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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-01-13

A Conference of the leading Greenback-
ers of West Virginia was held iu Parkers-
burg on Tuesday last, John A Thomson, of
the State Executive Committee, presiding.
A State Central Committee was appointed,
consisting of Hon. j. G. Gist, S. Fl Piersol,
s. w. Trum, and Col A. r. Barber.
Charleston was selected as the place for hold
ing the State Convention, which is to meet
on the call of the Executive Committee.
The conference directed that the call for a
State Convention, to be hereafter issued. be
accompanied by an invitation to the voters.
without distinction of party, to unite on the
selection of State and Legislative tickets,
fairly representing the taxpayers, laborers
and producers of the State upon tho basis of
State reform, opposition to monopoly, aboli>
ton OF the county court system, reduction of
taxation, fees and salaries, non partisan in.
diciary, overthrow of Bourbonism. and the
adoption of wise and liberal progressive
policy in the State government. Resolutions
were adopted favoring the Weaver Bill and
other general measures of national policy
urged by the Greenbackers
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-01-13

The National Greeuback conference
which had been in session in Washington
for two days, adjourned on Friday, after
adopting report calling a national couven.
ton to meet in Chicago June next. and
hearing speeches from Gen. Jas G. Weaver.
OF Iowa, Denis Kearney, of California, and
others
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-01-13
CHARLESTOwN.

IF you want pretty Sc. of 6 Glassware for
~ cts.-consisting of cream pitcher, spoon
holder, sugar bowl with top, and butter dish
with top, 90 to Dalgarn's and get it. he
also has good selection of other Glass and
great variety of Lamps.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-01-13

- Senator Don Cameron has been elected
Chairman Of the National Republican Cons
mittee. The National Convention will be
held at Chicago, June 3.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-01-13
cELLANEous
TRUSTEES SALE
Va1uableT Lots,
REAL ESTATE.
IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, IN AND
NEAR BOLIVAR.


pY virtue Of a Deed of Trust made on the
ID 2Ssh day of July. 1878, by Catherine Hagan.
Jonn p. Hagau, and Cornelius }. Havap, and
duly recorded III the Clerks "fice of jefferson
quest of Ed " ard TsSrneN the eestuiquetru>t in
said deed. IN order to secure the payment of
ward Tearney. amounting TO - 200 with inter
est from dates mentioned In saiu Deed OF Trust
Con two of tue Notes. one of 81 900 90 dated
gust 9th, 1874. Cornelius J. Racan Is a co-obii-
gor,) will offer for sale. at Pubic Auction,
before the Mountain View Hotel at Rzrper's
Ferry, on
SATURDAY, January 31st,
1885, at l2 O'Clock noon, the follow ms Property:
One Lot of 4 Acres, 3 t. aud &c Ierchcs
One Lot of 8 Acres;
One Lot of = AcreS and 81 Perches;
One Lot off Ac,es and 8 Eerches;
One Lot off Acres, 2 r and Ii Pcrchcs:
One Lot of Acre 8 IL. and 10 Perches
One Lot of Acre r. and 30 Psrches;
One Lor Of Acres and 20 Psrches;
AND ONE LOT IN BOLIVAR,
being lot No 10 as rumhered pat made by
James n Brown September 30. 1871. and con-
yeNea 10 Patrick haEan by Thomas S. Rnckcn
hangh and wife, bv deed bearing date June 8.
1883. SAID lots except the III bolivar. to-
getAer constitute
beautiful Little Farm
OF Fl Acres, l Rood and IL Perches,
Which is improved by large TWO:sTORY
SLoNE BGiLDING. Necessary ouI BUILD
The Land is of Good QuSlitv, prnGuctiv and
fertile. and in q fac state OF Improvement.
The Bolivar Lot will be sold separately, and
II necessary the others will be sold separately
also, but will FIRST be ,ffered as one fam.
ISAAC FoUKE.
December %. 1879 Trustee.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-01-13
MIscELLAN EoUs.

