Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-04-29
ATTEMPTED Su1o1pE OF A NAr1vE OF

nee, Ia the second story of the building,
corner Second rnd Main streets The causes,
that led to the act are not definitely known,
though various reasons are assigned Mr.,
Carter has been drinking rather freely for the
last few days, and did not go to his home in
the country Thursday night, but remained in
the city. 'Hiswife became uneasy about him,
and not hearing from him, she came to the
city In the afternoon, and found him at his.
Office. No one else was present, aud of course
what passed between them is not known, but
soon after she went into the room the report
| of pistol was heard, and several of the op.
| orators from the third story ran down into the
room, and found Mr. Carter lying on sofa,
with the blood streaming from wound in the
back part of the head. DIR. Kelly was called
in, and examined the wound, which he did
not think was Of dangerous character The
ball entered behind the right ear, ranging
backward, under the scalp. The revolver
was lying on the floor, with one chamber
empty, and cap second tube snapped,
showing that he had attempted to fire Sec
ond time"
Mr.. Carter 10 a native of Charlestown, and
son of Isaac N. Carter, ESQ, formerly pro-
prietor of the Carter Hotel in this place. He
married the daughter of Mr.. George j. Doug
las, one of the wea.thest citizens of Louis
vile, and as she is said to be LADY Of most
amiable and lovely character, aud he is sur.
rounded with everything to make life attrac-
tive, this attempt at sef>destruction is
cause of wonder to his friends here.
GRATIFYING REsuLr-The people of this
community were startled, a week or ten DAYS
since, by the announcement that the telegraph
office at this place was about to be tax zen away
from Mr.. A. W. Hawks, the energetic and
popular operator here, and perhaps abolished
1t seems that some complaint Of neglect of
duty had been lodged against Mr.. Hawks at
headquarters by some one unknown. but our
people were not willing to thus lose the valu.
able services of Mr.. f.. and he was conse>
queptly armed with petitions for his reinstate>
ment. signed by about all the leading citizens
of the town-ce, tainly by all to whom they
were presented ia their hurried circulation
and repaired at once to the principal Office of
this Division, in Baltimore On his return
on Monday night of lest week We were pleased
to learn the gratifying ntelli gence that the mat
ter had been satisfactorily arranged, and that
appounc, haent received hearty amen from
our people generally, aud it is their unanimous
wish, so far able to Judge, that Mr..
II. may be retained us the permanent operator
at this point at least so long as he desires to
retain the position. Certainly more gen.
tlemanly, accommodating and efficient officer
can be focnd.
GhuMnLEHs AT NEWSPAPERS Horace
Greedy, in speaking of gruublers at newspa>
pers, thus hits the nail on the head:
''lt is stringo how close men read the pa
per We Fever say anything, that ANYBODY
don't Ike bat VIC soon hear of it aud every body
tells us of it. If, however once in - viii e
We happen tt sava good thing. we never hear
OF that; nnb"dy seems to n"'ice that. We
pay some hundred com ailments and
give him d"zen pnfs, and he takes it all as a
tribute 10 his greatness aud he never thinks it
does him any good. Bar if we hapnen to say
things this d"n:t like, or some thing he
inIagire- is reflection on him or his charac-
ter, see how qnick lie fares up and gets mad
about it. Ali our evils are duly charged to
Us. but we never apparently; get any credit
for what good We do.
PRESERVE THeM.-"Mahy people take
newspapers. but few preserve them, yet the
most Interesting reading imaginable, is an old
he OF newspapers. 1t brings up every age
with its hustle and every day affairs, and
makes It's genius and its spirit more than the
iabored description of the historian Who
can take up a paper dated half century ago,
without he thought that almost every name
there printed is now cut upon tombstone at
the head of epi,aph 1t is easy to pres
serve newspapers, aud they will repay the
trouble, for. like that of wine, their value in
creases with their years.
PEKsoNAL.-We were pleased, last week,
to receive call from our long known and
esteemed friend, Moses S. Grantham, ESQ.
President of the County Court of Berkeley
county. President Grantham from his ap.
pcarance whilst with us is as hale and hearty
as ever, and has not suffered by the duties
imposed upon him by his fellow>citizcus of
berkeley county. a true type of the genuine
Virginia gentleman may his shadow never
grow less"
overwhelmingly the important as
signments by the Chief Engineer Of the
United States Army, notice that Col. VIM.
p. CraighiIl, son Of our former esteemed
townsmnn, w. N. Chaighll, Esq is assigned
to the improvement o: the Susquehanna, Pa
tapsco. James, Appomattox, Roanoke and
Cape Fear rivers, and of Baltimore Harbor,
and the survey of the JAMES river and Ka-
nawha CANAL.
PEACH CRop-The peach crop of this sec
ton, this year, promises to be utter failure:
AS result of the past severe winter no trees
are in bloom, and from what We can learn we
don't believe there will be ten bushels of
neaches nrndnnnd In this MAJ.