Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1886-11-18
S'lrslnia free gres5.
". ". B. GALLAHER, Editor.
ohoriesto,cn, Jefferson County, Vest "
NoreDtber n, 1850.
NEWSY NOTES


John Bright. the English Radical will be
IS next Tuesday.
Silver ore with traces of gold has been
discovered near Caldwell, Ark.
Three men persisted in a hotel fire at
Loogootee, Martin county, ] d.
W r Woodruff of Chicago, a hardware
drummer fell dead in Baltimore.
Henry county, Va has voted sl5O,OOO to
the Roanoke and southern Railroad.
Prof j. A. Harrison, of Va, is made an
Ii. d. by Randolph Macon College.
Father Horgan of St. Dominic's church.
South Washington, is dead-aged Il.
new steam line between Newport News,
Va, and Liverpool opens December /.
Sam'l Wallace, of Baltimore, is appoint
ed chemist under the oleomargarine law.
The steamer Lord Jefry from Shields,
Eng, Oct. 7 tor Baltimore, is believed lost.
President Cleveland has declined the de-
gree OF IL. ID. proiIered by Harvard Uni
versily.
The President has given S25 towards buy
ing seed wheat for impoverished Texas
farmers.
Prince Kamatson of Japan tie Mikado'7
uncle, pad his respects TO the President
last week
Hudgin and Co.'S history commission
warehouse, Pratt-st., Baltimore, burned.
Loss $4,000,
Dr. 7. G. Ford Of Shreveport, La. xii ed
J. G. kirkpatrick at New Orleans for init
macy with his wife
Annual reunion Oct. 80 of Fairfax coun-
~ ex-COnieds at the c. II. A letter from
jeff Davis was read.
Middleton & Co.. commission merchants,
and Hanson, Hiss x Co house iurnlshcr-
IN Baltimore have failed.
Tennessee and Arkansas land ownc S
have made considerable money IN their for
est OF black walnut timber.
Jas. r. Tyler, of Virginia, grandson Of
the late President is made an Interior DE
partnent watchman at s72O.
Petersburg j. suing the uncompleted Nr-
ginia and Carolina Railroad fnr $4,000
the city's interest in said road.
A quarter million dollars mercantile
blaze at III East Madi-on--t., Chicago.
several fir men severely imured-one killed
The b & O. will complete the dou.
tracking OF It's Metropolitan Branch bct"' en-
Silver Springs aud Rockville by New Year,.
Miss Alice Sanborn is elected sci ooI -u-
perintendent in Bruk county, Oak, by
1850 majority Democratic and iarm'r
votes.
A boiler explosion at the Charleston &
g cotton factory killed 2 cnlnred men
Five hundred hands thrown out Of employ
ment.
F. II. Towne, an ex-Dep't clerk, wa-
killed in Washington by a runaway hnr e.
Leave, widow aud children at Marlbo
ro', Nd.
Baine's nephew Waite S;inson has mar
ried a buculio editors daughter up in Maine
Jimgee vouchsaicd 'eni hs blessing ano
800 in gold
August Brentano, the New York news
lealrr aud -tationer j. dead aged 81. He
nepbews run branch houses III Chicago aud
Washington.
4 Washington man has sent the Treasury
for redemption $3377 IN continual notes 0
81, 50. go. 20 and 80 dollar denominations r.
issue OF l77S-79.
On the l,t instant tic Act OF Aug. 2
iast went infO effect taxing Oie"margariur
makers $500 a yedr. wholesale dealers there
m $3.50 and retail dealers SIS.
Prosecuting Attorney w =. Pam. oi
Mcdowell county, w. Va, j. jailed al Per
rysville for killing hi, brother Albert y"
cause assigned. Both men had been drink =
ing.
The West India Tor Atlantic Coast Line
fat mail started Noy. makes the run from
New York to Tampa. Fla, 1900 miles n
Al hours. II Is the fastest thrO service III
the country.
Rev. DR.. Ellison Capcrs Of Greenyille, :
c. l,nn of the late Bishop Capefs of the "
f. Church. South, and an exCOnfed bri.
sade commander Is tendered tie Eastor
Nd bishopric.
Three acres Of coal burning in the Stand
ard mines at Mt Pleasant. Pa. Flooding
the shait-who-e daily output was ljCC
tons-will take months. 800 coke oveni
will have to be closed.