Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1886-11-18
NEWSY NOTES

The Princess of Wales Will be 40 Oil lday.
Opening Suez Canal seventeen years ago
yesterday.
The 50 silver certificates will be Issued
about Dec. l.
Baron & Cos cigar factory, Baltimore,
burned Sunday.
Next Tues Anniversary battle of
Chattanooga in 90.
Daavilie, V viii build $4,000 iron
bridge over the l.rer Dan.
Lorillard's THE New York tobacconist)
estate has sold tor S64S,700.
Mr.. ;. Spencer has been reelected Presi-
dent OF the Valley Railroad
Speaker Carlisle wa, dined last night by
the lroquois club in Chicago.
Renhard Petzold, a German cabinet ma
ker in Baltimore, has suicided.
Uncle Joe" Mcdonald they say will be
one of Iudianas next Senators.
Judge Hughes is made receiver Va. Beach
Railroad and Improvement Co.
\ brick yard boiler explosion at Dunbar,
Pa, killed Miss Tillie Ca pbeli.
Twenty inches of snow in northern New
York last Saturday. Trains delayed.
Assessed property values in Alabama
have increased 50 millions since 1880.
Next Monday Vice President Wilson
been dead II years and Thurlow Weed 4.
An Arkansas murderer was taken from
the Jail at Harrison, that state, and shot.
Mrs.. Laura L. Strayer, of West Virginia,
is promoted to 81 POO in the Patent office.
r. A. Miller is jailed at Poeahontas. Va,
charged with setting his hotel afre Nov. 3.
At the Columbus Ga jail six prisoners
gagged the jaier, robbed him and lit out.
Appointment Clerk Hassler, of the lutte
rior Department, has returned to Washing
ton.
r B. HAYES Jr., the ex-President's son,
is 20 marry Miss Mary Sherman of Norfolk,
Ohio.
In Baltimore VIM. Thomas is given y
years for killing Henry Goodman Both
colored.
The N. E. Mission board has appropria
ted $4,000 for West Virginia and $4,000 for
Virginia
The y. N. c. \. of Maryland and this
State met in annual session at Frederick
last week
Judge Dickman of Cleveland a Virgin
ian by birth, is appointed to the Ohio SUI
preme bench.
F. A. Cloudman, Newburyport skipper,
is about starting on trip around the world
in a 30-ioot yawl
Nine thousand FIVE hundred persons
shook hands with the President and Mrs,
Cleveland at Boston.
Virginia and Maryland planted this wear
ll4,600 acres in cotton. The product is
placed at S7SlS bales.
At Alexandria last week Isaac Washing
ton, aged l0l, and Mary Burns. aged 81, got
out 4 license to marry.
The Roanoke zinc and silver mines near
Lynchburg are sold to J. H. Bartlett of
London-S600 900 cash.
Washington colored folks held a meeting
Yesterday week to celebrate the emancipa-
ton of the Cuban slaves.
Berlin will ship to Philadelphia next
month an equestrian statue of Washington
ordered by the Quaker City.
In Hodgeman county, Kansas. 100 lynch.
ers hung fellow named Sam Purple who
killed his wife and children.
The Baltimore courts give the late Rev.
f. \. Newman'S $780, 600 estate to his widow
and daughter. win set aside.
Congressman Glover of Missouri had a
fight with another man in St Louis. They
were taken to the police station.
Indian summer in central Ohio has ri
pened a second strawberry crop and brought
yioIets and lilacs into full bloom.
Governor Pattison is talked of for mayor
of Philadelphia and ex-War Secretary Rob
ert Lincoln for mayor of Chicago.
Chattanooga Tenn Lookout mill has
Just finished the first wrought iron pipe
ever made south of the Ohio river.
The Presidents country place above
Washington has been named Oak View
Mrs. Folsom will make it her home.
OF the 50 Democrats who opposed Morri-
sons tariff bin IS failed to be renominated,
and of the Il who were, got beaten.
J. c. Mccormick, a young broker Of
Hawkinsviile, Ga, killed himself on the
eve of marriage 20 Miss Carrie Lewis.
Rev. Geo. W. Bovine Episcopap aged
%, of Salisbury, Nd, has become a Catho-
lie and is studying for the priesthood.
\ Young lady, Miss Weakley, is chosen
enrolling clerk in the Alabama legislature.
Her name can't describe her very well
Bishop Curtis of Wilmington, Del, was
con>ecrated in Baltimore sunday. lie was
once Protestant Episcopal Clergyman.
At a meeting at Glasgow, Saturday, it
was resolved to raise monument to Burns
Highland Mary on Castle Hill, Dunoon.
Near 1000 orange and vineyard acres
near Los Angeles, Col, are sold to J. II.
Puleston Of London, Eng for $l,037 500.
Business failures: in Balumore-Kern-
good Bros, wholesale dry goods; Louis y
and JOS 5. Hopkins, cotton and fertilizers.
An explosion at the American Forcite
Powder Works on Lake Hoptacong near
Mouistown, y. j., killed one man wounded
four.
City engineer Richard Brooke of Nor
folk and ex-Solicitor General Goodies
dauvhter were married in WASHINGTON last