Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1871-08-01

/ sent all ;he children TO school except a little
! boy, who was too small to attend, but in or
der to get rid OF his presence she afterwards
sent him for the Oldest daughter, with mes.
sage that she shOuld CONE hone and wash
some clothes. On the entrance of THE daugh-
| ter into the house, not indiug her mother in
| the lower rooms, she went Cp stairs aud found
he- dead. She was about 50 years old, and
before her death had given evidence OF some
disturbing weight Pressing upon her mind.
CCIarkc Courier.
- The pcsti!cntial disease that is rapidly
carrying oil all the hogs iu this county, is not,
ne are Informed By Observing aud knowing
gentlemen, cholera, but disease that attacks
the hog III various forms, sometimes in the
foot, aud again IN the legs, or lungs, or
stomach-iuvariably however, where there is
weak point about the animal. Some of
them live scve:a! days after the disease frst
attacks thea, Others die in less than two hours
Thus far, the diseas. hes .baffled every remedy
that has been applied Courier 27M att.
- Every one will regret the uufavourabie
turn iu the affairs of the Shenandoah Valley
railroad. We hope i, will lie b., temporary
disappointment 10 our Warren and Page
friends. The amount ObiaiLed fr"r1 home
sources was deemed sufficient, We thought, to
grade the iIuc from Front Royal to LurHy,
the engagement Of the PcnUsyIvanians being
understood to &c the furnishing auI laying CT
the eupcrSiTccture.
Possibly the heavy demand for funds fGr
the new Iiue between Baltimore and Rich.
mOnd may explain the failure to carry it out
pruwp'!y.-- Manchester N,,cs.
Cswp MEETIxG.-Thc annual Camp
Meeting OF the l.. Is. Church which COM
mcTccs on the iUth OF August, near Keedys.
vile, 10 all appearances will be more numer>
uusly attended this year than it has been tor
many years past. Already Que hundred teuts
have been engaged and pu; in position on the
ground, and the indication is that there will
be rs many more engaged and put up between
now and TIE commcnccmento OF Camp Meeting
LHGgcrs'0,cM Free Press.
ny The wife Of Mr.. SamHel ErGntuer, of
MartinsburS, died suddenly on the cars, near
Weaverton, on Wednesday last She had
long been Ill with the consum pti"n, aud had
been on a visit to some friends in Maryland,
and was returning home At the time OF her
death.
- The growth OF tbs ". + Church South
in Maryland is without parallel in the lis
tory OF Methodism; they have Built some
ninety churches in the State since 1866, aud
are still progressing, in the trucst sense, in
Thomas A Scott, of the Pennsylvauis
Central Railway, is said to be broken down
and completely Frustrated by Overwork His
physicians have ordered him to go abroad for
year if he desires to live. His situation is
pronounced precariOus.
ES- The New York Day Book, one of the
sOUndest aud most outspokcn of northern
journals in its deUunciaiions of the radical
party and all its adiuucts. from the least to
the greatest, will hereafter be furnished sub
scribers at 81. so year, or to clubs Of five,
at one dollar each.
Es5~ On the banks of the Kauawha, four
miles above Charleston, the Spring Coal Com
Pany recently harvested field OF six hundred
acres in oats, the estimated yield Of which is
$4,000 bushels. There was engaged (soys
the Baptist Record in saving this enormous
crop, 50 hands, with ~ cradles aad rcapcrs
and mowers. The field extends for two miles
on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, and
the same distance on the opposite side of the
river.
H5- The change of guage in the Ohio and
Mississippi Railroad, from St. Louis to Gin
cinnati, was effected on Sunday week. Be-
tween daybreak aud noon, the rails were all
torn from their chairs, lifted from the cross
ties, placed upon the new chairs provided for
them, aud firmly spiked down. 1t was al off
day, aud no traffic was interrupted. This en-.
abIes trains to 60 from ST. Louis to Baltimore
| without traushiPmeut.
4 fierce and bloody riot took place at
| GOidsbOrO', North Carolina, among a number
ofuegroes on Saturday last The Republican
State COmrittee brought some Eve thousand
of them from Newbern and the lower counties
TO attend mass meeting, at which several
Radical Congressman were to be the speakers.
Most of the negroes are reported to have be-
come intoxicated aud turbulent. and hence tho
riot. The white citizens Iorbore to take any
part, but armed themselves for any emergency.
One street railroad line in New York,
the Third Avenue, has eighteen hundred
horses, three hundred passenger cars, aud
employs eight hundred men. 1t is about adj
ding a story to its depot. The improvement