Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1876-03-21
PEN, INK AND SCISSORS.

: Tho death penalty has been abolished
IN Maine, and imprisonment at hard labor
for1ife substituted
A cave has been discovered in Kentucky
rivallug in Dimensions and interest the cele>
brased Mammoth Cave.
= Counterfeit Eve hundred dollar notes are
said 70 be in circulation. Country printers
are cautioned not to take them.
- Mrs. Cartwright, widow of the late Rev.
Peter Cartwright, the noted Methodist
preacher, died recsutly, aged seEcnty,six
= Abraham LiucolD and S,ouewsll Jack,
son are characters in Les Cheealicrs dc la
Ratrie, new play soon to sec the light in
Paris.
= The Virginia Senate has passed bill
to incorporate the brotherhood of the Protes>
tsnt Episcopal Church in the diocese Of Yir>
giuis.
= Ia Franco. where every newspaper ar.
ticie must have signature, the re, possibility
is frequently avoided b. gay;ug sOas petsd
duslist to stiix mis- nawe.
= An Illinois girl wrote to the School
Commissioners Of Chcsgo that she had bin
out OF employ ymeut for q ysar. and wud tsech
for $40 mouth aud bcFd round"
a breeder Of pon!try says: Every
spring procure qus'.tjsy of sedcr boushs,
and scatter them in and around the hen house
The odor OF tue cedar keeps away the lice :
- Zeli's Encyclopedia says that PArkers-
burg is the capital of West Virginia, and that
tho principal towns of the State arc Barbouis-
vile, Beverly, Wheeiius aud Parkcrsburg.
= The KIuhmond Dispatch recommends as
the best method of putting an end to The
nuisance Of eiecp. killing dng5 to offer re-
ward iVr dog hides as an article of commerce
= The sound PORTIONS of the old Elm of
Boston ComaoU will DO made iuto furnture
Tor the city hall Of Boston, aud specimens
sill be seat to the various historical societies
Of the country.
- There are ige negro members of Con-
gress. Three of them, before tho war, were
unaequsirtcd with the alylabet, aud one Of
them served in the Army and the Navy of
the CunIcderscy.
- Buffers famous Dutch Gap Canal has
been wideped aud deepeued by Government
aid, and will suon be al ready for use 1t
oats oi heavy bend in the James River, and
MT SE-SSE' sSr=S
= The reform movement about Stauntan
aud HErsisoAbur2 in the Temperance societies
il Tremendous Mjzpah Lodge Good Tenn
plaza, OF S;auutIn, Was recently enlarged By
the addition OF twenty oGe members, includ-
Jag the whole Of the Srouevsl Brigade Band
aud West Augusta Lodge received fifteen
new members. At IEsrrsoELurg the refore
is even Srester, Judge Charles T. OFerall
and other gontemen Of great personal influ-
ehce having epliated in tie csuse The Rev.
D. S. s. Ro,zsi, in an address recently de-
EVered at the lstter place. ssh! if ''he should
ever be elected Governor Of Virginia he would
issue an odict that every rum>seE!er 10 the
State be tied t. the tail Of j,cksss sud
dragged out "f TIE State, sud, if they ever
came back ho would not kill them. for they
were ua: fit 70 die, Lu; he would trade thsu
ofT to Yankee pedlar for dog, .ad then
hang the deg.
The Bostor Cyu,ier calls for lsw mak>
lug it punishable ufeUse for one person to
point a loaded gun or pistol at another
whereupou the Louisville Courier Journal
says: but such law is Got so much needed
as law making the pointing Of an empty gun
or pistol st you punishable cTense. 1t is
tie old qua or pistol that has been lying away
unloaded for years that goes OF and blows a
hole through you-especislly if it is pointed
at you just for fun 1t is so vcry funny to
point an old empty gun at you that it is only
about one in ten of US that can resist the
temptation to do it. We all ought to know,
having been told thousand times, that a
funeral is slmoss sure to spoil the fun but if
We do know it We forget it as soon as We lay
our hands on the ruaty old shooting>irou, and
after snsrpiur it dozen times a, the gate
post, We alwaya turn around and Just for fun
blow out somebody's brains Ths old empty
gun is what the law ought to look after"