Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-24
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way to Kansas.
Madison, Wis, has highway robbers
Verify, the West i advancing.
= Cheyenne Inaians are dragging ration2
from Government in Arkansas, preparatory to
a grand hair>raising match.
II Pinchbeck an1 Automo niger Senators
from Louisiana, areImaking Boston e. F's hap
Ply by their presente.
Away up in s.. Paul, Mimi, wheat
brings s1.25 por bgsssss, and there is plenty
of it.
= Columbus, O., newsboys smoked pieces
of tin, and sold them to yerdaut Buckeyes to
see the eclipse.
- The Milwaukee andSt. Paul Railroad is
to build bridge across tie Mississippi at Me-
Gregor,
= Some Texas wheat yie lded ffty-two
bushels to the acre, andlweighed sixty-six
pounds to the bushel.
At Bradenburg, KY, on the farm Of
MIR. Alonzo Moremen, 9 valuable salt well hag
been discovered.
- Throwing ballast overheard, in the Po>
tomac, it is feared will impede nayigation.-
Then it will be ''all quiet on the Potomac"
An old officer of the United States Navy,
Commander Jarvis, died recently ct Geneva,
Mo.
The intensely loyal town of Massillon
Ohio, has forty places where man laay get
Presidentially drunk.
The construction of the North Louisiana
and Texas Railroad is retarded by the high
water.
Three counterfeiters with $4,000 in
stump tail currency, have teen arrested in St,
Louis.
"A new fish is being caught in Lake Pc
pin, Wis, weighing from three to four pounds,
and shaped some like shad
One firm at Kassou, Mimi, have sold
this year $40 reapers, 40 thr9shers, and 500
seeders.
= McRca, the Texas despOrado, has final
ly been killed by the citizens of Bolton, and
and order reigns 10 that part CT the State.
= Indians on the plains are considered
disloyal' because they won'ttake negro scaIps.
They have had an 'iold settlers meet
ing at Cheyenne. One old antediluvau had
been there over year and a half.
Green Bay, Wisconsin, has started a
railroad to the Mississippi-a from thence
to the Pacific, Pekin, Fung Chowder, &c.
by building his chickeu-house over his
we'll, New Orleans gentleman caught two
darkies in it. He saved his chickens, but
how about the we'll ?
= Tim Thermond, Of Montgomery City,
Mo-, on Saturday murdered his wife by break
ipg her head with chair. He was arrested.
= Four Radical Office holders of Texas,
Tracy, Brester, Stancet, and Harris, have
been indicted for offenses from extortion doUn
to murder.
At Miamisburg, Ohio, tea-partya lad,
who was not invited, thFea live goose
through the window while the party were sit
ting at the table. Great jokers, those Buck
eyes.
At WILMINGTON, y. c., a colored chap
hes been arrested for robbing printer of a
gold watch. How are you orotdeP Discharge
that niger.
A squaw, III years old, sells big cat
fish in the streets of Sioux City, Iowa, aud
takes her regular benzine. She is the mother
Of thiFty,fve children, as far as heard from.
- Ezra Martin, one of the most prominent
business men of Council Bluffs, Iowa, has
been arrested for passing counteriit money
and taken to Cincinnati.
A female is begging at Waverly, claim
ing that she was in the cavalry service. She
was dressed in q chaw Of tobacco, and swore
by note
-"Invade US, invade US, o, ye immigrant" I"
is the cry of the Victoria (Te1as) AdUocate.
There is room in Texas for all the wanderers.
- At Portsmouth, Ohio, the Red-StooE>
ings played the Riversides, and the score stood
40 to 0. The Portsmouth Times thinks neSt
time the RiveTsides can score twice as many.
The eighteenth annual session of the
University of tlis5issippi commences OF the
18th of September. It is in prosperous con-
dition, and Mississippians are proud of it
= Shooting and killing is getting to be so
common in New Orleans that when man
hears shot he looks himself oyer to see il
there are any holes in his hide, and goes on
sbout his business.
T. II. Bennett, conductor on NorthBes'
tern Railroad, was found dead in Fox River
near Chicago; supposed to have committed
suicide because his account With the company
wouldn't balance.
-"Lo the poor Indian" Doctor Lowered
his trunks out of his clearinghouse window
and lowered himself in the estimation Of ;
Goshen EidoB. His other name was G. W
Copway.
On Friday night three burglars entered
Mr.. Buckwalter's house, at Lancaster, Penn
s3lyania, and pointing revolver at his head
demanded his money. They got something
over 1000 for their trouble.
DIR. L. Da Silva is lecturins in NAM
parts of the West on "MaximiIian and Car
iotta." He is talented man, but has sucE
an appetite for whisky that he makes an ass o
himself wherever he goes.
"A young girl at Memphis was missed
and reward of 500 was offered for infOr
nation as to her whereabouts. A younl
iirsbep called and claimed the reward, am
got it. He had married the girl.
At the isGrecian Bend Saloon" Yir
ginia City, Nevada, Bob peadman beat L
Springer over, the head with six-shoOter, S
that he can't recover, on account of frai
Grecian bender.