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property. to his wife.
Msi. Smith Turner, successor to Colonel
O'Ferrall, was sworn in and took his seat
in Congress on Monday.
Chairman Wilson has shown capacity
for leadership that has not been equaled Tor
many years Boston Globe.
Gen. L. B. Norihrop, who was Commissa-
ry General of the Confederate States, died
in Baltimore on Friday last.
Col. Thos. B. Davis has purchased ex-
Senator II. G. Davis's interest in the old
Davis homestead, at Keyser.
A man named Spunk has just married a
girl by the name of Sphinx. Past tense,
Sphinx present tense, SPuDk; future tense,
spsnk.-Er.
Mr.. Charles John Morris Gwinn, ex-attor
ney. general of Mary land, died at his home,
SO East Mt Vernon Place, Baltimore, Sun
day morning.
Reports received from Oklahoma and the
Indian Territory make it almost certain that
at least thirty lives were lost during the great
storm of Sunday.
The President hiss appointed Col. Della
ware Kemper, of Bristol, Virginia, consul
ut Annoy, China, in place of that gilded
diplomat, Col J. Hampton Hoge.
Senator Camden has written to his friends
in Washington that his health has been
heen much benefited by his adjourn in
FIorids, aud that he will return to Wash
ington on Saturday next.
Mr. John Bromley, of Clarke county, re-
Gently purchased of Mr. John Ridgeway
farm situated on the Winchester and Mar
Iiusburg pike, near Rest, containing l5O
acres, for the amount of $1,000.
A man in Birmingham, Ala, has been
arrested for manipulating an ingenious
gambling device in which a current of cleo
iricAy under the operators control could be
used 10 determine the way in which the dice
should fall.
Henry Driden, n young man "a years OF
age, teller Of the Citizens National Bank at
Charleston, committed suicide Monday night
by shooting himself through the heart. No
shortage in the bank accounts. 1t lie thought
to be the result of disappointment in love
affair
The Governor of Virginia, has signed
bill prohibiting the killing aud trapping of
cartridges in Rockbridge county for two
years to come-until Jan. Is, lS96-or to
buy or offer for sale any partridge captured
in that county. The penalty is fiue and
imprisonment.
The Rearing Greek and Charleston Rail-
road Company will soon be ready to put
trains on their road. which is to connect the
Roaring Creek coal field with the West Vir-
ginia Central Railroad, and is eventually to
be extended so as to connect the Camden
and Davis systems.
In the Virginia Senate Saturday the
finance committee reported the joint re
solution of Mr. Wickham looking tn an adj
iuStment and settlement of West Virginias
portion of Virginia's debt. On motion of
Mr.. Wickham the question was made con-
tinuing order for yesterday at one o'clock.
The crew of the United States cruiser
Kearsarge was rescued at noon on Saturday.
Only one man was drowned. He was a
second class fireman named Anderson Rob-
bins. The old warship was abandoned on
Rnncsdor Reef. with the stars and stripes
still fying. The steamship CITY of Para,
with the crew of the Kesrsarge on board,
viii leave for New York on Wednesday next.
The residence of U. S. District Attorney
Watts at Charleston was destroyed by fire
on Wednesday last. Whilst the family was
at dinner there was an explosion in the cell
lar, snd almost Immediately flames issued
from that locality and quickly consumed
the bu lding. Only few contents of the
house were saved. The building WAS insur-
ed for $500, but the total loss far exceeds
that.
Edward Wilson, nine years old, has been
missing from his home, in Cumberland. Md,
since Monday, February 5th, says telegram
of the 9Th. On the morning Of that day he
-tsrted 10 school, but never returned II
was at first supposed the lad had gone ska
ting and had been drowned, but sn exami
nation Of the skating places around town
failed tn confirm this The latest theory is
that the boy has been persuaded to go away
with some strangers.
The Moody meetings in Washington City
are attended by mul,itudes. On Sunday
there WAS an afternoon service for women
and the five thousand seats were occupied,
whilst two thousand were left outside eager
for entrance. At night the meeting for men
only was quite as numerously attended
And so it is at every service, the great hall
is filed, and other thousands hang upon
It's outskirts or repair TO overflow meetings
in nearby churches.
"Why do you use such peculiar termss'
asked lawyers wife of her husband, who
had returned home worn out by his days
labor. az don't see how you could have
been working all CAV like a hOrte." "Well.