Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1890-02-19
yETsY NOTES.

In Senator Ingals's State forty-eight men
are under sentence of death for murder. A
bloody record truly.
Hon. j. y. Camden has been elected
President of the West Virginia and Pitts
burg Railroad Company
Hon. A. l.. Sehon, of Mason county, w.
Va, died Sunday. He was brother of ex-
United States Marshal Sehon.
Mr.. Arthur Hawks, the humorist, writing
from Danville, says: "The popular dog
here is of the expectoration or spitz vari-
ety."
John L. Sullivan may well pose as the
modern Sampson. Some of his recent utter
ances show that he has the historic jaw bone,
at least.
Bishop Wilson dedicated a new church at
Perryman's, Hartford county, Nd, last Sum
day Next Sunday he is to dedicate one at
Roanoke, Va.
Representative Anderson of Kansas has
introduced bill making an appropriation
of $3.50, 900 for the erection of a summer
residence for the President.
A sale of 6S horses at Lexington, KY,
last week aggregated S65,515. A consign-
ment of eight from the estate of the late
Col Goodloe brought S27 $50.
The Harrisonburg Tannery, owned by j.
p. Houck and Co., is to be enlarged. The
present capacity of the Tannery is 10000
hides a year. 1t is to be increased to co.
600.
Jake Kilrain's boxing company got into
difficulty down South. In sparring match
one of his party bit an antagonist and broke
his neck, and the whole company is liable
to indictment for murder.
A telegram from Charleston on Sunday
says: "Mr John Geary was thrown from
his horse this afternoon while out with a
riding party. His neck was broken. Heis
still alive, but is expected to die"
William Dodd and wife of near Mounts
vile, Loudoun county, both of whom had
passed their threescore years and ten, in
death were not divided. The wife died on
Monday and the husband on Tuesday.
An old maid in Arkansas has given $500
to the mother of quartette of girl babies.
She wants it distinctly understood, howev-
er, that the money is a gift of sympathy
with the mother, not one of appoval of such
proceedings.
A great mass meeting was held in Cooper
Institute, New York, Monday night, in ia
vor of the worlds fair in New York. Boss
Patt was vigorously denounced for the part
he has played in obstructing measures de-
signed to secure the fair for that city.
The trial, at Lexington, of VIM. Miller,
one of the participants in the Walker-Mil-
Ter homicide at Brownsburg November Sth,
1889, in which DR.. and Mrs. u. j. Walker
and the father of the prisoner lost their
lives, has ended with an acquittal of the
prisoner at the bar. The others were adj
mitted to bail for appearance at the April
term.
Sunday night six dodgers at police sta
ton in Brooklyn seized an unoffending
negro, who also had sought shelter there,
and flung him drought the window to the
pavement below, the sash going with him,
for the assingned reason that they would
not sleep with negro. What will Sena-
tors Hoar and Chandler and ingalls, do
about it?
Miss Susan b. Anthony, in celebrating
her SEVENTEEN birthday in Washington Sat
urday, remarked playfully to her assembled
friends, after "Auld Lang Syne" had been
played by the band that she stood there "a
typical old maid. One slip Of her tongue
might have marred her whole life" A sly
intimation on tine part of 'the old girl'
that she had been able to say mo" on
at least one, to her, memorable occasion.