Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1881-01-11
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IN BRlEF=Begin the new year
with good dssds-Poyiag t1e printer, for ia
stance.
The supply of ice has been something
over the demand.
The Bargains are going rapidly at til.
Gembiaation Co.'s Store.
Hon Daniel B. Lucas. wife and daughter
are boarding at the Carter House.
E. Dandridge, Egg, of Winehester,
Visited Charlestown on Saturday last,
Trap all the partridges youeesn, preserve
them through the severe weather, and then
setthem free.
Judgs Thos. g. Green has gone to attend
the January term of the Snpreme Court of
Appeals, At Charleston.
A handsome calendar for 1881 is sent us
from the staunton (Ya ) Spectator Office
TITS neat and ersditabis.
Don't forget the poor. in this severe
weather.. Remember. "He that eiyeth to
the poor. lendeth to the Lord"
One of the handsomss. sleighs in the
county has jnst been huilt. at :he Hawks
Coach Factory, of Mr.. Lewis Starry
We return thanks. to Messrs S.u wood-
dy aud VIM. Waters for a good supply of
Celery to est with our Christmas turkey.
Mr.. Johu Heukle,' aged about % years,
son of john T. Heukle,- E-q ,died at his
residence near Halltown, during Christmas
week.
Singing cold days were the last two of
the old. aud the first of the new year-the
thermometer in this locality reaching as low
as 260 below zero!
Mems Hats s5 ats Boys Hats % cts,
Boys Boots, Copper Toes. 90 cts. at the
Combination Co IS Store, opposite lst Natl
Bank, sien Red Flag.
MIR. Wm. Beall has shipped from this
plsoe. via the 3. & o. Il. R., within the
past eighseea DAYS, for Baltimore, 26O head
of Cattle aud $50 hsgs,
The s. v. R.. r train known. as No.
south bound. aRd No 2 north bound, now
lays over at nigh, at Charlestown. instead OF
running to .BuvceVille, as formerly.
The West virginia Legislature will con.
vene Tomorrow. Messrs. John ". Gran
than and Frank Bsekwith. the Jefferson
Delegates. have gone to Wheeling.
The Sacrament of the Lords Supper will
be administered ia the Presbyterian Church
Oh Sunday EanTaSng. 18th instant. Prelini-
nary services Friday and Saturday preceding
The Week of Prayer was Observed with
appropriate services, alternately, in the Press
hyterian, Baptist and Methodist Churches.
beginning at the former on 2arde7 night
week.
The S. V. r. r. Co, through its City
Agent. Mr. Gin BeplI, has had its passep
gers transported to and from the deret at
Fhis place in a mammoth sleigh, siuce the
Eeoent snow.
In the list Of nominations Tor promotions
IN the u. S army, made by tho President
last week, we fnd. in the engineer cnrrs the
nawe Of Major VIM. p. Graz. hill IT, be Lieu.
tensnt.C Colonel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cha". c. Conklyn celebrated
their Crystal Wedding anniversary on thu.
evening Of the 18th OF December, at their
Fn>'de"es near Kahl4tuHu, and received many
excellent presents
The Peps'ssicH cr CharIestown has been
increased By Two pair at twins sinca .he &c,
ginning of the present year. ho saws We
will not foot up three thousand, at this rate.
by the census OF 1890?
A good audience attended at Winchester
en- Friday night week, 20 listen to the met
priost of the S"u1h. Father Ryan, and his
selections are said to have been rendered
with the spirit of a true pact.
Tho recent heavy fall Of suoy was followed
by severe cold weather in all parts of the
country In many places it is said that
there has not heen SO much snow or so se>
we're a winter for twenty-five years.
A suspicious tramp made a number of un>
Invited visits se different houses about town
during the holiday week. aud was given a
ticket on the railroad and a hint to use it
nr0n 7tly-ip .pnnGi0. Tar 49,
The front of tho drug stoso of Messrs.
Merchant & Mitchell has been adorned with
handssns upright sisu-brsrds, and the lamp
10 front tsstesnlly iettered-all the artistic
workmanship of Mr.. August Schultz.
Rev. James Is. Crairhill, of Suffolk, Va,
(soa of our townsman. W. n Craighill,
E-q-) has received and accepted a call to
the recs"rship of Rock Spring and Emman.
uel p E Churches, Hartford county, Md.
Five persons were baptized, and six re-
Oeived into the membership eff the NJ. T.
Church South, by tho Rev. j. y. Register.
on Sunday week, f"lInwed by tho admins
tratiou of the Sacrament of the Lords Sup.
per.
The farm of Thomas Osbourn, containing
about I52 acres. two miles east of Kcarneys-
willie. was sold on Friday last. by Snccial
Commissioners Il B"yd Faulkner and VIM.
j.. Wilson. to Mr. L. G. w. Herr, Ut $40 20
per ocre.
George ". Green, of the Mountain View
Hotel, Harp"r's Ferry. has secured ice from
the Shenandoah river twenty inches thick,
and the ice on the government dam. above
Harper's Ferry, is said to be thirty or more
inches thick.
The ceiling of the machinery department
of the Halltawn Paper Mill caught Gre from
the chimney about eight O'Clock on New
YORK Eve. and a portion of the rnnf W