Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1879-01-07
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and all the Ice>bouSes IN tni5 Vicinity are ncaT
about filed.
Gov Holiday. Of Virginia, paid . brief
visit TO Charlestown during the holidays.
We return thanks for our bettcr>haif to
Mr.. j. C. Holmes, for 6 handsome holiday
present.
We tender our ackuowle dgments TO Mr.
Jao. g. HaiDes for a Christmas Gift of
package of excellent Cigars.
The Week oil Prayer will, as customary.
be observed by the Churches in Charlestown.
Sac programme in another column.
a pump has been placed in tho new we'll
on the corner of Liberty and West streets.
aud a plentiful supply OF water is yielded
60 fur.
Au invitation has been accepted by tho
Hon. W u. TrsEcrs to deliver a Lecture fer
the G God Ten'plars-tiue and subject to be-
hereafter announced.
Claude, our frst Junior, requests US to re
tura thanks to onr clever sni enterprising
young merchant friend, Mr.. Nmrod Trus-
sell, for beautiful and useful holiday gift
Col JOHN T Gi5son has purchased of
Messrs. Nlason and Trapnell, Trustees, two
of the dwellings houses erected by Mr. A. W.
Hawks, on the Southern suburbs Of Charles
town, paying 5000 for the TWO.
Charlie Earritt didn't exactly take the
bull by the horns" but he did the next
thing to it yesterday wild COW
b. the horns, on Main street. and held her
uusil the butchers could rope her.
Five candidates Tor admission to the Free
Will (Colored) baptist Church were im>
ne.ssd 10 Evitt's Run, the Foundry Of
Weirick L. Weller, Sunday lust-ice in
abundnncc ind tho thermometer bordering
on Zero Ugh!
The frame building Of the McE!roy
heirs, ca Main street, near the presby,e-
n AZ Church, md occupied hy some OF alr
Meningitis employees, Was partially des
troyed by FIRE the morning OF the 9th
u'timo. Loss, several hundred do!ars-no
insurance.
The Holidays in CiarIe%tnwn were passed
D with almost unusual THct aud good order, il
we n,ny excer. a 4 lii:u ~ between three
railroad hands, not cit'zens Of the town,
whie!, occurred on Tuesday night last. in
which one of the nueber- Cam pbell- was
severely bes;on lay tie o'hcr two.
The track Of the s V Il r. was compile
tad IL the outskirts Of Shepherd-town on the
Gr>t dlv uf the New Year. and the arrival OF
the "Fai:!ax" at the old burg was the occa-
sion az large n<seuhln.e of all classes CT
tha nopu stion Of our sister towo, who gave
a hearty w"'cnn,9 tn III" rIiir'al party,
On Mona.y 'veujr@, E,c nbcr 23I, Alex
.ndor Il. l:.udlesou. Ed t.: the Winchester
Bar. delivered his lecture The Phlos
ophy ci Work aud Q. Leisure" He vas 10
trahucvd by MIR. Charles Davies IN n"at
l,tIe speech. His lecture WAS listened to
end erjeyod b. very large and attentive
audience.
Bills have been circulated and posted call
ing FOR meeting. TO- day, [FuesdIy,l in the
Supreme Court Room at the CUnrt- House,
TO organic tho new Jefferson Courty Build
ing Association, No. i Let all who have
subscribed or propo-c to take stock. attend
and give their voices in the selection of
good Board Of Directors and other officers.
4 little daughter Of Mr.. Henry Shepherd
came penr being run over Ivy the s. Y. l.
cars at Shephcrdstown on Ner Years Day.
She fell upon the track aud the car wheels
were close upon her, when some one grabbed
her from the jaws Of death and prevented the
occasion of the entrance Of the road into
Shepherdstown bciog marked By frightful
accident.
Mr.. Gustav Brown, with his accustomed
full-handed iiberaity, presented us with a
magnificent Fruit Cake last week. AS of,eo
as the Holidays come and go, with uAcrriDg
certainty. as surely do We become tho recip-
ens of favor at the hands of this clever
confcc;ioner. May prosperity ever cast upon
him her brightes, rays. and happiness crown
all his years.
The retirement of Logan Osburu, Jr., from
the mercantile business at Kabletown. has
been followed by his uncle, Robert Osburn,
ESQ, late of California, tuking charge Of the
store and conducting the business in tho in
terest of Logan Oshurn, Sr., and himself
Logan Osburn, Jr., has removed TO the form
er residence of his father, and will devote
himself to the farming interest.
AS indicative of the severencss OF the
"oold snap" with which We have been Wis
tied during the past few days, we give some
of tile ranges of the thermometer in this
latitude: December 23d. 100 above Zero
9th. l2o; 10Th. 100; Goth. a.; 81, 200
and on tho Sd of January, 50 below Zero.
And i, is not warm enough for the sun to
rostt an egg yet
The swsmpoodlers paraded through
Ch,rIestown on Christmas Day, to the i'm.