Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1888-02-09
NEWSY NOTES

Gen. Sherman was 81 yesterday.
sunday will be the Chinese Me- Years.
Senator Kenua called on the e. ident
last Friday.
Richmond, Va, has q new strc R. K.
run by electricity.
Mr. Philip II. Hoof of Alexan, ~, Va,
has been stricken with paralysis.
A Missouri W. an has named her new
born hoy triple >.aham, Isaac and Jacob.
The Republic4l survivors of the House,
3ith Congress, had reunion in Washing
ton.
cold Buckskin," the horse that Baker
rode in pursuit Of Booth, died at Lansing,
Mich.
Representative O'Ferral's wife has been
quite i'll at Washington but is now conya-
lescent.
Lillian J. Barnes has been appointed
Postmaster at Stephens City, Frederick
county, Va.
4 Hancock county, Ohio, colored woman
who was married at y has become grand
mother at %.
Mrs Clevelands favotite uncle, Homer
f. Harmon (her mothers youngest brotherl
is dead aged 80.
Bills for public buildings at Charleston
(Sj2, OOOl and Stanton $4,000 are pend
ing in Congress.
Tho Scnate has confirmed the nominal
ton of L. G. Bennett, of w. Va, as consul
at Rio Grande de Sui.
JEFF Davis daughter. Miss Varina has
an article in the February North american
Reyier on Serpent Myths
Abram Isaacs. aged 80, a lRussianl crank
shoemaker. was nabbed at Washington for
threatening to kill the President.
Representative Thomas rep Of Wis.
and Juo Boyd, Pacific r. r. lobbyist had
slight row Saturday in the House lobby.
jeff Davis declines because Of feeble
health the invitation lby joint resolution)
TO visit the Mississippi legislature at Jack
son.
The Republican national committees
sub committee meets in Chicago to day to
arrange preliminaries for the June conven-
ton.
English capitalists have bought half mil
lion acres at % cents an acre in Coahuila,
Mexico of which State they now own one
four h.
The coat-tail Irritation is the latest. A
wrinkled coat tail bearing dusty toe marks
means, Il have spoken to your father
Colorado Mercury.
If Dakota cannot get into the Union she
can enjoy the satisfaction Of making il de-
ciiedly chilly for the states that are in
Laramie Boomerang.
Fire at Philadelphia caused $4,000 loss
each To Wannamaker and Brown, clothierS,
Shoemaker and Co. leather dealers and
Burch and Co. bookbiuders
Mr. A. \. Lipscomb of the District At
torney's staff at Washington is appointed
on the hall committee of the Jackson Dem
ocratic Association in that city.
Capt. Peter Eichels of Cincinnati has
made TO foot boat with alright and
watertight wheels, whose clock spring ma
chiuery runs Ills miles an hour.
A moonshiuer Is generally fellow who
makes mean whisky with rifle by his-side.
while his wife and daughters plough and
chop wood.-.Nacoa lGo.l Telegraph.
Pay-clerk Mohun of the [. ;. steamer
Quinnebaug, the son of Mrs Clare Dorsey
Mohun of Washington, will soon marry
Mile. AleXandrne de Lieyan, French
heiress at Nice.
The Davis Co. BOSTON, shoe factories at
the Richmond, Va, penitentiary burned
Tuesday week. The bui dings-3-story
bricks. covering 700 feet--were State prop
er,y. Loss $25, 00Q-3j0 convicts employed.
Capt. Thompson of Salyille, Va.-him-
self an invalid-owns an Ashe county N.
c. mountain spring of mineral water, con-
tanning arsenic, phosphate, bromine, iodine
and lithium, that cures scr0iula and other
ills
Anniversaries To-day of Gen Hancock
death IN SO aud of Wi,consn's admission
IN II. To-morow-of Queen Victoria's
marriage in 1910 Sunday-of Horatio
Seymour's death in Sc Next Tuesday-of
Oregons admission in 80.
The girls of St. Louis are reported to
have forued kiss trust" What Is kiss
trustee Don't the girls get full value for
their kisses? One recently got several thou
sand The neceSsaries of life must be
cheapened.-S1rmaah Nevs.
Down east culture puts it this way:
Boston Mother Shocked II am surprised
Waldo. that you should make use of such
an expression as Let her go, Gallagher ="
w sldo-What ought to say. mamma
hermit her 70 DEPART. Mr.. Gallagher ?