Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1877-10-23
PEN, INK AND SCISSORS.

- Boston's income from LIQUOR licenses
this year will amount TO $4,000
ALI three of West Virginia's Congress
men supported Randall for Speaker.
A Kentuckian has lain in Jail three
weeks under refusal to pay his dog tax.
Michael CARRIER, IN old German blacksmith
of AUGUSTA county Va, invented cut EailE,
about the car ioo3
- The condition of the public roads, it is
we'll said, measures the civilization of
country.
- The State treasurer of Indiana has been
fined for driving over an cnginc>hosc in In
diannpolis.
- In China marriages between persons of
the same surname are forbidden. Ono Sin
cannot marry another Sin.
The Mediterranean coast has been ter
ribly in need of rain. At the end of August
not a drop had fallen for more than a hundred
days.
- Leila Jones, Of Shenandoah county,
Va, two years Of age, was fatally poisoned
by eating several match heads j few days
since.
- The new Arch bishop Gibbons is the
youngest Archbishop in America. And
Bishop kain, Of Wheeling, is tho youngest
Bishop.
- The Oakland Republican says that Hon.
II. G.. Davis raised over three thousand
bushels Of oats on his lands near Deer Park
this season.
"A young lady named Doolcy was run
over By freight train on the Virginia and
Tennessee road Tuesday, Blue Ridge
Springs, Va, and instantly killed.
- The Pittsburg (pa.) Commercia1 denies
that Allegheny county can, in law or equity,
be made to assume the liability for or pay tho
losses incurred at the time of the labor riots
- Land is in demand in all :hc region
adjacent to Norfolk, Va. 1t is at least one
third higher than before tho war, and con-
stantly rising. y farm that sold for 50 500
several years ago. sold recently for $4,000
- Acting under Russian ministerial in>
struc;ions, and for tho Information of native
agricu!turalists, DR.. Gcrstackcr has prepared
a pamphlet on The Colorado Beetle and its
Appearance in Germany" 1t will contain
illustrations of the beetle, its Larvae and
chart showing its progress in the United
States.
- Charles Il. Paxson has purchased tho
Cotton tract of land in Loudoun county, Va,
bordering on the Potomac river, containing
sos acres, for s. so per aero. Mr.. Paxson
is Pennsylvania, aud now owns over 1000
acres of land in Loudoun county, and since
the war has invested $500, 900 in Virginia
property.
- Rev. Il. T. Baird, late secretary of the
Presbyterian committee of publication of the
Southern General Assembly, who was in
dicted at Richmond, Va : for cmbezzlenent
of funds of the committee, was put on trial
on Wednesday. The jury without leaving
their seats rendered a verdict of snot guilty"
and the accused was Immediately discharged.
- Mr.. James II. Kemp, formerly of Win>
chester, Va, died at his residence in Page
county few days ago. In the days Of stage
coaches Mr.. Kemp was an extensive mail
contractor, and was tho head of the firm Of
Kemp, Parish Il Trotter, whose line over the
Naly turnpike from Winchester to Stauuton
was the only means Of direct communication
between those points.
The Success, SO far, of tho Moffett liquor
punch in Virginia is leading to a newspaper
discussion of the ndvisability of adopting it
in other States. The Chicago Tribune has
figured up the revenue which the instrument
would bring into tho Illinois State treasury,
So, $50. 0Q0-a larger revenue than tho State
has now, and one that would obviate all 9TH
or taxation for State purposes. The revenue
to Chicago alone would be sl,S2C,0OO.
- An association has been formed in Rioh>
mond, Va, for the purpose of erecting a
monument to the memory of the latc Rev
DR.. James A. Duncan. It is proposed to
raise $4,000, out of which suitable mon>
uncnt is to DO erected, the surplus, if any,
to be turned over to the family of DR.. Dun-
can. The president of the association has
been authorized to publish appeal to the
Methodists in Virginia and Maryland, and
also to the personal friends of DR.. Duncan
in and out of the church, all over the whole