Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-08-19

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Agricultural and Mechanical Association will
be bend at Martinsburrg on the 9th, 10th,
18th and 18th days Of September This as
ISOLATION held its first fair last year, and under
disadvantageous circumstances won the repu>!
tation of being the most successful fair Of the
| season.
The buildings are of the most extensive !
and substantial character, and have been
erected without regard to cost. The people
are alive to the fact that both Agricultural
and Mechanical in terests are greatly benefited
by honorable competition at their annual ex-
hibitions, and are zealously laboring to make
this exhibition of the first order There are
splendid purses for horsemen, one being as
high as four hundred dollars, and the track
cannot be effected by ordinary rains. The
amusements are very extensive. On the first
day there will be a tournament; on the sec>
ond balloon ascension on the third and
fourth turkey catch, climbing creased pole,
mule race, &c., &c. On the third day the
Hon. Frederick Watts, Commissioners of Ag- /
giculture of the United States, and of world
wide celebrity Agricultnrist, will deliver
the address. Half fare tickets will be issued
| on the BIZ; 0. and Cumberland Valley Rail-
roads.
We return thanks for complimentary
ticket.
CURIos1TY.-Mr. A. w. Hawks has left
at this Office odd-shaped piece of metal, of
very small size, which was found near the
surface of the earth adjoining the Coach !
| Factory of Messrs. Stump & Hawks, and
which, from its peculiar shapc-evidently
having been manufactured so-creates con-
siderable curiosity es to what purpose it was
intended to be applied to-whether to form
some portion of an Internal machine, to enter
into the composition of missile of war, or
what. A number of persons have examined
this singular piece of metal, and nil are un-
able to solve the problem of its use. It is
| open to inspection. A friend at our elbow
suggests that it was probably made for nasal
attachment, to enable inquisitive persons to
keep their noses out of other peoples business.
SHEN. VAL. r. R.-Mr. Henry Ettele,
contractor on the Shenandoah Valley Rail-
road, paid us a visit yesterday. He reports
the work on the upper limo of the road as
going ahead. The graduation and masonry
of the Second Division, from Front Royal to
Luray, is being pushed forward rapidly, and
twenty miles of the Second Division, that por-
ton extending from Luray to the neighbor>
hood of the Shenandoah Iron Works. will be
put under contract in few days; after which
the engineers will proceed to locate the road
from the latter point to its connection with
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, either at
Staunton or Fshersville, as rapidly as pos
! sibe.
IRON BuslNEss.-A party of capitalists
from Middetown, Pa, We understand, have
purchased the old furnace property of DR.
Evans, in the Fort, four miles from Water
lick Station, on the Manassas branch Of the
w. G. V. NJ. & G. S. r. R, in Shenandoah
county, Va. This valuable mineral property
cOnGins 3, Geo ocros, aud has on it some of
the finest beds of iron ore in this section
The new company is styled the Evans Iron
Company" y large force of hands have all
ready been put to work repairing the works,
and getting out ore, it being the intention of
| the Company to work these beds on large
| scale.
DEATu.-Mr Andrew J. Schaeffer, the
| young gentleman who for some time past had
been in this community acting as clerk and
paymastcr for Mr.. Henry Ettele, contractor
on the S. \. r. R., we regret to learn, died
at his home in Middletown, Pa, on Wednes-
day last, Of typhoid fever. Mr.. Schaefer, by
his gent'emauly demeanor and fine business
qualities had won many friends in this COM
munity, who will learn Of his demise with
sincere regret. He was aged about % years.
PETERsoN's MAGAz1NE.-The September
number of "l'sterson's" is on our table, and
as usual is lively and interesting. 1t is re-
plete with beautiful fashion plates and inter.
esting reading matter, and most attractive
throughout. Published by Chas J. Peterson,
s06 Chestnut ST., Philadelphia, Pa, at 50 per
annum.
Gs- We call attention to the advertisement
in our columns Of the University of Virginia,
one of the Universities of highest rank in
America. It is founded on the elective sys>
tenn, in its broadest sense, and is equally well
adapted for those who desire to make special
and professional attainment rs for those SEEK
ing broad general culture.
RELlG1oUs-The2 I'd Quarterly Meeting for
Jefferson Circuit, NJ E. Church, South, will
be held the 5Oth and 3lst of August, at Ar
den Berkeley county.
Rev. W. A. Wade will preach at White
House on Sabbath morning, August oath, at
IL o'clock.
PUBLISHERS CoNvENTIoN.-The Par
kersburo Journal sue~ests To the officers of the