Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1877-05-22
A GOOD MOVE,

Of the Birds and Fishes OF the county, to be
hold at the Court. House in Charlestown, on
Friday, june LIST, at 8 O'Clock, P. NJ,
for the purpose of organizing q Society
or Club, having in view the enforcement of
the laws of the State enacted for the protec,
tion of game, fishes and insectiyorous birds.
The penalties for the violation Of the laws
referred to are pretty severe, embracing both
faes and imprisonment. But these laws, SO
beneficial to the agricultural and horticultural
interests of the people of the county, will
not be enforced without the aid of some such
society as is contemplated by the gen.
tlemen who are about to organize the human
itarian society referred to in this paper. and
which it is hoped will be copied by the other
papers of the county, and that the most ex-
tended inv itation DO given to the persons
especially effected by the yearly accumula-
tion of injurious insects which destroy the
fruits and crops of the people, but which
make food Tor the birds Buff the birds be
killed and their nests destroyed, the insect
world will increase. So with the fishes; they
make food for man, and this society will prob
ably have in view the memorializing of the law
making powers to open avenues of ingress and
egress for the fishes to ascend the streams to
spawn. Let Congress remove the distractions
q. the falls ON tbs Potomac and Shad and
Herring will be caught in the Shenandoah
and other rivers flowing into the Potomac.
But this is not all the society will have to
do; it may add to all this the incubation of
a taste for the study of natural history.
mere glance ut nature, and the Divine laws
regulating it, will inspire any one not solely
welded to the drudgery of life with desire
for more thorough knowledge of its gran>
deur 1t may also add much that is social,
and, even convivial, if it chooses so to do
Let there be full turnout of the people on
Friday, June LIST, at the Court House.
BALLou's MoNrHLY-The June number
of BaNou's Magazine is full of nice engrav-
ings the best of stories, the choicest of poetry,
and three pages of 81. Quad's fun and humor
GUS matter, written expressly for BG1lou's
Magazine, and to be found nowhere else
Thisisa publication that can be recommended
TO every family in the country, for the simple
reason that it can be read with interest by
every one, man, woman or child. Published
by Themes g. Talbot, % Hawley street, and
Tor sale all over the country, or $3.50 per
year, postpaid.
The Third District has made arrangements
for canvassing number of counties on tho
Capital question, in the interest of Charles
ton. r. L. Dennis and E. Willis Wilson,
Esqs, will speak at HaIper's Ferry, in this
county, on Saturday evening, June 9th
The Kanauha Gdzette, from which we learn
the above, announces a number of appoint
ments for other localities in the State, and
adds "Othcr meetings will be announced as
soon as appointed. Our friends at the points
named are requested to make the necessary
arrangements for the meetings"
John Harris, a prominent intelligent col
ored Democrat, who took the stump last fall
in behalf of Tilden and Hendricks, and who
bears testimonials from all the principal
leaders of the party in Congress, was in
Charlestown last week, soliciting aid in behalf
of publication shortly to be issued on the
condition of the colored race in the South
He received a number of contributions from
some Of our best white citizens, also some
from colored persons, during his stay here.
Theafollowing named gentlemen have been
appointed, by the Board of Public Works,
Directors of tho State Insane Asylum, at
Weston, viz: a. A. Lewis, WIN. Ralston and
VIM. E. Lively, of Lewis county; James
Witherow, of Greenbrier J. L. Armstrong,
of jackson John W. Grantham, of Jeffer-
con DR.. NJ. Campbell, of Wood T. W.
Hearne, of Ohio; and G. NJ Bishop, OF Pres
ton.
We ego from home for news" and find in
Washington special to the Alexandria Ga
eette the following:
Gentlemen from Jefferson county report
that q movement will soon be made in that
county and in Berkeley for change from West
Virginia to Virginia. But, for the tax ques-
tion the feeling in favor of coming to Virginia
would be unanimous"
Who are the gentlemen from Jefferson p
A Bulgarian monk, wearing long black
gown, long hair dangling down his shoulders,
ard cardinal skull cap, has been doing
Parkersburg. Some think him a fraud.
Wheeling Register.
1.-THE same chap, doubtless, who figured in
Charlestown some months ago, and who was
subsequently, allowed to examine the inner
walls of the Jail at Staunton, Va
The Russians in Asiatic Turkey have been