Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1877-10-30

pit the remaining evenings. L nc heV- u.
w Tongue preached Sabbath morning. The
attendance has been good, and serious inns
preston has pervaded tho congregations.
Two converts are reported. The meetings
will be continued this week.
CIRCUIT CoURT.-On Wednesday Frank
Beckwith, Esq, counsel for Daniel Brady,
colored, indicted for grand larceny, entered
plea of insanity, and the jury before which
the case was heard sustaining the plea, the
prisoner was remanded to Jail for further dis
position.
Two civil cases of considerable interest were
tried last week. The first was that of the
Va. and Nd Bridge Co. as. G. NJ. Entler.-
Travers and Beltzhoovcr for Plaintiffs Lucas
and Kennedy for Defendant. Verdict for
Plaintiffs The case of Mrs. Ella Is. WASH
ington Us. the b. l. o. r. r. Co. occupied
the last three days Of the week On Thurs
day the jury and counsel, at the invitation Of
the counsel for the road, and with the cons
sent of the Court, visited the ground where
the horses, the value of which Mrs. W. sues
for, were killed, in special train provided
by Maj. Averill The evidence was con-
cludcd Oh Friday, and on Saturday the case
was ably argued by the opposing counsel and
given to the jury, which had not agreed on a
verdict up to the hour Of adjournment on tina.
day. Verdict yesterday for plaintiff.
COUNTY ITEMS -From the Shcpherdstown
Register we copy the following items:
Fifteen chickens wcro stolen from Mr..
Henry HINES, one night last week.
The sail on the boat belonging to Mr.. John
0. Ag'iouby, on the Potomac, was stolen one
night last week.
Capt Lee II. Moler received premium
at The recent Frederick Agricultural Fair, for
fuo short horn Durham bull.
Mcssrs. Abraham Harris and Charles
She'll have taken charge of the Mill belong
ing to Sheriff Baker, at Lcctown.
A sheep belonging to Mr.. Newton Fnnme
tire was killed one night last week, and taken
from the field after being skinned.
4 debating society has been organized at
Molcrs X Roads VIM. J. Knot President,
Lee IL. Meier Vice President, and j. NJ.
Knot, Secretary.
The work Of repairing and identifying the
Luthcrn church 1T KNOXVILLE has ten
s,IN C uron. Work to the cxtcut of about five
hundred dollars has been blocked out, and it
is lroposcd to flush it up in very neat style.
Two colorcd men, Charles Herbert and
DaniaI Buckncv, both boatnen, got into
quarrel on the i've >miIc lie vel, on tie Chcsa>
pcakc and Ohio Canal, above this place, on
Saturday last. BucGney cut Herbert quite
severely with kuife, on the right side, near
the region of the liver, and also severely
frac. cured the external table of the skull, by
the stroke of stone which he threw at Her
bert Herbert came to this place and pro-
cured the surgical aid Of pr. w. p. Manning,
Herbert is from Charles town, in this county,
aud Buckncy is from Washington city. Buck
neg escaped without any particular injury
[Ftr tie Spirit Of L6crson.]
Mr. EDITOR 1t is a lamcntablc fact that
there hns scarcely been edition Of your
paper, or tina; Of your brother journalist,
issued within the past six months which has
not contained one or moro notices of telonleS
committed in our immediate neighborhCod.
Sneak thicving, house breaking, and barn
burning seem to be the order of the day, or
rather the practice of the night, and in but
| one single instance do we hear of the ofen-
dcrs being brought to justice, or of any active
steps being taken for their apprehension
How long is this state of affairs to exist? and
| to what length is II to be permitted to eX-
tend l have been told by several gentle
men residing in the country, that they feel
! compelled to keep their pistols by their bed
sides through fear that their houses may be
attacked, SO daring have these scoundreis be
come by their frequent successful depreda-
tons. This is indeed pitiublc state ofaffairs,
and seems only to exist in this locality, at
least SO far as may be learned from other
county papers.
Now tho question is cannot some steps be
taken to put an end to all this villainy. IF
tho law is not broad enough to make it the
| duty Of its officers to ferret out and bring to
| Justice these troublesome malefactors, let US
| appeal to the Legislature TO take such steps
as will afford some protection but in the
meantime let US try and protect ourselves
| An active vigilance committee might watch
for and catch these cowardy thieves,
and while l would not advise a per-
suancc of Judge lynch's Judgment in such
cases, still think there are q few trees in
the neghboring forests that would bear tho
weight of thief or two without being in~
! jurcd.
| Let vigilance committee be organized at
once, and by its activity restore US the peace
and security of bygono days.
MARCUS CURTIUs.
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