Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1877-03-13
PEN, INK AND SCISSORS.

- IL Is asserted IN Gan FRANCISCO tnat
new census of that city will show that it has
q population of 100000
ALI the State militia of Vermont will
participate in a reproduction of the battle OF
Bennington in August next.
Tho country cannot afford to have
the result ,aiuted by the suspicion of illegal
or false returns"-President Grant.
- A new Methodist church in Boston 10
to be the largest belonging to that deuomi-
nation in America, and will seat 5000 persons.
1T is estimated that there is sufficient
gold. silver, aud nickel in the mines of Mont>
gomery county, n. c., to pay the national
debt.
-"No man worthy of the Office of Pres
idcnt should be willing to hold it if counted
in or placed there by fraud."-ITestdesf
Grant.
- Rev j. McKendree Reiley, pastor of
the Fourth street VI. E Church OF Wheeling.
has been transferred back to the baltimore
Conference.
- The number of sheep in Shenandoah
County, Va, is rapidly increasing. The
farmers are beginning to find out that sheep
culture pays we'll.
- A new act of the Mississippi Legislature
exemp,s from taxstion OF all kinds the capi-
chinery, buildings, etc.
- Lewis Rineheart died Of lockjaw near
Waynesboro', Pennsylvania. few days ago,
caused by n splinter running under his nm
ger nail aud remaining there.
- The Connecticut Senate has passed
bill providing that criminals from another
State can be returned without requisition
from the Gover of the State.
"A child of Morgan Wetzel. aged IS
months. near DOvesville, Rockingham county,
Va, fell iuto tub of lye, and swallowing
some Of it, died after suferiOg IL hours.
= Slate to the value of $3.50. 900 from tho
ouarries in Maine, Vermont, New York. Vir-
eiuia and Pennsylvania has been sent to
Great Britain during 1876. This export is
quite new.
- The ffty>eight horse butchers in Paris
distributed to the population of that city 9.-
271 horses. asses and mules during the past
year, against sos of these animals slaugh>
tered in 1875.
Tie District Meilodist says: 1.-THE
many friends of Rev. A. A. Z. Neal will ro-
grct to learn that on account Of the i'll health
Of his wife, he has been transferred to tie
Florida Conference.
- On the night of the o2d uIt., in ThOm-
asvile, N. G. while William Thomas aud
Miss Forney were before the altar to be
married, the bride dropped dead before the
ceremony was concluded.
- DIR. Lovick Pierce, of Georgia, Is said
to be the oldest living Methodist preacher in
the United States; he is now ninety-two, and
filed a preaching appointment for his son,
Bishop Pierce. the other day.
- The Silk Association has just published
its annual summary. showing the consumption
OF raw silk in the United States for the year
1876. from which it appears that there were
used II ,293 packages, valued at So, ,626 ,299.
The employees of the Central railroad
of New Jersey have not received a cent of
wages since November 80. AT Port Johns
ton the men arc without tho necessaries Of
life. At Eizabethport they and their iami-
lies are starving.
Italy has declared its seventeen univer-
sites open to women. and Switzerland, Nor
way, Sweden and Denmark have taken sini-
lar action. whilc France has opened the SOr>
bonne to women, and Russia its highest
schools of medicine and surgery.
The joint committee on constitutional
amendments hiss agreed TO report 10 the EiF-
ginia Legislature recommending an amend
ment to the constitution providing for the re-
turn Of the viva voce system OF voting, and
discarding the secret ballot system.
"A correspondent of the Charleston
Courier has been reliably Informed that GER
tain parties will operate for oil in Putnam
county this summer. He understands that
the North sido of Kauawha river will be the
seat of operations.
A mob of hundred negroes protected
a thief from arrest by a Hampton sheriff in
Combahee, S. G On Wednesday. firing on
the posse Of ten men. On Thursday the
sheriff with posse Of two hundred men went
for the outlaws, charged then in their posi-
tion, captured about twenty and dispersed the
rest No one was hurt on either side.
- Matthew Dorm, the monster headed boy,
is dead. He was fifteen years of age, aud
was certainly a curiosity, il not monstrOsity,
SO far as his head was cOncerDed. 1t is
said that it was four feet in circumference,
aud weighed almost 80 pounds. lie was of
Irish parent.ge. When six weeks old his
head began growing much more rapidly than
his body, and continued to grow up to within
a few weeks of his death. He was never
able to sit up. but could move his head from
right to left while lying on his pillow. Dur
ing the Centennial Exhibition at PhiladeI-
phir he was taken there by speculative per-
sons, but the undertaking did not provo
! successful there OF iD Albany. where he was
| subsequently exhibited for te" days; MS
body a. the time Of his death weighed about
one. half as much as his hsad.-7roy Times.
"A remarkable case of suicide occurred
in Carlisle, Pa, on Monday last J. p Has
sIer. who had recently resigned the cashier
ship of the Carlisle Deposit Bank, because of
| sIi 600 of a deficit in his accounts, lost in
stock speculstions, hung himself BY clothes
line To a rafter in the house in which he
lived and the very same rafter to which,
fourteeu wears ago. ". n. Beetman. cashier