Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1877-02-13
WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.

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ton of the State, changing and revising our
judicial system, passed the House of De'e>
gates on the Sd instant by the constitutional
two thirds majority. The Senate, next day,
refused to order the resolution to its engross
| ment and third reading-Mr. Grantham
voting against it, and Mr.. Butler not voting.
The House, on the 5th instant, passed the
substitute for the capital removal bill, after
the adoption of an amendment offered by
Major Hoof deferring the date of removal
to the year 1885. Messrs. Booff and Cross
both voted for the bill. Mr.. Ferguson, from
the Committee on Judiciary, reported House
| Bill, in relation toregulations respecting Ii
cepses and injuries to persons arising from
| illegal sales of intoxicating liquors and reme>
| dy therefor, and recommended it to pass.
| Also House Bill in relation to tax on licenses
for the sale Of liquors, and recommended the
bill to pass.
In the Senate. on the 7sh, Senate Bill No.
IA, donating public lands to the Jefferson
county agricultural college, came up On its
second reading, and on motion it was laid on
| the table.
In the House, on the 9Th, Mr.. Wilson,
| Chairman Of the Committee on Education,
reported House Bill No. 90, to donate certain
7 lands to the Jefferson County Agricultural
Coll, e., with the recommendation that it pass
as amended.
In tho House, on tho 9th, Mr.. Cross in
troduced House Bill 1914, to amend the
charter of the town of Harper's Ferry, in the
county Of Jefferson. Referred to the Com-
mittee on Counties, Districts and Municipal
| Corporations.
The Legislature will adjourn about the 23rd
of February, unless the session is prolonged
by three ftths vote.
| WHAT Your COUNTY PAFER DoEs.-
An exchange combats with considerable vgor
the argument that the city papers are cheaper
aud better than the county papers because
they give more columns of reading for the
money. Do the city papers, it asks, ever
give you any home news? Never. Do they
say anything in regard to your own county?
| Nothing. Do they contain notices of your
churches, schools, colleges, improvements
and hundreds of other local matters of in>
tcrest which your local papers publishes with
out pay? DO they say q word calculated to
draw attention to your county and its nu>
| merous thriving towns and aid 10 thoir pro-
gress and enterprise Not word. And
yet there are men who take such contracted
views of this matter that unlcss they are get
ting as many square inches Of reading mat
ter in their own paper as they do in city
paper they think they are not getting tho
worth of their money.
| RAND's NEW YORK CITY BUSINESS DIv
RECronY.-This is the title of valuable
work of commercial reference, just issued by
Walter Heugh & CO., Printers and Publishers,
of II Park Place, New York. It contains
a full and complete list of all Importers,
| Jobbers and Manufacturers dong business in
the great metropolis, classified and arranged
By Trades and Occupations, and giving their
street and number address. 1t is an invau,
able work for the Country Merchant. 1t tells
him where to obtain anything from a needle
to steam engine, of first or second hands -
The work will be sent by the publishers to
any address, postage prepaid. upon the receipt
| of the price. which is as follows: Cloth, full
bound Edition. per copy. One Dollar : flexible
!
ers, Fifty Gents.
NOTES FROM THE STATE CArITAL.-
From the Wheeling papers We obtain the
following items:
Judge Ferguson was called home on
Wednesday by sickness in his family.
Mr.. Pennybacker thinks Martinsburg is
unfit for a Capital location, as with the aid of
lever it could be turned over into the Po-
tomac river.
The last report of the Auditor shows that
the State is now in debt to the school fund
and to the banks in the sum of seventy
thousand dollars, which will necessitate eith>
or an increase of taxation, or a reduction
in usual appropriations. In addition to this
seventy thousand dollars now due from the
State, the last legislature made an appro>
| priation of twenty thousand dollars to pay
| debt in the same direction but owing to
lack of funds in the treasury this debt has
not been liquidated, and in addition to the
| $4,000 borrowed this year, making a debt
of 1000. There is also another deficit of
| about Sll 900, as will be seen from the
Auditors report Of 1874, which has not
| been made up, leaving \ total debt of some
thing over 500, 900, which the State has
to meet at once Wheeling Register.
In the House of Representatives, on FJi>
day, majority and minority reports were made