Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-10-09
NelCsy Notes.

4uN HOtROA NAoH IL W poAAe6NNN
Nd, this year is valued at 100000.
The Democrats of Massachusetts have
nominated Hon. George F. Williams for
Governor
Walter J. Harrison, president of the Lou
doun National Bank at Leesburg, died on
Sunday night last
General William Malone died in Wash
ington yesterday. He was unconscious for
ty-eight hours before death.
A gang of counterfeiters of silver and
nickle coins has been discovered in New
Jersey and some of the men arrested.
Cuba has recently been visited by cyclone
and floods. Millions of dollars worth OF
property destroyed and many lives lost.
The Philadelphia Gas Company has pur-
chased 5000 acres of land in Tyler county,
this State, aud will pipe natural gas to Pitts
burg.
The peach and apple crops of Berkeley
have been good this year-the latter excep-
tioually abundant. Peaches sold for 81 per
crate
Dennis Cavanaugh, one of the oldest res
idents of Martinsburg, died Sunday of heart
disease He was aged about eighty-fwo
years and leaves a wife and five children.
Mr.. Charles Line, who lives near Sharps-
burg. Nd, had cow to choke to death, the
other week, while attempting to swallow an
apple. Our COW died because she swallowed
a bushel of apples-more or less.
Governor MacCorkle has appointed among
Others Hon. Brce Catlett, of Morgan coun-
ty, and Col. R. P Chew, of Jefferson coun-
ty, delegates to the National Road Congress
to be held at Atlanta, this month.
Prof. Laugstroth, the eminent authority
on bee culture, for twenty years a professor
at Yale, and for fifty years leading Pres
bylerian minister, whilst preaching last
Sunday died of apoplexy-aged 50 years.
William Kimmel, of Keyser, had leg
cut off by a train of cars at the Frederick
street crossing of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad in Frederick City last week. He
was taken to the Western Maryland Hospi
tai.
More Cleveland luck Dr. Talmage, who
is to be one of the preachers at the Presi
dents church in Washington, will oficiatt
Sunday evenings. The President attends
only Sunday morning seryice.-Ne,c KorI
Mercury.
The output for 1895 is estimated at from
4OO,O 900 to 100000 bicycles in the UniteC
States this year, and that it will be from
100000 to 100000 in 1896. 1t will be
dangerous for the pedestrian who will walk
in the middle of the big road
A temporary floor gave way at the laying
of cornerstone for a Catholic Church a
Lorain, Ohio, on Sunday. and 3-year. Old
child was killed. ten persons fatally injured
and thirty or forty others badly hurt. Near
ly all Of the seriously injured were females
The Valley Mutual Life Association, o
Staunton, Va, has made an assignment
Assets ST., $50 liabilities, $4,000. 1t has
made arrangements by which the policy
holders can be transferred to the National
Life Insurance Association, of Hartford
Connecticut
p. B. Sublett one of the oldest bushes:
men Of Stanton, died Friday, Sept. 9th
His death was caused by heart disease. Mr.
Sublett was born in Powhatan county, Va.
in 1881. He was aprudent business man,
good citizen and member Of Emmanuel
Protestant Episcopal Church.
The Hagerstown Globe has just completed
a census Of Hagerstown, which has now II,
57I inhabtaut. an increase Of 4 ,453 over thu
census OF 1890. Corbetts Addition has Isl
people and several other additions 200 PEG
pie, making The total population of Hagers-
town and suburbs about $4,000.
1t is currently reported that Mr.. Albert
Hutchison. who was walking across his ia
theirs farm, in Loudoun county, struck biz
foot against hard substance, and on ex-
animation found it to be pot buried, which
ON digging out, he found to contain 5000 in
gold coin. That was pot luck" indeed.
Baltimore and Ohio magnates met IN
Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday and elected
officers for the Valley Railroad, which vii
be known as the Cleveland Terminal and
Valley Railway. The officers are Presi
dent, Thomas NJ King Vice President
Secretary aud Treasurer, Henry NJ. Keim
Five boys at East Liverpool, Ohio, who
had recently seen wild west" show, took
/, iato their heads to play Indians They
tied a companion, l6 years of age 70 a stake
and burned him so badly that he will die
They were discovered at their savage sport
and their victim rescued more dead than
alive.
The large wooden cross, which for about
p years had done duty on the belfry OF
Christ Church, Charlottesville, was carefully
taken down when the building was RACED
Il was badly weather beaten, and near the
top a wood -pecker had pecked large hole
and inside the cross had built its nest and
raised its young, perhaps, for several years
] Nj. L-,to Thin ore1 obOut 40 ,oors