Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-02-20

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plants.
". L. Hearne, enc of the leading business
meu OF Wheeling, died a. his home in that
CITY last Thursday.
The relief committee has distributed
1923. 46 in money and provisions among the
poor in Martinsburg.
A flock Of so wild geese was found frozen
in the mouth of Eastern bay, Nd, by DR..
Robert NJ. Dawson, of Whitman.
Beauregard Wilson of Yazoo City, Miss,
has raised 500 bales of cotton. and though
he has sold it at ) cents pound, he has
cleared IS, $50 from it.
On the 18th instant the Chinese fleet and
forts at Wei Hal Wei surrendered TO the
japanese. The Chinese generals and adj
mirals committed suicide.
The B. & 0. Co.'S new shops at Cumber
land will be the most extensive along their
lines. They will build all their locomotives
aud machinery at that point.
The Brooklyn street car men have given
up the fght-the strike is of, and the men
on thirty-three lines can apply for work by
permission of District Assembly No. 70.
Fayette county, Ky, has improved roads,
and these draw so much custom to its towns
that all adjoining counties will be compelled
to improve their roads to save their trade
The personal estate of the late William
T. Walters, of Baltimore, is valued at S4,-
537, 4SO Sc The Art Gallery at Mount Yer
non place is given a valuation of Sl0S,OOO,
The tenement house and contents on the
farm of Mr.. James Kilmer, about three
miles west of Martinsburg, were totally de-
stroyed by fire Thursday. The house was
occupied by Mr. George Albert
Two school children, brother and sister,
aged ten aud twelve years, were frozen to
death in Glover district, Hampshire coun
try. They were found locked in each 9th
ers arms, and the brother had wrapped his
sister in his coat
"Bacteria 90 not occur in the blood or in
the tissues OF Il healthy living body, either
of man or The lower animals So says the
celebrated DR. Koch. Other doctors say the
best medicine to render the blood perfectly
pure and healthy is Ayers Sarsaparilla.
NJ Charles Brookey, an engineer in the
passenger service of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, died at his home Last
Thursday nighl. He was a popular gen
tleman. A wife and several children mourn
his death. He was buried from St. Joseph 5
Catholic Church on Sunday, and his funeral
was largely attended.-Mar Independent
On Wednesday last, shortly after the din
ner hour, the residence of Mr.. Upton Buhr-
man, near Vancleyesvile, Berkeley county,
was entirely destroyed by fire, and some of
his personal property destroyed also. The
fire originated from terra Gotta fue that
runs through the roof and the flames had
made considerable Roadway when they were
discovered
Rev. w. T. ID. GLENN, whose death oc-
Cured last weel; at Goyanstown, Nd, was
brotber-n.aw of Bishop Thomas Bow
man, senior bishop of the NJ. E. Church.
and a cousin by marriage of Edgar Allan
Poe He ofliciated at the funeral of Poe.
As there were only four or five persons at
the funeral, Mr. GLENN omitted the sermon
prepared for the occasion.
Gen. James Bethune, widely known as
the owner and manager of Blind Tom, the
musical prodigy, died last Wednesday, in
Washington City, aged 81 years. He WAS a
graduate of the University of Georgia, and
an intimate friend of Alexander Stephens,
Robert Toombs and other famous Georgians.
During the Greek war he served as colonel,
but owing to the loss Of leg did not take
part in The civil war. Six children survive
him
Mr.. William L. Evans, Of the firm Of
Evans 4 Bros, wholesale tobacconists, died
in Winchester last Friday morning from the
effects of severe cold, contracted about
Christmas, and from which he suffered &
relapse few days ago. Mr. Evans served
in the Coniedate army during the late war
and was 4 brave soldier. lie was a member
of Turner Ashby Camp, Confederate Veter-
ans. MIR. Evans was aged about fifty-fye
and unmarried.
A Philadelphia telegram says: "How to
discharge 100000 gallons of molasses which
has been brought to this port in bulk on the
British steamship L'Odfamme, from Ha
wanna is bothering the consignees of the
vessel, J. b Hemel Jr, & Co Down in
the vessels hold the molasses is as hard as
a rock, having formed into solid mass af-
ter meeting the zero weather at the Della
ware capes The sweet cargo was put on
board the L Orihsmme at Havana in warm
weather Why not sei 1t in chunks as
tafy?
Mr.. Isaac II Faulkner, Sr., prominent
citizen of Winchester, died last Friday
morning after an illness of about week of
pneumonia. aged seventy-eight ears. He
was born in Talbot county, Nd but has re-
sided in Winchester for about sixty years.
He retired from business several years ago
lie always took an active interest in munic-
ipal affair, and served or several terms in