Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1879-04-29
PEN, INK AND SCISSORS,


Va, died a few days ago, aged 9oyears.
Gov. Holiday is still confined to his
home, in Winchester, by severe indisposition.-
Mrs. Page, of Philadelphia, has presen>
ted the Episcopal church at MillSood, Va,
with an 500 pound bell.
Mr.. Thomas Castleman, former resi-
dent of Clarke county, Va, has been elected
city treasurer of Dnnville, Ill.
- Bishop Edward r. Ames, D. D., of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, died at his res
idence in Baltimore, on Friday morning,
after pro,racted illness.
The world averages an annual product of.
6S1 ,O00, 600 pounds of tea, China producing
10000, Japan 10000. 900, India $4,000
600 and Java 100000.
In the hollow cf tree sixty feet from
the ground, p. W. White, of Fenner, New
York, found in thriving condition goose,
berry bush about foot high.
MIR. Abel, of Wabash, was successive>
ly divorced from three wives. Then he
married the first again, and now, upon her
death, he has reunited with the second. The
third has reason to hope.
The Missouri Legislature has q novel
proposition before it to punish voters who
stay away from the polls three elections in
succession with forfeiture of their right to
hold any Office in the State.
- Benedict Arnold once wrote letter
begging the aid Of the British government,
for reason of the sacrifices he had made for
il. This letter was sold for $50 at an auto
graph sale in Boston on Tuesday.
She leaned her fair, blonde head fondly
upon his shoulder, aud after she had felt in
his pocket to see if he bad new silk hand
kerchief, she whispered, "Will you love me
always?" Eyes, always" "What, always?"
"Well, almost always"
The passenger train on the Valley R.
r 4, of which Captain G. G. Newport was
conductor aud John McIlbee engineer, came
from Harper's Ferry to Staunton Tuesday,
100 miles, in four hours and two minutes,
including thirtytwo stofs.
Stanton Tndtcator.
"A pretty girl out West told her beau
that she was miud>reader. "You dom t say
sou he cxo limed. Scan you read what's
in nv mindY EYES," said she, "you have
it in your mind to ask me to be your wife.
but you are just little scared at the idea"
Their wedding cards are out.
- George William Curtis has a strong
anti G rant editorial in Uarper's Weekly
"To say that he is the only candidate who
can be elected" says Mr.. Curtis, ais the con-
fession of despair that we do not share
and to assert that he is the sole distinctive
representative of Republican principles is to
insult Republican intelligence"
1t is reported that General Hawley.
when abiding to the fac. that his name had
been spoken of in connection with the Re-
publican nomination for Vice. President said
that he would rather be in the Senate six
years as a representative of Connecticut than
to pass four years in the position of woman
waiting for first husband to die.
On the fourth Thursday in May next
an election will be held in the various coun-
Ties of Virginia for commissioners of the
revenue, Commonwealth attorney, county
treasurer and sheriff. At the same time the
magisterial districts will elect supervisor,
three magistrates. an -overseer of the poor
and constable. The terms Of all these Off
GERS will begin on the first day of July next.
Persons who have not paid the capitation tax
for 1878 cannot vote at the May election.
= Mr.. Janifsr Hudgel,a farmer, residing
near Vanclevcsville, Berkeley county, on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was fatally ;n>
jured Monday morning of last week, by being
run over by his wagon. 1t was being backed
out of the barn door, Mr.. Hudgel having
hold of the lever of the rubber attached to
the hind axle, when the lever slipped, stri>
king him a blow sufficient to throw him
under the wagon, the wheels passing over
his neck and leg, crushing his breast and
breaking the leg below the knee. Surgical
aid was Immediately summoned, but without
avail, as he died in a few hours.
-Ex. Governor Hendricks has reiterated
to the Indianapolis Journal his declaration
that it is his positive and irrevocable" in
tention to decline second place upon an.
other presidential ticket that he is not an
aspirant for the place of Vice> President, ard
would not accept a commission to that Office
if offered to him to day; that it lie, in his
opinion, a less honorable and less RESPONSE
BILE position than that of Speaker of the
House of Representatives, and less remu-
uerative than his law practice in Indiana,
and that he does not desire to enter the
White House from the back door.
The pastor of Methodist church in
Rochester recently sued the church for $500
back pay, and got a verdict for 81, 763.99.
1t appears that the Book Of Discipline of the
Church makes special provision against any
pastoral claim for salary, except such as is
volun tarily granted by the Church itself. In
charging the jury the judge said that if they
believed the contract between the minister
and the church society was made under Dis
cipliue, he had no claim against the society,
but if it were made between him and the
Church as an incorporated body, without re-
gard to the Book of Discipline, then ii was
good.
While Edwin Booth was giving the So
liloquy in the last act of Richard II, at Nc
Vicker's Theatre, Chicago, Wednesday night,
a shot was fred at him by a man sitting in
the left hand upper gallery. Booth sat until
after about three seconds, when second shot
was fred, when he rose and started toward
the left wing of the stage, pointing out as he
went the would be assassin. The latter was
at once seized, and but for the Intervention of