Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-12-12
Nelrsy Notes.

There are 1886 Protestant Episcopal
churches.
RumOr has it that Martinsburg Is to have
a SIS, 600 opera house.
A Pocahontas county hunter recently kill
ed l6 deer in one week
There are still 10000, 900 people in South
America as yet untouched by missionary
effort.
Ayers Sarsaparilla is a perfect cure for
scrOfula, that dreaded faint in the human
system.
In Texas prairie fires have been raging
for month. twenty-five thousand miles
of grass land burned over.
Patrolman Kenny bagged an opossum on
the front porch of the Presidents house at
at early hour Monday morning.
The second biennial report of Col. J. W.
Rowan, treasurer of this State, shows a bal
ance in the treasury of s733,657.76.
The property on which lies the Chancel-
lorsville battlefield in Spottsylvania county,
Va, has been purchased by the estate of W.
n. Wyeth.
Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, the distin-
guished Suez canal engineer, died at La
chenaie, near Vatan, in the Department Of
LIndre. France
Miss Kilbouru, daughter of E. E. Kill
bourr, president of the knitting mills COM
pany at Martinsburg, died suddenly in Phil
adelphia recently.
The residence of Mr.. X. Creque, in Mar
tinsburg was entered Sunday night while
the family was at church, and about $50 in
money was stolen.
There has been a rise in the river and ten
million bushels of coal are on the way down
the Ohio from Pitisburg, and other millions
vet to follow. High water means business
to the coal operators.
A party Of Front Royal fisherman gigged
in the north branch Of the Shenandoah
river. above Kenner's dam, Monday night,
p German carp, the average weight Of
which was - pounds.
Orders have been placed for the stone to
be used in the piers Of the New York and
Long Island Bridge. The quantity is be-
tween 10000 and 10000 cubic yards and its
cost will be 81 100000
Mr.. John d. Weaver, for a long time a
prominent miller and merchant in the Front
Royal community, died on Sunday week,
aged 50 years Mr. Weaver was much es-
teemed for his many good qualities.
The Misses Yost, of Rockingham county,
near Port Republic, do their own farming,
and are successful, too, in stock raising
They recently had some fine hogs slaughter
ed, two Of them netting nearly 200 lbs.
The next annual meeting of the West Vir-
ginia Bar Association will be at Charleston,
on the first Tuesday in February. Among
other papers, one will be by Judge D. B.
Lucas, on "A Constitutional Convention"
John r. Hathaway, a well-known news
paper man, printer and editor, and proprie-
tor of the Norfolk Day Book for many years,
died at his home in Berkeley. suburb of
Norfolk, Wednesday. He was seventy
years of age.
The report OF Collector Z. NJ. Gilkeson
shows the United States internal revenue
collections in West Virginia to amount to
S43. 1873. The collections for October
amounted TO $50, O99.S IS and for November,
1898. S67Ol1.5S.
Charles Smith, the seventeen-year.oId son
of Mr. Edward Smith, OF Msrtinsburg, went
cunning last Monday week in the neighbor-
hood of Cherry Run, and in the evening
returned with his foot terribly lacorated by
the accidental discharge of his gun.
While GU; hunting on Tuesday Mr. Ed.
Smith of this city placed the muzzle of his
gun on his foot aud accidentally touched
the trigger. The gun was discharged and
the whole load went through his foot, tear
ing of two toes. -Nptins5wg Independent.
1t is often a mystery how a cold has been
caught" The fact il, however, that when
the blood is poor and the system depressed,
one becomes peculiarly liable to Diseases
When the appetite or the strength fails,
Ayers Sarsaparilla should be taken without
delay.
A passenger train on the Texas and Pa
ci6c Railroad was stopped by train robbers
on trestle seven miles from Fort Worth,
Texas, last week. The express car was rob-
bed of $4,000 and the train was allowed
to proceed Nobody WAS hurt. The pas
sengers were not molested
Col E V White, of Leesburg, was mar
ried Wednesday evening, December 9Th, to
Miss Margaret Bayne, of Philadelphia. The
ceremony took place at the residence Of Col |
ChAs NJ. Bayne, brother of the bride, and |
was performed by Elder Duraud, of the /
Baptis. Church. Col White Is Familiarity |
known as "Lige White"-a Confederate |
veteran.
To the Couacii Of Charles Tolcn. ". Ia.
Why has the council Of the town not pub
lished the report Of the finance committee
at The las; meeting of the council, in &C
cordance with the resolution passed April
oath by the people in a meeting which also