Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1892-03-23
Messy Notes.

Senator Stanford has refused an offer Oh
SllO, 900 Tor the stallion Advertiser
Queen Victoria accompanied by relatives
started Saturday on visit to the south OF
France.
Mr.. Daniel Lothrop, head OF the Boston
publishing house of D. Lolhrop Il Co, died
on Friday.
Gen. Golf has not only accepted the
iudgeship but has qualified, 1t is now
Judge Golf.
Max Strakosch, the once famous opera
manager, died at Fordham, New York, on
Thursday-aged 81 years.
Alta rabbit drive in California, recently,
twenty five thousand Jack rabbits are re-
ported to have been killed.
Hon. T. ). Riley, of Wheeling, Chairman
OF the State Democratic Executive Commit
the, is mentioned for the AttOrney-General-
ship.
Secretary Foster, whoreturned from Europe
last Thursday-St. Patrick's Day-denies
having talked about fannel-mouthed Irish
men,
Governor Fleming has appointed Hon
A. R. Unger, of Morgan county, trustee OF
Berkeley Springs, vice Isaiah Buck, de-
ceased.
4 little girl in New York was choked TO
death the ether day by swallowing a toy
balloon. We take it for granted it was not
inflated.
The Basic City Adraace has been removed
to Charlottesville, and will be issued in en-
larged form. The change is made for bust
uess reasons.
The Greenbrier Male Academy, at Lewis
burg. was burned last week. The building
was new and had not been completed. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $1,000.
The President nominated, on Friday,
Charles n. Aldrich to be solicitor-genera
to succeed VIM. H. Taft, who resigned to
become United States circuit judge.
Schneider, the brutal stranger of servant
girls in Vienna, was strangled to death on
Thursday. The execution, rs described,
must have been a most revolving one.
At the recent congressional election in
Japan about twenty people were killed and
hundred and forty wounded, and fraud,
intimidation aud bribery were prevalent.
The Woodstock Record is unoflicially in
formed that Hon. W. R. Alexander, of
Winchester, will be candidate against
Col. O'Ferrall for the congressional nomi-
nation.
St. Patrick's day was generally observed
by the Hibernian societies in the cities by
services in churches, banquets, etc. The
weather did not admit of mucl. outdoor
parade.
\ life size portrait of dolly Madison"
has been hung in the green room of the
White House 1t is pronounced by the
elderly people of Washington as perfect
likeness.
The S5th anniversary of Mr.. d. l.. Jones,
the inventor of lucifer matches, was cele-
brated in New York Friday evening of last
week. Mr.. Jones was present and made
some remarks.
Mr.. john w Harper, of Fauquier, has
sold the McCaull property. better known as
the Bloody Angle, - in Spottsylvania coun
ty, to Northern parties for the sum of
$500, The farm contains 800 acres.
The authorities Of Yale University, ae-
cordiug to a dispatch from New Haven to
the New York IForid have decided, at the
opening of the next academic year, to ad-
init women to the course and TO the degree
Of Phi D.
The Page Courier says Mr.. Philip Ruff
ner killed. one night last week, two Wild
cats in the Massanutton near his place, be-
low Hope Mills. They were about four
feet long and he shot them up tree by the
light OF torch
The Republican caucus of the Ohio House
Of Representatives agreed upon plan for
congressional redistrictiug, which gives the
Republicans IL and the Democrats ); the
Democrats at present have H. Now, what
is Missouri going TO DO about it.
The Banque Generate Chemn de Fer, of
Paris, suspended Saturday One of the di-
reclors committed suicide, two have abscond-
ed and one has been arrested. The bank
speculated in French, Spanish and Russian
securities. The liabilities amount 10 "a
100000 francs and the asset to 5,OO0,O 600.
The friends of Mrs. Osborne, sentenced
to Il term ct nine months Imprisonment for
perjury in connection with the great pearl
case, in London, have good grounds for
their fears that she viii not live to serve out
her sentence, Stealing a few bapb!es and
lying about /, + enough to kill Almost any
body.
The House elections committee, by vote
Of seven to one, has voted to recommend
the seating OF Noyes, the Republican con-
in the twenty-eighth district of New
York, and the unseating of Rockwell, Dem.
ocrat, the sitting member Col. O'Ferral's |
committee is disposed to be Just aud acts
accordingly.