Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1889-05-02
NEWSYNOTES.

Postmaster Pearson of New York is dead
aged As.
The B. aud o. hay sheds at Boston are
burned-loss $4,000.
Mrs. Cleveland will pass the summer at
Marion, near New Bedford, Mass.
A 24-foot eagle was feature in the Ger
tennial decorations in New York.
Prohibition has been defeated in Massa-
chusetts by about $4,000 majority.
Laidley and Sens pork packing works at
Cincinnati burned. Loss 1885, 900.
The big oil elevators and warehouses on
the North river at New York burned.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the new British
minister, has arrived at Washington.
VIM. E. Montague, carpet manufacturer
at Philadelphia, has failed-Sl53,524.
The Odd Fellows celebrated their 10th
anniversary in Baltimore last Friday-26th
Yellow Jack shows up early in Florida
this season-one case at Sunford last week.
Chicago celebrated the Centennial by a
monster meeting. Gen. Golf was one of the
speakers.
The cottage in New York in which the
poet Poe lived from 1916 was sold recently
for $1,000.
The Legislative committee on the guber-
Material contest adjourned over until next
Wednesday.
Windows along the route of the parade in
New York brought $500 apiece and some OF
them even more
Northern capitalists have brought 1000
timber acres in Virginia and North Caro-
lima for $3.50, 900.
West Virginia had 100 men in line at the
New York celebration, Virginia had 500
and Maryland 400.
The Morgantown female Seminary was
burned Tuesday of last week. Loss $780,
600, insurance $1,000.
Davis Brothers saw mill at Oakland was
wrecked by an explosion last Wednesday.
Lewis Johnson was killed.
Hon. William H. Barnum, chairman of
the Democratic national committee, died on
Tuesday at Lime Rock, Conn.
The College of William and Mary, which
conferred the first public title on General
Washington {" Sovereign Of the Colony of
Virgins" y, noted the Centennial by sus-
pension of exercises.
The Surgeon General notifies war veterans
entitled to Communication for loss Of the use
of limbs by injury or disease that their
claims can be settled without any expense
by writing direct to him.
Miss Amelia Bastianeli. niece of DR..
Geo. B. Wallis, lately of the New York
Herald staff, was married last Friday at her
home in Orange, n. j , to Mr.. Wilmar Zim-
norman of Alexandria, Va.
Washington county Nd, farmers are pay
ing more attention TO po@ltry raising and
say there is better profit in it than in many
crops, Mr.. Christian Hoyt made $500 the
first year from the sale of eggs and young
chickens.
Rev. DR.. Scott, the Presidents iather-in-
law, married Washington couple last week
the first time he has thus ofiicated in 20
wears. The old gentleman is 80. Until
Wllulu II lew way hS Atloi iOA SoASJ 'NNh a.
Pension Office clerk.
The Baltimore health authorities have
been warned by Surgeon General Hamilton
that yellow fever is raging with unprece-
dented violence at Santos and Rio JaneirO
the ports whence Baltimore importers re-
ceive all their coffee supplies.
Mr.. II. A. Walker, the polite and gentle
manly local agent of the Mutual Life of
New York, paid on Wednesday, to Mrs. H.
w. Sheffey, So 1880, in full of a $4,000
policy and additions held by the late
Judge ShefTey in the above company
Stanton Nrginian.
Judge English of the State Supreme
Court has granted a writ of error and super
sedeas to the circuit court decision, requir-
ing the Kanawha county court to examine
and correct errors in the gubernatorial count
and fixing June Sd as the date for the case
10 be tried in the Supreme Court.