Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1886-02-04
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Senator Cgmdeu has gone to Florida for
a health trip.
T Senate eulogized the vice-President
Tuesday week.
WIN. Tecumseh Sherman will be sixty six
years old on Monday.
Senator Walthall, of Mississippi, will fill
out Secretary Lamar's unexpired term.
All of the bodies of the thirty-nine min
ers killed at Newburg have been found.
Henry Wittmer's shoe factory in north
east Baltimore is burned. Loss, $4,000.
Miss Lille Todd, maiden lady Of Will
mington, Del, is dead at the age Of 100.
Rev. DR.. Mcfarland will probably accept
the First Presbyterian pastorate atStaunton.
Representative Gibson has introduced a
bill TO fix the pay Of House folders at 5000
year.
Half Il million young cod were shipped
to Pensacola last week to be placed in the
gulf stream.
The MARYLAND Democrats in legislative
caucus have nominated Hon. Stephen
Archer for State Treasurer
Bishop Gilmour of Cleveland has positive
advices that Archbishop Gibbons of Balti-
more is to be made a cardinal
In the contest case of French VS. Jones
/ the Virginia lower house has given the case
10 Joues-a colored Republican.
The st. Cloud hotel and several Arch-st.
mercantile houses in Philadelphia burned
/ last week. Losses, half a million.
The Virginia Senate has passed the bill
defining the Maryland Virginia boundary
/ line and designating the Potomac headlands.
Christian Lehman's -four mil near Lei
tcrsburg i'm Washington county, Nd, burn
ed last Friday. Loss Sl2,0O0-no insur-
ance.
Representative and Senator-elect Jno. w.
/ Daniel of Virginia, will make the address
at the unwilling of the statue of the late
Senator Hill in Atlanta, Ga.
TWENTY-FIVE men were buried under sew
enteen feet of snow on Wednesday of last
week at Telluride, Colorado Some were
killed and others seriously injured.
The jackson county Mich poor house
was burned last week and five of the forty
| inmates persisted Othe.s must die from
exposure incident to saving them.
The revival in the NJ E. Church, South,
Harrisonburg lasted thirty-one days and re-
suited in seventy conversions-sixty were
added to the membership of that church.
j Rev. Arthur Foster, who served the Lau
4 rel Md NJ. E. Churches along about '6S
and afterwards became Reformed EpiSco
pal minister died in Washington last week.
Hon. David R. Atchison, of Clinton
county, Mo, is dead, aged ~. He was U.
:. Senator 1870, twice president of the
Senate, and acting President of the Uni ed
States one day.
The publishers of Gen. Grants Memoirs
/ have paid to Mrs Grant the first installment
of her profit for the publication in check
/ for $3.50. 600, and give assurance that her
share will be at least 100000
Mrs. Mary Bratton. who was born in Boz
/ tetourt county. Virginia, and died Novem-
\ Der last. aged l06 wears and was buried at
| Princeton, West Virginia, was Methodist
church member ninsty-two years.
The women relatives of the miners who
were killed in the Newburg disaster have,
many of them, become insane from grief
and the ladies of the community are doing
noble work in ministering to them.
Salvation Oil is an infallible cure for
headache, backache pain in the side and
/ limbs. and all rheumatic and neuralgia al
/ tections 1t relieves pain and eXtripates
/ the disease that causes 1t. Price twenty
| five cents a bottle.
Gen David Hunter died suddenly in
/ Washington ON Tuesday He is best re-
membered here as the Federal General who
ordered the burning of the residence of Hon.
/ Andrew Hunter, his cousin; and also the
homes of Z l. Lee, Esq, and Hon. 4. r.
| Botelcr at Shepherd-town, and of Governor
| Letcher at Lexington
Halls Vegetable Siclian Hair Remover
\ imparts a fine gloss and freshness to the
/ hair. and is highly recommended by physi
clans. clergymeu and scientists as a prepa-
ration accomplishing wonderful results. 1t
/ is a certain remedy for removing dandruf,
making the scalp white and clean, and re-
storing gray hair to its youthful color.
The PAGE Ne,rs SAYS Last Saturday night
a man named Newton Stokes, whilst walk
/ inc the = V r. r. bridge at Riverton fell
/ from 1t To the stream below distance of
/ about 40 feet. He fell i'm water about four
fee, deep, and, str nge to say, sustained no
serious injury He remained in the water
for 20 minutes and was rescued by the
Waterman
Mr.. Eppa Huuton, in behalf of persons
I holding S6.O00,000 of the So 96l ,67S Of the
so-called West Virginia Certificates issued
TO holders of Virginia bonds funded under
/ the acts of ISL 1879 and 1888, petition the
/ General Assembly of Virginia to take steps
/ 90 secure from West Virginia a settlement
of that States obligations to them as repre-
scented by those certificates.
Representative Wilson introduced on
/ Monday bin authorizing the President to
appoint three discreet department employees
as a commission to classify government la
/ Dor into grades with one district compensa-
/ ton for each grade-emploves assigned to
/ higher duties to be paid as if originally APP
pointed thereto Department chiefs are
given the appointing power without regard
20 the civil rvice law.
A collision on the Chesapeake and Ohio