Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1886-10-21
NEWST NOTES

Secretary Manning has resumed his
Treasury Portfolio.
Thirty-fve business houses in Punxsu-
tawney, Pa, burned.
A daughter of Gen. Buckner, the famous
Conied., is going on the stage.
The Cumberland Valley r. r. is building
a grain elevator at Martinsburg.
A gift from the Queen of Madagascar is
now on its way to the President.
The first corn of the new crop, white, sold
in Baltimore Oct. . at 80 cents bushel.
Bishop Wingfeld has declined the Eas-
ton Md bishopric-the 9th geiusal OF that
vacant see.
The Chesapeake and Ohio car shops at
Huntington are to be enlarged to double
their capacity.
Killing frosts throughout Southern Ma
ryland have ruined the tobacco crop. Gov.
Bowie lost heavily.
John Mulcahy, aged 2s, b. q o. road
detective was killed by toughs at Benwood,
this State, recently.
The Hygea hotel, Fortress Monroe was
not sold last Thursday. Executors limit
S4j0,O0O No bids.
Three Baltimore men caught 200 one to
Alb. bass in a weeks fishing between Ber-
lin and Harper Ferry.
J.. A. Charlton, n Virginian residing in
Washington, tried 10 poison himself with
arsenic. Money troubles.
Marriage licenses issued in Washington
to Jas. V Cavanagh and Lillian X. Wilson,
both Of Harrisonburg, Va.
Otto Baumann, aged 40 employed in the
Union dime savings bank. New York, has
fed to Canada with $4,000.
A Toronto cook, Margaret Halligan, in
| herits from her brother the biggest cotton
plantation in Tunica county, Miss.
Jos Baxter Of Welzel county WAS killed
/ IN his doorway by concealed party. His
cousin, Jno. Newman, is under arrest
The remains of Chief Justice Chase were
Yesterday moved from Washington to Gin
cinnati where legal eulogies were bad.
Ell. Hayes aged II shot his sister Mrs.
Milton Grey at Forestvile, Nd. Wounds
not fatal Didn't know it was loaded.
Last months fire losses in the United
States and Canada were 6! millions. Up
to Oct the years loss was 50 millions.
Henry county, Va, will vote next month
20 decide if it Shall subscribe 100000 for
the proposed Roanoke and Southern 4. Il.
Prof Marshall Of Va, great grand son
Of the old Chief Justice, teaches German
10 Woford College, Spartanburg. South
Carolina.
The Richmond district has candidates
! for Congress in the feld-GOy. Wise, ex-
Judge Waddill Republican and WIN. II.
Mullen, llabor.l
Jerome Increase Case, who owns the rae
ing horse Jay Eye See, is an Illinois manu-
faclurerof threshing machines and very rich.
In '46 he was a blacksmith.
Henry Leentan convicted at Ellicott
City, Nd, of stealing a horse and firing
the stable by which other nags perisbed
has been given 20-odd years.
Martin Z. Cordermun, aged 49, an eccen-
trio farmer of Rocky Springs' vicinity
Washington county, Nd, has suicided.
Leaves a wife and children.
The steamer Mascotte plying the Missis-
sippi river between st. Louis and Cape
Gifadesu exploded her boilers and was
burned to the waters edge. % lives lost.
The Rochester Lumber Co. of Pittsburg
will distribute $4,000 Of their profits, for the
year ending next October, among their EN-
ployees in sums ranging from $50 10 $50.
The wife of Christopher Yeakle jumped
from vehicle near Harrisonburg, Va, and
was killed The horse her husband was
driving started to run and she became
scared.
, Vicksburg's cotton planters association
asks the co operation Of the governors OF the
cotton states in securing the return by the
government Of the 6O-odd millions cotton
} tax" levied in '65.