Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1877-05-01
Spirit Of 5effersolr.
PEN, INK AND SCISSORS.


There is serious talk of draining Okeoho-
bee lake in Florida and reclaimipg thousands
of acres of land. t.t
- Wade Hampton has been invited to at
tend the centennial celebration of the battle
of Bennington, VT.
= The Board of Public Works has reap
pointed Captain w l.. Bridges as Superiu-
teudcnt Of the Penitentiary for the ensuing
two years.
Newburyport has thirteen hundred more
women than men. 1t is small place, and a
wedding there creates almost as much sad
ness as funeral.
- The notorious Laura D. Fair, of San
Francisco, has been sued by another woman
who wants to recover 50, 700 as her share in
q mining stock speculation.
A Boston firm which for time turned
out 16, 900 feet OF blue glass week. is Short
eDing sail. The curious have all the blue
panes they can experiment with at present.
- The Society for the Prevention OF Cruel
ty to Animals in Atlanta, Ca, offers premiums
for dray horses in the best condition, and is
erecting drinking fountains for man and beast.
- The Young Mems Democratic Club of
New York will tender to Gov. Hendricks 4
public reception on the occasion of his pro-
posed visit to that city during the coming
month.
- Tho directors of the London General
Omnibus Company offer prize Of 81 600
for an invention or a scheme for effectually
recording or checking the receipts of passen-
gers fares.
- The old hotel property in Berryville has
been sold to Messrs. Thompson and Ogden
4. Il IL IL Il H.
property at Castleman's Ferry to Decatur Os
burn, for $3.50.
- The city council of Portsmouth, N H.,
have voted to exempt from taxation for ten
years any ma nufac,ory ofauy material whatever
which may be located in the citv, provided
the capital invested shall exceed $4,000.
- President Hayes has appointed Robert
Schuyler Gardiner, of ". Va. who was major
of the regiment the President commanded
at one time during the war, as consul general
at Me bourne. Australia, 9 place worth S3,>
500 per anpum.
- Gen. George B. Mcclellan has declined
the inVitation to deliver the Grafton before
Post Watrous, of Binghamton, N. Y. on
decoration day. He had previously declined
an invitation to perform q similar service at
the National Soldiers Home, in Dayton, Ohio.
A small boy died in Bennington, VT,
from swallowing a screw, which, becoming
lodged in his throat, caused his death by
suffocation. The same boy but week before
his death swallowed two cent piece, and the
day preceding was caught in the act of en-
deavoring to get nail down his throat.
- The Brook lyn National Monitor throws
out some good suggestions to the colored peo>
Pile, whose organ it is. 1t says: "Was there
ever a race lifted up that did not lit itself up?
IF we would succeed we must rely upon our.
selves in all i'm mportant matters. Let the help
we ask and accept be only such as will help
US to help ourselves"
- Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's IS Portrait is
to be painted for the State library Of Virginia.
The official invitation says that the request is
made ..iu accordance with the universal de-
sire of Virginia." and Gen. Johnston, COM
plying, says that the compliment would be
too high reward had he succeeded, instead
of failed, in all he.strove to do for Virginia"
james Redpath has written letter to
the colored people of the South, q copy of
which has been sent to every newspaper south
of the Ohio river, advising them to join the
Democratic party on the best terms they can
obtain. He tells them they can expect
nothing from this ADMINISTRATION that their
old masters have more influence with Hayes
than they, and it is for their temporal welfare
to buy protection for votes from the Dem
ocratic party.