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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1879-07-01
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Jsnuary 81. 1879. LIPPiTT s. co.

ROOFING AND SCOUTING
NONE lower than the lowest, at
II June II. JOS Ii. EASTERDAY'S
COFFEE Mile. Spittoons. Molasses Cans, Jelly
~ Cake Pans, Plates, a c do. 6ne Tea and
Coffee Pots, Vegeta nIe Skimmers, Patent Balances,
with and without Plates; Tea CAuisteTs. Porcelain
Lined stew PapsJ Blanc Mango NIouids, and
everything in my line can be found Ct the Old aad
Reliable tin and Stove House of
June II, 1878. JOS. Fl. YESTERDAY.
fV,HE Celebrated oyster Homemade E Kip Rnots,
for sale at MMROD JRUSSELL'S.
October s, 1878.
E7REsH CUcUMBER PICKLES just received,
Z and for sA lie by S. S. DALG4RS.
April q. 1879
pest MAKE Full Cloth. White and Gray Elan.
ID mel, Yarns, &c. TaYLOR'S.
September "a, 1878.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-12-11
hoops Again.
Ell Perlslns In chioago Tribnne:

N
 Hoops--the old time hoops--have ap- peared on Fifth ayenue again. It is quite g common thing now to sec the heavy- swell young lady with q balloon-exten- sion bobbing up and down, and keeping time with the jaunty steps ofthe weaTer. A few years ago there was hoop mania. Hoop-skirt factories sprang up all over New England. Many lucky Yankees got suddenly rich making hoop-skirts; then tho ''puil-back" came, and our young la dies grew smallerand smaller, tlll by-and- by the hoop-skirt factories all stopped and hoops became obsolete ,
 When an atrocious fashion comes, and you hear all the ladies say: "Well, ltl never wear such a dreadful scarecrow as 'that," you can make up your mind that they are all going to have itwithin three weeks la5 .a9r
 Little Miss Vanderbilt appeared with q woolen Derby hat oue hot August day in Saratoga: and in less than four weeks every young lady between New, York and Omaha had one Every hat factory in New England went to making round- cornered Derby hats. Nowthat the same little Miss Vanderbilt has been seen on Fifth avenue in q hoop-skirt, you may be sure that every young lady will be wearing an iron cage before Christmas. Let the hardware men lay in stock of steel. There will be no iron for the lightning-rod man in few months, .-.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-12-11

young Countess corpse sewn up in a large straw sack and sunk in the river. The seams were found to be in the inte- rior of the sack, proving that Vera Kos cheleff had deliberately sewn herselfup in the sack on the river bank, and then cast herself into the stream. In another letter, addressed to one of her uncles, and received by him some time after her death, she gave as her reason for inclos- ing herself in sack previously to drowning herself, her extreme fear of crawfish and water-beetles. Few strang- CT and more fantastic suicides have been recorded even in Russian annals of self destruction, which are exceptionally rich in grizzly stories of this description.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-12-11
The Dainty Little Hand.
Richmond lYn.l state.

Richmond tNa) sa1e
 This afternoon gentleman returning fir on the fair grounds in crowded ve- hicle felt his watch slipping ont of his pocket He elapped his hand to his iimepiece and was surprised to find that it came III contact with the hand Of 2 well-dressed and pretty young lady, who was sitting at his side. HelOoked around at her, and was nonplussed atseeing two dainty little hands, encased in beLutiful- ly.dtting gloves, which were crossed on her lap. He saw through the trick at once. This female was pickpocket and the hands cro sed upon her lap were false. The gentleman kept quiet until the vehicle had gotten well into town, when he told the female that she had better get out with him. She readily as- sented, the wagon was stopped, and the two alighted. sUpon reaching the side walk he told her that he intended to call policeman and have her taken to the station house She begged piteously for mercy, and by her seductive ways soon succeeded in getting the old gent to let go free.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-12-11
Labouchere on Marriage.
London Truth.


