Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1886-10-28
NEWSY NOTES

near -AulilIIdl NiNAole II ut1u HStu Oo'
The B. & O. r. r. has placed orders for
1000 additional freight ears.
Col. Bob Ingersoll is under treatment in
Philadelphia for an obstinate tumor in his
throat
Last weeks wind storm was very severe
on the lakes. Al Buffalo 40 small houses
wrecked.
Senator Mitchell, of Pa, whose term ex
pires next March, is nearly blind from
rheumatism.
The democratic campaign committee are
now sending out the second edition OF the
campaign book.
The Trundle brothers house and barn at
Martinsburg, Montgomery county, Md,
was burned last week.
T.V Powderly is elected grand master
workman of the Knights Of Labor for the
Sth consecutive term.
Adirondack" Murray -ex-minister, ac-
tor and author-has married Frances Riv-
ers, a Montreal Catholic.
The far-famed pencil factory at Nuren-
burg. Ger, celebrated the l25th anniversa-
~ of its founding recently.
Two New York bank thieves are given 10
years each in Baltimore for stealing 500
from Local bank customer.
Three hundred aud ten mills working in
the South to-day against l6l in 1880. Pro-
duction has increased SO per cent.
The Oldest Hudson river boatman is
Capt. w. W Wood of the Rondout-Troy
line Sixty three years experience.
Theodore Mills the Washington sculp-
tor, has given the President terra Gotta
busts of himself and Mrs. Cleveland.
The B. q o. has taken out a permit in
| Washington to build $1,000 frame station
at Takoma Park in the Capital suburbs.
The President comes in for little share
in the estate of his dead uncle-Jos. Neal,
of Baltimore 1t ought to be only mite.
Nav Cadman, child cousin of Mrs.
| Cleveland, is tending the public schools in
Washington aud lives at the White House.
Virginia had l97 new post Offices estab-
lished during the year ending June 30.
She now ranks 4th in the list-with , PSI.
His mothers heirs are conte-ting Vice
President Hendricks will leaving the wild
ow everything. They claim one-third the
estate.
The President has pardoned Chas Thorn
a.. colored life convict in the W. Va.
penitentiary who killed his wife's lover in
Arkansas in '76.
The Agricultural bureaus October crop
report makes these estimates Corn 1850.
100000 bushels. bar ey 60,00O,OOO, rye 30
100000, oats 600, 100000.
Washington's police are newly uniformed
in blue trousers. close buttoned lrock coat
black helmet, white gloves and LOADED
rattan canes That's nobby.
Judge Jno. J. Key of Washington !,
dead aged 90. He was Of Kentucky birth
and belonged to the Kew and Marshall fam
lilies of Maryland and Virginia.
At Hopkinsville, Ky, the remains Of ljC
confed soulders, hitherto occupying un
known graves, have been reinterred in Z
pretty cemetery given by the city council
DIR. John Dickson of Baltimore will next
month marry Miss Vickers, rich Balti
more belle who is one Of the characters. ir
disguise. in Dr. Palmer's new novel "Aftcl
this Kind"
Elias Livezev has sold the Blltim IRE Gre
nation Cemetery Co. q log 30 by l84 IN
Cbarles-ave.. south of Br0oss->t for SS3;
and a yearly rem Of $50. A big cremato
ry will be built on the site.
In the case Of Willis vs the county treas
urer Of Rappahannock for levying on plain
/ tif7s property after he had rendered STAT
coupons for taxes the Richmond circuit
court Jury has given verdict to plaintiff
The Baltimore Maapfacturer's Reooy,
shows that southern capital invested m new
and renewed enterprises up to sept. 30 TIM
wear foots up S83. S34. 200 against fity-tw'
millions and odd for the same period las
year
Charity Virgins, mother Of " Bin'
Tom" the idiot negro pianist Is suing Jas
W. Bethume their former owner, at Alex
andria. for the services Of her son since g
and an accounting Of the profits from hi
concert exhibitions.
Wm. Webb. aged 4j, an Englishmar
employed in the store OF Gov. Lloyd.s bro
ther near Resterstown, Nd, has fled t
d Birmingham, Ala, with Jennie Taylo
aged Is. a pretty brunette. His wife whoT
he married in '6s is heart broken.
The Charleston e. c.. Palmetto Guar
have elected Commander Fairchild Of n
Grand Army an honorary member. IN
General has done noble work for the cit
bv the sea among bis comrades. He i no
: SO to speak-a boy in blue and grey.
Ex-senator d. L. Yulee Of Florida,
resident of Washington the past ten year
is dead aged 70. He was OF West Ind
e birth, spent his youth IN Virginia, repr
sented a Florida district in the 9th az