Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1877-07-10
ESTABLISHED 1884, CHARLEsT0WN TUESDAY,
Spirit Of Jefffrsoll.
Charlestonn, JEFFERSON County. We,t ta.
TUESDAY, MORNING. JULY 10. 1874.
PEN, INK AND SCISSORS.


= The Keyser Tribune has discovered .
boy, aged 13, who killed lo2 squirrels in 12o
shots.
= Kanawha county has paid out in three
years SIC, 900 for medicine and doctors, for
paupers. =GaW ls-4a
-"Twenty thousand Democratic ma
jority," is old Ben Wade's estimate Of the
result of the next election in Ohio
- 1t is understood that Mr. Tilden has
taken passage on the Cunard steamer Scythia,
to saiafor Europe on the 18th of July. :,
- The wool-clip of Judge Taryer, of JEFF.
ferson county, Ca, amounted to eleven thous.
and five hundred pouDds the present season.
He sold it at % cents. ,-,r,r -~
by the laws of Florida any man who
has lost an arm or leg, no matter how or
when, or from what cause, cannot be taxed
for any business he may enter into, always
excepting the liquor business.
The Leesburg Mirror. says: "B. F.
Head, Leesburg's Town>Sergeant, last week
closed his account with the Council for the
year 1S76-'77. His tsx>list amounted to
about 81, ,S50-out of which he returned less
than $40 delinquent" ttaG -rs, = j. s.1-
''f- The Southern Home says Hichmond,
Vs.,y is growing moro rapidly than any other
town at the South. 1t has 343 factories,
giving employment to Il, 900 persons. The
poor who have self.respect and bodily yigor
do not ask for charity, but for work.
- Lieut.. Gov. Dorsheimer, of New York,
in card to the New York .San, states that it
is within his personal knowledge that Mr..
Tilden was not in favor of the electoral COM
mission. Mr.. Dorsheimsr is an intimate per-
sonaI and political friend of Mr.. Tilden.
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fit of Jealousy at the superior conversational
powers of the American flying commissioner,
says : ''The u. s. sewing g>machibe agent,
since the patent ran out, has to talk just as
fast. and tell just as many lies, for $2S as he
used to tell for $780, 5-si.a7Bs .-7sfs8 l-sa
g = Torpedo balloons are proposed by cor
respondent Of the Scientific Amer icon. The
idea is to float the balloons over the enemy,
and drop the torpedo by means of electricity
sent over a wire. II is calculated that city
could be totally destroyed in this way by
dropping sufficient quantity of hitro>gy-
eerlne.
~ M The Secretary Of the Navy has issued
circular directing commandants of navy yards
to conform strictly to the navy regulation Of
1876, to hold all officers to q strict account
ability, to employ laborers with reference TO
skill and efficiency and without regard to po>
litical or other considerations, and to prohibit
political assessments.
Cumberland county, Va. has instructed
its delegates to the Democratic State Conven-
tion to vote for Maj John W. Daniel for
Governor. but if Major Daniel should fail to
receive the nomination and his name should
finally be Withdrawn, in that event they are.
instructed to vote for Colonel Z. W. NJ. Holli-
day, of Winchester, for Governor. -
One of Sherman's soldiers cut paints
ing from its frame in one of the Rhett fsmi-
ly mansions in South Carolins. and sold is in
Philadelphia for ten dollars. Neither he nor
the purchaser knew that 10 was over two CEN
turies old, Ind was valued high among the
thousands. II has just been discovered in
Cincinnati, and probably the rightiul owner
will get it back.
- On the night of the 2ssh ult, about
o'clock, the town of McGaheysville, twelve
miles east of Harrisonburg. Va, was the scene
of homicide. Reuben Bon6s, q native of
Rockingham county, was stabbed with o
pocket.kniie in the left side, near the hesrt,
by Zebul6n D. Gilmore. q merchant. of No.
Gaheyssills. Bonds did not live thirty min
utes after being stabbed.
- The Grand Duke Nicholas furnishes
correspondents with passes on the system EN-.
ployed at Philadelphia. each mans photos
graph being put on the back Of his commits
sion, and duplicate of it being furnished At
headquarters. Each man will be held re-
sponsble for divulging any strategic plaus
or confidential intelligence, but full liberty
to "abuse Russia" is guaranteed.
Twenty. seven boxes of Confederate
archives left at Union, s. c., by Jefferson
Davis. were recently destroyed by FIRE. The
| Federal troops were pressing Mr.. Davis SO
hard during his retreat southwark that he was
compelled to leave the archives with Col
| Young at Union. The latter had carefully
preserved them. and was about TO send them TO
the Southern Historical Society at Richmond,
when they were destroyed. .-l-~r7 ~
Gov Robiusons,s of New York, has
signed till which recently passed the
Legislature of that State making the persons
who would be beneitted by defacing natural
scenery with advertisements, either printed
OF painted, legally responsible for it, unless
they can prove that it has been painted
without their authority. A heavy fne and
imprisonment is the penalty for every in
fraction of the law. In case the owner of
the property defaced does not make COM
plain. the overseer of the poor of county
are authorized to make one, and if any fne
is obtained to use it for the benefit Of the
poor. 7'a
r-Thomas NJ, Almond. Esq, has shosn
US q specimen of the anthracite coal taken
from the Dora mines, west of Harrisonburg,
on the line Of the Washington City and st.
Louis railroad. TIE specimen shown rs is
the richest and purest of this mineral that
We have ever seen, containing by analysis
eighty Ave per cent. of pure coal This mine.
now already being worked at distance of
one hundred and fftysfeet below the surface,
will, when fully developed. be one Of the