Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1879-01-07
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Congtesa He>assembles To-day.
Tho West Virginia Legislature convenss
tomorrow.
- Winchester is organizing a new Build
Ing Association.
The death of Hon. Caleb Cushing, 10
his 19th year. il announced.
Ru,fer's Eeek!y for last week contains
six sketches of the great Luray cave.
- Congressman Douglass, of Virginia. aud
Williams, of Michigan. ore dead. They
we're both Democrats.
- hon. Alopzo Garceion, the democratic
Governor of Maine, just elooted. is the first
democratic Governor that State has had
since 1854.
Col Edward Wilkins, ex>coilector of
the port of Baltimore, died at his magnificent
country seat in Kent county, Maryland,
te~ days ago.
- DR.. VIM. a. Mccormick has been ap.
poiuted secretary of the Winchester and
Potomac Railroad Company, 10 place of the
late Vim. l.. Bent.
A bust of john Brown, By Bliss Ed
monia Lewis, the coiored sculptor, is now 90
exhibition in New York. 1t has been made
r present to a colored minister.
- Mrs &. C. Neal, wife of Rev. A. A. P.
Neal, of the NJ E. Church South, died sud>
denly few days since, of neuralgia Of the
heart, at her residence in Baltimore.
Captain ". + cambridge, of Winehes-
ter, has been appointed ageut of the Ohio
and Mississippi railway express st Cincinnati,
and general agent OF the Marietta and Gin
cinnati eS press.
- The partnership under the name of the
Independent Printing Co, of Martinsburg.
has expired by Limitation. and the Ladcpen'
dent passed into the hands of ). Nelson Wis
nea and W. T. Logan.
Mr.. J. ". Ferguson, editor and pro-
priotor of the Wayneuboro (Va.) Tribune,
has sold that paper to DIR. w. j. Jones. who
was formerly its editor, and Nr. Everett
Donaghe, practical printer. Of Staunton.
Wm. Lynch, son OF VIM. B. Lynch,
editor of the Leesburg WasAiMgfoniun, while
skating near Lexington, on Christmas Day,
was drowned. He was endeavoring to rescue
companion who had broken through tho ice.
- President Henley, of the Pennsylvania
railroad in Maryland. left Cumberland few
days ago for Moorefcld, W. Va, for the pur-
pose Of consulting with residents of West
Virginia in relation to the proposed extension
Of the new railroad to oioorefeld.
Gen. Thomas L. Rosssr, a graduate of
West Point, who rose from tho position of
lieutenant of artillery to that of lieutenant
general in the Confederate service, has been
appointed resident engineer in charge Of the
Northern Pacific railway, on which, coon
nftsr the war, he sought aud obtained en-
ploymcnt as day Ia5oTer.
" Tho Poin. Pleasant Register says that
four teams loaded with produce, arrived at
ID
huntes county, West Virginia. The drivers
reported snow storm in The Alleghanes Of
almost unprecedented severity. West Of
Ilightown, in the mountains, the party with
thi,seen men were two days cutting three
miles through tho drifte, which we're eicvon
feet deep in many places and covered with
crust Of leo aud slcet so thick that two
mule team and loaded wagon could drive over
it, but the six mule team would break through
and go almost out of sight.
A Washington corresponden, Of the
Cincinnati Commercial states that when tho
army reorganization bill comes up for con-
sideration there will be submitted an amend,
meut calling for the organization of a nations
al militia 20 take The place of the State mi.
lltia in its present. imperfect d C pine.
Tho proposition comes from tho South, and
is sad to have been suggested by the cx-
Confederate General Bradley T. Johnson
The scheme is to provide for tho organiza-
ton and equipment Of militia force Of one
thousand men from each congressional dis
tric', who shall DO constituted into brigadcs,
divisions and corps, according to States, the
regmental Organization 20 be made by the
regi,nents. tie brigade organization by the
president from the regular army. Each man
enlisted to serve f ve years and be subject to
parade duty at the orders Of tho division,
brigade, rcgimental and company con,u'and~
cTs tho enlisted men to receive one dollar
per day for time spent in drill and annual