Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1886-09-23
NEWSY NOTES

Cholera is killing Off thousands in ina
and japan.
Monday was the 2Sd anniversary of
Chickamauga
The Potomac l,iyer regatta at Washing
ton next Tuesday.
Baltimore has contributed SOS, 800 to the
Charleston rel, fund.
A colored m industrial fair Is about
opening in Wa ston.
Lyuchburg has Just dedicated an $50, 900
church, the First Baptist.
Virgil, the great stallion, and Dew Drop,
the racing mare, are dead.
Maplewood, Long Island, has raised a
quart of September Strawberries.
Marshall Parks is nominated for Congress
by the % Virginia district democrats.
Saturday will be the anniversary of the
discovery of the Pacific ocean in 1918.
The daughter Of ex-Gov Carroll of Nd.
will soon marry Baron Louis de la Grange.
Hartford, Conn. has dedicated a memo
rial arch to the soldiers aud sailors OF the
war
Beecher's son is the prohibition nominee
for district attorney in Kings county, New
York.
Representatives Barnes Compton and
Frank I. Shaw OF Maryland are re-nomi-
mated
Mexican troops have slain the noted ban
dit. Fl Cayote-COl. Mantez the terror of
border life.
1t is said Gus. F. II. Smith has resigned
the Superntendency of the Virginia Mill
tary Institute.
The Washington and Baltimore brick
LAYERS picbnicked at the Baltimore scheutzen
park on Monday.
The prohibitioasts of the 9th Maryland
district have put man up for Congress
Rev. \. l. Mann.
Nineteen persons killed and as many fa-
tally injured in q rail collision near Silver
Creek \. Y, last week.
Michigans worst hurricane wrought big
damage last week in Livingstone, Lenwane,
Clinton and Wayne counties.
The farmers and dairymeu held their 9TH
national convention in Phiadelp hia yester
day week. A letter from the President was
read.
At Westenport, Nd, last week David
johnson, lunatic, shot Edward White, a
prominent citizen, dead and was lynched
therefor.
Republican plurality in Maine last week
1900. The congressman and as of the
legislature theirs also Hale's return to
the Senate sure.
Geo Ross aged % and Jas. C. Morford,
John Reddicord and Nathaniel Watts aged
81 are the only survivors Of Baltimore 5
"old defenders"
The Virginia appeals court decides that
the new school superintendcntS must give
way to the old-their appointment having
been unconstitutional
Gov. Lee of Vireinia last week attended
a meeting in Phi adelphiA of the executives
of the Is original states to prepare for cee-
bratiug the Constitutions centennial next
year.
The Holstein COW Clothilde owned by
Smith, Powell and Lamb, of Syracuse, n.
\. has just closed a record of six years dur
ing which she has given over 10000 pounds
OF milk.
Jay Gould's son George has married
Edith Kingdom of Brooklyn, an actress.
Jim Blaine's son Jim has married Marie
Nevins of Columbus, Ohio, who wanted to
be an actress.
St Joseph's Retreat the Passionists Fa-
Tiers new monastery on the Frederick
road. opposite Loudon Park cemetery near
Baltimore, was dedicated 10y Cardinal Glib
bOns last week.
Elk. Representative Gilbert \. Woodward,
the democratic nominee for governor in
Wisconsin, Is a native OF Washington City
where he worked as printer on the old Ma
ti0aal htelligeaccr.
Samuel Crawford aged 50 of Point Pleas
ant, ;his State, who went west some time
since has been long missing from Florence,
Wis, which place he left Aug. If with con-
siderable money to explore some land he
thought Of purchasing.
The largest artificial forest in North
America is the Southern Pacitics railway
tie nursery near darlington in Southern
Kansas. There are three million trees
catalpa, white ash and alianthus-of two,
four md X years growth and varying in
height from II to % feet.
Doctor" said despairing patient to his
physician, 81 am in "a dreadful condition
/ can neither Tag nor SET What shall |
do p" Il think you had better roost," was
the reply. Now, if we consider that this
poor fellow WAS all contorted with rheuma-
ti,m, the doctor would have done much
better py prescribing bottle of Salvation
Oh, which would have relieved his patient
at once. Price p cents a bottle.
Last Thursday evening Mrs. Eliza Bote-
Ter. the honorable widow of the late J. d.