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Nelrsv Notes.

IN Washington Clty last week VI P"i"iJS AS'
The linen manufactured yearly in Eng
land could be wrapped round the earth sew
en- times.
The real and personal property OF the
late Mrs. W C. Whitney is valued at
81 .OOO, OOO She left it all to her husband.
Congressman Anderson desires it and Is
confident that Mrs. Senator Kenna will be
appointed postmaster of the city of Charles
ton.
DIR. Archibald Taylor cut his throat, with
suicidal intent, at his home in Alexandria
Friday afternoon, but prompt surgery saved
him.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says "the next
election will show few Populists in Kansas. "
If so it will not be because they died in
BATTLE.
The wife of Harry Allen, of New York
City. is sueing him for divorce. Mr.. Allen
is a grandson of the late Commodore Van
derbilt.
The election bill agreed upon IN caucus
of Democratic legislators at Charleston and
introduced in the Senate by Mr.. Watts, was
withdrawn.
A Brunswick Mo man recently paid
for a suit of clothes with 5000 coPpers
which he had been accommodating for years.
The lot weighed 81 pounds.
There is to be convention at Richmond
in April of the governors of the Southern
States to confer as to ways and means to
advance the interests of the South.
From Art Topics in Washington Post we
take the following "Mr U. S. J. Dunbar
has just completed, among his sculptures,
bust Ex-senator Faulkner, of West Virginia"
The new Presbyterian Church at Keyser
was dedicated with appropriate ceremonies.
The building is of brick and cost about
81 900. Rev. J. H. Moore is the pastor.
Col. A. J. Sweeny, prominent citizen of
Wheeling-nine times elected mayor of that
city-died at his home in that city on Tues
day evening of last week, in the Goth year
of his age.
Prof. T. NJ. Turner, leader of the Western
State Hospital Band at StauntOn, was mar
ried in Harrisonburg Wednesday evening
to Mrs. n. w. Nance, widow of DR.. Nance,
of Richmond.
The Wyoming legislature adjourned with
out electiug United States Senator. The
governor will appoint one, but whether or
not that will be equivalent to an election
remains to be seen.
Mr. H. c. Tinsley, editor of the Staunton
TTadicator, after a protracted illness and
treatment for months at Johns Hopkins
Hospital Baltimore, has recovered his
health and is at his post of duty.
J. T. Clark, the Danville lawyer who
killed Rev. J. r. Moifett, Baptist preach
er, was found guilty of involuntary man
slaughter and sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary An appeal will be taken
The will of the late Senator Mcdonald,
of Indiana, has been declared a forgery
Under the alleged will the widow was to
have all his property, estimated at $50 900
Under the verdict rendered she viii come
in for third, only.
The b. & 0. has rendered Mr.. Cleveland
a superb special train to convey himself and
family to Washington on the 2Sth instant.
Mr. Robert CARROTS palace car will be for
the exclusive use of Mr.. and Mrs. Cleve-
land and Baby Ruth"
FIX United States Senator Geo. f Spen-
Ger. OF Alabama, died Sunday night in
Washington. d. C. He went to Alabama
with the army of Gen. Sherman and was
one of theso called reconstruction Senators.
He was a Senator eleven years.
The United States Senate adopted the
Sherman amendment to the sundry civil
appropriation bill authorizing the issue of
three per cent five year bonds for the re-
demptiou of the greenback currency under
the terms of the resumption act of 1875.
On Friday night a young man arrived at
the Mississippi State prison whose sentence
was to the penitentiary at hard labor for
one dav. He was convicted of arson
Stripes were put on him and he spent Sat
urday whitewashing aud was released in
the evening.
1t. Lowell X. Reynolds, of the U. S.
Navy, in attempting to get on a crowded
cable car in Washington last week, whilst
the car was in motion, fell, and both legs
were crushed He died from the injuries
the day following the accident. He was
appointed to the Naval Academy from AL
ALBANIA in 1871 For bravery in saving a
ships crew he was decorated by the EN-
peror of Austria.
In 1873 Bishop Galloway, then a minis
ter in charge of a church at Vicks
burg. was stricken down with the yellow
fever aud was reported dead, and before the
report was contradicied Major Barksdale
had written and published, with mourning
columns, highly eloquent tribute to the
man whom he supposed to be dead. On
Saturday Bishop Galloway preached the
funeral sermon of Maj. Barksdale.