Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1892-04-13
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ballasting Of the n. & W. r X. viii be eX'
pedl;ed
Saturday Last was the 9th anniversary OF
the surrender of General Lees army at APP
pomat,ox.
Thirty one years yesterday since the frat
gun sounded the prelude to the great civil
war By u shot on Fl. Sumter.
An the wooden ,restles and bridges-of
the y & ". r r. are being filed in with
earth or replaced with iron work.
Hon. VIM L Wilson ha- been elected Pm
honorary member Of E. Lee Camp OF
Confederate Veterans at Richmond.
Having passed two tariff bills, the free
wool bill and the free ties aud banging bill,
the House will take up the appropriation
bill
The quarrel between the Hill and anti
Hi Democrats in the New York legisla-
ture threatens to defeat important legisla-
ton
Arrangements have been completed for
running a solid train from Washington to
Chattanooga over the B. q o. and \. Il W.
roads.
Mr.. K I. Burnett, father of the county
clerk of Augusta county, Virginia, died in
S,aurt 81 April 9Th, aged "a years and 8
m tbs
MarliuSbgrg is moving towards the e.
Enlistment there of "a hosiery aud wonlen
mills the pay roll of which will be 500 900
AN, udly
The World has 8 special that Hatfield
leader Of the celebrated Hatfield gang, Wa
shot and killed by one Of his gang in j row
over cards.
On Thursday Senator Faulkner introduce
ed a resolution for the erection of a build
ing on Pennsylvania avenue for the Use OF
the patent office.
Ii Hethtrington of the q s. Navy, who
killed wealthy Engli.hman, Al Ynkohona,
Tor undue intimacy with Mrs. Hethering
tom, has bren acquitted.
Alien Harrison shit aud Instantly killed
Bette Adams. If Little C,bell Creek, Sun
day night. The cause of the killing wa~
that Be;tie refused 10 marry Allen.
Hugh Breckenridge, Of Leesburg, has
won an $500 priz. at the Philadelphia
Academy OF Fine Arts lie is only %
years old aud has won 81 600 in prizes.
Mr.. Strother. wife of R =. F. A Stroth-
er of stephens Civ, Frederick county, died
last week She was Il daughter of Mr.. Sam
al Carson, of Riverton, Warren county.
Rth. the executioner of Mrs Surratt,
and who was brcve ted ny the government
for doing 40. has gone crazy. lie has been
mail carrier in Michigan far twenty years.
Hon. James d Armstrong Judge Of the
circuit composed of Peudleton, Grant, Har-
DIV. Mineral and Hampshire counties, West
Vir- inia, has resigned on account of i'll
health.
At meeting of the directors of the Ha-
gerstnwu iair last week the secretary wa.
instructed to request the advisory hoard OF
J f,rson continue its services for the en-
suing year.
In San Francisco, recently, a kangaroo
escaped from it, cage aud hoped about on
the p4yements 1t frightened hundred
women, more or less who thought it was Il
giant mouse.
The Norfolk and Western rsilroid has
b ID lights pu- on all the switches along it,
liue. If the switch is closed white ligh,
will show, but if it is open q red light viii
be displayed
Robert H. sherman, aged q years, Of
Alexandra, and Maud ) Franks, aged 70
years, of Round Hill. Loudoun county, Va,
eloped and were married in Washington a
lew days ago.
Gen Charles W Field. ex-Confederate.
who surrendered with Gen. Lee, at Ap
pamattox, died in Washington on sat
uriay-lhe 9th anniversary of that memo
lille accession.
General. James A. Walker, of Stonewall
Brigade memory, has accepted the invita-
tion to div. the Grafton upon the occa-
lion Of the unwilling of the Hill statue in
Richmond on May Goth.
Workmen engaged in digging a cellar in
Hsgpr-town recently found can containing
several hundred dollars in coin. Il is sup
| D 'srd to have been buried during the war.
/ pays 10 dig cellars and potatoes.
Col. e ". . Black, chairman OF the 2ud
district Republican Congressional Commit
tee has called convention at Kpyser, on
the 4th Of May, To choose delegates to the
Na'ional Convention at Minneapolis
Two severe u6agrations in New Orleans
Sunday caused s. loss Of three million dol
Lars. One ire fed on cotton in presses. OF
which so GOO bales were destroyed, and the
other burnt out f,ur blocks of dwellings.
The damage caused by the three fires that
haze occurred at Mandslay, India. the past
few days amounts to eI.OOO 600 Another
IRE broke out saturday between ,gyoeba
z,ar, in Maudaay, and the river bank, and
is still burning.