 The number of well-educated girls who cannot find husbands has increased and ought to be diminished. The only way in which this can be brought abou, is to do away with the absurdity of par. ents giving their sons more money than their daughters. Girls without portions do not find husbands so readily as girls with portions, and this is no reflection upon men. A sensible man may fall in love with a charming young lady, but before marrying her he asks bimseli whether he can afford it.. In precisely thesame way as person before taking acab asks himselfwhetherhe he has money enough to pay for the fare. If he cannot afford himself the luxury of marrying his portionless love, be, if he be in q .connubial mood, and should he come across girl with money who will have him, marries her. Perhaps at first he regrets his first love. but he soon settles down to his second love if she be nice and pleasant, and these marriages dc rdi- son, in nine cases out of ten, turn out well enough. English people have q mania to die rich. They never like parting with their money until the grave separates them from it. And when they do die they either leave almost every thing to their eldest son, or leave more to their sons than to their daughters. Parents need not strip themselves, like pelicans, to skins, i'll order to give all that they have to their children, but they ought, while they are alive, to do more for them than is the habit with us, and when they die they should take care to provide according to their means for their daughters. 4 woman is far more helpless being than man. If the latter be worth his salt he can without difficulty turn little money into a great deal, b. with woman this is not the case. Give her a small capital, and she has to live on the interest that it brings in, for she has no means to augment 1t. Therefore, if had sons and daughters, 1 should try to overcome my natural sell fishness and give what 1 could to the latter, in order to aid them to pick up good husbands; but many case should by my will leave more 10 my daughters than to my sons. One of the main req sons why girls are not soadvantageously treated as boys in wills is that these documents are generally drawn up by men. If woman has money to leave she seldom heaps 1t all up on one indi' vidual, or favors men at the cost Of those of her own sex, but she fairly apportions her wealth among those of her own re, lations entitled 10 it.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-12-11
Habits of IceberRs.
New York Times,

Captain J. w. Jennings, of tho White Star steamship Adriatic, when asked whether it was a common. thing to en- counter icebergs in the vicinity of the banks of Newfoundland at this season of the year, replied that, on the contrary, il was very uncommon. He said that he saw, an iceberg in latitude AS degrees, longitude 4S degrees, on the l2th Of June. These huge masses of ice, he said, are formed away up in the Arctic region. 900 to 300 miles away, during the winter The following summer they become detached from the mother pack, and come floating southward with the Arctic current, which flows at the rate of about one-haif to three-quarters of a mile an hour, 1t takes them all winter to reach the banks, where they arrive about March, and from that tune until the lst of July they are frequently en- countered. They sometimes strike shal. low water, and are knocked about along the edge of the banks until they pass by and proceed on their journey south. They continue onward until they meet the Gulf Stream, which will take them down to latitude 42' and longitude 45' to 50o, where the warmer temperature of the water rots them, and they break to pieces, melt away and disappear Sometimes they are kept playing about for several days between the Arctic Cur rent and the Gulf Stream.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-12-11
An Ugly King.
Tenble Bar.

One day q peasant woman took bas- ket of eggs to the house where the Royal party was lodged. At the door she met an individual who greeted her politely, and, on finding out her errand, carried the basket to the kitchen, which done he returned with handful of small coins. Emboldened by so much condo scension, the good woman mustered mp courage to mention her desire to set eyes on the King, Victor Emmanuel. "Why, that's me" said the person with whom she WAS speaking. Sue looked at him scrulinizingly; then, after few seconds of mute contemplation, she ex- claimed: "Oh, never. You won't get me to believe that. Such a sweet and beau tiful woman as the Queen would never have married man si betirt." The King (ior itwas he) dismissed her with an extra piece of money, and proceeded in all haste 10 ask some peasants what was the meaning of si teaH. 50 ugly,n was the reply. Victor Emmanuel related this small incident with the greatest gusto.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-12-11
sixteen Tons of Gold.
n \. '. Fxnress

