Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1886-02-11
YEWSY NOTES

The first snow since sc fell near the city
of Mexico last week.
Grafton gave over four hundred dollars
to the Newburg sufferers.
Yesterday was the 10th anniversary OF
Queen Victoria's marriage.
MARYLAND had 6,66S, 800 capital invested
in home enterprises last year.
Mrs. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston gave $50
to the Washington poor last week.
The country's postmasters are to hold a
convention in Chicago next Monday.
Peter w. Reherd has bonded in 100000
as county treasurer at Harrisonburg.
Wilmot G. DeSaussure, a leading lawyer
of Charleston, 5 c., is dead, aged Ga.
Pope Leo XIII has decreed the year 1886
Jubilee throughout the Catholic world.
John Carroll. the Colonnade hotel porter
in Philadelphia, has just died leaving $780,
600.
Boiling, an insane farmer of Suffolk, Vir-
ginia, killed his sister and his wife with an
axe.
James H. Hough, clerk in the pension
office at Washington committed suicide last
week.
Mr. Robert Garrett. President of the B. &
0. gave $1,000 for the poor Of Baltimore
last week.
Premier Gladstoue's daughter was mar
ried last week to an English clergyman
Mr. Drew.
On Monday the President sent to the
Senate the nomination of a. n. Williams
to be postmaster at Parkersburg.
A hunter in Georgia found a herd of deer
in swamp that were so benumbed by the
cold that he captured ten of them.
Senator Camden and Representative W.
L. Wilson made generous contributions for
the relief of the families of the Newburg
miners.
The unusually cold weather in Texas is
said to have killed $1,000 head of cattle
within radius of seyenty-tiye miles OF
Fort Ellicott.
The local option bill which passed the
Virginia House of Delegates has been re-
ported unlavorably by the Senate commit
tee TO which it was referred.
Mrs. Sarah Van Rensselaer, Green, of Chi
cago, an 1912 veterans widow and the niece
of old Gen. Peter Van Resslaer, of New
York died last week, aged 10.
Addie Sherman.a reyivalist, was playing
havoc with tne saloons at Cameron, twenty
five miles from Wheeling last week. She
had the town cutters running with liquor.
IF London did not have its 100 city mis-
sionaries," said the Earl of SALISBURY the
other day, ut would require 10000 more
police" They needed about 10000 more
last Monday.
The Senate has passed the bill bisecting
Dakota and admitting its Southern half as
a State. Voorhees,, Of Indiana, voted with
the Republicans The measure can't get
through the House.
The Treasury conscience fund now
amounts to 1920, 1926; quite a large sum,
TO be sure but it has been accommodating for
fifty-eight years. That isn't much for con-
science, considering.
Mrs. Fleming, wife of Julian E. Elem
inc. editor of the Morgantown Nc,g DOmin-
ion. died OF the 2Sth ultimo. She was the
daughter of Rev. w. y. Stewart, of Monon-
gala county, and was greatly esteemed and
loved by all.
DR.. J. L. Campbell, professor of chemis-
try in Washington and Lee University, died
there Tuesday night He was the oldest
member of the faculty of that institution
A brother of Prof Campbell died at Ro-
anOke last week.
Histories make men wise, Poets witty.
But what in the world does a man want
with either when he has sprained his arkle
No sir, not these not these Give him but
one bottle of Salvation Oil. The greatest
cure on earth for pain.
The death of Mr.. J. Blackwell Smith
took place at his home near Warrenton on
Sunday. January 81, in the seventy-sixth
year of his age He was the son of the late
VIM. r. and Lucy Smith and was the oldest
child of the twenty-five children of hi;
parents.
Garfeld's cofFined remains were last week
placed in q bronze sarcophagus weighing
$50 lbs aud resting on four lions feet
Lichens, calycathus, lilies and oak leaves
are deliberately wrought on the casket to
represent the dead mans love of home, love
for his fellows, his purity and his courage
Mr.. Jno. X. Randall, member of the
Baltimore bar and Librarian of the mercan-
tile Library, killed himself with pistol in
Baltimore on Monday morning. He was q
granddaughter of Gen. Zachary Taylor
About the same hour his father, DR.. Burton
Randall, [. 5. A., died in Washington city
aged 81 years.
Saturday last Prof. St. Geo. T. Brooke
and lady gave the law class of the Uniyer'
sity a dinner. Prof Brooke is one of the
ablest and most thorough teachers and lee
turers that has ever taught in the Univer'
sty, and has always given complete salts
faction in and out of the school rOOm.-
NgrggHt0irn Past.
4 great revival of religion in NJ. L
Church, Morgantown-the meetings con
Quoted by Revs. ChenOweth and Crawford
and Miss Jennie Smith. Ninety-six con
versions up TO the 2ud instant. On Sunday
week forty-twO persons were baptized
Miss Addie Sherman has arrived to TAKE
part in the services.-P0a
Col. Beverly, of Virginia, president o
the Farmers congress, made an argumen
last week before the House committee OF
agriculture in favor of extending the ser
vice of the weather bureau so as to give th,
farmers the benefit. He said that flags by
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