Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-05-11
PEN, INK AND scIssoRs.


turning out l50 barrels of cement per day.
The President has vetoed the defcien-
cy appropriations bill containing the rider
relative to marshals at elections.
= Mrs. Mines, mother of Hon. William
Mines, Jr., President of the s. v. r. r.,
died in Philadelphia on Monday of last week.
"A new post Office is established at Bay
ard, Warren county, Va, on the route from
Milldaie to Nineveh. with b. q. Ashby as
postmaster.
= Samuel N. Januey, of Loudoun county,
a prominent minister OF the Quaker Church,
aud one of the Indian peace commissioners,
died April 30th at his home, near PURCELL
Vile.
= The river and harbor bill passed by the
House, Tuesday, appropria,es $3.50, 900 for
the improvement of West Virginia rivers,
the principal items being $500 900 for the
Great Kauawha.
- Hon. Charles J. Faulkner has been
invited by the Democracy of Preston to ad-
dress their County Convention, which meets
in klnswood on Monday. the 18th of this
month, and we understand be has accepted
the invitation.-M artinsburg Independent.
Our importations from Europe have
been increasing so rapidly since the year
opened tina. the figures for March were ex-
pected to show balance on the wrong side
Snch fears prove to have been uufounded
We are all right far as heard from, for
according to the statement Just publish ed by
the Treasury Department. our exports during
the month of March exceeded our imports
by the sum of Sc AT 900 Thus since the
beginning of the fiscal year the balance in
our favor amounts to $3.50, 100000.
The stock holders of the Valley Rail
mat 1T
Thursday last. and unanimously adopted
resolution authorizing the directors to issue
the bonds of the company from time to time,
as may be necessary, to an amount not ex-
ceeding 5000 900, the proceeds to be ap-
piled to the construction and completion of
the road between Staunton and Salem The
section of the road between Lexington and
Stanton, distance of thirty six miles, will
first DO built, and then the road will be
pushed to its completion further south.
AT Clarksburg, W. Va. Judge J. NJ.
Jackson recently decided case Of considera.
Bile interest. Rev. a. p. Sturm of Phillippi,
was the plaintiff and s. S. Fleming, J. b.
Denham and others defendants. The defcn-
dants had obtained judgments against the
plaintiffs for properly taken during a raid of
tho Confederate General Jones in 1863,
amounting to several thousand dollars His
land was sold to satisfy the judgments and
tho money collected. The plaintiff sued the
defendants for the amount, and the case was
decided by Judge Jackson in his favor
Mr.. Winfield Peters has received a
letter from Col. VIM. Il D,nuy of Winchos>
ter, Va. chairman of the committee to ar
range for the reception of Marylanders who
go there on June S to witness the unwilling
of the monument to the Maryland dead 10
tho Confederate Cemetery, informing him
that the Wytheville Grays, two Lyrchburg
companies aud all the military organizations
in the Valley will participate in the ccremo.
MES. Gov. Holiday, Of Virginia, will de.
liver the address Of welcome to the Maryland
visitors, and number OF Congressman, Gov.
ernors and other distinguished Southern men
have been invited to attend. Invitations
have also been extended to Gov. Hamilton
and staff and the Fifth Regiment, NJ N e..
BuhtD'Ore SIM.
- The Immigration to this country from
Europe this year promises to be the heaviest
in the annals OF the country. This imnigra.
ton is not, as might be supposed, princi>
pally from Ireland, but from Germany aud
Scandinavia. During the first three months
of this year over So 900 emigrauts have ar,
rived, as against l 600 for the same period
last year.. The emigration from Europe in
creases after the winter months, and It is
estimated that the entire number of arrivals
this year will reach 400, 900 In 1854 the
number was 3l9 900. from which date j,
decreased to about 10000 in 1862 when it
commenced to grow again, until it reached
294.O in 1872. tho year before the panic
Then 1T decliued again, and in 1877 fell as
low as $1,000. 1t began to increase again
in 1878. 1t is believed the Irish movement
will commence in the summer One of the
conspicuous features of this immigration is
tho largo number of skilled artisans-silk-
wcavers, glass,blowers, English cutters,
French glove makers, etc The emierauts
bring an average of about $50 per head in
money. which for 400 00u will mako the
sum of s24 600 600 added to the ready Dash
OF the country.