehne, who
took a big b ibe ID connection with the
Broadway street car franchise mas been sent
to Sing Sing for nine years and ten months
lingering the Doodle is getting to be tick
ISL sort of business in Gotham.
Senator Malone and Mr.. d. A. Windsor,
eN-postmaster of Alexandria, have pur-
chased fog $4,000 the greater portion Of
square 673, on North CapitQl street, between
l. and VI streets, northwest, Washington.
1t doesn't seem to be any trouble for Billy
Malone 70 "raise the wind, Sir.
The grand jury of the County Court Of
Rockingham found seventeen indictments
against Samuel r. Sterling, late treasurer of
that county, eleven for embezzlement and
six for misuSing and Incorporating pub
lie mesey. The trial will not probably take
place before the June term of the court.
The wife, aged 6l of Hon. Geo. II. Pen.
dleton. minister to Berlin, was thrown from
her carriage in Central Park in New York
last week and instantly killed. She was
daughter OF Francis Scott Key of Star
Spangled Banner fame, sister Of Philip
Barton Key whom Sickies killed aud a niece
of the great Chief Justice fancy. She WAS
married in '46 and leaves two girls and
son.
A Mr.. aud Mrs. Carroll of Alexandria
were divorced a few days ago. After the
decree they met and dined together at one of
the hotels, a.(er which they took leave of
each other. The divorce seems to have
been by mutual consent. Nd c. paid half