Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1877-05-08
PEN, INK AND SCISSORS.

- ABOUT HUN stOSlta arc oalIy mauu-
featured at our penltentiary.
Volunteer Militia companies are spring.
ing up in various parts of the State.
- Seventeen newspapers in the Third dis.
ttict have declared in favor of Charleston.
1t is said that Wheeling manufacturers
supply ONE half the nails in the United States.
The Charleston and Clarksburg editors
are declaring war to the knife on the Capitol
question.
- Ross Winans, who died recently in Bal
timore, leaves an estate worth about thirty
millions.
- Hobart Pasha, the Turkish naval COM
mander, was formerly an officer Of the Eng
lish navy.
- The first printer ever imprisoned in the
West Virginia Penitentiary, arrived there
few days ago.
II Rev. DIR. Rosser, the Methodist Evan
gelist, is conducting series OF meetings In
Front Royal.
Governor Nichols, of Louisiana, has
proclaimed the 10th of May as q day of
thanksgiving for peace.
The Burkevills Sentinel recommends
Mr. Edwin G. Booth. of Centennial fame, ~
candidate for Governor of Virgins.
Gen. Nathan Gof, jr.. of West Virginia.
has besn invited to deliver the Grafton en-
suing decoration day at Arlington, Va.
The New York Tribune is authority for
the statement that out of the 430 convicts in
the South Carolina Penitentiary 400 are
blacks.
Ex-Governor aud ex-U. s. Senator W.
G Brownlow, of Tennessee, popularity known
as Parson Brownlow, died a: Knoxville, on
the Goth ultimo.
- Major p. B. Borst, President of the W.
g. g. St. l.. Narrow Gauge Railroad, is lying
dangerously i'll at his home in Luray. Page
county, Va.
- The soldiers graves at Antictam Gem
etery. Sharpsburg, Md, will be decorated on
the 30th instant. President Hayes is ex-
pected to be present.
= A Sunday School was organized at Lib
erty Grove, on Sunday week John w. Hol-
liday was elected Superintendent, and W. N.
Lemen, Assistant Shepherdsto,on Register.
- The extra session of Congress, rendered
desirable by the failure Of last Congress to
pass the army appropriation BILL is not to be
called to meet in June next, but on October
18th.
- Rev. DR.. Baird has been deposed from
his ministerial office by East Hanover Pres
bytery for his misapplicatiou of the funds of
the Presbyterian Publication House, at Rich
mond, Va.
- Col. John Forsyth, the well-known aud
distinguished editor of the Mobile Register,
died on the I'd inst, aged &C. Col. Forsyth
was the leading Democratic editor of the
South, and was minister to Mexico under
Pierce.
An effort is being made to convert the
Manassas Branch of the Virginia Midland
Road into Narrow Gauge, complete the in
dependent line from A lexandria to GAINESVILLE
and extend the road from Strasburg via
Capon Spring to the coal fields in West Vir-
gnia.
- Hon. J. r. Tucker and family returned
to Lexington on Monday week Mr. Tucker
will enter al once on his course Of lectures
on constitutional law before the law class of
Washington and Lee University. 1t is said
that he will xpress fully his views on the
Electoral Commission.
On the 18th ult, a son of Abraham
Holbert, who resides on the waters of Buffalo
Creek, in this State, accidentally hung him>
self on a rope swing. The child was about
three years old. When found the child was
dead, its feet touching the ground and its
neck looped in the swing.
- Miss Mildred Lee, daughter of tho late
Con. r. E. Lie, is on visit to New Orleans,
and was serenadcd few evenings since by
the battalion of Washington Artillery. She
was also presented with boquet of flowers,
and the Pcoyune says "Miss Lee, in eloquent
terms. returned her heartfelt thanks to the
battalion"
- The beautiful cupola surrounding Col.
Nadenb ousoh's mammoth hotel is now receive
ing the finishing touches of tho painters,
Cline & McEroy. The cupola affords a
splendid view Of the surrounding country.
HILL dale and valley can be taken in per-
spective, whilst the horizon to the east is
bounded only by the surge of old ocean, and
to the west, the frowuin0 battleuents of the
Alleghanios can be described.
!hurtinsbur9 Statesman.
In tho Circuit Court of Shenandoah
county, Va, the jury in tho case of George
w. Koontz, administrator of William A.
Wightman, against the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, on the LIST inst, rendered
. verdict for the plaintiff for $4,000 dnma y
ges, with interest from March 6, 1876.
Wightman was killed in the disaster at Mar
row Passage bridge, the Valley division
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and his
administrator instituted suit for damages,
which were laid in $4,000.
- Mr. John Hopkins Baldwin, of Balti-
more, committed suicide by shooting himself
with a pistol, on St Paul street, in that city,
on Wednesday morning. MIR. Baldwin was
thirty -four years of age, native of VIM
chester, Va, and son of tho late DR.. Bobert
F. Baldwin, who was a we'll known citizen of
that place. He served with distinction
throughout the late war in the Confederate
fret hn t1a