]. GOLDSMITH'S
DOUBLE STORES,
Main Street, charIestown.
DEALER IN #
Parisean Nopelties, Teirets,
Dress Goods. Mourning Goods,
CtOaks, RiGGons, KID Cores,
Dress and Cloak Trimmings,
White Goods, Housekeeping Goods,
CHder@ear, Corsets. Enbroideries,
Gents Ready Made Clothing,
Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes,
Furnishing Goods, Notions,
Carpets, TrWm&s, .Satchels, DC.
WE take pleasure to inform our customers OF
partments, and would respectfully enumerato
some of the different styles of for our Fall
ceivlng new additions.
VEivETS.
A full live & Lyons and German vslssss all
shsdCs and qualities.
NOVELTIES.
Our line of Partisan Novelties is eompietsil
every respect, aud eonpri,es Satin aud Velvet
MsiI. b5es;ds: sPeI pTtis Dot r.eSas.
Black Silk Armures and R~ps.
houRNlEG GOODS.
comprising 'ashmeres, Dr.P Ete: Henrietn
CIo'hs. SAmeis' Hair, Creme Cloths, BombAEine.
Tamise. Merinos, Aipscss and Mohairs copr-
tsu!d's Crepe. rolled and folded, for trinmi1g
and veiiin & purposes.
DRESS GOODS.
We have in thisOs pa RI naent a n elegant assovt.
ment OF Plain aud Fancy Goods to mat eA sur
Novelties ard SiIkr. =
HARDKERCHIEFs.
Ladies and Gent'' Heu,,iIched, Hemmed,
Enbroitored, Bordered aud Mourning HanderkI
chiefs
KID GLOVES.
Kid Gloves ofth1 celebrated makes OF Alsxan-
der and Malsgram, of which every pair 10 war
Tanted.
WRAPS.
We arc conetan lily receiving new desirns and
viii keep iuii HsPort ment oil foreign aud dume,.
tic Ciusks. Nantles and Circulars SPECIAL tacili-
fitting Fine Claks ~
WHITE GOODS.
Our White Goods Department comr risss mapv
dlere Mt fabrics nd are OF superior fnish and Al
TRIMMINGS.
This Department consists Of Frines. oru.
menIe, Buttons etc.
LADIES UNDERWEAR.
In our UndeT~"a D, par u have Mu,I;n
AND Csmbric roUd. of ,he bcs, mn n u racrurssS
HOUSEKEEPING GOODS.
ke2ressn: a full line OF Table DamaSks, TabS
Cloth:. Napkins. Lunch Cloths, Tray Covers.
Towels, Toweng aud Shretiass OF the be-,
makes, ankots, Comforts, SprCads, and FlApn al
in all qualities.
CLOTHING.
A full stock OF ReAuv- MAJ. CIoth;,, .,Lx..,
la sest Styles, arc ali qValitie, snd ~ ICES
. HATS ASD Cars. B"oTs AND SHoEs, Fuu xIsHIrs
Eorps, NoTioN', &c. in aimee, cndl.ss raTi.,y
tmll Inc OF CARPETS OF all kipd-
SlAMPING done at short notice
we are Agents tor the Celebrated Hess n, os
boots AND SHOES. Also. Tor the Cslluloid
Col'ars and Cuff for Gentlemen
October 7. 1879
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-01-13
NOTICE.

. Notice is hereby given shat I will execute
the foregoing decree my office in Charles
town. Nest Virginia, Oh Friday. tho SOth day
of January. 1850.
CLEON MOORE
January G, lSsG-4t. Commensurate.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-01-13
For the Spirit of Jefferson. !
a SURPRISE.

