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rHf VIRGINIA FREE PREss~~rHE OLD FAMILY JOURNAL.
NelCSy Notes.

EX-G0y. Oden Bowie, OF Maryland, was
paralyzed Monday night of last week.
The West Virginia Editorial Association
will have business meeting in Parkersburg
to-day.
Mr.. George Grim, OF Gerardstown, killed
two hogs that aggregated net 942 pounds
One weighed $40 and the other 432.
Bishop Atticus G.. Haygood, of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South, is danger
ously i'll at his home in Oxford, Ga.
Mr.. B. J. McCOmas, one of the Oldest and
best.known attorneys in the State, died at
his home in Huntington on Sunday of blood
poisoning.
The wife of Capt. Robert c. Saunders, of
Campbell county, died Friday. She was a
daughter of the late DR.. ]. Stage Davis, OF
the University of Virginia
Mrs. Margaret c. PAUL, of Martinsburg,
died last Saturday week, aged GO years, 9
months and % days. Three children sur
vive her, one of them Mrs. d. @. Weston
haver.
Additional machinery is being put in the
Riverside Cotton Mills at Danville. When
this additional machinery is put to work
Danyile will have the largest cotton mills
under one management in the South.
Mr.. Charles Prather died at his home on
the farm of Mr.. Henry Campbell, Berkeley
county, on Tuesday morning of last week,
at an advanced age. He was an ex-Confed-
crate soldier and a member Of the 18th cav
airy.
Mr. J. Harvey McGraw, proprietor of the
McGraw Hotel, Sharpsburg, was thrown
from buggy in a runaway accident at
Lappans, Washington county, Nd, and was
probably fatally injured by kicks from the
horse
A telegram from the City Mexico says
Gen. Juan Mendez, president of the Supreme
Court of Military Justice, is dead. General
Mendez was one of the heroes of the battle
of the 9Th of May, 1867. During the reyo-
luton in 1878 he was second in command
to General Diaz.
John G. Thompson, barber in Martins
burg, during an alteration on Thursday
night last in or near & saloon in that town,
shot w. H. McKelvy, a B. & o. r. R. en-
gineer. Two shots were fired-one entering
the heshy part of the thigh and the other
into the right groin.
The next session of the Grand Lodge OF
West Virginia Odd Fellows is to be held at
MorgantOwn. There are now in West Vir-
ginia 1872 lodges, with total membership
of 5000, an increase of 301 members during
the year. Four new Degree of Rebecca
Lodges were also established during the
year, and are now in hourishing condition,
Last week, as two sons of Joseph Lacy,
who lives near Bloomfield, Loudoun coun-
ty, were driving, their horse ran away,
throwing them out of the buggy. The older
one, aged about twelves years, was so badly
injured that he died the next morning. The
other lad, about eleven years of age, had
one of his wrists sprained and was other
wise hurt
From London comes the report that
Frederick Villers, the most famous war ar
fist known to this century,-the same who
was with Archibald Forbes, the worldre-
nowned war correspondent in many great
campaigns Of the past thirty years,-met
death at the hands of the Chinese, his head
less trunk having been found on the banks
of the Yalu.
Mr.. Edward Elgin and Miss Irene.Egin,
son and daughter of Mr. J. Luther Elgin,
while driving from Jamestown, Montgom-
cry county to their grandfather's, Mr.. Jas.
H. Elgin, near Sandy Hook, Washington
county, were thrown from the carriage in a
runaway accident at Knoxville. Miss Elgin
had her arm broken and Mr. Elgn was Sc
riously injured about the head and body.
The Stanton, Va, Spectator is offered
for sale by Editor Richard Mauzy, whose
advanced years and failing eyesight admon-
ish him that his journalistic course is nearly
run. Mr.. Mauzy began his editorial career
in Lewisburg, now in this State, in 1S49,
and in 1860 he bought the Spectator, and
has published it ever since, save for a time
during the war, when Gen. David Hunter
destroyed the Office 1t is 81 plant" worth
preserving. The Spectator pages suggest
by typographical excellence almost excep
tioual the superior equipment of the office.
Col. VIM c. Oates was peacefully inaugu-
rated Governor of Alabama, in Montgomery,
on Saturday. Capt Reuben T, Kolb, his
defeated Populist opponent, took the oath of
Office as Governor and went to the Capitol
for the purpose of making a speech. Gov
ernor Jones informed him that he could not
speak in the Capitol grounds as claimant
for the goYernorship. Captain Kolb left the
Capitol grounds and made his speech from
a wagon in the street He charged that he
had been elected and counted out Colonel
Oates was inaugurated at the Capitol, aud
in his inaugural address denied the charge
Of fraud.
When Hon. VIM. L. Wilson appeared in
the House of Representatives on Monday
he was loudly cheered by those on the floor