Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1874-07-07
MADISON, VA, December 8, 1878.

MADISON, Va, December g. 1878.
Dear Colonel Yours received l bear
in mind all you say, and am alive to it, AL
though l was somewhat disappointed in Gem
eral Grants message, and regret very much
the civil rights paragraph, especially in view
of the Supreme Court decision in the Butch
ers' case" yet am going to fight it out on
the present line, at least as long all one
summer. Very truly yours,
j. l.. KEMPER
The publication is accompanied by a letter
from Gov. Kemper, in which he states his
his position in opposition to the third term
for President "a violation OF the uuwrit>
ten laws which in free country constitute
some of the bulwarks of liberty" In the
matter of Congressional candidates, he says
he will never support one who runs against
the regular nominee of the Conservative party.
His calling on the President was, he says,
after consulting and advising with leading
conservatives, and his conduct towards the
Federal administration has been exactly that
laid down By the Conservative party, and al,
forwards re>afirmed by a Conservative lcgis-
lature.
Na.) Spectator gives the following particulars
of the sad death of Rev R. S. Shreye and
wife, which occurred on the 25th ult, about
P. NJ, at the parsonage of Upper Botetourt
Circuit:
The family, seated for evening worship,
had noted the approaching cloud, the first dis
charge o: electricity from which proved the
messenger of death to two of their number
Mr.. Shreve and wife were both killed at once
His brother, the senior preacher of Fincastle
Circuit, was severely shocked, being insen.
sible until the next morning. a young woman
in their employ, the only other person in the
room, vas also shocked, but less severely
The children.-the Oldest seven and the
youngest but little over year,-were in an
adjoining room, ran in to find their parents
PROSTATE on the floor, and their uncle stagger
ing about the room-the woman eraspipg an
article of furniture for support. The nearest
neighbors was half a mile distant. Through
the falling rain the little girl of seven guided
the woman, and startled the family by saying
"My dear papa and mama are killed ny light
ningw
The neighbors found, on reaching the
house, one Of the little ones lying on her
mothers arm-the mother already cold in
death. All over one gable of the building
from the comb of the roof to the foundation
stones, are traces of the lightning's work.
Mr.. Shreve was born Oct. 9Th, 1880, in
Alexandria county, Va, graduated at Dicken-
son College in the class of 1860; was married
TO most estimabe lady, daughter of Col.
Travis Epes, of Nottoway county, Va, Oct.
9th, 1865, and entered the travelling counec>
ton of the Baltimore Conference in 1862"
GE- One OF the provisions of the sundry
civil appropriation bill, which passed Con-
gress, appropriates SIS, 900 to enable the Sec
rotary of War to begin the publication of the
official records of the war of the rebellion,
both of the Union and Confederate armies
Some of these will, no doubt, prove valuable
IN settling 1nooted questions of history, and
the publication of all of them will prevent
the manufacture of any new "oficial records"
for political purposes. Moreover the loss of
the originals would not be such serious mat
ter if copies had been officially published, as
it would be now.
R The completion otthe Craighill Chan
mel, an important work for the commercial in
terests of Baltimore, devised and prosecuted
under the supervision of Col. W. P. Craighill.
son of our former townsman, W. N. Craig
hill, Esq. is announced in the Baltimore pa
pers. We congratulate the Colonel and his
friends upon the cOnsummation of this great
work.