Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1886-07-15
NEWSY NOTES.

Arcade Railroad.
Cardinal Gibbons has been spending
few days at Deer Park.
NJ. d. Ball Of Virginia, is confirmed as
L. ;. At;Orney lr Alaska.
Henry Meyers, Baltimore shoemaker
killed his son in quarrel.
Senators C-mden and Kenna called on
the President We terday week.
The Presit has vetoed this session
nearly 100 speo ii pension acts.
Orkney Springs Is on the eve of big
dress ball in honor Of Gov. Lee.
Horace A. Whitney, cashier in the Treas
urers Office, L. 5. Treasury, is dead
Forty thousand tons of ice consumed
in a storehouse fire near Albany, n. Y.
The President is having erected 2-story
stone back building to his suburban cottage.
Staunton had a hail storm last Thursday.
Hailstones as big as partridge eggs reported.
One year ago to-day New York State de-
clared the Niagara Park as free to the
public.
w. H. Glider and w. r. Griffith sailed
Tuesday from New London, Conn.,, on
polar search.
The corner stone of new 3-story wing
to the Garfield Hospital in Washington was
laid on Tuesday.
The President has been elected an honor
airy member of the New York State Society
of the Cincinnati.
The Hagerstown Bicycle Club entertained
visiting wheemen from Washington and
Baltimore on the 9th.
Senators Camden and Kenna sent re
grets' to the big Tammany meeting in
New York on the 5,h.
Wilson of West Virginia is modest
man who is rated high by the campaign
committee Washington Star.
Miss Tobtha Hatton, Quakeress of
Yodkin county, n c. is dead. She was the
first woman lawyer in the State.
The National Association of Charities
aud Corrections meets to-day in 18th annu-
al convention of st. Paul, MINI.
The Presbytery of Baltimore will observe
its centenary in that city Thursday, Octo-
Der 7th during the meeting of the synod.
Col. Geo. b. Corkhill of Washington,
who was District Attorney under Hayes and
Arthur aud conducted the prosecution of
Guiteau, is dead-aged IS.
A marriage license was issued in Wash
iugton to NJ Cabell Maddux, of Orkney
Springs, and Ella Scott Hefebrown, of
Marshall, Fauquier county.
The Messrs. Scribner will issue a new il
lustrated monthly, "Scribner's Magazine"
about January l. E. c. Burlingame, editor,
and VIM. A Patton, general manager.
George L. Porter, aged sixty-two, editor
and publisher of the Baltimore Journal Of
Commerce., Secretary of the Board of Trade
and proprietor Of the Exchange Reading
Rooms, is dead
California Grand Army men have sent
the President an invitation to their encamp-
ment next month. It's engraved on solid
gold plate. The President accepted the
invitation but says he can't so.
At the State Teachers meeting at Pen
Mar. Pa, last week, Rev. ID. w. Owens OF
HagerStown offered the prayer, Maj. II.
Kyd Douglas made the welcoming address
and F. A. SOper of Baltimore replied
thereto.
Cora Pearl, the noted courtesan Of Paris,
died last week. According to her own sto-
~ she was the discarded daughter of Prof
Crouch, of Baltimore, by his first wife-an
English actress. Crouch, it will be remem-
I,ro1 ,,rrofo Eotb1as, Mavournoau
Two small colored children were drugged
and placed on the railroad track, near Falls
Church, Fairfax county, recently, aid were
scraped by the pilot of a locomotive before
it could be brought to a standstill by the
engineer, who had suddenly observed them
Theus Taylor, a Merrick Long IslandD
farmer and ''crack" shot, has been given a
year aud months for killing Tad Griffin,
his hired man, while trying to shoot tin
can off his head. Taylor is the son of a
Louisiana Confederate general who fell in
the war
The Miro, says: The wheat harvest in
Loudoun county IS now ended, and while
the growth of straw has been abundant, the
almost universal complaint is that the heads
are not well-flled, and that consequently
the yield of grain will be light. The corn
is looking fine and the grass was never more
luxuriant.'
Representative VIM. Ii. Cole, Sd Mary
land district died in Washington last
Thursday after six weeks illness, aged 40.
He was of Baltimore birth, an ex-Confede-
rate, doctor and lawyer, was several times
in local municipal employ and served on
the Gazette staff '66 to 'S3. Later on he
was reading clerk, house Of delegates.
Dr. W. c. Marsters, Rossum, p o. Nd,
says i'm the year 1884 he used y bbls of
Powell's Prepared Chemicals, and believe
they paid him as well as fertilizer costing
him three times as much. Powell's Pre-
pared Chemicals cost So 90 per bbl. suiii
cient quantity to make one half ton COM
plete fertilizer. Address Brown Chemical
Co., manufrs, Baltimore, Nd.
4 romantic marriage took place at Ker-
honkson, \. Y, On Saturday. The groom
was John Ward, of Wolf Trap, Va, and
the bride Mrs. Jennie Lansing of Kerhonk-
son. They had never seen each other until
the night preceding the marriage. The
courtship had all been carried on by letter
After the wedding the couble left for Vir-
ginia, where they will make their future
home.
4 suit Was tried in the Circuit Court of
Augusta county, last week. for the recovery