Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-05-29
Ne,ssy Notes.
Confederate Memorial Day at Winchester
June 6th-Thursday.

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the South hereafter is to be June Ord.
The action of Ayers Pills, upon the stom-
ach and liver, IS prompt and beneficial
Daniel Shehan, of New Market, Virginia,
committed suicide at the American Hotel,
Washington City, last week.
In the next Congress electric bells will be
substituted for hand. clapping to summon
pages to the desks of members.
Oscar Wilde was on Saturday found guilty
Of immoral practices and sentenced to two
years hard labor and imprisonment.
The deposits in the Bank of France
amount to about S1l9, 100, 600, and in the
Imperial Bank Of Germany to slO6, 100000.
Mrs. Houseworth has purchased the Bate
man property, corner Maple avenue and
Burke street, Martiusburg. The considera-
ton was $4,000.
The Baltimore barkentine, Josephine,
bound from Rio Janiero with 9,057 bags of
coffee stranded 24O8 bags of coffee were
saved and brought to Norfolk.
The meeting of the Virginia State Fire
mems Association, which was to have been
held in Harrisonburg on the 9Th of June,
has been postponed to July 18th.
The Bait. and Ohio r r. Co., has awarded
contracts, it is said, for 16 new bridges on its
systems in West Virginia. All the bridges
will be OF steel and one will cost 100000
The annual rainfall of Great Britain
equals $500, 600 horse power; of Germany,
II, 800, 900; of France, u, OOO, 900; of Russia,
Il, 200, GOO; of the United States, 4SO, O. 900.
The West Virginia Editorial Association
will meet at Clarksburg August 6. Among
the attractions will be an excursion to Cam
den-on-th Gauley and the opening of a new
hotel.
Eighty thousand S~undSy.school children
paraded in Brooklyn last Friday afternoon
in commemoration Of the sixty sixth ami
versary of the Brooklyn Sunday;school
Union.
A man from Canada was recently in Port
land supervising the shipment of 60 Cana
dian horses to England. He is the largest
exporter oC horses from America to England,
and within y months he has sent over 300
horses.
-Four hundred and thirteen different spe-
cies of trees grow in the various States and
Territories. and Of this number 16 when per-
fectly seasoned, will sink in water. These
woods of high specific gravity grow mostly
in the arid regions of New Mexico, Arizona
and Nevada.
It is a great mistake to suppose that a
simple tonic gives strength it only stimu'
lates the stomach to renewed action. To
impart real strength, the blood must be pu-
rifed aud enriched, and this can only be
done By such a standard Alternative as Ayers
Sarssparilla.
Up to a week ago, since the revival OF
business, the New York Times has made a
record of 247 companies, firms, &c, that
have increased the wages Of employes-the
number of those thus benefited is stated to
be 100 700. And all, but two, Of these adj
vances were voluntary.
The offer of Charles Broadway Rouss, Of
New York, to donate 500, 600 to a fund for
the establishment Of spermanent headquar-
tiers in which the historical archives of the
Confederacy shall be kept, was referred by
the Houston, Texas, Reunion to a special
committee, which will report at the next
meeting at Richmond, Va, in 1896.
The Birmingham ge-Herald says; "The
working people, administrators, guardians,
and other individuals have deposited in the
savings banks Of the United States 1885,
600. 900 hard hearned, honest dollars. If the
Is to 1 free coinage rule should apply
their checks would be paid in deprecated
money, with a purchasing power of one half
that which their original earnings bore
Yet they say it would be good for the work
ingman."
Mr.. James II. Dunn died at his home
near Ridgeway, Va, Monday evening, May
18th. He was aged about 6S years and was
a member of the L. B. Church, at Red Bud,
near Winchester. He leaves a wife and
seven children, one daughter and six sons.
He is the father OF Mr.. T. l.. Dunn, general
manager of the Crawford Wooden Mills, of
Martinsburg. Mr.. Dunn resided for seveRl
years in Brucetown and vicinity where he
had many friends.