Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1879-05-27
pepse.
CENTRAL SOUTHERN LINE OF
RAILROAD.

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the recent lease by the Reading Railroad
Company, whereby the opportunity may be
offered to the Baltimore and Ohio Company,
acting in conjunction with the Reading Conn
pany, to reach New York by the new route
thus opened, when once certain legal diff
culties iuterposed by the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company in regard to portion of the
little junction road at Philadelphia are over
come, and then directs attention to the al
legged efforts of the Pennsylvania Company
to secure route through the central South
ern States to New Orleans. by way of the
Shenandoah Valley. It says:
'.The first link in this great route will be by
the Cumberland Valley railroad from Har-
risburg, which the Pennsylvania Central now
controls, and which now has its unobssructed
roadbed to Wiliamsport, Md, where the
tRss s Fosd aoR bsde ba t6e
valley The Cumberland valley is but a
level stretch, SO to talk, a clean and clear
Cumberland valley to Tennessee. There will
be no trouble, when this road through the
Shenandoah valley is completed, in linking
the iron track to make the connection with
New Orleans, by which the Pennsylvania
Central will have control of road from Har-
rsburg to New Orleans, and at the same time
binding to that great route all the cities aud
towns and fertile fields and great mineral re-
sources of tho region through which it will
pass. It needs but a study of the map to
ehoH what this means SO that while other
rival roads are busy to secure an entrance
into fields which the Pennsylvania Central
has been cleaning of their wealth, that great
corporation. in turn, is pushing boldly into
regions where the most esnguine of its stock
holders never for moment imagined it could
penetrate"
WESLEYAN FEMALE ISs11ruTE.-REv. W. A.
HARRIS, D. D., President Commencement Erer-
cisss: Sunday, June 18Th. II A. M.-Commence-
ment Sermon by Rev. Robert A. Young. D D..
of Nashville. Tennessee. Sunday. June 18th, 8
P. M.-Sermop before the Young Ladies' Chris
tian Association. Monday. June 10th. S P. NJ
Final Celebration of Leo and Jackson Literary
Society. Monday. June 10th. P. M.-Baccalau-
Teate Address by Bishop ". NJ. Wightman, D.
d: T.. L. d., President Baltimore Conference.
Tuesday, June 18th, 8 p. M.-Commencement
Soiree instrumental and Vocal Music. Musical
Directors, Prof. E. Louis Ide and Bliss Lizzie J.
Daniel. Wednesday. June 18th. P. M.-Cou-
ferriag Distinctions, Awarding School and full
Diplomas, &c.
The legislative, judicial and executive
appropriation bill, which, after it came over
from the House, became the subject Of
lively and picturesque, but acrimonious de-
bate in the Senate, vas foally passed. by
that body on Tuesday, by vote of 81 to 27.
Fhe bill then went back to the House,
being slightly amended in the Senate in
tho amount appropriated. The clauses
in the bill to which the republicans object,
it will be remembered, are those cur.
failing the..powers of the United States su.
peryisors at elections and dispensing with
the services Of the armed mob of I'm tied
States deputy marshas. Tho bill was con-
CURED in by the House on Friday.
The following is the programme of the
closing exercises Of the present term and
Commencement day. at the West Virginia
University:
June 5th. annual examination begins;
June 9Th, Baccalaureate sermon, by the
President; June 9th, Regents prize contest;
June 10th, annual meeting of West Virginia
Historical Society; June llth, address to
the Literary Societies; juno 18th, Com
mencemens days exercise and public contest
of the Literary Societies
The Baltimore Sun, on entering its forty
third year, on the 18th instant. appeared in
a new dress, and looks as fresh as June
rose, The San pursues the even tenor of
its way, giving the latest news in condensed
and readable form, from reliable sources, and
treats leading current events in fea rless
and fair manner. In a word, it is model
newspaper
The Files case, in the Berkeley Circuit
Court, has been set for Wednesday Of this
week,