Tho movements of ex-President Grant
since his return to the States of the Repub.
lie can have but ono significance. He means
a denomination and recollection TO the Presi-
dency, and aftcrward to follow his prototype.
Napoleon Ill, into an easy monarchy This
man Grant has, more than any other man in
the Union, (save Stanton, the American
Draco,) outraged Republican liberty and
personal freedom. From his San Francisco
ovation across the continent, wherever he
showed, had the greatest popular dcmonstra>
tioD, until at Philadelphia he fairly dazzled
In servile homage. Nor was his CREATING
entirely confined to his fanaticai party:
sychophantio Democrats now and then
fea'hered his trophies; shameful, as it is. for
q Democrat to couutenance an anti Republi-
can like Mr.. Grant
But to come to tho surprise Grant
crosses the Potomac with his friend and
selected companion, one Phil Sheridan; bet
ter known In our valley as the tyran. of the
nineteenth century, and further south as
the rough, who but lately called Southern
men bandits. Grant crossed the Potomac
before. Was he welcome then? What
makes him welcome now? Has he repentcd
for killing our people or destroying our
property and devastating our homes? Not
withstauding all, and far more deeds of OUT
rage during his two sad administrations, his
journey southwark is still an ovation: not
from the negroes and the next grade below
them-the carpet baggers-but from South>
ern Democrats! speak it with bushes of
indignation.
All along the line of his second conquest
IN the South, he is boos-licked by ex Cons
federases, it the reporters arc to be believed;
but Southern indignation eliminates at
Jacksonville, Florida, where, at a banquet
at the Windsor Hotel speeches congratula,
tory are made by Attorney General Raney,
Governor Drew, and others Grant spok c
last, but who held his hor. whiI>t he spoke
is not mentioned; perhaps some one who was
counted out by the late Returning Board oil
Grants virtuous partisan knaves As LONG
as We have fawniDg, patronizing enemies in
office, receiving the Democratic name, sc
long will we be cheated out of our Just vic
tories; because all such give the lie to their
profession by their dastardly conduct. Com,
mon oivility does not require any man to
stultify himself in order to seem polite to q
bitter political enemy. Grants profession
TOR the material prosperity of the South is
better ezemplified by his approval of the
Reconstruction acts of Congress than by his
late speeches. He wants to use the South
for his personal future benefit, and Demo
cratic dupes are aiding him with servile rev.
erence. II
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-01-13
DIRECTORS, NETTING

ME next Quarterly Meeting of the Board of
Fire Insurance Company will be nr'd at tba
once O., OF the Company in tho Gibson Bniidinr q.
10 uc VI aTiesf3~n, on MONDAY. JANUARY 10TH
1851 a 1nIl attendance is rCquest'd.
J,o ,eeo h. A. ALEXANDER
TF-co Pro-: go Secretary.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-01-13

lIRoN, Currants, Figs, Rsisins Mute, Candy.
ceired BY SIS DAr, re-
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-01-13
LADIES' HAIR WORK.

MISS IDA TUTWiLER is prepared 20 do Hair
4'1 Work at moderate prices, and wiz mako
brHlds. Pufs. Curl.. FrizzPs etc, at resid.pce ot
her father. near the Baptist Church, in Charles
town.
April |. lS79-ti
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-07-10
PART II.-TRACKED.

Two years passed, and the night of
my strange adventure in Paris had be-
come almost like dream to me. We
left France after my husbands return
from abroad, and, on his quitting the
army, we took up our residence in Lon
don. had meanwhile received several
letters from my brother, written from
the Cape, and, in answer to one l wrote
him in reference to the robbery, he re-
piled with the most solemn assertions of
his entire ignorance of the transaction.
l believed him; my husband was silent
on the subject, and 1 felt thankful the
Cape was so far Off We seldom re-
ferred to the circumstances before re-
corded, for could not bear to recall
the horrors of that evening in the dark,
desolate house.
One morning, however, was startled
by my husband saying suddenly, as he
looked up from a letter he was reading:
81 say, Madge, they think they have
found clew at last to your Partisan
exploit; read that"
He passed me over an official-looking
letter, and read what follows:
BUREAU DE POLICE, PARIS.
To CAPTAIN BRANSCoMBE:
Monsieur-We believe we have in GUS
tody the boy who acted so prominent a part
in the robbery committed on Madame your
wife, in January, 1869. He is concerned in
an affair which bears close resemblance to
the one in which your lady was the victim.
Will she come herself, and if she can, iden-
tify him, and thus help to clear up matter
which has long puzzled us all?"
(Signed) c.
The thought of proceeding in this
case was at first very distasteful to me-
but so much might be brought to light
by my making the effort, that resolved,
by Ralph's advice, to face the disgreea-
BILE task; and, accordingly, we started
for Paris that night.
will not enter into the details of the
case then under examination; suffice to
say it was robbery committed on the
wife of Col. Styles, under circum-
stances closely resembling those of
which was the dupe. In this instance,
however, boy had been seized ON sus-
picion, and it was this same boy was
called on to identify. l had much diff
Guilty in the matter; although he had
altered in the time that had elapsed
since that memorable evening, there
were still those remarkable eyes, with
their long, dropping lashes, and the
pale, delicate face,to bear witness to his
identity; and without the least hesita-
ton declared him to be the same boy
who had guided me to the house where
had been robbed on the evening of
January %, 1869.
The boy did not seem at all discon-
certed at my recognition, and even
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-07-10
Destroying Weeds.

