Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-11-16
PEN, INK AND SCISSORS.

-The Berkeley November term of the
Circuit Court will be held, commencing on
Tuesday, the 23d inst.
Ex>Goy. Fayetts MoMuIIsp, OF Yir>
glpia, was ran over By a train of csrs a,
Wytheville, Virginia. on Monday night, and
SO badly injured that he died Tuesday.
The Washington correspondent of tie
Boston Globe writes that Gen. Deyens will
succeed Justice Clifford on the Supreme
Court bench, and Stanley M~atthews'wiil have
Justice s@ayne's place,
= Mics Ida Greeley, Horace's daughter,
as is known, married Col. Nicholas Smith.
They have a son named Horace Greeley. the
Smith" being dropped, and a daughter
named Nicholas Smith.
= The political complexion Of the Ten
ncssee Legislature is, settled. 1t stands =
Senate, Democrats, Is; Republicans, 10.
House, Democrats, 80 Republicans, So /;
GreenbscksT, l. Democratic majority on
joint ballot, 6. Senator Bailey will have a
Democratic successor.
The full vote of Virginia on the cleo
ton for President was 2l1.75S, of mhich
the regular Democratic electoral ticket re.
ceived 96.6l0, ReadjYstcr ticket, 3f,2s4.
and Republican ticket, 81, 1874. Democratic
majority over Republican ticket, II. sos;
ever Rssdjustor ticket. 6a,356.
- The following is the Virginia d.l.g.,
ton eloeted to Coagrcsu at the recent sIee>
ton: 1st .District-Gso T. Garrison. D.;
2nd-Degendsrf, r.; sd-Georee D Wise;
D.; 4th-JorEenson. r; 5h-Cabel. D.
6th-J. Randolph Tucker. D.; 7,h-Johu
Paul, Readjuster; Sth-Barbour, d; 9th
Fulkersop, Readjuster.
- While a dance was going on at a negro
rnost 10 this city, on Monday nigh. last, a
difficulty arose between two OF the party.
namely, N4uc3 Reed and Albert Scott
Nancy, in hor rage, fred the contents Of q
revolver into the back part of Scott's head,
lnfilcting a very ugly wound, the bal. taking
a oircuitous route. The offending party was
arraigned before Squire Wilen and remanded
to jail to await the action of tho Grand Jury.
EAarfi"sburg Statesman.
= The minister Of tho United States at
st. Petersburg, Russia, in a recent dispatch
to the Department of State, draws a gloomy
picture OF the present economic aud social
condition of Russia. The grain crop Of the
past season, he states, has proved a failure,
and An'erioan wheat is imported now ever
at St. Petersburg. 1t is also entering at
Odessa add other Russian ports. But q Inrgo
market for this American cereal cannot be
. W vi ptSUU IuaCe OI wheat
Is used in Russia. The mass of tho people
must have a cheaper article, such Us rye OF
lu9isn curn.
a cyclone passed over Keaclric, La
" edresday evening, literally dcmolishiug
eEe town, including tie baptist Church. and
baptist Female College, killing Pref. hey
nolds, who had arrived the day bsfcre from
Mississippi, and badly wounding and breaks
ing the leg Of sir. Tucker, president of the
college; eIso breaking the leg Of his son
Bush, aud wouuding Mrs Fannie Thomas
badly. The following received painful, but
not dangerous injuries: Mrs. Breck Bnse>
man, Mrs Sidacy + Hall and son, Mrs.
Jasper Mcmillan and daughter, Mrs Peyton
aud Miss Beulsh Ward The residences and
out>5E'ldings OF Hon. Sidney Il. Hall, JAS
per Mcmillan and Mrs Thomas and the
Baptist Church Tero blown entirely away.
How u SOUTH TAKES IT. When we
consider how the South has been hanl,acrod
and hurEicd and denounced fpr. the lust. sig
months, how the Southern States have been
held up as the ZOOS Of the Union and of hui
man nature. it III pleasant to see. tie coua-
Trinity aud good nature with which It's pco~
plo accept tho result. The South in this
shows tue loyalty, for which let as honor it.
1t showed the same spirit when it accepted
the Electoral Cnmnissiou end made
Hayes President. 1t should never DO for
gotten that tho country owes TO tho Soutf, its
escape from threatened civil war. Now thai.
the caaVnes is over we trust our Republionu
friends will remember this and do tho South
jast:oe.-Nesc York Neru1i.