Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1886-10-07
NEWSY NOTES.
Snow at Marquette, Mich, last weet.

MarlnsDuTS merchants seh1 Ohai' 'eVn
$40.
To-day is the anniversary of the I'd cattle
Of Saltwater in III.
Tomorrow W. be the 18th anniversary
of the death of PRESIDENT Pierce.
The President will visit the State fair at
Richmond, We two weeks hence.
Heavy frost ar md Lynchburg last Fri
day. Vegetati .njured-tobacco ruined.
Dwyer Bros Lave sold their IS racing
horses for $l9.525-prices ranging from
$3.50 down to 800.
Detective Mattingly recovered at Mar
tinsburg last week some silver ware stolen
from Washington lady.
An attempt was made at Culpepper last
week to lynch Capt. Clatterbuck-jailed
there for killing Edward Green.
The cattle disease in Virginia exists only
among Texas stock sold last month in Lou
doun, Fauquier and Rockingham.
A stranger, NJ. c. Pennybacker aged so,
died suddenly at HagerstowIF last Friday.
His brother lives in Lexington, KY.
The Front Royal Va. ladies' relief club
have sent 500 TO the Charleston sufferers.
The Lexington minstrel club donated $50.
The triennial convention General Grand
Chapter, Royal Arch MasOnS, met in Wash
ington Tuesday. The local Masons paraded.
Four men blown to fragments by pow
der explosion at the Ditmar works at Bay
Chester on the Harlem river near New York.
Jas. Miller aged 81 went into the woods
near Winchester last Thursday and killed
himself He married Sarah Taylor 10 days
before.
Work was begun Saturday On the cree
ton of the college which Henry G.. Davis
will present to the corporation Of Piedmont,
this State.
w. w. Corcoran has sent 81 900 to the
Confederate home soldiers orphaned daugh-
tiers at Charleston. He gave the city $1,000
while ago.
The Patriotic Order "Sons of America"
have lifted $4,000 mortgage from Geo.
Washington headquarters at Valley Forge,
Pennsylvania.
Noble d. Larn, aged o. president Ma
tional Union Fire Insurance Company,
Washington is elected General Grand High
Priest Royal Arch MasOns.
If we would have powerful minds, we
must think if faithful hearts, we must
love; if we would get rid of bad cough,
We must take DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup
The statistics of a prominent Southern
manufacturing journal show that property
interests have increased in che South 81 ,000,
100000, or about 49 per cent, since the last
census.
The White House of the Confederacy at
Richmond, Va. is now used as a public
school Libby prison is fertilizing facto-
~ and Castle Thunder has been burned to
the ground.
The $4,000 heroic bronze statue of John
c.. Calhoun, by Albert c. Hornish Of Rome,
has reached Charleston, s. c. 1t will be
shortly unveiled Secretary Lamar making
the address.
The Supreme Court at Staunton last week
refused a rehearine in the case of Cluverius
who killed his cousin Fannie Lillian Madi-
son at the Richmond reservoir March 13,
'Sj. The Hastings court will sentence him.
John II. C. Bowen who killed Frank
Heatwole near ROmney April 30 last in
mistake for one Harvey Barr has got life
sentence. Barr is a mill Waterman and in
CURED Bowen's hate by visiting a woman
friend of his.
Mr.. w. CASTOR Allen of South Carolina
was last week appointed to Mexican con-
sulate and the same dav in Washington
married Miss Bessie DenisOn of Va. Mr..
Aliens appointment was the Presidents
wedding gift
J. p Swank, a large cattle dealer of
Rockingham county, short time ago pur-
chased about 80 head of cattle in Balti
more aud brought them to Harrisonburg to
Craze. Some 10 or Il have died with what
is called Texas fever
The oldest Democrat in Alabama is
Thomas Garrett, of Baldwin county. He
is ll9 wears old. His first vote was cast
for John Adams, in 1896. He is the father
Of twenty one children, and he has voted
the Democratic ticket all his life.
Hog cholera of a virulent type is preva-
lent in north and north east Virginia.
Dead swine litter the fields il Hanover and
Spottsylvania counties Small planters
have lost heavily. An epidemic Of fever
growing out of the decayiug carcasses is
feared.
What promises to be long and bitter
contest began in the Washington Dell
courts Yesterday week. Martha Courtney
of England claims to be the widow-and
for years the deserted wife-of Henry b.
Courtney. the match manufacturer, and
asks for an assignment of dover from his
estate.
Judge J. :. Morris of Natchez, Miss, has
donated to the Charleston sufferers his por-
trait, painted by Philo Bush in 1887, of
Sergeant : Prentss. The plan is for Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana people to determine
by ballot at q dollar each, which State-or
city in the State-shal own it. The New
Orleans PicaylHe is conducting the affair.
Col Chas. Gordon Greene, since 1927
either editor or proprietor, successfully, of
the Taunton Mass. Free Press, the Boston
literary Spectator, Boston Statesman, Phil
adelphia Palladium (which first advocated
Jacks0n's election, L. S. Telegraph, Boston
Statesman and Boston Post. died last week
at the Hub, aged 50 He retired from the
Past in '75-havinr edited il right along