Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1877-09-11
PEN, INK AND SCISSORS.


The praises of others may be of use in
teaching us, not what we are, but what We
ought to be.
Gov. Kemper, of Virginia, has appointed
Gen. James G.. Field, of Culpeper, to fill The
uuexpired term of the late Attorney General
Daniel.
"A devastating fire occurred in New
York city on the Bird instant, destroying
about $500, 900 worth of property aud occa>
sioniDg the death of several persons.
"A daily paper, it is stated, is to be
started in New York to advocate the Presi-
dents policy as regards civil service reform
and the restoration of the Southern States.
- Several victories have been reported for
the Russians the past week Fighting has
been in progress before Plevna, Bulgaria,
since Thursday. On Sunday the Russians
captured the place.
"A young woman named Newton was
outraged by two negroes near Round Hill,
twelve miles from Leesburg, q few days
since. There was strong talk of lynching
them at last accounts.
- The Social Science Congress, at Sara
toga, had number of interesting papers be-
fore it, including one by Eon. j. Randolph
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States to each other as modified by the war.
A terrible disaster occurred Wednesday
on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific rail.
road, at the east branch of Four-Mile creek,
seven miles from Des Moines, Iowa. The
killed and wounded are estimated as high as
fifty.
-Ex. President Theirs, of France, is dead.
He was very old man, and his life has been
a. l.
wrote it. His death has created profound
impression throughout France, as well as all
Europe.
The Republican and Democratic exec
tive committees of Ohio have arranged for a
series of joint discussions throughout tho
State between the Hon. Stanley Matthews
and Gen. Thomas Ewing. 1t is believed
these discussions will create considerable in
terest and add to the warmth of the campaign.
- Hon. John II. Reagan, of Texas, who
was the Confederate postmaster general, and
in company with Mr.. Jefferson Davis at the
time of his capture by the federal cavalry,
has published a statement of the affair, in
which he emphatically denies that Mr.. Davis
attempted to escape from his captors in the
guise of female.
At Harrisouburg, Va, on Wednesday,
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Louisa Lawson, convicted of completely in
the murder of her husband, was refused, and
sentence of death pronounced upon the pris-
oner who is to DO executed on Tuesday, the
| 3Oth of October next. She received the
sentence without much apparent emotion.
- The trial of Xebulon D. Gilmer for the
murder of Reuben Bonds in the streets Of
McGaheysville, Rockingham county, Va, on
i commenced
County Court of Rockingham, at Harrison
burg, on Monday, Judge G. 7. O'Ferrall pro-
| siding. The trial exctcs unusual interest,
Gilmer being man Of considerable property
and of very respectable family connections
Bonds was poor man with large family.
| A largo number of witnesses, some sixty or
| seventy, are in attendance at the trial which
promises to be protractod.
The New York Sun recently published
n statement to the effect that Associate JUS
tce Bradley, of the electoral commission, af-
ter preparing written opinion in favor OF
| the Tilden electors in the Florida case, and
submitting it to several members of the cleo
toral commission, changed his views during
the night preceding the vote in consequence
| of pressure brought to bear upon him by Re-
publican politicians aud Pacific railroad men,
whose carriages, it was alleged, surrounded
bis house during the evening. Judge Brad
ley, in q letter just published, gives an en-
phatic contradiction to the Suns statement.