It seems almost paradoxical that in these hard times any one shonld possess moro gold than he could make use of. Yet such q dilerDma troubles several per sons in this city. The banks which sold the Sl0000,0 co of July bonds of 1881, to the United States Treasury. last week, received gold coin which weighs in bulk over sixteen tous,ind they have no place in which to store #. Some time ago the Bank of America was designated as a common depository for tho gold belong. ing to the bank of the Clearing House Association, and q special set of vaults was begun to accommodate it. These vaults are not yet finished, and the &C., commodations of the Clearing House are not such as to provide for the safe stor- ing of q large quantity of gold, on ac- count of its great weight, their vaults not resting on a ground foundation. At a loss for proper provision for the i'm mense treasure, the Clearing House asso- citation on Tuesday telegraphed to the Secretary of the Treasury for permission to use temporarily one of the large sil. yer vaults of the sub-Treasury, but theis request was denied. Had 1t been grant. cd, it wasintended to issue certificates against the gold until such time as the Bank of America vaults were ready for it's reception,
 A reporter learned ct the Sub-Treas. ury that s7,050,000 of the Sl0,0O0, ,00C was withdrawn on Tuesday and distrib- uted among various banks, and that S2.. 100000 more was withdrawn yesterday
 Was this gold sent here in one lot. ol was it some you had on hand?" asked the reporter.
 Tt was only part of what we had on hand We were glad to get rid of it as 1t occupied great deal of room" said an official.
 Was it sont on here by special trsinl'
 No. Gold is usually forwarded by
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-12-11

SOME of the shrewdest business men in Montreal have been sYindled by a bold and original scheme. Two strang- CTS, with glib tongues and dignifed de meanor, introduced themselves as capi- talists seeking to invest S200000. They lived expensively at Il leading hotel,we accompanied by lady-like alleged wives and soon gained footing in fashionable society. Their next move was to open an office and advertise money to" loan. Those who applied for it were required to submit the collateral for examination. The sharpers got about s20,00o into their hands, sold the securities and then fed ..
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-12-11
THE oRANe.ouTANo.
Habits of this Singular Animal In Its Na- tive Haunts.

Popular Science Monthly.
 Each individual of the Bornean orancg differs from its fellows, and has as many facial peculiarities belonging 10 itself alone as can be found in the individuals ot any unmixed race of human beings, as the Chinese or Japanese. The faces . the more intelligent orangs are capa- ble of great variety of expression, and in some the exhibition of the various passions is truely remarkable. The au- thor had in his possession in Borneo four young living orangs. Three were dull and impracticablc, but the fourth was singilarly intelligent and docile; the development of it's forehead and crani- um would have been quite alarming to an enemy of the theory of evolution. This specimen was a male infant seven or eight months old, twenty-two and a quarter inches in height, thirty-seven inches in expanse of arms, and fifteen and q half pounds ill weight. He exhib- tied fully as much intelligence as any child under two years of age, with all the emotions of affection, dislike, anger, fear, etc. When leased beyond endur- ance he would first whine fitfully, but, il the teasing was continued, he would throw himself upon the floor. kicking and screaming and catching his breath like child. The male orangs are much given to fighting, their huge canine teeth being their principal weapons of offense. The orang's nest consists of quantity of leafy branches broken oil and piled loosely in the fork of 2 tree. The orang usually selects 8 sapling, and builds it's nest in its top. Sometimes the nest is fully three feet in diameter, but usually not more than two, and quite flat on the top. There is no weaving together of branches. On this bed the orang lies, reposing on his back, his long arms and short thick legs thrust upward, and firm ly grasping the branches that are within reach
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-12-11
A ratal shirt nutton.

. lDHuOn i1lHc.
 The death is announced at Heidelberg of Dr. Adolf Sander, who was formerly in large practice as physician in Fiber field and its neighborhood. One morn ing in 1874, while dressing, he contrived in some wayt to get . shirt button be- tween his teeth. Internationally, while laughing, the button slipped into the back of his mouth, and thence into the larynx. All the exertions of his surgcal friends to remove 1t were in vain. 1t was ascertained that it sank into the right lung, which soon became irritated. Splitting of blood ensued, and he was looking forward to his death as not very reinoto. He removed 10 villa he had near krankiort-on-the-Main to pass his last days in quiet. Here he was sur- prised by d violent fit of coughing and splitting of blood, in paroxysin of which the button was elected. His health rapidly improved, and in few months, regarding himself as quite cured, he resumed his professional work, and en- deayored to gather up the threads of his former practice. But last year unInis- takeable symptoms manifested them- selves that the lung had not fully recov- cred from the presence in it's substance of foreign body for several months He spent the winter in the south of Eu- rope, but returned almost worse than he went. He gradually wasted away, and sank in few days.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-12-11

