Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1876-08-22

AFTER IN BRIEF.-The Changers of
Berkeley and Jefferson will hold their picnic
at LsetOSu to-day.
Ex-GOv. Price and others are expected to
deliver addresses in the Court House, before
the Tildeu and Hendricks Club, this (Mon,
day) evening.
The Tilden and Hendricks Club of Bolivar,
will raise a pole on Saturday, Goth. Speakers
will be in attendance. Speaking to
at O'Clock. All are invited to attend.
a. Tilden and Hendricks pole was raised in
Berryville on the 18th instant.
Clarke county, Va has produced a pig
having a head and face like that of a child. 1t
only lived twenty-five hours.
John Robinson's Menagerie and Circus
drew a large crowd of persons to Charlestown
on Saturday. The m%enagcrie exhibition was
a most attractive aud select one, aud the circus
performance is highly spoken of.
A Tildeu and Hendricks Club was organ
lied at Shspherdstown on the 18th instant.
The Club will erect a Tilden aud Hendricks
pole, one hundred feet high in the clear, ON
Thurday. August 3lst.
The Potomac Baptist Association was in
session at Washington City last week. The
Rev. T. B. Shepherd was in attendance from
Charlestown. The next meeting will be held
at UppervilIe, Va.
o. S. Long, Esq Clerk of the Supreme
Court of Appeals, has his family with him at
the Owings House.
y large number of persons from Jefferson
visited the Wadesville Camp Meeting on Sun
day, on the extra train-nearly two hundred
tickets being sold at the Charlestowu depot
alone.
The Rev. DR.. J. Leighton Wilson, of Bal
timore, preached able sermons in the Pres
bytcrian Church on Sunday morning and
evening.
a Tilden and Hendricks Pole will soon be
raised at Kearneysville.
Mr. George Packet was driving rapidly
down Main street Sunday night, when his
horse COllided with the r~ockaway of Mr.. Sam'l
s. Moore, with such force as to cause one of
the shafts of Mr.. Moore's rockaway to snap
of. One of the irons of the shaft entered the
breast of Mr.. Packets horse, wounding him
so badly that he died in a short time.
A~dispatch from Rockbridge Alum Springs,
Va, announces the death of Speaker Kerr, at
twenty minutes past Z O'Clock Saturday
evening.
The excursion trains of the B & o. R. R.
from Baltimore, Washington and other points
to Harper's Ferry, on Thursday, brought an
immense crowd of persons to that romantic To-
cality-the number of persons present being
estimated at from four to six thousand.
Mr.. w. P. Rose, of Winchester, will please
accept thanks for a pamphlet copy of the
Premium List of the Shenandoah Valley Ag-
ricultural Society, whose next Fair will be
held at Winchester, October 10th to 18th,
inclusive.
Tr%s Floral GuiAe-No. / for 1876
has been received. Il is we'll illustrated and
Interesting, as usual. Published by James
Wick, Rochester. N. Y, at % cts. per annum.
The LectOwn Temperance Camp will CON,
mence on Thursday next, the 24;h instant,
under the auspices Of the Independent Order
of Good Templars. Tho exercises during
the week will consist of Temperance lectures,
essays, and o~rasions, by popular and gifted
orators Hon. Vim. Daniels, President of the
Maryland State Temperance Alliance, aud
Prot. A, a Kran;z, will be present at the
commencement of the camp and remain over
Sabbath. Rev T.. Graves, of Baltimore, will
lie there on Monday and remain until the
close Of the meeting.