Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1877-06-05
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CharlestoWn, Jefferson County, West Va.
TUESDAY, alORNIaG, JUNE 5. 1877.


fs1-T Thirtysfige thousand sPhihdelphians
have enlisted i6 the Murphy cold water army,
and still they come.
80 Harrisonburg, Va, is TO celebrate the
play, music. speeches, Co.. -
- .P T. Barnum has gone into the search
for Charlie Ross, and offers $4,000 reward
81 Col W. W. Forbes, a. native of Buck
ingham, Va, has been appointed Postmaster
at Richmond, Va, vice Miss Van Low re-
- Gov. Hampton, Of South Carolina, has
appointed Mr.. Thomas j, Hurst, a republican,
as commissioner for South Carolina, resident
at Philadelphia.
The Mofett liquor registers will be fur
nished for use in all the cities of Virginia by
the first of July. The opposition to the law
seems to be weakening.
The strike, which began six weeks ago
in the Schuylkill (Pa.) carpet works, has
ended by the strikers accepting the terms
proposed by the proprietors. .72...
The proposition to appropriate SIS, 200
to influence the removal of the repair shops
of the Midland railroad from Lynchburg to
CnaEIOLCeSVllle, B now DSlnR cOn6lQeTeQ DY
the people of the latter place.
Mr.. Laban Gwinn, residing in the upper
edge of this county, has just delivered, on
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, locust
tree measuring three feet in diameter across
the stump, from which he cut five ten>foot
logs Fayetteville Enterprise
= Ex-Governor Brown, of Tennessee, re.
spectfully declines to be an ''old Wing" can
didate for Governor, believing that past polit>
iual differences ought not to be allowed to
enter into the contest or mar the harmony of
the party as itsnow stands. -
Hon. @. T. Butler, Lecturer of the W.
! Va. State Grange delivered an address to the
| citizens of this county, at the court house on
Friday last. The address was well received
By large and attentive audience.
Barbour Jcfersonian.
"A Polish exile now in Washington
writes to friend in Augusta, Ca, that 2a3
families in Russian Poland, with an average
of 81 900 to the family, are desirous of en-
| igrating to the United States to engage in ag-
| ricultural labor.
- As it is impossible to make shortened
leg longer, Boston surgeon has determined
to obyiate the apparent deformity by making
long leg shorter. His apparatus was ex-
hibited recently at the City Hospital, Bos>
ton, but has not yet been applied. 81
- The Warren (Va) Sentinel states that
an immense deposit of valuable black lead
mineral has been recently discovered near the
line of the w. G. V. NJ. & G. s. R. R., in
that county. A company has already been
formed, and is now operating the mine.
= Mr.. Elias Lively, residing on Paint
creek in this county, has two yearling sheep
which are q cross between the Cotswold and
Southdown breeds, one of which weighed at
shearing time 142 pounds the other 132.-
The fleece from the two weighed 223 pounds.
Fayetteville Enterprise.
Thursday, the 10th of May was the an
niversary of the death of General Stonewall
Jackson. On that day the grave of the dead
hero, at Lexington, is visited by fair women,
the turf is neatly mown, cleaned and beauti>
fully adorned with flowers. On each day
thereafter during the summer and fall the
grave is visited by committee and fresh
flowers placed thereon. -, ,-s.,..r.srE
- Gen. W. W. Loring, formerly . majors
general in the Confsderats army, but now in
| the service of the Kbsdiys Of Egypt, has
| been decorated with the orders of the Medji.
| die and Osmanlie-the latter is only confer.
red on commanders of an army in che field.
The decorations of the Medjidie are star of
brilliants surrounded by crescents for the
neck, and similar one for the breast
Among the names mentioned for bishop
of the new diocese of the Episcopal Church
in West Virginia are the following: Rev.
DIR. Addison, of Washington, d. o., former
ly of Wheeling Rev. Dir. Greer, of New
Jersey Rev. W. L. HylaDd, of Parkersburg
Bishop Hare and Rev. Mr. Eggleston, of
Philadelphia. 1t is stated that the first coun>
Gil of the new diocese will be held in Mar
tinsburg. sg- --s..3 ~
- One by one the train agents who were
introduced on the Pennsylvania railroad about
o year ago are being retired, and il is now
stated that the intention is to withdraw them
altogether needless expense. The con>
| spiracy discovered among number of the
agents in the East, whereby the company was
sWindled out of large sums of money by the
sale of uncancelled tickets, has perhaps has
tened the conclusion to dispense with their
services and give the collection of tickets
back into the hands of the conductors. A
number of them have already been retired on
the Pi,tsburg end of the road, and the others,
it is said, will soon follow.-I1hza. Inquirer.
- Samuel w. Jefries, postmaster at Big
Springs, Calhoun county, West Virginia was
arrested by Wm. T. Henderson, special agent
of the Postofice Department, last Thursday
night on a charge of robbing the mails. In
March and April of 1876 complaints had
reached the department of registered letters
having been opened and rifed of their COM
tents. An investigation was made by Mr..
Henderson during the succeeding months,
and the arrest was made of an assistant Post
master, who, however, was found innocent.
Last February other complaints of riied
| registered letters were made and the investi-
CATION renewed. A deeoy registered letter.