Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1881-04-19
PEN, Ink AND SCISSORS.

PEN, Ink AND SCISSORS.
Five of the assassins of the late Gar were
hung on Friday last.
Frederick county, Va, is to vote on q pro-.
posed subscription to the Martinsburg Rail.
road in May.
The first load of blooms from the Sbenan.
doah Iron Works passed through for Balti.
more on the s v. r. r. on the 7th inst.
a meeting of the Maryland and Virginia.
members of the Hedges family is to be held
soon In Frederick to take steps for claiming
an estate of ten millions, supposed to be
waiting claimants in England.
In the Readjusters' convention at Harris
sonburg,zfa Saturday week. John Paul,
member of Congress for tina. district, in,
dorsed Uaited States Senator Mahens's
course fully. Resolutions were then passed
lndorsing and, commanding Mr.. Mahone's
action aud votes in the United States Sen.
ate.
Mr.. FL KimbaTl. of Philadelphia, presi.
dent OF the Shenandoah Valley Railroad,
has transmitted to Col. IL. Kyd Douglas. the
commander of the Hagerstown Light Infan>
try, a voluntary contribution Of 500 for tho
benefit Of the company, for which IiberaIity
the company have constituted him an hon>
orary member.
The South River Advertiser says al. is
runored that Gen. Wickham and Hon. WIN.
Mines have arranged to have a fine hotel
built near the ticket off CO of the G. Il O.
Road at Waynesboro'. The house will con-
tain sixty rooms. and win DO managed BY
that nHable and universally popular gentIe>
man, Capt, John Woodward"
The capital stock of the s. V. r. r. Co.
has bann iporaocal fro,~ @ 4 nm mn = 90
600 600, and VIM. Mines, u. l.. Boyce and
Clarence II. Clark have been constituted a
committee to procure the right of way and
have Charge of the construction of the ex-
tension of the S. V.R R. from Waynesboro
to. its point of intersection with the A. NJ
o. r. R., at or near Salem.
GLuray Advance.
An ARRAY in Frederick City, Nd, las.
Sunday night week, between two Young
men, VIM. Heard aud Joseph Nelson, re,
suited in the latter being stabbed thirteen
times with a penkuife in the neck, back and
side, the wounds inflicted being of a painful
but not necessarily dangerous character.
The affair grew out of a quarrel about a
woman of whom, it was alleged, Heard had
spoken in a derogatory manner.
Hon. B. j.. Butcher, State Superintendent
of Free Schools, leaves to day for Harper's
Ferry, to make arrangements with the au-
thorities of Storer College to educate colored
parsons, male and female. under the last
clause of section So of the School Law. The
number of pupils to BIO thus educated is sew
cnteen, to be gathered in some manner yet
to be determined upon from among the col
ored population OF the Stote.
Wheeling ~InteNigencer.
Josephine, aged 10 years, daughter of ex,
Gov. Mathews, of West Virginia, on Satur.
day morning week. fell over a stair railing
between fourth and fifth floors of tho Car
roilton Hotel in Baltimore, striking on the
main landing of the first floor, disloca,ing
the lower jaw. A porter who was descend,
ing the stairway Immediately raised the
senseIess form of the child and conveyed her
to the room of her parents, on tho fourth
floor. DR.. A. Atkinson was summoned and
reduced the disfooation, aud on SUNDAY
night tho little one was very much i'm,
proved. The escape from instant death was
miraculous.
A dispatch from lows City, Iowa, announ>
cos that Miss Hattie Duoll died on Monday
OF last week, having completed full forty>
seven days in attaining death by starvation
She began her long fast on tho 23d of Feh-
ruary last. Miss Duell wns at the timo of
h9r death SO years old, and had long been a
member OF the family of her brother>in. law.
DIR. Is. Ii. Aytworth, of Iowa CITY. She has
been an invalid for many years, SUFFERING
ceaselcss pain from neuralgia and nervous
diseases, which made life n constant torture.
aud driving her at length to the stern re.
solve to end an existence which promised no
alienation for her tnrments.
. You mover heard such a lot of ticking in
your life as there is at II. A. Burton's Jew.
eIry Store, on Main street. He has on hand
lots OF Clocks. Jewelry. Rings, and every
thing that n first class Jewcler has for sale.
and Spectacles by the thousand You ought
to go and see him, anyhow, and he repairs
Watches, Clocks, Jewclry. Sewing Ma
chimes, Lamps. &c and he has u new lot of
Fioiins. [ tell you, he sells them CHEAP
81 rs, So so, aud up to .S1O-Bows. Vic,
lin Strings, and Steel f String fer Violin.
He has got everything. 1t would take a
lifetime to tell you all he has got His Sign
Watch with Spectaclcs under it with
Eyes, and Black Face Watch.
The Warren Sentinel, edited by Hon
John T. Lowell, enters upon it's thirteenth
year in a greatly enlarged and improved
form. The Sentinel is ono of our most
valued exchanges, and Judge Lowell is one
of the ablest and. most courteous editors in
Virginia, We hope the people of Warren
will reward his efforts in their behalf with a
largely increased circulation.
No MORE HARD T1MEs.-If YOU will stop
spending so much on fine clothes. rich food and
style, buy good, healthy food cheaper and bet