Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1876-02-15
PEN, INK AND SCISSORS.


that be is still alive
: The Winchester BrOsu Fsstsry is dsilg
large and increasing business.
= There is widespread temperance re.
viSal in progress in New England.
= Seventy sub grsages Of the Patrons Of
hu'bandry died in Iowa last year.
= Jefferson Davis has recently lost sui.
for $40 900 in court at Vicksb1rg, Miss.
= Oue of the life Senators of France. iu..
chosen, began his career as jOurusymEp
printer.
= Old Mr.. Fruits aud old Mrr. Fruit., of
Indiana, may we'll be called 1.-The first Fruits
of the earth, >" the one being llS aad the
other III years old.
In Page county. Va, few davs ago.
Mr. Gabriel Musselman's little child, about
three years old. was ebOked to death whil.t
eating parched corn.
! "A call has been issued for a national
convsution of the prohibition party, to meet
at Cleveland, Ohio, Msy Il, aud put pres
idential ticket in the ficld
| = There are no Democratic papers in Yer
mont, the Burlington Sentinel the last of that
sort, having yielded to the pressure Of oir>
cumstauces, aud suspended "
Mayor Kelley, of Richmond, Virginia,
has received five, pound note issued By the
UelOny of Virginia in l7lO 1t bears tho
legend, TO counterfeit is death" o.
| : Calvary Presbyterian church has ex,
| tended unanimous sall to Rev j. G. Hans
ner, OF Baltimore, TO become its pastor. Mr..
Hammer has filed that puIpi, during the pas,
two months -P"kersLurg .S'ase Jounal.
= The State Grange of Indiaua have passed
rs'Olutions demanding the repeal Of tho specie
resumption act, and that treasury notes shall
be receivable for custom h0u,s dues and be
convertlbs into three sixty FIVE interest bear.
iug bouds.
- A letter of rsceUt settler in Nsbraska
says 1--WE ere burning corn in our cook
stove, sud it makes the best fuel ever used
for quick, hot FIRE. l pay Is seuts for
| seventy pounds, and think it fully as cheap
as wood at Sc cord.
The Independent Fire Company of Har-
risonburg having disbaudcd and handed over
t. the town authorities tho engine and hose
belonging to the company, new company
has been organized composed of the colored
citizens IF that town.
a ship has just been launched at New
buryPort, Mass, which was built expressly to
bring ms>t5 for vessels from the forests Of
| Osc-on. It is said 20 be one of the strongest
vessels ever built in this country, aud will
cost atoat 100000
The Cincinnati Commercial shows that
since 1850 the taxation of Ohio has increased
81 per cent. aud the population only 20 per
cent, whi!o in the city of Cincinnati an ad>
vance Of 81 per sent. in populaton ha. been
accompanied BY az advance OF 223 per cent.
in ta1es.
= Mr.. john W. WOltE, postmaster at Fred
erIcksburg, Va, corrccIs tho statement that
the republican executive committee OF the
State OF Virginia had expressed preference
for ex>Speaker Blaine for The presidency
lie expresses tho bolief th4, The republicans
! OF Virginia prefer General Graus as their first
choice over all others
! = The mineral bureau at AlsxIrdri,. Va
has received three samples Of ssmi> bituu ia Gus
Goa! from the undeVeloped beds of Grant
county, West Virginia Mr. Kowson, the
engineer who made the survey of this section
for the Washington and Ohio railroad, re-
port, some seven distinct coal beds, lying one
above the ether in geological order.
According to General Doubleday's book
the man who raised the palmetto flag over
Fort Sumter at the time of its surrender was
Lieutenant Colonel L. J. Moses since tho re-
publican Governor of South Carolina, aud re-
Gently elected circuit Judge in that State,
but whose commission is withheld by Cover.
nor Chamberlain because OF Noses alleged
bad character.
M -G9TsFBot jostph Juhusou, ROW liz,
Ing 10 ARrrI:jn county, West Virg giI:,. f-st
catered Coos.ess from Virginia in 1923,
, served several terms, and in 1852 was elected
Governor of Virginia He was born in Orange
county, New York, in 1855, and removed to
Virginia in 1901. He was an officer in the
war of 1912 Governor johnson WAS person
ally acquainted with all the Presidents from
Jefferson to Lincoln.
The Birthday of Gen Robert f. Lee
WAS celebrated in becoming manner at Fin
! castle, Va. A large procession moved through
the principNl streets to the Court House
where Col. Edmund Peudlston delivered an
address On the life aod services of Gen Lee,
after which poem written for the occasion
by Mrs. Margaret J. Preston was read by
Judge I. D. Houston. During the day sew
eral hundred dollars were raised for the Leo
monument fund.
- The Secretary of War has writteu let
| tar to DIR. Wa. q. Jones. secretary of the
Southern Historical Sciety, at Richmond,
! Va, in relation to tho publication of war re-
cords. The statement is further authorized
| that if any one who has original Off eial docu
uents pertaining To the war, either on the
! Union or on the Confederate side, will send
them to the Secretary of War, they will be
copied for use and returned to the owner, if
accompanied with such a request.
An ANTHRACITE Coal DISCOVERY The
! Cumberland AHegdHian has information that
| a vein of anthracite has been discovered near
| North Mountain, Berkeley county. West Yir-
| ginia, about ten miles distant from the Balti-
moro aad Ohio railroad. a letter from one
| of the parties operating the vein says shaft
has ham Au-.n.r-- e.. Z. A c--.--