Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1877-08-07
Spirit Of .geffersor.
Charlestown, Jefferson county, West Va
TUESDAY MoREISG. AUGUSTA. 1871.
PEN, INK AND SCISSORS.


uuteer cavalry company.
1t takes Sl06, 600 worth of liquor q
year to assuage the thirst of New York city.
The Mathews Light Guards leave
Wheeling August 4th to visit White Sulphur
Springs.
"A bone picker in Schenectady gave
Sl00. recently, toward the erection of
church edifce.
- Miss Jennie North graduated at Bates
College, Me-, at the head of class of thirty
eight young Elen.
"A Paris paper states thst the average
number of vehicles wch daily cross the Point
Neuf is l. 500 that of the foot passengers
s. 600.
The largest contributor to the revenue
of England is said 10 be a brewing firm,
which pays about S5 GOO for every working
day in the year.
"A Boston man writes from the Black
Hills "There are now at lenst 10000 idle
men in this vicinity, and more suffering, I
think, than in any place in America"
Greece has l0l journals and periodical
publications, which gives Que for each IA .434
habitants. The number of political jour
nails is 80, of which 36 appear at Athens.
During the first three mouths of thie
year nine railroads in this country, with 4
mileage of nearly 100 miles, representing a
cost of s67 600 600, passed into the hands OF
| receivers.
- Major II. .Kyd Douglas, of Hagerstown,
Md, a member of Gen. StonewaIl Jackson's
staff during the war, has contributed an in
resting collection of "reminiscences of his
old chief to the Philadelphia Reeklcy Times.
Judge O'Ferrell, of tho Rockingham
(Va.) Circuit Court has made a departure
from the almost imme emorial "hang gman' day."
iu sentencing Anderson Shfflet, convicted of
murder in his court, to be hung on Tuesday,
September 25th.
- The conductors of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad have been put into uniforms,
consisting of blue cloth coat, panta looms and
cap, the coat being like the army off GERS fA-
que dress, with braes buttons On each cap
is silver badge dcnoting the rank of the
wearer.
-S,veral En- glish railway companies are
noted for fast time made by their locomotives
One, for Instance, has made run equal to
IS miles an hour, an. thcr 10. others -. 20.
GO, 81, tc. Mr.. Patrick Stirling OF the
Great Northen, took l6 carriages, Is miles
in II minutes, equal to rs miles sn hour.
The Danville (Va.) Ne,rs says: "Dan-
vile has built fifty large factories and ware
houses since the war, and her population has
more than doubled. In Petersburg scores of
tobacco factories and nine cotton factories
have been renovated or started since the war.
Lynchburg, Staunton, Salem, Abingdon aud
llsrrisonburg all have vastly grown and pros
pered, while all along the railroads villages
have sprung up and are rapidly growing"
Judge Drummond, of Illinois, has just
set aside certain gas contracts in which the
city Of Chicago had been involved by city
authority. Tho contracts run for ten years.
and apparently good on technicality, but
Judge Drummond says that "members OF q
city council in this country are nothing but
trustees of the public, and it cannot be that
powers vested in them can be fritteIed away
by contract or parceled out to individuals
corporations so as to place those powers be-
youd control"
- Ar. George ". Adams, clerk OF the
House of Representatives. has completed the
list of members that he will call to organize
the House at II N. October l5. The DEM
ocrats, according to the list, will have eight
majority. There are twelve contested cases
reported and afidavits fled Neither the
democratic or republican member from Colo
RADIO will be placed on the roll. Neitherwll
he place on the roll either Pachero Wig
and Frost, the NJ issouri contestants.
A successful public experiment was
made at Buffalo, N. Y, recently, with the
"Lay torpedo an invention of Mr.. Lay, of
that city. The torpedo is cylindrical, with
conical ends, the forward cone to contain one
hundred pounds of dynamite or other explo-
sve the forward part of the main cylinder
to contain powerful gas in liquid form to
be used as motive power, with machinery by
| valve operated by electricity and pipe.
| There is also cable coil to bo connected
with the shore or vessel. When launched
the torpedo is under control of The operator
! on shore or ship. He has compact battery
with which he guides, controls and explodes
| IL. Among those who witnessed the exper>
| imeut were Assistant Chinese Minister Yung
| Yuen Poo and his secretary, q number of
naval officers and visitors from other cities
The torpedo started for a point half a mile
! of, reached it in minutes 20 seconds, grace.
| fully rounded and returned in the same time.
| 1t is claimed that the craft will travel twelve
miles per hour.
LIABILITY OF INDoRsERs on PRoMrssoRY
No7 Es.- The United States Supreme Cont in
a recent decision lays down several principles
of law in the liability Of indorsers Oh prOmis-
! sorry notes. Ii holds that iDdorser is q
| competent witness to prove an agreement in
| writing, made with the holder OF the note at
| the time of the Endorsement, that he shall not
be held liable thereon where the pa per is still
beld by the party to whom the indorse ment was
made and has not been put into circulation
It also holds that an agreement like this and
the Endorsement 1T ia zen together are equivalent.
so far as the holder OF the note is concerned,
to ian Endorsement without recourse to the in