IT IS said thatthe Emperor Alexander of Russia has become complete hypo- chondriac. He shuts himself up for days, and can with difficulty be persuad- ed to take food, which must be left at his chamber door. He frequently bursts into tears, and is afflicted with strange dreams. On the nights when these seize him two doctors sit up in his bed room. In short, it is supposed he is mentally affected, and his long seclusion at Livadia, it is believed is to be devoted to q system of treatment which will eith- CT kill or cure. e4,--}.. '4t fi
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-12-11
Shot for his Perfidfty.

The town of Newport, Ky, just across the river on the Kentucky side, has been mortified by homicide which is sur rounded with most startling facts. Miss Annie HoT shot and instantly killed Charles Eehrueher her former lover, be- cauee he had seduced under promise of mawioge. ,B
 The decd Of death was done shortly af. ter Go o'clock, in the saloon of Ferdinand Tiehechteteins. Schrueher kept saloon on Vine street, Cincinnati, but boarded with the Iiehecteteins. W hen Miss Hof, in company with her brother Tony, called at the Newport saloon and asked to see Sehrueher, the latter was still in bed. He got up, however, and came down stairs, meeting the brother and sister in a room adjoining the bar-room. No one else saw or heard what there took place. Five minutes after he entered a pistol shot was heard. The family rushed in and found Sehreueher lyingon the floor dead, with a pistol ball through his heart.
 The smoking pistol was held in the un- trembling hand of the young Nemesis. She simply exclaimed to the mortified family; He betrayed me andI shot him" She then turned to her brother and told him to follow her. They went tc the jail, and she gave herself up. Miss Hoff is twenty-one years old, handsome, we'll formed brunette On the most positive type. She says Schreueher engaged to marry her three months ago, and shows an engagement ring as proof A few days later, under the plea ofa speedy marriage, he seduced her, and she continually ever since kept urging him to marry her, and he kept putting her off. Yesterday he was frank enough to tell her he would never marry her. Tben she told him that she would see him for the last time to-day, and if he still refused she would kill him. How we'll she kept her prom ise is seen. though he laughed at her threat then. This morning, when he re- iterated that he would never marry her, she exclaimed, q was decent girl until you seduced me, and now, as you will not marry me, I'll put this bullet into you" Thereupon she pulled the trigger of a pistol concealed and pointed under her shawl. The aim was true, as the post morletli shows. The ball pierced the heart in thoeentre. To your correspond ent, this evening, the girl expressed no sorrow for what she had done "Iwould do it over again, this moment" was her tautologieal statement, Publiesentiment is with her. t..s f, ion
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-12-11
A Mad Elephant.
Lancaster tN. H.)Gaxettc


 Among the elephants that swing around the circle with Forepaugh is one known as Dick. This your g n onstergot to sulk- ing at Lancaster, N. H., the other night, and refused to trot along with the others. Young Adam Forepaugh, the old man Adams son, rode up to Dick and gently tapped him with his riding whip. Dick lunged for the lad and unhorsed him. Adam was stunned by the fall and lay but few feet from the enIaged beast, whose terribe believing indicated that he was thoroughly aroused. Il seemed lm- possible for any one to rescue young forepaugh. The keepers and trainers knew that the least motion would hasten the boys death, and So stood speeehless and aghast- But old Belts, the monster elephant of the herd, acting with won derful human impulse, ran with speed that seemed incredibable considering her enormous bulk, and threw. the force of her four-ton weight against the side of the advancing and murderops Dick. The shock of the colliding elephants was fear fll upsetting bad Dick and throwing him on his side. Quick as a flash Forepaugh's son was upon his feet. old Betts threw down her trunk at the signal, just as she does in the performance, and lifted her master upon her head. Every time the recreant Dick arose he was met by 5000 pounds of elephant flesh against his ribs, until he lay down and trumpeted signals of distress in acknowledgment of defeat.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-12-11

