Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-11-30
PEN, INK AND SCISSORS.

Gov. Williams. of Indiana, so we'll
known as HBiue Jeans" Williams, died on
Saturday week.
-Weaver's popular vote in twenty-one
States heard from is 2lS. 254, and msy
barely reach 100000 In a total vote of o.
SOC, 600 for all the States.
-Diptheria continues its rsvages in War
rem county, Va. The Sentinel says that Mr..
L. K Conrad, near Linden, has only two
children left ont of seven, diptheria having
carried of Eve of them.
LII his annual report, Postmaster>Gen>
eral Maynard recommends q reduction in the
fee for money orders not exceeding SIS to
i've cents, aud to extend the maximum limit
of al order from, $50 to S100.
- Mr.. Edwin Booth has -teIegrarhed to a
friend in New York that be has written a
protest against the production of 1.-THE Pas
sion Play" at Booths Theatre, and expresses
the hope that it will not be produced. Mr..
Booth says, sthe subject is not a proper one
for the play house."
= Hon. James L Pugh, the new Demo-
cratic Senator from Alabama, said In his
speech ia the legislative caucus: 1--WE will
plant ourselves on local sslfgovernment.
crystalline the solid South, and never go back
on the Northern Democracy. Everybody in
the solid South ia satisfied"
= james Jones, eolered. was drowned in
the canal near Sharpsburg a few days ago.
Jones was driving on the tow path when
Timothy Mccoy approached with o gun for
the purpose OF shooting him for an ptod
outrage on bis niece. Jones jumped in the
canal to escape and was drowned.
- The Raleigh county Indec says: There
is in Wyoming county a boy 12 years old,
named Brooks, who weighs sol pounds. HIS
cousin, named Cook, 10 years old, wsiyls
296 pounds. Brooks is almost as high when
he 10 lying down as he is when standing on
his feet. Re has a iue appetite, and de.
lights in sweet things.
The Department of Agriculture has
completed its, estimates for tn, wheat crop
OF 1880, the total humber of bushels res.
turned being 4S0,S4G.723 bushels, against
448 l5511S bushels in 1879. an increase of
32,O94,6 Cos bushels. Il is the experience
OF careful observers that the department, in
order not to exceed actual amounts, casts it's
estimates, on the average, about FIVE per cent.
lever than the results generally obtained.
Allowing for this difference, the crop of
1880 will aggregate a little over 500. 600,
600 bushels, which is the figure OF which
the New York Commercial Bulletin puts it.
= We surrender our editorial space to a
letter on the Constitutional Amendments
from Gov. Price, written to the Greenbrier
Independent, and to an article from the
Spirit Of Je6erson. We heartily approve
aud endorse the article from the Spirit of
Jefferson, and hope it will receive q wide
circulation throughout the State. What ia
said about the University of West Virginia
deserves especial attention. This institution
costs the State a large sum Of money eyery
year, and is little more than q local school
for the benefit of Monongalia county. Would
it not be we'll for tho aext Legislature to
inquire into the prOpriety and expediepcy of
the University to some part of the
State where it would DO surrounded with in,
%aneoces more calculated to aid and build it
up. The State University ought to be moved
from MorgantOwn.-Hinton Herald.
We offer from to-day, Nov. 10th, so Over
coats, for boys from 9 to Is years OF age. at
81 40 each; 100 Jackets, for boys from 8 TO