Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1876-03-07

chased ~ooIsn factory there for Ss.cUe.
The estate OF the Ia:e Charlotte. Cush-
nan is valued at $500, COO.
a deposit OF Pumbago has been discovered on
the land OF Col. J. F. Johnson Franklin, Pen
dleton county.
= Gov. Hayes is the fayorite presidential
cand idate amoDg the republican members of
the Ohie Legislature.
= There is a grange in Virginia called
Skin quarter Grange. The members profess,
however, to be civilized
: The '.oid elm" at Boston has at length
blown down, and the New England people
are mourning its destruction.
The Harrisonbure (Yal Commonwealth
hoists the name of Thomas F. Bayard, Of
Delaware, fol-. next President.
"A negro menber of the Mississippi
Legislature las introduced bill for the in
PRODUCTION of the whipping-post.
Mrs Col. David SchnebIv. ,ivi, o in ~.
cinity OF II. -stown, has completed her one hun.
tcnniAl.
The Fr,nktin Va. Moniior r,ys that a1r. s. P.
Bennett, who had his arm amputated last taII ON
account OF cancer on his hand, is now shout to
die with the bre AkiEg OF the cancer under his
= The Pittsburg D"iy Di<yoatcA has en-
tered upon the thirty first year of its publica>
ton, and. as befitting the occasion, appears
10 new dress
- Senator Conkling may as we'll givo it up.
No &C. can be President Think of Craw
ford, Cliuton, Calhoun, Clay aud Cass. Pso
pie don't &c" it,
The Weston Democrat announces as its
choice for Auditor aud Treasurer at the next
general election, Messrs. L. a. Bennett and
John S. Burdett
- Rev. Mr.. Hammer. of Baltimore. has ae-
cepted the call extended to him by Cavalry
Presbyterian church, Ularksburg, W. Va, and
entered upon his labors.
= William A. Piper, new meuber of
Congress from San Francisco, is a bachelor
worth 100000, aud the owner of 200
acres of land within the limits of the Golden
City.
and steel rails to the United States valued at
81, ,70O,0 600. Last year tho total value of
Foads exported to this country was only
e690,000.
= r. D. Rufiu, coIorcd member of the
House OF Delegates Of Virginia, from Diu>
wlddie county, has been expelled "for i'm.
proper couducs 10 ahs'racsiug money from the
pay>book OF the sergeant, at-arms.
-Gcn. Besuregard writes that "cnly inn
migration give buck to the white papulo,
tion Of the South proper and safe control of
It's public affairs, aud enable it to restore ag>
Iloulture aud commerce to their normal con>
d.t;on.'
- few days ego two shad measuring
about t0ot each in length, were caught iu
the big pool above Clearspriug. 1t is sup
posed that these f,h are tSo of those small
ones placed in the Potomac few years ago
a. cumberland.
Senator Gordon, of Georgia, delivered
speech iu Atlantis a few nights ago in
which he made very meat point. Cautions
ing the South to &C: prndeutIy, SO as to give
1t. onemIes no opportunity to bIasyheme, be
said that tie South had to fghs tho world.
the flesh and tbs Seuator from Iudisus"
(Mor;on).
OF the rscsut concert given iu Bslti-
more hy Miss Sue Ridenour, the Episcopal
4hetho,'ist says ''Hcr merits in voice are be-
rolc asd truthful aud challenged the wonder
aud admiration of all who heard her Her
bird>like veico is as perfectly moduIsted as
that of Jenny Liud in the Falmiest days of
her career"
= The Camden Consolidated Oil Company,
j. n Camden, president, of Park srsburg, ".
Va, having purchased 600 feet of water front
at Locust Point, Baltimore, propose to begin
The Immediate erection of an oil wharf and
warehouse there. The wharf will be Go feet
in depth and 600 feet long, with facilities for
loading ten vessels a, the same time
- The Lses5ucg Mirror reports that a
short time ago, whilo Mr.. Claiming NJ.
Sm.th, residing near Delaplaue, FauGuier
county, was talking with an insurance agent,
who had called to complete the terms of in,
surauce of his house, the house caught FIRE,
and was entirely consumed, the house caught
fire, and was entirely consumed, with loss of
81 500.
= An old family crudgc recently culm-
mated at Old Town, Grayson county, Va, in
in a fight, il which three mcu were shot, one
Of whom wss killed instantly, another NOR
tally wounded aud the third seriously The
man killed was named Hawks and the NOR
tally wounded man is brother of Hawks
Twenty two men have been killed and thirty
wounded in Grayson county in the last twenty
years.
~ The manufactures of Birmingham. Eng
iaud, turn out in one week fourteen millions
of steel pens, six thousand bedsteads, seven
thousand guns, three hundred million cut nails.
one hundred million buttons, one thousand
saddles, 2O,OUO pairs of srectacles, 6 tons of
paper mache wares, S50,000 worth of jewelry,
1000 miles of irop aud steel wire, 10 tons
of pins, tons of hair pins and hooks and
eyes. $50 miles of wax for matches, $40
bellows.
REMOVAL OF CONFEDERATE DEAD.-Tn
1871 tile Pennsylvania Legislature appropri-
ated S3, 600 for the removal of the ccnfed-
crate dead, buried at Gettysburg. For the
disbursement of this amount, SsDator Jones.
of Philadelphia, has introduced bill in the
Penusylvania Legislature which authorizes
the State treasurer to pay the amnnnt tn a