Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-04-20
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are being erected in Georgia.
= Painting I'M genteman's arms was
neat dodge ola Western female pickpocket. :.
= Dickens has.been threatened with a IL
bel suit by the pfoprietors Of the Alhambra.
= Hilton HeadsS. c., war town, is near
~ deserted and will soon be a thing of the
past.
The spring business in Charleston, S.
c., is the best that has been known since the
war.
A Partisan millionaire has captured an
American belle, and there is to be wedding
soon.
Napoleon is great chess player, but
the game excitcs him, aud he is angry when
beaten.
Since the slave trade has been abolished
the tribes in A frca eat their prisoners, as they
cannot sell them.
= Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is about
opeuing-a schooEof agriculture for girls, in
Aiken, South Carolina.
= Victor Hugo no logger abuses the En-
peror Napoleon, and it is conjectured that he
will soon return to France.
Governor Geary has vetoed the bill
ishing capital punishment.
= The New York city government has
more than one clerk to each member, and paid
them last year about $40 600.
- RUSSIAN and French capitalists are pre-
pairing to build the largest hotel in Europe,
on the banks of the Lago Maggiore.
= An elk escaped from Central Park Tues
day morning, and led two hundred men
perspirine chase across the country.
At Leesbure, n. c., negro school
teacher got drunk and whipped his whole
school, consisting of sixty little negroes.
= Passes have been given to all members
of Congress over the Union Pacific and Cen
trail Pacific Railroads. good for one year.
- Counterfeit twenty-dollar bills on the
Fourth National Bank of Philadelphia are in
circulation. They are difficult of detection.
"A Kentucky blacksmith, who was too
lazy to support his family, was lately tied to
a tree aud given sixty two lashes to stir him
up.
= At the Paris Bourse the spectators call
our American five-twentes dollars" In
Frankfort and Berlin they call them "Amer-
ikaner"
- The proposed excursion of the directors
of the Union and Central Pacific railroads
over their roads this summer has been aban~
doned.
- Thomas Mast, the artist, mikes $500 to
$500 a week by his cartoons and sketches for
Harper's Weekly and other illustrated Pc
riodicals.
- Merritt Sanford of Bethany, Conn, is
thus obitnarized: He was as honest man
as ever lived, and had worn no hat for forty
years"
- Three whales have lately been taken in
Long Island Sound, from which the cnptOrs
obtained IS ,0OO worth Of oil aud 81 900 worth
Of bone
Jenny Lind has taken UP he, residence
in Hamburg. Her daughter. now but twelve
years old, promises ito become as great sing
er as the mother.
= Jefferson Davis, in private letter, says
that his health is excellent, and that he in
tends to return TO this country this spring, if
permitted to do so.
"A bed of rock salt has been discovered
at OAK, in France, which is reported to ex>
tend over more than mile in diameter, aud
to be one hundred feet thick.
- Chevallier will start from New York on
his balloon voyage to Europe on the last day
of July. He wants few persons to go with
him. Through tickets, $3.50.
- The village of Hancock, Michigan, was
almost entirely destroyed by fire last week
The fire originated in French saloon, aud
swept away one hundred aud ten buildings
including churches, schools, public halls,
warehouses and dwellings.
- Leon and Medina were garrotted il Hu-
vanua April the 10th, in the presence of u
vast crowd Leon cried " IiCu ip2pper6en-
ciu," and the crowd uttering sedtious cries
in response, were fired into by the guard, six
being killed and many wounded.
Il man in Jefferson county, Ky, re-
Gently had disagreement with his wife,
which led to separation by mutual consent.
Pending the decision of who should have the
custody of the children, the wife offered him
S25 for them, and upon these equable terms
tine sale was made.
In 1850. the then Prince Regent Of
Prussia (now King William said to one of
his confdants that there was one member Of
the Prussian diplomatic corps who was, owing
to his restless and dominecrug spirit, so dis
tasteful to him that he hated the very sight
of him. This distasteful individual was
Count Bismarck.
"A white woman named Martin, a new
sLuIe-mdrn, in Newbern, Pulaski county,
Va, has gone off with gentleman as black
as the ace of spades, and vowed to Glove,
honor and obey" said ''colored individual"
until death do them part" They had to
take separate cars on their return trip. Every
lady to her taste,