Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-02-10
PEN, INK AND SCISSORS.

= Charles f. Freeman, the Poeasset,
Mass, child murderer, will be sent to the
lunatie asylum.
-. The New York Journal of Commerce
puts the balance of trade for 1879 in favor
of this country to the amount of about $3.50.
000, 600. aH
= The Democratic State Committee of
Indiana believe that the State will go Demo-
cratic this year by from 10000 to 10000
majority.
= 1t is said ex Governor Seymour has
written another letter reiterating his purpose
not to be candidate for the presidency
under any circumstances.
- Rev. Father johann Hoida. pastor of
St. Wenceslaas' Roman Catholic Church,
Baltimore, has made public confession of his
conversion TO the Protestant faith.
- Nearly four thousand miles of railroad
were opened in the United States during the
past twelve months. This is a record which
has not been cqualled since 1873
- There is not tinsmith shop in Wir.
county. The Nentor says: "a tuner is
needed in this place; a good workman would
find it to his advantage to locate here.
= Hon. Arthur p. German, the new U.
S. Senator from Maryland, commenced lito
as page in that body and from that became
private secretary to Stephen A. Douglas.
"One>half of tho world don't know
how the other half live!" exclaimed eos>
slipping woman. "Oh, well, said her neigh>
Dor, don't worry about it; it isn't your fault
if they don't"
An Albany IN. Y } inventor announces
that he will have ready in sixty days a fyiny
machine with which he will mako a trial trim
to London, En- gland, going at the rate of
thilty miles an hour.
= There is nothing so charming as the
Innocence of children. Mamma" said a
fve>ycnr>old, tho other day, 'I wish you
wouldn't leave me to take care of the baby
again. He was so bad had to eat all tho
sponge cake aud two jars of raspberry jam to
amuse him"
= Jacob Campbell, as q deaf mute with
scroll saw, was doing good business in
Christiansburg, Va, among the sympathiz>
ing citizens until the boys got him drunk,
when he swore like sailor. The Alessen9cr
says he is about nineteen years old with light
hair and blue eyes.
= General Roger A. Pryor, now New
I ork lawyer, has received from Virginia
friend curious relic of the war It consists
of two bullets that evidently met in the air
over some battle field, and happening to
strike each other on their conical points.
were firmly welded together.
Tho discovery of silver mine on Saw
age mountain, within seven miles of Pied
mont, has created sensation in that locality.
The blossom OF the mine is now paying forty
dollars to the hundred pounds, and it is pre-
dlcted by experts that, as the minc is worked,
tho silver will be the finest ever discovered
in this country.
= MIR. Ernest Hart, the advocate OF
Kitchen economy, gave in London dinner
recently. He had clear soup, roasted her
rings with mustard sauce, curried eggs. seal
loped ebster, beef with beans, turnips with
gravy sauce, mince pie aud an ice. Tho
whole dinner, which was excellent, cost for
each person sixteen cents.
- young man in Bellevue HOSPITAL
New York city, is undergoing treatment for
grating his middle left hand finger to tho
spot where his nose used to be, with the in
tention of eventually amputnting the finger
and transforming it into nose. He Laws
in the new Surgical Ward with his hand
immovably fixed to his face.
= Michigan has cause to be proud of it's
financial condition. 1er debt is only $780,
OOO, while there is S004 900 in her sinking
fund t" pay it. A more extraordinary cir
cumstance than this is the fact that the new
State capital, which is completed and paid
for, actu,lly cost SIS 900 less than the ap.
preparation made for building it.
= The exports of the United States from
January l, 1878, TO November l, 1879, wore
greatly in excess of the imports. ut their
cash value. The total value of merchandise
imported in 1878 was 1862, ,O41 ,6I5; in 1879,
S4O3 ,532 900. The total valus of domestic
merchandise exported in 1873 was $685., ,22l.>
34O (gold valuation); in 1878, 1896, ,57l,>
Ill.
= Mr.. VIM. II. Vanderbilt has given
S25 600 to the University of Virginia. the
gift being the result. says Udrpers WeekIv.
of Gen. George d. Johnson's s recent call upon
Mr- Vanderbilt, and a con yersation with him
in relation to Mr.. Leander j. McCormick's
gift of telescope TO tho institution. Mr..
Vanderbilts gift makes Mr. McCormick's
gift available.
- The Sibley Cotton Manufacturing Conn
pany, of Augusta, Ga, has Just been Or
ganized, with Dir. Josiah Sibley, one of the
WeaIthiest men in Georgia, ss President.
The capital stock Of the company is $780,
700, and the work of erecting mill to ac-
oommodate $4,000 spindles is to be com.
menced at an carly day. Augusta is fast
becoming second Lowell.
A movement is on foot for the conyen>
ing of an Economical Council or conference
of Methodists from all parts of the world, TO
be held in the United States some time next
year. Every recognized organization of Meth
odists viii! be invited to send representatives,.
1t is expected that the conference will rep
resent 10000, 600 Metbodists. It's formal
object will be TO discuss "topics relating to
the position, work and responsibility of
Metbodism for evangelization."
- a dispatch from Pittsburg says Rev.
Marcus Ormond, of Burgettstown, Washing.
ton county, was in that city on Tuesday. He
will be remembered as the clergyma1 who