THE Co,gisT-JournoJ gets off the follow ing: We received an invitation from MT. Gillig, of the American Exchange in London to be present at the ceremony Of unfurling the American flag over the Exchange building in honor of Lord Mayors day but it was really impossible for any of the staff of this paper to pro- ceed to London in the few minutes which elapsed between the receipt of telegram and the flag ceremony. @
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-12-11
strnnre suicIde of Russian Countess,

Moscow soclety would appear to be
 just now considerably exercised by the
 suicide of one of it's brightest ornaments, the young and lovely Countess Vera Koscheleff, who short time ago sud denly disappeared from her palace in the old Russian Capitol, only two days after her solemn betrothal to Count Helmann, which had been celebrated with festive reioicings upon m unusually magnificent scale. No one could imagine whither she had gone until her steward received q letter from her, written at her chateau in the Crimea, wherein she informed him that she was going to bathe in the river running through her estate, and should not return alive from her bath. She also described the exact spot in the water near which the body would be found. Search was, of course, made with all possible promputude, and it re. sulten in the discovery of the beautiful
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-12-11

TIE Earl of Aberdeen is about to build, at cost of 275,000, a line of rail- road, ten miles in length, through his Scotch estates. This young nobleman is grandson of the Prime Minister of his time, and brother of the late Earl, who preferred life before the mast to that of belted Earl. ThGpresent peer, too, IS somewhat queer, but was judiciously provided at the outset of his career. with a very notable wife. There are some half dozen noblemen and gentlemen in the United Kingdom who own short lines of railroads. -YnL
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-12-11
Edison's Electric Light.
New York snn.


 The stockholders of the Edison Elec- trio Light Company held their annual meeting yesterday in the office of the company. in tho Drexel Building.
 Mir. Goddard said that the late paricia gas stock was caused in peculiar and round about way. Mr Edison sent an enthusiastic telegram to- friend in Paris and the friend teiegraphed tito friend of his in Birmingham, England The Birmingham recipient of the news was delivering . lecture when he received the telegram, and he read it aloud from the stage. The press of England took up the cry of Cheap light" and sent it back to this country. Hero the stockholders of the company at first kept silence, but af- terwards endeavorcd to discourage the progress of the sensation. Mr. Edison's. laboratory, in Menio Park, N. J., was be- seiged by newspaper men, and gas stocks went down. That they have notreturned to their original figure is due to competi- tion between the companies rather than to the influence of the prospective cleo tric light. "The public imagined" said MT. Goddard, sthat all that is needed to be done was to turn on the electricity :; whereas the electric light then existed only in the mind of the inventor. There is long distance between the mental and the mechanical completion ofsuch a proj- ect as MT. Edison's.
 k. Tracy Edson met the inventor, Thomas A. Edison, in the street on Fri day last, andto him Mr. Edison announce cd that his light is completed, and noth- ing remains but to perfect the arrange ments. for exhibiting it. The exhibition Is to De given in Menlo Park. As Mir Edson recalls them, tue steps of the in ventor's progress were: First, to divide current of electricity so that it would feed many lamps; second, to find an in. des'ructible point" for the burner; third. to determine an economical shape and plan for lamp; fourth, to invent the machinery for the production of the vac uum in which Mir. Edison's light is to burn, and, lastly, to perfect the mechan- ical accompanlments of the light and the lamp. All except the last step has been successfully brought about, Mir. Edison says. He would not say what discoveries Mir. Edison has made in the course efhis experiments, nor whether the point for the burner is of platinum or contains platinum. He thought that Mr. Edison would not like to make this knowiedge public. No date is set for the exhibition of the new light.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-12-11

Born Dakota and Utah will make ap- plication to the next Congress to be ad- mitted into the Union. Dakota claims a population of l20,o00, an increase from 14Oo0 in 1870. It is asserted that Utah is Democratic, and Dakota Republican, but as either of these propositions seem uncertain, and in view of the "close' condition of parties in the Senate and House, it is not probable that sarly ac- ton will be taken on either. .