Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1866-07-03
General. News.

lice officer killed the insect.
Tie steamer j. S. Hall sank in the A..
kansas river last Saturday.. The crew and
passengers were saved, but the boat is a total
loss. ''A'
4Iieut-Gen. r. s. EwelI. is hard at wor.
near Spring Hill, Maury Co, Ten
The wheat crop in Illinois promise, a
good yield. The harvest is BOW III. progress
Some sasrihgfOus thief entered the Town
Hall in StauntOn, Sunday night and stole
picture of Stonewall Jackson.
"A meeting was held at the gourt-hou.e
IN otaunton, on Monday, at which res buttons
were adopted strongly protesting against the.
recent Constitutional amendment.
DR. Maddox has been fined 500, and
sentenced TO six months imprisonment in Jail
Tor Tor shootmgW, IL. Vernon in Richmond sew
erul months ago.
The lawyers of Stauuton, in body. visit,
ed the cemetery IN that place or the 2ist, and
assisted IN the patriotic work of remounding,
and hitting up the soldiers graves.
Gen. Jubal A. Early is engaged in writ.
ing history of his Valley campaign.
z-Barnum! has bought. for his Museum,
the African collection ofthe late Gordon Cum.
ming, the great lion hunter
The Baltimore San estimates the poppla.
ton OF thar city; at the present time ut three
hundred thousand.
The Democrats have carried The aI..,;o,,
IN Nebraska electing Morton, and carrv;no,
the Legislature by eight or ten majority
This will secure two Democratic U. S. Senators
The citizens of Stauhton, closed tbei,,
houses OF business on Thursday last, TO labor
IN the soldiers cemetery. Graves have been
dug to winch the remains of soldiers buried
outside are TO be transferred.
"A wild cat from the woods invaded n NO.
gro settlement on the suburbs of Norfolk an
Tuesday night, aud was only diven back to
his native wilds after much uproar and excite
meut among the Africans.
The Ga=ei'e and BGm"ea reports most
faVorably Of the improvements in the wheat
crop in R"ckbridge. Enough will be nude
for home consumption and some to spa,e-
other crops Furnishing.
The Columbus, Miss, Sentinel learns
that the crops in that country are more pro-
missing than was hoped for during the rainy
season.
The latest reports from Red River comm
try are favorable US to the prospects ofthe crops
The overlooked lands have been newly plant
cd.
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burg, Kentucky, on Tuesday. between tho
citizens and some horse thieves they uttempt-
ed to arrest. The thieves were ali wounded
aud two of them captured
M. Brunei, of France, has discovered that
silk can be manufactured directly from the bark
OF the mulberry tree. lie has succeeded in
reducing the fine textile substance forming
portion OF the bark into minute iiLres very
durable, and having the general appearance
of silk.
An Austrian official has arrived in Mo-
bile, with authority from lis Government to
offer positions in the Austrian army to any
late Confederate officer WIN wishes to enter tho
army. His Government very wisely wishes
that army Commanded by men who have seen
active service. Several late Confederate Cen
erals are communicating with the official ut
present
The Prussinns claim. to lave armed their
troops with miSket greatly supsrivY IN anv
other in use. lbsi, .musket balls are lite
LOinbs, which are to explode ON entering. and
not only kill tue man, but tear him to pieces
Their powder, too, is claimed to be specially
powerful. The manufacture is = great $50
cret."
The Presidents message to Congress in
opposition to the reconstruction amendment.
so>called, is said to have fallen Ikea thua-
derbolt upon Congress. 1t is regarded in
Washington as the DVidcst step yet taken by
President johnson. aud us precIudiny tho
possibility ola reconciliation between him and
the Radicals.
: The Natchez D'mocrqt says letter from
Berlin, received by gentleman Of that eitv
states, positively, that j. Wilkes Booth. who
killed President Lincoln, is in Berlin, PLAYING
an engagement at one OF the theatres Of that
city thdds that he expresses great surprise.
that there should be 20 much credit attached
in this country to the story Of his death.
The latest foreign papers. state that MAXI
milan has declared his purpose TO abandon
Mexico. unless France viii relieve him from
his present pecuDiary cmbarrassments. md
that Napoleon has instructed Marshall Bazine
to assume the direction of affairs 10 that cUun-
try if Macmillan shall leave it.
a chariot race came of at SufF.i, porL
IN Phiindelphla, on Tuesday. which attracted
great attention. Miss Virginia Mason, Of
New York, drove Lady Sherman and Prairie
Flower s. Miss Sherwood, Of PhiIadeIphia.
drove Flora Bell ard Empress. The race was
mile heats, best three in five. Miss Mason
won in three straight heats Time 2.25. 2.3O
2.35. The ladies' were dressed il classic Goa.
tune. sG
In the excavation for the new structure
about to be erected by NJ. John r. Ford: at
the corner Of Baltimore and Holiday streets,
the workmen turned up an old copper coin
which bore the date sI722" lis about the
SIZE OF one Of the old copper cents, though not,
quite so thick, aud the only legible character.
on 10 Is the date; Wheeler il is an English
or French coin could nCt be ascertaiped IL
IS dated eight years before Baltimore town
was funded and has probably lain where it
was found for nearly century as the building
which stood over it was one Of the oldest in
that part of the city. - -,