Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1879-09-23
Spirit Of ytfterson.
CharlestOwn, Jefferson County, West Va.
TUESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER %. 1879.
PEN, INK AND SCISSORS.

- Light cares speak-great onesare dumb.
- Every day hath its night, every veal
its woe.
- He that bringeth present fuds the
door open.
One smile for the living is worth
dozen tears for the dead.
"A Wise man gets learning from those
who have none themselves.
- Divine vengeance comes with feet of
lead, but strikes with hand of iron.
- Disseuters from tho Greek church.
hitherto uurecoguized by the State in Russia,
are now to have entire liberty of Worship
This effects IL 600, 900 Russian subjects.
= Gov. Blackburn. of Kentucky, in q
recent speech, declared that persons con-
vcted of the cowardiy and criminal practice
of carrying concealed weapons need not ap>
ply to him for pardon.
- Among the disabled Confederates who
have been paid communication by the suditor,
under an act passed by the last Virginia leg
islature. are two coiored men. one of whom
lost both legs while at work upon battery
below Richmond, aud the other lost an arm.
- The PhiIadelph North american re-
marks that bringing iron to Pennsylvania
u
Goals to Newcastle, but it is being largely
done. Forty five thousand tons of Besscmer
pig have been ordered from England, and
heavy shipments of ore from Africa are an
nOunced.
A useful device for preventing class
of accidents by which many people have
been killed or crippled for life, has been iu-
troduced on the Delaware and Hudson Canal
Company's railway cars. 1t consists of NOV
able steps, which at the stations are let down
within foot Of the ground. Whom the cars
are iu motion the steps ara lifted up, so that
it is impossible to jump cithcr on or Of.
Will the jews Return to Palestine ?
The Record of the Free Church Of Scot
land, in answer to this question, gives the
following important summary:
This is not possibility Of the far future.
They are going back now, aud what is moro
interesting to the Christian is that the land
OF their promised inheritance is rapidly be-
coming their own in fee Ii we compare the
present time with eighty three years ago,
when tho Sublime Porte only permitted
three hundred to live within the walls of the
Holy City the change is remarkable. Forty
years since the Porto modified this original
there; but they were shut up in narrow and
filthy quarters, next to the dog and leper
quarters, the objects of contempt and cruel
expressions. But even this quarter resir;c-
tiou was removed tea years ago. And now
the ruling power is in the hands of Great
Britain, and tho sceptro itself is in the hand
Of an 1sraelite, aud Baron ROthschild holds
u mortgage on Palestine security for 200,-
0U0 COO francs loaned to tho Sultan OF Tur-
key. 1t looks very much as if accomplished
fact had put itself ia the place of prophecy.
The Jews, after the quarter restrictions wore
removed, bought all the land which could be
obtained within the gates, aud have built
entire streets of houses within the gates
With the improvements inevitable from lib~
erty aud the possession of homes have come
kindred prOgressions in provisions of chari~
ty for the destitute and afflicted. The Ger.
man jews have sixteen of these. Two jour
nails have been started, and in the Roths>
child and other jewish hospitals 5000 pa
tients are under constant treatment. The
Venetian Jews have given 10000 francs to
found u school Of agriculture, and, in evi-
dence of progress that shows divine care
and intervention, the number of Jews has
doubled within the past ten years In 1859
there were not more than seven thousand
Jews, shut up in their quarters; and though
a vast improvement ou the past, still they
appear to US wretcbed enough TO make the
most careless sigh the mighty fallen.
But in the FIVE succeeding years they iu-
creased to more than l3. 600 We do not
believe all the Jews will return. even under
the most favorable circumstances, any more
than all returned from the Babylionsh cap
tvity; but God will yet have representative
remnants from every nation, kindred and
tongue under the whole heavens Jerusalem
will yet be the joy of the whole earth"
BENEFACTORs.- When a board of emf
ncnt physicians and chemists announced the