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

New homemade sleep ping cars have been
put OH the Chesapeake 4 OHIO r.
Mr.. Bcrj. Crawford has purcbased from Mr.
for S9.NUO
- II the Wheeling Stan lard "a Friend of Re-
form" tugeests E. Boyd Faulkner FOR the Attor-
aey GcneralshIp.
,EJudss Stewart. of Page Co., Va. has de-
ehned to leave his court and accent tho post of
committee clerk in Washington.
: a marble shaft 81 feet high. costing $3.50.
has just been erse-ed IN woodbine Cemetery, at
liarrisoHburR. for the Confederate dead
- The doctors of Winchester gave a din
ner to their brethren Of the Medical Associ-
alton Of Frederick county on the LIST instant.
viii be celebrated in 1andris, Vs.. this year ny
great display of the FIRE department and other
assoeiations OF that anc lent city.
- Eon. Reveidy johnson, Mar:laud's vet
Gran statesman aud in,ist, died suddenly at the
exseHtlvo nansIonof Gov. Carroll, at Annapolis.
of vertigo. on 1hursday evening.
= Tho Morgan Mercury says: SGT is rumored
that Hon. e. J. Faulkner hss purch. a cnntroII-
ing interest in the Wheeling Dolly Ercnins
At Robe rs Opera House. Cincinnati. Sat
urday night week the cry of fire was rnisod. caus-
M p.nis. which rr'ultod in tho death Of ten
persons and the Tounding of many moro
The Virginia Senate has passed bill
appropriating two hundred dollars to put tenn
porary headstones over 4. p Hill and J. i.
Stuart's graves.
major P. r. BorSt, president of the Washing
ton. Cincinnati aud 81. Louis Railroad Company,
has been advocating the interests Of roa be fore
the Congregational comuittcc on railroads and
canals.
The trial Of General o. f. a.hcOek for com
plicitv in the whiskey frauds COMMANDED. in tho
U 8. Circuit Court at st Louie, last week. Flo WAS
attended in court by an array oil counsel, friends
and relatives.
"A bill has been introduced in tho Virginia
Houle OF Delegates proposing to tax persona who
drink. chew. smoke, or take ennf. two dollars
year; and these who indulge in profane language
hvO dollars per year
Last Friday Hessrs D. II. AcGuiro and s J.
c. Moore. special commissioners. sold 1873 acres
Point turnpIEe road, to Mr.. a. X .G sl.cEbuTn
at $50 IS pr acre Clarke Courier.
-Th9rsdAy night week. as Mcssrs. C. Kowns-
log from Winchester. in tho da-knsss their bug
81 upset rhieh threw them some dlrtanoe, dis
Ip1lietlnE severe buses. Sir. Moore escaped with
- Much excitement prevailed in Wheeling last
week on the reception of news of tho suspcn sion
OF the Merchants Bank of Charleston, in which
was deposit of about SIS, 900 of State funds
Gov. JAe OBJ, however. thinks that tho surctiss are
perfectly good for the amount due tho State, and
the Attorney General has been directed look after
the States interest.
= Mr.. John j. Williams, trustee, sold the
Pleasant Valley. or Renner's mill, to Mr..
Joseph FUR, of Loudoun county, last week,
for 81, ESQ; aad on the following day Mr.
Fnrr sold it to Mr. Rose, of PENNSYLVANIA,
for So, 500 Winchester Times.
- AS I sequel to the recent murders and
lynchings in Kanawha county, the people
have held meeting and determined to petition
the County Court and tn" City Council of
Charleston against the further granting Of
license for the sale of Intoxicating :4rors.
- The Virginia conservative ST to ecm-
mittCs met ct Richmond on the ith, and de-
cided to cali another meeting of the Stste
committee as soon as the national committee
shat have fixed the tino aud Place of the
meeting of the national democratic convention.
The Newark ~ J) Courier saws that MI YER
non 10 to be Pit in thorough repair before the
arrival Of Visitors to the eents nnia, after plans
that city. Mr.. Taylor visited the homestead
recently, and is cow engaged in drawing plans
dcsstustion of the building by fire 1t may be re-
built exactly as it new stands.
On the Sd inst, Augustus Staubus, a
respectable farmer of Augusta county. Vir>
GINA, while insane inflicted severe wounds on
his daughter and her child with an axo. while
they lay in bed and upon his wife interfering
turned upon her and split her head open with
the axe, exposing the brain, from which she
died two days afterwards. Staubus was lodged
in Jail at Stauuton.
- MIR. Jefferson Davis has written letter
to Mr.. James Lyons, of Richmond, in which
he denies that there was any cruelty pracIised
upon Union soldiers in Southern prisons,
and asserts that they we're as we'll treated as
was possible in the exigencies of war. He
denies the alleged cruelties at Andersonville,
aud reviews the history of the efforts at ex-
change, which he claims were frequently
thwarted By Federal officials In regard to
the question Of mortality in prison he says
that although the Coniederstes held sixiy
thousand moro prisoners than the Fsderals,
six thousand more Confederate prisoners died
than Federals. Mr.. Blaine's charges he treats
as part of scheme to obtain Presidential
nomination, and writes of them in a bitter
strain. Concerning himself he alludes to his
refusal to ask pardon for himself when he was
IN confinement, and states that he mas no
views of the future which would make it at
all desirable to obtain amnesty; in other words,
be prefers to remain as he is.