Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1881-09-06
Mlsc.ELLANEoU
PEN, INK AND SCISSORS.


at the next election.
Vennor, the Canadian weather prophet. is
to be at the Changers picnic, which will be
held at Williams Grove in September.
DR.. Tanner, the fasting man, has written
letter to DR.. Dunn. of New York, to say
that if the proper arrange ments can be made
he is ready at any. time to begin a fast of
ninety days.
Heartburn, weak stomach. etc, quickly re-
hsyed by using Browns Iron Bitters.
Browns lion Bitters Danish ill-health
thSnehts OF snlcide. melancholy. etc:-
No matter what your ai'ment,- Browns Iron
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What is the meaning of the word 'tsn>
tallzingY" asked the teacher. "Plesse.
marm,' spoke up little johnny Holcomb
1T means circus procession passing the
school house, and the scholars are not all
lowed to look out"
Don't GIT THE cHn1s.-If YOU are snb,ec, To
Ague ycn must be sure to keep your liver. BOW
els and kidneys in good free cnn dition When
edy to uso is Kidney-Wort- 1t il The best pre-
ttent'tlye OF all malarial diseases that you can
take see advertisement in another column.
Afectionate mother (to her son)-Why
do you cry, Johnny? What has hurt you =?
Johnny (crying more Justify than before)-
Because fell down aud hurt myself yester-
day Then why do you cry to- day? John
ny, (bawling at the top of his voice)-Oh.
cause you weren't home yesterday.
WOMEN NEVER THISK.''-If the crabbed old
bachelor who uttered this sentiment could bnt
thorough investigation of women in determin-
ing the best medicines TO keep their families
sesene P Hoe hsr sasag is and Wis
demonstrating it by keeping their families in
Po1h he health, at Ia mere nominal expense
sentiments are baseless and falsc.-Picasunt
The term of John E Poindexter, sent to
the penitentiary from Richmond, Va, for
the murder of Charles E. Curtis, will be ont
about the middle of February, but three
mouths will be deducted from this on ac.
count of his good behavior, and this will Gu.
1t down to about the middle of November.
LA Fayette tInd.( Sunday Times.l
Our City Druggists report an immense
sale OF 81 Jacobs Oil, saying the demand is
based upon the popularity of its success
Wherever ii has been used. i. has provsd ia
value thousand fold, end receives its hest
sncomiums from those who have tried it.
Flipper, the negro United States srmv oE>
hcer, who wrote 1.-The Colored Cadet. civ.
ing his experience at West Point. has been
arrested at Bort Davis, charged with de-
trauding the government out of $1,000.
clipper was commissary of subsistence a,
tue iors'Where his company CO. is stationed.
An industrious tradesman having taken a
new apprentice, awoke him at very earlv
hour on the first morning by calling ont
that that the family were sitting down to table
Ehans you," said the boy, IS he turned
over in the bed to adjust himself for a new
nap-sthank you, never eat anything du,
ring the night"
The Staunton Spectator says :, ga color>
ed man was approached on Yesterday bv
mao, who asked him to support Cameron be,
cause ne was in favor of repeating the law
Tor the payment of the ca pitation tax. to
which he replied: mo, sir, no man who
cant make one dollar a year to paw his tax
hasn't no right to vote.' That ended the
conversation"
In Grayton county, Va, few days ago.
colored man. named Mack Allen attennted
20 commltan outrage on little white girl
ten years of age. He was followed and over
taken by Jerome Paisley and other men of
tho neighborhood, and when they found him
ne refused to be taken. and drew pistol
and tired upon the party. The shot took eff
feet 10 the wrist Of Mr. Paisley, who at once
raised his guu and sent load of bncksnot
crushing through the~uegro's body, killing
him instantly.
Gen. R. E. Colston, of Baltimore. has az.
cepted the appointment of commandant of
cadets at the New York Military Academv
at Fort Washington on the H udson. Gen
Soiston was for many years before the war
professor OF strategy and military science at
the Virginia Military Institute, and is we'll
known through the South as a soldier in.
structor and lecturer. He commanded a d.
vision under Stonewall jackson, was for sew
eral years after the war principal of the Cane
Fear Military Academy, at Wilmington, N
T., and served six years on the general staff
OF the Egyptian army. commanded two ex.
petitions into the interior of Africa, and re-
eeiyed from the Khedive decoration "a re-,
ward for distinguished services.
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