EVERY once in a while we read that
the way to destroy noxious weeds is to
haul loads of earth and cover the places
where the weeds grow, a half foot or so
deep. Sometimes these instructions are
varied so as to read rubbish instead of
earth, and then again rubbish is defined
as straw, cornstalks, or even brush.
Now we have no doubt in the world
that weeds can be destroyed in that way.
We know that weeds have to feed on
air, and all that sort of thing, and that
if they are smothered they can't breathe
and if they can not breathe they die.
All this is so plain to the thickest skull
that one may feel perfectly safe in re-
commencing it as something that will
surely do. And yet we would like to
know how many who recommend it
have ever done so, or seen their plan
tried by others. We very much doubt
whether it was ever done. Some one
may have noticed that under brush
heap every thing was killed, and that
after remaining year, the brush-heap's
removal would show the spot bare of all
vegetation. If the recommendation
ever had any ground at all it was surely
this.
Our remedy for noxious weeds is
thorough cultivation. If a piece of
ground is full of briers, milk-weed,
couch-grass, Sodom-apples, Canada
thistles, sorrel, toad-tlax, or other mis-
cradle stuff that so often tries the mettle
of our good farmers, let them put the
ground in corn for couple of years or
so, keeping the cultivation going con-
tinually, and especially going in the
earliest parts of the season, and the
toughest character among these weeds
will fail to stand the ordeal. If the
hand-hoe can be spared to go in among
the hills of corn occasionally, where the
teeth of the harrow can not reach, or to
cut off here and there one which the
harrow may miss, a bad case may be
cured in single season. But, if this
can not be done, couple of successive
years with a sharp-tooth cultivator
among a corn-crop will generally do
the business for the worst case that ever
was.
Let any one who has weedy field
before him resolve, another season, to
put the whole tract in corn and keep
clean, and he will soon give up all the
common ideas of smothering-out with
deep layers of earth, cutting up in the
full of the moon, putting salt upon their
tops, or the many other recommends
tions started in the interest, it is be-
lieved, of laziness, but which really calls
for more trouble and hard work than a
thorough and systematic cleaning, such
as we have indicated, does.-Germa'a
torn Telegraph.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-07-10
Summer Weather.

The calendar seems somehow to have
gotten mixed and given us July in May.
Our late cold spring has suddenly merged
into the glory and beauty of full sum-
mer-tide, and nature has clothed her.
self in verdure as well advanced as
though our spring had been warm and
early. These lovely robes of varied
green she will wear ''every day and Sun
day. while they grow richer and more
beautiful till their change into crimson
and russell and gold.
Now the question, how to keep cool,
is ripe for discussion. AS to our houses,
from early morning till nine or ten o.
clock, and from four or FIVE till bedtime
they should stand open, and be closed, if
at all, in the middle of the day. The
morning fire will suffice prudent house
keepers to do the chief part of the cook
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-07-10
I'D cnssREspoNnrssu.

All communications for this paper should be accom-
panied by the of the auor not necessarily for
publication, but evidence of good faith on The
part of the writer. Write only on side of the pa
per. Be particularly careful in giving names AID dates
10 have the letters and figures pla and distinct Prop.
or often difficult TO decipher because OF the
CARELESS manner in which they are written
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-07-10
Beauty Before Utility.

HUMBOLDT tells us that an Orinoco
Indian, though quite regardless of bodily
comfort, will yet labor for fortnight to
purchase pigment wherewith to make
himself admired; and that the same
woman who would not hesitate to leave
her hut without fragment OF clothing
on, would not dare to commit such a
breach of decorum as to 60 out unpaint-
ed. Voyagers find that colored beads
and trinkets are much more priced by
wild tribes thaA are calicoes or broad
cloths. And the anecdotes we have OF
the ways in which, when shirts and
coats are given, savages turn them to
some ludicrous display, show how COM
pletely the idea of ornament predomin.
ates over that of use. Indeed, the facts
of aboriginal life seem to indicate that
dress is developed out of decoration.
-<-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-07-10

SUGAR CooKIEs.-One cup of sugar,
one cup of butter, three eggs, one tea
spoonful of soda dissolved in one table,
spoonful of water; mix soft and roll
very thin; bake in quick oven.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-07-10

