Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1878-06-18
PEN, INK AND SCISSORS.

- Printers ink will keep the hinges Of
store doors loose.
Msr.insburg is preparing to have big
time on the 4th of July.
-Thos. W. Winans the Baltimore mil
lionaire and Russian railroad contractor, Is
dead.
The Congress of the powers on the
Eastern question met at Berlin on Thursday
last.
Hon. J. G. 8. Blackburn is to be re-
turned to the Forty Sixth Congress from his
appreciative Kentucky district without op,
position.
CIV. Wor.hiDgton. of Fauquier county,
has calf ten months old that suc&les two
motheress lambs and gives them much
milk that they are in better condition than
his other lambs Of the same age that have
mothers.
We learn that the surveyors of the Shen-
andoah Valley Railroad are surveying site
for said road. They have surveyed and
stake ed of the route up to within short dis
lance of Capt. Donald's maganese mines
The route as indicated by the surveyor, will
be located on the opposite side of the river
from this point.
RaynesJoro Va) Tribune.
- Hon. A. II. II. Stuart, of Stanton,
Va, having been asked by leading business
men of that town to give them his views re-
spectiug the probable duration of the pre-
yailing business prostration in this country,
responds in q lengthy letter, attributiDg the
present condition of affairs to the great con-
traction in the currency that was necessary
TO bring it to gold value, and confidently
predicting, now that the bottom has been
reached, an early revival of trade in all its
branches, and the speedy commencement OF
another era of general prosperity.
A negro convict at the Vest Virginia
penitentiary, while seated at the dinner ta-
Bile one day last week, assaulted two other
conyicts with q Ratchet. he Embedded the
pole of the weapon in the head of one of his
victims, and cut frightful cash il the 9TH
er's back The one whose skull was broken
is in a dying condition, and the other, it is
thought, may not recover. After the assault
the negro ran from the dining room into the
cell hall, where he was fred upon by the
guards, but without fatal result. He was
captured aud put into his cell, whore a large
knife was found concealed.
The Joint Boundary Commission to set
rle points in dispute as to the line between
Virginia and West Virginia, has been in
session in Winchester for the past week
The commission is composed as follows: On
the part of Virginia, Messrs. f. 8. Baker, Of
Frederick, Ran D. Cushen, of Rocking ham
and Col. Mann Splitter, of Page. On the
part of West Virginia, Messrs. Jos. 9. Sprigg,
of Hardy, Col. w. w. Miller, of Wheeling,
and Col. VIM. French, of Mercer. The
points where most difficulty is experienced
in fixing the boundary line is in the county
and some points in the far southwest. At
most of the other portions of the line there
are natural boundaries. An officer Of the
United States Engineer Corps has been de-
tailed to run the line.- Winchester Ne'0s.
The consul at Canton reports to the De
| partment of State at Washington that ter
rible tornado passed over that city on the
| 1lth of April last, causing great destruction
| of life and property. The whirlwind came
| from the sea in the form of waterspout and
struck the shore on the foreign settlement Of
| Shannon, passing thence in a northeastern
direction through the crowded part of the
city of Canton. The average breadth of the
track left By the tornado is six hundred feet
| Although many houses were destroyed in the
| foreign settlement, no life was lost there, and
| the cases of miraculous escape from death
we're numerous The United States consulate
was just beyond the track of the storm, and
no American property was damaged. In the
native city it is estimated that 10, 600 persons
wore killed. Owing to the narrowuess of the
streets tho work of removing the dead bodies
| from the wrock made slow progress, AND
would take several weeks to accomplish
| The weather was very hot, and the fearfu
stencil from decomposing bodies led many tt
| fear the outbreak of pestlence.
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