Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-06-29
PEN, INK AND scIssoRsss

or ten candidates voted for al Chicago,
seven1Grant. Sherman, Garfield. Hayes,
Wiudom, Sheridan and Harrison-are mas
tires of Ohio.
- The Board of Trustees of Hampdsn
Sidney college have conferred on Rev. ". !.
I. Richardson, of the Csntrui Presbvteyiaa.
the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad win.
IN October. take charge of az tho slesping.,
cars run over its line. At that date the cum.
tract with the Pullman Company expires,
and it has ordered twenty sleepina>oars buih
at its shops to be ready October 1s,
The twenty first trienuid couc.ave OF
the Grand Encampment Of Knights Templar
of the Uuited States, which mee.s in Chi
oago on August 17th and continras three
days, bids fair to be the most imposing de-
monstration which has ever taken placo In
this country.
|. = A, sad event has just occurred at Titus.
vile. Pa. A lady kissed the lips of her
father, who had Just expired from erysipslss.
The poison was communicated through an
abrasion in the lips, and ten days after she
died. Her child is also at the point Of death
from the same cause.
The German-Amerieau Independent
Citizens Association of New York City has
declared, bg resolution, that though satisfied
with the defeat of the third termers by the
nomination of Garfield, they regard the
nomination of Arthur as disreputsble con.
eession to the evil elements of his party.
Some rather novel features were in>
troduced in connection with Republican
ratification meeting held in. Brooklyn, N
y, june l4th. A charge of fifty cents was
made for admission, and the orators of the
oil kal IL
ministers of that "City of Churches" The
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher made the lead.
ing speech amid great applause.
Stonewan Jackson's las. dispatch. writ.
ten by his own hand. in pencil, on . single
sheet OF English note paper, is preserved 10
case in the Virginia State library. 1t was
written to Gen. Lee just before the battle Of
Chancellorsville, whore jackson received his
death wound. It is a short note. ending thus
devoutly: II trust that an ever kind Provl.
deDce will bless us with great success" p
The story is current that day or two
alter the Chicago convention Grant had q
conference with Cameron and Logan, sfter
which tho latter publicly asserted that
"Grant would be nominated without oppos;.
tion in 1884," According to the Chicsgo
correspondent Of the PHILADELPHIA Timer.
Cameron and Logan look for tho defeat Of
Garfield, in which they will not be di,.p.
pointed, and imagine that rs consequences
OF zone term of Dcmccrs tic ruls" Grant will
be elected by the largest popular majority
ever given to any President since Monroe.
: 1t is the generally accepted opinion
that canal boating is not calculated 10 i'm.
prove the morals. Now, whether this opiu.
ion be right or wrong we don't pretend 10
say, but if right it may account for the fact
that when, in 1873. Mr.. Garfield was 40.
cused of completely in the Credi. Mobeiief
fraud he declared under oath, 81 mover
owned. received. or agreed to receive any
stock of the Credit Mobilier, or of the Upios
Pacific Railroad; nor any dividend or profits
arising from either of them;" aud that only
two weeks thereafter Oakes Ames testified
before the same committee and proved by
record evidence, partly in General Garfield;s
own handwriting. that General Garfield bad
had stock in the Credit Mobilier aud tha, he
had received dividends thereupon. -
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