The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-04-03


Since March %. llo tons Of coal have
been shipped from Newport News u
foreign ports.
Oh Weaver has sold his wharf
property, at Clay Bank, Gloucester
county. to NJ Newcomb
Within three years William Jennings
BRYAN has travelled nearly 100, geo miles
for the purpose Of speech h-making
The New York Times thinks n
Devereux Blake's argument in favor Of
the appointment Il women as census
enumerators is unanswerable.
A local option election at Lexington
vas carried last week by the "Drys
by q majority Of l97 -Four Of the six
districts in Rookbridge are now Dry ~
AS the result Of q debauch last week
DR.. Thos A. Barron and his aged father
were locked up in cells Of BlltimoTe' =
iail. Dr. Barron died later in his pad
Odd cell Of delirium tremens
Senator Tillman Is ambidextrous
This is an accomplishment Of which no
other statesman in Washington. II Is
believed can boast Viewed from the
gallery. the Senators performance Il
writing with both hands is marvellous
Ii not believed in Richmond that
anything will come Of the proposed
prosecution Of the Emp)ria lynchers
Convictions are not expected. Judge
GOODWIN ordered a special grand jury
for yesterday TO Inquire into the
lynching
Eighty thousand elephants are requir-
ed annually to supply the world with
ivory, and most Of them come from
South Africa The Boer has shipped
lions from the Transvasl to oil lands,
and he has killed seven thousand Of the
beasts within its borders
A steamer has just landed in Japan
carrying six thousand tons Of Virginia
coal for the Japan market. This is the
arst coal ever shipped from this country
to the Japanese market. IL is said,
however, larger trade could be built
up with that country fthe high fre'ghts
did not make il impossible.
Easter comes on April 10Th The
date for Easter is unusually late this
year. and in fact is within one week Of
the latest possible date for the feast
The settling Of the date is by means o.
the paschal moon, and on this account
it is impossible for it to come earlier
than March 2lst or later than April
25th
A restaurant conducted AS Christ
would conduct an eating house " is IN
operation in Chicago. The walls are
decorated with Biblical quotations, Cos
pei meetings are held at certain times
and the place is closed on Sunday.
Needy persons are not allowed to pay fo'
their meals. The proprietor is a reform
ed drunkard.
In a divorce case in Kentucky
brought by the husband against his wife
on the ground that she was q habitua
drunkard, Judge Storey refused to gran
the divorce because the evidence show
ed that the husband had been married
before and had entered into the secont
marriage within four months of th
death of his first wife, and in so doinI
he had been guilty Of want OF ordi
nary care. "
Putnam Lodge, A. + and A. NJ o
East Cambridge. Mass broke all rec
ords in Masonry Monday in con'errinI
the Master Mason's degree upon fv
members Of one family-a father an
four sons. The work was exemplIfie
late in the afternoon in the Mssoni
Hall .Oambridgeport and banquet wa
then served in Union Hall Over fv
hundred members Of the order fror
Cambridge and neighboring lodges wef
present
II is said that Miss Helen Gould, @
New York. is maintaining nine or TEL
chaplains in the army at hes own ex
pense. These men are not officiall
recognized as cbaplains. but as minis
ters and Y Nj O A. workers they vol
UNFAIRLY aud unOificislly do practically
the same work Miss Gould, it i
stated, pays each Of these men $50
month and their expenses
The case involving ths constitution
ality of the Comm issionefs Of Y ilultiol
bill before the Court Of Appeals ii
Richmond last week, hid an array o
legal talent. which was very stron
being composed OF the following:
For Mr.. Lambert-F. l.. Smith
Alexandria; Hon. John W. Daniel, A
P. Thom, Norfolk; Judge John ID
Horsley, Lynchburg; A. W Strong
Alexandria; James r. Oatou. Alexau
dria; Major o s Stringfellow, Hon
B. B Munford, f. w. Christian. {
Richmond. For the Commonwealth
Attorney. General Montague and Hi
Garter, of Hanover.
The was 0 large attendance OF Law