Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1874-07-07
Complimentary Notices.


From ''Timothy's" letter in the last Shop
herdstown Register we take the following
extracts:
To change the topic. What a beautiful
and commodious hall our town has got through
the taste, enterprise and enlarged liberality
of the last council? If they had no other
monument to perpetuate their sagacity and
rebound 10 their praise, this Of itself would
be sufficient. | queston, take it all together,
if there is such another room for public as
semhIages, owned any corporate town in tho
whole Valley. | doubt if private enterprise
has equaled it even in the cities of Martins,
burg, Winchester or Staunton. 1t is spacious.
well ventilated, we'll seated and lighted, and
combines very fine stage and scenic advan>
tages. 1t is jewel of its kind, an ornament
to the town. The Council named it Charles
Washington Hall, after the gentleman who
gave the ground for the public buildings
very BETTING title. The whole structure
designated the Market House. is lust finished
and about to be delivered to the building
committee by Mr.. Holmes, the architect and
builder. In its style and finish he wins for
himself fresh laures rs n skil!ful master me-
chanic, whose genius is being rewarded in the
regions beyond, he having under construc~
ton at this time new Court House Mt IIar-
risonburg The present structure occupies
the old site. the former building having been
burned by Federal naraudcrs during the war
1t Is far In advance Of the old enc in every
way, style, finish, etc. The cost of erection
and furnishing will foot np about $4,000.
and from the rental of stores, stalls aud hail.
the handsome sum of thousand dollars is
expected to be realized, making it good in
vestment tOr the citizens with tie ornament
convenience and place for town gatherings
thrown in
Your townsman, Mr.. Grove, did the right
thing in rcopenng his store here and engage
ing the services of Mr.. G. w. Taylor, as agent
and salesman. Mr. T. has bad large cxpe>
rience as merchant and combines the very
happy tact of drawing customers and selling
to them. And to this fact 1 have no doubt
Mr. Grove owes the increased share of the
public patronage to his store. 1t is nice
thing to be successful merchant There is
not moro than one in five who knows aud
practices the secret. Some men repel rather
than draw. You enter their premises and
they are stiff, cold and gruf, They have
little to say, evince no anxiety to sell and hv
their manner rather drive you away than draw
you. How different the man behind the
counter, who greets you with pleasant re-
mark, shows you his goods freely, evidences
an anxiety to accommodate and sell to. YOU
and spices the scene with some pleasant re-
mark: Such man is bound to be popular.
@ The trial of the cause of the State of
West Virginia VS.. Henry S. Walker, upon a
charge OF fraud in the conduct of the affairs
of his Office as Public Printer, came up for a
hearing before Judge Smith, at Charleston
few days ago, upon consideration of certain
demprrers to defendants pleas. The Court
overru!ed the demurrers, whereupon the plain
tiff asked and obtained leave to withdraw his
demurrers, with leave to amend his declara-
ton. The will be next heard in Novem.
Der, at which time it is thought quite prob
able that Mr.. Walker will be acquitted.
H8- The New York Tribune occasionally
says good thing, as, for instance, this:-
''The' first session of the forty-third Com
gress has closed, and developed no great states
man, no hopeful presidential candidate The
shore is strewn with the wrecks of great rep
utations. Only two men come out conspic-
uous-Butler for pure cussedness, and Grant
for pure luck"
A LARGE YIELD.-Mr. j. W. Mcdaniel,
of Tappahsnnock, raised from piece of
ground eighteen by twenty feet, twenty nine
bushels of onions. An acre yielding in the
same proportion would give about $50 bushels,
worth at present prices about $3.50.
Fredericksburg Ne,cs.
Distressing devastations by grasshoppers
in the southwestern counties of Minnesota
have occurred, and Governor Davis appeals
for relief for the suffering people The coun-
try has been swept by the insects of vegeta
ton as completely as if by fire. and women
and children sefferipg for food
= Mr. Jewell, Minister at St. Petersburg.