Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1889-04-18
HERE AND THERE.

Yesterday week was arbor ltree-plantingl
day in Maryland
The Alexandria authorities are arranging
for electric street lighting.
Ex-Attorney General Garland is now
practicing law in Washington.
VIM. c. Rives, of Albemarle, son of the
late Hon. VIM Q. Rives, is dead.
Nathan F Dixon Rep is elected q. S.
Senator from Rhode Island to succeed Chace.
DR.. NJ. D. Hoge has been pastor Second
Presbyterian Church at Richmond IS years.
The venerable Alex. H. H. Stuart, of
Stauuton, attained his S3rd birthday last
week.
Gen. Jas. Longstreet's residence at
Gainesville, Ga, was burned last week.
Loss $4,000.
The father of Rev. j w. Duffy, of the
NJ. Z. Church, South, died at his home IN
Moorefeld recently.
The session of the W. Va joint legislative
committee on the gubernatorial contest IS
postponed until Easter week.
Ex-President Cleveland has purchased
the handsome villa residence of Mr. E. k.
Phelps at White Plains, \. Y.
The Orkney Springs property, sold last
month to Robt. Wilson, of Mt. Jackson, FOL
$50 600 is again offered for sale.
Gov. Lee will be accompanied to the Gen.
tennial at New York by his entire stafi-siN
colonies of cavalry in full uniform
Geo. zimmerman, son Of a deceased Wash
| ington beer brewer died in that city OF IN
iuries received from gang of roughs.
Gov. Lee has issued a proclamation re-
questing the people of Virginia to observe
| April 3Oth as a day of special thanksgiving
Chapel Hill n. O. University-whost
| 500 students entered the Confederate ranks
i'm Civil celebrate its centennial in June
From the Moorefeld Examiner we learr
that the proceeds of the sale of the JOSEPH
and Jno. T. Nanmeter lands aggregated
$40 200.
The Brockuuier brothers, of Wheeling
/ have sold their thoroughbreds Wheeling
Wilkes and Ell Mahdi for $4,000 and So,
600 respectively.
J. l.. Hart, of Brookline, Massachusetts
q railroad director. had his legs broken anC
his son and daughter were killed in a rail
way accident beyond Chicago
John Hamilton, a boat clerk on the Big
/ Sandy river in this State, was killed by
desperate named Justice who had tried t
| kiss q lady passenger when Hamilton inter
fered.
A recent decision of the Maryland appeal
court will perhaps cloud the titles to one
third of the property in the State. 1t ylr
mally makes married women's property re
spon,ible for their husbands debts.
Hon. Joseph S. Miller, ex-commissione
/ of internal revenue. was Thursday Afternoon
presented with an elegant tea service b,
/ Deputy Commissioner Henderson, on behal
of the officers, clerks and employees OF tn
bureau
The New York U0r8 prints a two-columl
account of War Secretary Proctor's marble
ouarrie- at Rutland, VT, and the wretched
/ ness of the miners and their families, who
! live i'm tenements rented from Proctor, anC
are forced to deal at his supply store.
The final committee report. made las
week, shows the recel pts at the inauguration
i'm Washington to have heen S125, 25l Al
expenses were met, S50l00 were returned
tosubscribers and a balance Of $4,000 giver
TO the District Commissioners as a CHART.
fund
The Virginia Court Of Appeals has rn
dered a decision in favor of the genera
mortgage creditors of the Shenandoah Val
/ lev Railroad Company The effect Of th
decision will be that the Shenandoah Vale,
road. which for some time has been in tn
hands of a receiver, will have to be sold t.
meet the claims against it, The larges
debt is due to Kimhall & Clark, which i
about one million and a-half.
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