ACCORDING to the Dublin Farm new
tinware rubbed with fresh lard and then
thoroughly dried in hot oven 'may be
used in water and remain bright and
free from rust indefinitely"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-07-10
Yes, that's what I did;
Katie, it's true:
/ shut both my eyes,
And fancied twas you p

"Well, I've no time to stay, so good bye,
Mickie Fee,
You may desaye her, but you don't desave
I'm not to be blaneyed. Mick, word in your
ear
You had better be off, for my dads comm
here"
so, your dads comm, is he? That's not him
see
Now bobbm' behind that ovid blackthorn-
Forit Paddy Mahen!" CO." said Kate, with
sheer,
You've got your eyes open at last, NIiclie
dear.
And shure you are right; tits my own darlin
Pat,
So take my advice, Mick, and get out OF that !;
For he's comm to coort me. Now, listen, my
lad:
When that boy kisses me, o, won't you be
glad!
For, when his lips meet mine, why, what will
do?
But shut both my eyes, Mick, and fancy it's
you'll
That's what I'll do;
Mickie, It's true:
Shut both my eyes,
And fancy it's your
- TinSleys Magazine
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-07-10
TIT FOR TAT.

"GooD -MoRNIN', Miss Katie" said young
Mickie Fee;
" Good mornin', again; it's yourself shure 1
see,
Lookin bloomin' as iver.' But Kate turned
away
As she said sinister Miclzie, wish you good
day.
You're a heartless desaver-now don't spake
a word
Pretty tales about you and that Norah I've
heard.
You know you danced with her the day of the
fair
And praised her gray eyes and her very red
hair
You called her an angel; quite in love with
her fell;
And at night, when you parted, you kissed
her as welli'
Then young Mickie gave q sly wink as he
said
" 1 desaved her my darlin'-this way turn
your head
Yes, faith, desaved her; my darlin', its
true;
For shut both my eyes, Kate, and fancied
twas you'll
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-07-10

A MASSACHUSETTS applicant for
marriage license described himself as
"a circular sawyer"
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-06-10
A Lively Bolt OF Lightning.

Mr.. Frank f. Higbee. who lives on
the Chicago road, about six miles from
South Bend, Ind, gives this account
of the freaks played by lightning at the
house q few nights ago. Mr.. Higbee
says he and his wife and child were
sleeping in one bed, and his cousin, Miss
Lucy Higbee, in an adjoining room. All
were sound asleep when the building
was struck. Mr.. Hisbee was awakened
by n noise which sounded as If the whole
house was falling about him. He dumped
up and struck light. and found more
debris than he supposed it was possible
to make out of his house and furniture.
The clock was thrown from the man
tel and lay smashed on the floor; the
cook-stove was broken and the bottom
knocked out the parlorstove was tipped
over and one leg broken the pipes and
elbows of both were burst out and fat
tened out of shape. land looked as il
they had been heated red-hot. Miss
Higbees bed was badly racked and
splintered; a castor was knocked from
the dining-table; the cupboard was
broken and the lids torn from all the
cans in 1t, and many OF the cans thrown
to the floor; bottle of biuing was
broken and the liquid thrown on the
shreds of it scattered all over the house
n short, there was scarcely an article
of furniture in the rooms that was not
misplaced or damaged.
Bricks from the chimney were scat
tered about, mixed with plastering
from the walls, and the laths of the cell
inRs were partly forced from their places
and hanging down into the room. The
sashes of the north windows were
broken, and parts of them and the glass
were found several rods away from the
house. Mr. Higbee says it is evident
the lightning entered the house through
the chimney, and then scattered In n
score OF different directions. It filled
the house with n sulphurous smoke
that was so suffocating that the inmates
of the house had to get out of doors as
soon as possible.
There were not dozen whole bricks
of the chimney left, and some of the bats
were thrown a distance of five or six
rods. One of the bricks struck Mr.. Hfg-
bee on the knee and this was the only
injury done to any one of the inmates,
although all of them were slightly
shocked. The wonder is that they were
rot killed outright. One peculiar fea
tuIe about the occurrence Is that every
piece of steel and iron about the house
Is magnetized. Mr. Higbee first dis
covered this while using his knife to
drive some GLACIERS points in window
sash. He then tried the knives and
forks, scissors, a bayonet. his wife's
corset steels, and found that all were
heavily charged.