Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1886-04-01
Mar. %, 1856.
NEWSY NOTES

The bill granting MIS- Neu' W. =. nan
cock $1,000 pension has passed Congress
The total number of hogs packed in the
United States during the year ended March
l was II ,263, 567
The suspension of an American newspa-
per at Panama has been ordered by the
Governor general.
A Baltimore horse is said to have to have
attempted suicide by repeatedly turning on
the gas in the stable.
Harrisonburg has become great horse
mart. About 225 horses changed hands
there on last Court day.
A few years ago Dakota had but one
Presbyterian church; now there Is Synod
of seyenty-two churches.
r. J. Hahn, the newly elected mayor of
HagerstoMn. is a Democrat and entered up
on his duties on Saturday.
In Philadelphia eight women doctors earn
each $4,000 year, twelve make over SlO,-
600 and twenty-five over $500.
Senator Kenna's speech has been in great
demand and a hundred thousand copies
have been sent ont from Washington.
The Governor of California has appoint
ed George Hearst, Democrat, 10 the L. :.
Senate. as successor to the late Senator Mil
Ter.
Mr.. Henry Watterson of the Louisville
Couiey-J Journal has so far recoved from his
recent critical illness as to be able to make
visit to Old Point Comfort.
The largest barn in the world is probably
that of the Union Cattle Company of Chey-
enne, near Omaha 1t covers five acres.
cost S125 600, and accommodates $3.50 head
of cattle.
The freight and passenger depot on the
Shenandoah Valley railroad at Greenville
Station, in Augusta county, Va, was burn
ed two weeks ago. 1t is said to be the work
of an incendiary.
At the opening of Lent New York had
$4,000 barrels of eggs in store and since
that time arrivals have b en- immense,
reaching $500 barrels a day as an average.
A barrel contains seventy dozen.
Gov. Perry, of Florida, has published a
letter saying that the absence of Senator
Jones from his place in the United States
Senate does not create vacancy, and he
has no power to make an appointment.
Salvation Oil always cures pain. 1t
should be the companion of every travelling
man. 1t extinguishes pain, whether result
inc from a cut, a burn, bruise, or sprain.
Get only the genuine. Price twenty-five
cents bottle.
Two members of the English cabinet
Mr. Chamberlain, president of the local
government board, and Mr. Treveyan,
chief secretary for Scotland have resigned
because of their inability to agree to Mr..
Gladstone's proposals for Ireland.
The Senate on Friday adopted the Ed
munds resolutions asserting the right of the
Senate 10 papers in the executive depart
ments relating to suspensions and removals
from Office Mitchell, of ORGAN. Van Wyck
and Riddleberger voting with the Democrats
on the Sd resolution.
Miss Abigail Bates died recently, in Mas
,achusetts, aged eighty-ninc years. She
was one of the two heroines who during the
war of 1872 drove the British forces from
| this harbor by concealing themselves in the
bushes aud playing vigorously upon the
/ fife and drum, thereby leading the enemy
20 believe that a large force was ready TO
receive them.
The mammoth barn on the Hopkins stock
farm, East Providence, R. l., was destroyed
| by an incendiary fire early Thursday morn
| ing. and sixty-tiye head of cattle including
| siXty-one JERSEYS and one Ayrshire, were
/ burned, and also four horses. The loss on
buildings, hay and tools Is $4,000. Mr.
/ Hopkins had been twenty years raising his
/ herd and would not have sold it for S3j, 600.
General Master Workman Powd erly-the
/ head of the Knights Of Labor organization
/ in this country-has issued a circular to the
/ Order warning against strikes and boycott
ting as opposed to the principles of the Or
der, Save as a last resort fayoring arbitra-
/ ton and a conciliatory policy and disclaim-
/ ing responsibility on his part or on the part
/ of the general organization for many OF the
strikes now and recently in progress.
Mr.. Joseph Pulitzer editor Of the New
York World, has sent to the governors Of
the New York Hospital a check for $1,000,
the amount of his first years salary as Rep
/ reseutative ia Congress from the ninth dis
/ trct This donation is 20 be used in endOw
| ing n permanent bed in the hospital for
sick and disabled newspaper workers. This
atOnes, in some measure. for his almost to-
tai absence from his seat in the House.
One day last week through curiosity, John
/ Vanmeter weighed one of his stal.-ted cat
tie in the morning and in the evening he
/ took it up and weighed it again, and It had
made a clear gain of 20 pounds. Another
/ steer made gain OF 90 pounds In ten days.
/ Mr.. :. VI. McNeil's cattle were taking on
six pounds per day, and he stopped feeding
them so much, thinking that something
must be wrong with them.-UooJield Er-
aMiqer.
4 goose farm Is one Of the curiosties of
/ agriculture on the eastern shore of Virginia.
Within an area of about 5000 acres live
/ 5000 geese, of several varieties, attended
I by herders and regularly fed with corn, &c.
+ The object Is the collection Of down for
quilts and pillows, and once in about six
weeks a plucking takes place. Only the
breast and sides under the wings are pluck
ed, and it requires the yield OF nearly 100
geee 10 weigh pound.