Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1886-06-03
NEWSY NOTES.


last week in Washington.
Yesterday the one dollar marriage license
fee law went into effect in Maryland.
The postmasters at Wheeling, Charleston
and Piedmont were confirmed last week.
The Presiden' intended, Miss Folsom.
arrived home Fl Europe last Thursday.
Washington citizens are trying to raise
$4,000 to free the local Y. NJ. G. A. from
debt
A half-mile area of lumber was burned
over at Wausau, Wis, last week. Losses,
100000.
The change of gauge of the Southern rail-
roads is being accomplished with marvellous
expedition.
A promenade concert in Charleston for
the Stonewall Jackson monument fund
cleared 5000.
An adopted son, % years old, of Maj.
Hammond, of Richmond is jailed for hav-
ing three wives.
The grand lodge Good Templars of the
world met in 32d annual session at Rich
mond last week.
Archbishop Gibbons will be invested with
the cardinals insignia June % or 30 at the
Baltimore Cathedral.
The St. Louis Republican says: "Mis-
souri, Is going to have the biggest wheat
crop ever seen anywhere.
A Winchesteriau-a son of Judge Faun-
telroy-is defending Maxwell in st. Louis
for the murder of Preller.
The Brooklyn Sunday school union cele-
brated its 9th anniversary yesterday week.
Fifty thousand children were in line.
A six-story stone structure in Chicago
occupied by bookbinders, publishers and
photographers burned last week Loss,
million.
Holmes r. Puryear, convicted in Prince
Georges Va, of poisoning his wife last
June is sentenced to hang October %. APP
peal taken.
Armour x Co., of Chicago, have signed a
contract with the French government for
seven million pounds Of canned beef. Can
it be possible?
4 thirty thousand dollar fire at Rowles-
burg. this State, last week. Planning mill
consumed and thirty-fve men thrown out
Of employment
The East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor-
gia r. Il. has been sold under court decree
to a reorganization committee for ten and
quarter millions.
Miss Eliza Peddicord aged Is, step
daughter of the late VIM. GlOyd, was out
ragged by young negro near Gaithersburg,
Nd, last Thursday.
David Whittaker's house and barn on
Casper Creek, near Abingdon, Va, were
DESTROYED by waterspout last week A
Miss Mongle was drowned.
The Valley City Mills at Grand Rapids,
Mich, fell in last Thursday. Twenty thou
sand bushels were swept into the river and
machinery costing $4,000 wrecked.
Municipal elections in Norfolk, Roanoke
and Portsmouth went Democratic. In
Richmond the Independents have majority
over the Democrats but the elect are princl-
pally Democrats.
Died last week Gen. Durbin Ward, of
Ohio, ex-Federal and leading Democrat
Stephen Pearl Andrews, of Massachusetts,
abohtionist, philosopher and linguist.-
Won Ranke, the German historian.
An individual in Springfield, Mass, wants
Uncle Sam to buy from him an ivory paint
ed original water color portrait of Washing
ton executed in 1856 by J. Lacon. The
price asked is a cool quarter million.
The Washington ContinentaIs went to
Richmond Monday with York pa ex-
cursion party. They gave Gov. Lee flo
raj ship of state Maj Bushrod Ball, a de-
scendant Of Washington, accompanied
them.
Col. \. c. Dickinson, an Confederate,
has been knighted by the Queen Regent of
Spain with the order of Isabella CatOlica,"
instituted by Ferdinand in 1915, for his
services in organizing 4 life insurance de-
partment in the kingdom.
At Richmond last week editor Cowardin
of the Dispatch and Mr.. Shelton of the La
Dor Herald had a brief rencontre growing
out of a Herald article saying the influence
of the Dispatch was for sale, and COwardin's
denouncing the writer as liar.
On the ground of new evidence Gov. Will
son pardoned Joseph PAUL, convicted of
murder in 1882 and sentenced to sixteen
wears in penitentiary. Also, on account of
in health, he pardoned Adkins, convicted
of embezzlement and sentenced for twoyears.
Mr. Lucian B. Hooh, of Alexandria,
died of Chagres fever at Panama recently.
For number of years he was in the service
of the Pacific Mail Company and and an
officer of one of the transPacifc mail
steamers running to YOkOhOma. Thirty-six
years Of age.
During a storm of Saturday evening week
a young man named Fink, living near
Hillsboro, was struck by lightning and he
and the horse he was riding instantly kill
ed. He was in the public road from Hills
boro to Harper's Ferry, and near his own
house, YET he was not found until the next
morning. He leaves wife and two small
children.
The most significant of all the floral offer
ings placed in and around the tomb of Gen. |
Grant are those from the South. Could |
anything be more appropriate than the flo
raj tribute sent by the organization OF Con- !
federate veterans of Richmond bearing the |
name of the great commander who surren- !
dered to Grant? The inscription on the hO-
raj design viii be Let us have peace"
Grace Memorial Church, Lexington, Va,
which has been completed at a cost of be-
tween $50. 900 and 10000. was dedicated /
go, C,,do,, lot Nfov On Tho occosion tyas