Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1877-08-28
PEN, INK AND SCISSORS.

- A greenDack cIuU HAS peeu ofSau'Ieo
at Martinsburg.
- Railroads on paper are becoming prac,
teal, as car-wheels are now being constructed
of that material.
Governor Matthews has notified the
War Department that United States troops
are no longer needed in this State.
James B. Russell, of Winchester, Va,
has sold his "Cobb Farm" in Clarke county,
to Thomas NJ. Nelson at $50 per acre.
A Culpeper county (Va.) farmer has
utilized the hog by hitching him to pillow
and working him as he would horse.
"A colored militia company, called the
Hampton Guards, has been accepted as part
of the National Guard of the State Of South
Carolina.
- The Pennsylvania Republican Associ-
alton of Washington has disbanded in conse-
quence of the late order prohibiting federal
office holders from taking part in political
caucuses.
A Texas paper claims that its State has
now 1850, 900 inhabitants, and predicts that
by 1880 it will have more than 2, 200, 900,
and be entitled to twenty representatives, in
Congress.
- Kentucky has again discharged her
duty admirably, and gives Democratic ma
jority of about $4,000. Lexington, hereto
fore Republican stronghold, has gone Dem
ocratic by large majority.
- The Louisville Courier-.Journdt says
"Workingmen who complain that their wa
ges are insufficient to meet their expenses
should remember that Republican tariff Leg
islation has crippled the purchasing power Of
the dollar"
- The following is good receipt for max
ing rye and Indian drop cake: One pint of
Indian meal, two spoonsful of molnsses, lit>
tie salt; work it with cold milk so as to drop
from a spoon into hot fat be sure to have
smooth batter.
- Gen. Wade Hampton has been selected
to deliver the annual address at the approach
ing fair of the Virginia Agricultural Society
nt Richmond. A committee has been ap>
pointed to wait on President Hayes and in>
vite him to attend the fair.
- No fewer than 1000 relics of extreme
antiquity have been recently disentombed
near Athens, Greece. These articles are
chiefly glass and ivory, and their workman
ship indicates an age earlier than that of re-
corded Greek civilization.
- As much as 81. 200 per day is paid for
sumac in the city of Petersburg, Va. There
are two factories in that city at present, both
doing a large business, and bringing into the
city thousands of dollars from the adjacent
and otherwise uuproductive old fields.
- Now is the time when the cloth is
spread beneath the shady trees, when the
water is brought from a neighboring brook
and the sandwiches taken from tho tin pail,
and the boys and girls, ants, and Thousands
legged worms sit down to o good, old fash>
toned picnic.
Winchester and vicinity was visited by
severe and destructive hail storm, on tho
18th, breaking window glass and destroying
trees, shrubbery, corn fields, etc., and killing
birds. The stones were very large, some of
them being found in shelterd places as late
as the evening Of the next day.
DR.. w. F. Cooper, living near Charles,
ton, W. Va, was arrested Thursday for
poisoning his third wife, Both the former
wives died suddenly, under what was con-
sdered suspicious circumstances, and it is
now supposed he poisoned them also. The
bodies will be exhumcd and examined for
traces of poison.
- Census statistics show that the negro
race in this country, since the civil war, has
been and is steadily decreasing. How can
it be otherwise when, in one week, six negro
babies that were murdered, are found in the
bitches or on tho commons of one city, as has
been tho case in Washington this week. 1t
is a disgrace to q civilized country, but never
thelcss true, that ono hundred dead infants
of the African race have been found in tho
sewers, gulies and sinks Of the National cap
ital during the last six months.
"A colored man named Reuben Majors,
hailing from Culpeppcr county, has been
lodged in the Jail of Page county, Va,
charged with having committed outrage
on the daughter of Daniel Weaver, of Page
county. The young lady on Sunday week
had Como part of the way home with her sis
ter, who had been visiting her, and rs she
was passing through corufeld on her re-
turn home was met by the negro, who by
the exercise of violence committed tho out
rage. Miss Weaver is only seventeen years
Of age.
- Gov Hampton, of South Carolina, has
accepted an invitation to deliver an agricul-
tural address at the Winnebago county fair,
which will be held in the city of Rock ford,
Ill, beginning on the 18th of September.
1t was the Winnebago county fair which in
vited Mr. Jefferson Davis two years ago, and
afterwards recalled, the invitation, owing to
the opposition manifested by the extreme
men of that section towards Mr.. Davis. 1t
would appear, however, that there has been
a revolution in public sentiment in that sec>
ton, for Gov. Hampton was strenuously urged
to accept the invitation.
- The Georgia Constitutional Convention
adjourned on Saturday, after having adopted
a constitution which is to be submitted to the
people for ratification or rejection on the Sec
ond Wednesday of December next. The
convention made lobbying crime and de-