Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1886-06-24
NEWSY NOTES

.iOnn Nelly toNdtS 10 NOith ~NSNfNNr
is left to his widow.
Rev. DR.. Kinloch Nelson has dec ned
the bishopric of Easton.
Francis Jefirc Dickens, son of the nov
elist. died at Mo.,re, H., last week.
The number OF youth in West Virginia
between the ages of 6 and q is 242, 492.
Charleston :. c. citizens have sent the
Pres dent and wi massive silver vase.
Geo. Tiffany, nerly of Baltimore, and
prominent Newport mill owner, Is dead.
The General Synod of the Southern Luz
theran churches meets to-day at Roanoke.
Gen. w. II. F. Lee is mentioned as Mr..
Barbour's probable successor in the House.
Conrad Miller a prominent German of
Baltimore, drowned himself in the Patapsco
last week.
Mrs. Cleveland has received from Ant
werp as bridal presents Dutch clock and
pet dog.
They say that Hon. VIM. l.. Scott of
Erie. Pa, will become Secretary OF the
Treasury in October.
Frank B. Riddleberger is appointed clerk
Senate committee on manufactures OF which
his father is chairman.
Fifty people killed and many wounded
during an election riot between radicals and
liberals at Santiago de Chill.
The American Nurserymen Association
met in convention at Washington last week.
Nearly 300 delegates present.
Editor Mcclure, of the Philadelphia
Times spoke at Washington and Lee COM
mencement on Lessons of the War.
The bill for the reduction of postal mon
ey order charges from cents to . cents on
five dollars has passed both houses OF Con-
gress.
Hon. John 5. Barbour has written a let
ter declining to be candidate for re-elec-
ton. This leaves a place open for some-
body.
Mr.. w. W. Corcoran has added $50 600
and a superb painting to his many muniil-
cent donations to Columbian University,
Washington.
Nelson Palmer, Baltimore brokers'
clerk and Librarian Brown Memorial church
,Presby terian) suicided last week while IN
Jail tor forgery.
The first new wheat sold in Baltimore last
week at so cents. 1t was not fairly ripe.
Received eight days earlier than the first
wheat last year.
Washington and Lee has conferred hon
orary degrees on Rev. Drs HOge, Arm
strong, Brown and Waugh of Va. and Dix
on of Baltimore.
Winfield B. Thompson aged 24, son of a
Kansas City Presbyterian pastor, shot his
Young bride and himself in a New York
hotel Tuesday week.
The Baltimore corn and flour exchange
has appointed a committee to confer with
Congress relative to legislation against dis
eliminating freight rates.
A Providence Journal letter says that At
torney General Garland will soon resign
and that Ran Tucker sis perhaps as likely
to get the place as anybody.
The 2Sth Massachusetts Regiment has
placed a l3-ioot granite shaft topped with a
marble eagle on the spot at Gettysburg
field where Hancock was wounded.
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Alexandria, Va, is agitating the subject Of
telephone connection with Haymarket,
Gainesville. Centreville and other points In
Loudon, Fauquier and Prince William.
Gale-swept bush fires last week wiped out
i'm one hour the frontier town of Vancouver
in British Columbia. Ten lives were lost
and one thousand families are homeless.
VIM. II. Inglesby, who was killed in the
rail mishap near Charleston, $ c., was the
son of a lawyer there and had formerly been
freight agent 5. V. R. R. at Hagerstown.
A. 5. Abel, Esq, of the Baltimore Gua,
aud Geo. W. Childs of the Philadelphia
Lcdqer. have each given an ocean-trip tick
ct to young lady teachers in the Baltimore
schools.
Col. J. w. Strong, editor of the st. Jos
eph Mo- Herald was shot and killed by
DIR. ;. A. Richmond, alleged to be insane,
on Friday. Richmond then fatally shot
himself
Mr.. Miller Long, of Frederick county,
Virginia. and Miss Mittie Lewis, of West
moreand county, of the same State, were
married in Trinity church, Washington,
last week.
Dr. NJ. N. Hill of Turkey Cove, Lee
county. Va. has challenged Maj Bird, the
Mt. Vernon N. " Grand Armyite who
wanted to fight Capt. Saunders for toasting
JET Davis.
A wee boy baby in basket was struggled
ON a Chesabeake and Ohio train at Win
chester, Ky, last week and brought on to
Scott Station near Charleston, West Va,
whe the agent cared for it.
Archibald Forbes, the English war cor
respondent and Miss Lulu, daughter OF
Ouartermaster General NJ. G. Meigs, were
married in Washington last Saturday. They
sail for England this Saturday.
W. E. :. Waller and Miss Jane Waller,
his sister. an old couple of Newmarket Vi
cinity near Fredericksburg, Va, were beat
en- to death and robbed of $3.50 by their
colored servants Mary and Jennie Boggs.
A Star article on the ways of Members in
the House says that Mr.. Gibson, of this
State, is always on the alert and, with sew
eral other Democrats, does more talking
and gets more cards than the majority of
them.
The Senate has passed a bill authorizing
the President 10 invite Mexican, and Cen
trail and South American delegates to confer
with United States delegates in Washington
in October 1887 on questions affecting the
welwage of the American States.