Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1877-09-04
PEN, INK AND SCISSORS.


The Wheeling Standard newsI a2er
establishment is to be offered at trustees sale
on the Goth of September.
= The tenth annual exhibition of the
Baldwin augusta county, fair will take
place on the fair grounds at Siaunton, Va,
on the 9th, 10th and l1th Of October.
Brigham Young died at his residence
in Salt Lake, Wednesday afternoon. He
leaves about nineteen wives and the Lord
knows how many children to mourn his lost
= Col David s. Bell, on his farm near
Fishersville, Augusta county, Va, raised and
threshed from a field of Is acres, corn land
and without fertilizers, 7l2 bushels of wheat,
an average of 394 bushels to the acre.
els your father at home? inquired
the man of the little girl who admitted him.
sis your name Bill Z" she asked. "Some
people call me SO, he replied. Then he is
not at home, for l heard him tell John if
any bill came to say he was not at home p
= Tho new workingmen's paper, just
started in ST. Louis to denounce tho mean
spirited capitalists who take advantage of the
hard times to grind the face of the working
man, is paying its type>setters 20 cents q
thousand ems, while the other papers pay 30
cents.
= The act to adopt county Judge and
Board of Commissioners for the counties of
Mineral, Hardy, Grant and Pendletou, was
rejected at the late election, follows !:
Hardy, % for to 3S7 against Grant, 33 to
297 Mineral, 483 to 25S; Pendleton, III
to 3G9
A telegram from Pittsburg. Pa. an
nounces the sale Of the Hempfeld Short>lino,
thirty-two miles in length, connecting WASH
ing,on, Pa, with Wheeling, w. Va, subject
to mortgages amounting to Sl03 900, for ST.
100 1t was purchased by Vice President
Keyser, of the Baltimore and Ohio Company,
which will operate the line.
- Hon. J. p. Benjamin, of London, has
written a letter to gentleman residing in
Nelson county, Va, in which he says: "In
answer to yours beg to say that | know
nothing whatever of the so>called Jennings
estate, nor do 1 believe in its existence. I
would not give penny postage stamp for
the free gift of all the rights Of all the
claimants"
At Richmond on Tuesday the State
Conservative committee nominated Gen. Jas.
G. Field, of Culpeper, as Attorney General
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Hon R. T. Daniel. Gen. Field is an emf
nent lawyer of large practice and ripe expe-
rience. The committee also agreed to make
thorough canvass, and appointed five can>
vassers at large.
- On Sunday week Mr.. Hiram Adams, an
aged citizen of the vicinity. of Gainsboro'
Frederick county, Va, was robbed Of So, OO0
in gold and silver coin and currency. His
house was entered in the day time, and the
money taken from chest or trunk. The
robbers considerably left Mr.. Adams Fifty
dollars. There is no clue whatever to the
| perpetrators of this bold theft.
Tho Indian famine is growing in mag
nitude. The figures by kilograms from Mad
dras, are terrifying In South India, twenty
four millions are afflicted by the famine, and
under the most favorable circumstances at
least one-sixth of this number will die
Mothers are offering their children for sale,
and cases of cannibalism are reported. The
roads are strewn with the dying, dead and
decomposing. In all history there is hardly
anything like it.
The Governor procams that Charleston
received Al 243 votes; Clarksburg 1912
votes, and Martinsburg 8,O4f votes, at the
| election on the It'll inst. The official ma
| jority for Charleston, over both her competi'
tors is, therefore, 257. No official returns
were received from Tyler county, consequent
| " her vote, whatever it was, is not included
in the above. After 1885 Charleston will be-
come the Capital of the State-no preventing
| Providence In the meantime Wheeling will
| enjoy that distinction.
DEATH OF Mr.. JOHN kEARsLEY.-Mr