Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-02-15
Ne,rsu Notes.

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eight bags of coffee arrived in Baltimore
last week.
Hon. A. Moore, Jr., of Clarke county, is
mentioned as a possible successor OF
Hon. Charles 7. O'Ferrall.
It is reported that Hon. A. R. Unger, T..
P. Jack and others have purchased the
Berkeley Springs Hotel property.
Rev. R. C. Walker, a well-known Presby-
terrain preacher. dropped dead at his home
in Augusta county, a few days ago.
A national quarantine bill has passed
the Senate and House of Representatives
and awaits the signature of the President.
Senators Faulkner and Blackburn attend
ed the Democratic banquet in Frederick
City Thursday night and responded otoasts.
DR.. Noryin Green, president of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company, died at his
home in Louisville, KY, Sunday morning.
VIM. Orrison, of Martinsburg, a freight
conductor, was fatally injured at Keyser
Saturday night by being knocked from
car.
Mrs. Julia Daniel, daughter of the late
DIR. Uriel Terrill, and widow of Mr.. W. I.
Daniel, died in Orange recently, aged II
years.
William Leeper, a native Of Randolph
county, W. Va, was shot and killed recent
" in the Indian Territory by half-breed
Indian.
Algernon Sartoris, who married Nellie
Grant, died on Friday of last week at
Capri, Italy. He had not lived with his
wife for some years.
Twenty thousand barrels of whiskey are
stored in the warehouses of the Hannisville
distillery at Martinsburg, and there isrOom
tor $4,000 more barrels.
Dir. Richard Randolph, for many years
chief engineer of the Valley Branch of the
B. & o, died suddenly in Baltimore on
Thursday morning last.
Five hundred North Carolina school
teachers will attend the Worlds Fair in a
body. They will go in August and will de-
vote twenty days to the trip.
Ask for Bull's-Head Horse and Cattle
Powder, prepared by A. G. Meyer & Co..
Baltimore, Nd. Accept no substitute. All
dealers keep it. Price % cents per pack
age Of one pound, full weight.
The bill providing for the purchase of an
executive mansion passed the West Virgins
Senate Monday of last week by party
vote. twas opposed by the Republican;
on the ground of unconstitutionality.
The United States Senate passed, Satur'
day, in an amended form, the House Gear
coupler bill"-requiring the use of auto
matte ar-couplers and power brakes on al
Interstate railroads after January lst, 1898
Mr.. Owen Higgins, in charge of force
of men employed in the construction of the
B. & 0. railroad tunnel at Harper's Ferry
was badly hurt by being struck in the face
and ON the hands by flying rocks from 1
blast
Rev. W. 7. Hundley, pastor Of the Ba?
fist Church in Winchester, has handed il
his resignation to take effect March lst
1898 He has accepted a charge in thu
Rutherford street Baptist Church, at Green
vile, :. c.
Miss Sue Mcdonald Green, Of Culpeper
will, on Feb Dist, be married to Mr.. Frank
lin Stearns, OF Richmond The ceremony
will be performed at Culpeper by Bishop Var
de Vyver, of Richmond and Bishop Keane
of the Catholic University.
On Saturday the invalid pension bill was
under consideration in committee of the
whole aud Hon. VIM. L. Wilson presided
The appropriation recommended $l66, AGO.
000-the heaviest appropriation bill ever
before the American Congress.
The H. G. Davis Coal Company, of Pied.
mont, is making search for what is known
as the Thomas vein" of coal at several
points in Grant county. The geological
formations indicate that the coal will be
found at depth of about 45O feet
The county insane asylum near Dover,
New Hampshire, burned on Thursday night
last. Forty-four of the forty eight inmates
persisted in the flames. All efforts of the
keeper to liberate the unfortunate people
from their cells proved unavailing.
The impression prevails that the decision
of the court of the District of Columbia
now considering the sanity or insanity Of
Howard Schneider, who killed his wife and
her brother, will be adverse to the prisoner
and that he will be hung March 18th.
There is no claim made for Ayers Sarsa-
parilla which cannot be endorsed by scores
of testimonials. This fact plainly proves
that the blood is the source of most disor-
ders and that Ayers Sarsaparilla is the
best Of blood purifiers. Try it this month.
The defendants in the Panama Canal
trials were convicted at Paris last week OF
swindling and breach If trust, and sentenc-
ed-among them Count Ferdinand de Les.
seps, sentenced to five years Imprisonment
and to pay a fine of 5000 francs, Charles de