Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1881-12-20

See advertisement of the Wheeling Week.
~ Register, in this issue. The enterprise of
ITS publishers enables it to give the largest
amount Of State and general news, and it will
be found amply worth good deal more than
the subscription price asked for it.
By an act of the West Virginia Legisla,
ture, the timo designated for commencing
she Assessment of property has been changed
from the LIST day of February to January;
the Assessment for the year 1882, therefore,
will begin January LIST instead of the LIST of
February, as formerly.
The State Superintendent report shows
that Jefferson county has SO school houses,
with total value of school property of $685.
4ol number of school pupils in the county,
2,4O4; teachers, 40 !; whole amount of taxes
levied for building fund, 81, 297 .sS; for
teachers fund, SO, 069.26; total receipts for
ell purposes, s22, 6l5 "A; total expendit ures.
S19, 401.62.
In the Virginia Legislature. Senator Ma,
homes friend, FL. a. Riddleberger, has been
chosen by the caucus of the dominant party,
composed of Readjusters and Republicans.
as the successor of Senator johnson, whose
term expires in 1883. The same party in
the Senate have rejected several of the NOM
inees of Gov. Holiday, SO that for the time
being, Virginia may be counted as State
lost to the Democracy.
The Wheeling Register pointed1y says
The question of Guiteau's INSANITY lies in
very small compass. Gould such man have
legally been put into an insane asylum with
aview to prevent his numbering anybody
no one pretends that he could. No one of
his relatives thought of such thing nor ever
warned anybody that he was insane or dan
Eerous. His insanity is, if not an after.
thought with him, an afterthought with them
Important bills for West Virginia wore in
tIoducsd in the Senate on Wednesday BY the
Senators from this State
By Mr.. Camden-For the construction IF
two ice>breakers in the Ohio river. no.r Par>
ksrsburg; in relation to steamboat inspec-
tors, and for continuing the improvement of
the Ohio river
By Dir. Davis-For COURT house and
post>oftiee building at Clarksbure.
The appropriation asked for the Ohio river
Improvement is $500, 600; for tho two ice.
breakers $4,000 and for the Clarksburps.
$4,000.
Died at his residence in Baltimore. on
Wednesday, the 18th of December, 1881. G.
H. H. Brown, native of this county. He
was one of the oldest and most respected cit>
liens OF the Monumental City, having re-
moved there as early as 1919. He embarked
In the mercantile business and was for many
years one of the firm known as Jarvis &
Brown, and after the dissolution of that firm
IN 1887, continued the same business in his
own name until 1850, when he retired from
the active pursuits of life, being satisfied
with the src ) he had achieved From that
time until date of his death, he lived in
the seclusion of his own family and the So
clety OF his immediate friends. He reached
the advanced age of 80 years, and through>
out his long life, distinguished for its nurity
and benevolence, he was beloved by all who
knew him for his genial, social qualities. and
respected for his strict integrity, his unswerv,
ing steadfastness of purpose, high sense of
justice, and for his mental attainments. His
death was sudden and unexpected at that
time, and from paralysis of the heart. We
extend to his friends and relatives, here and
eo""steS Jul "atuesG sympaGnle9 In their
bereavement.
The trial of Guiteau, which has been a
most disgraceful affair throughout, has within
the past week been the occasion of an extra
ordinary episode, in the appearance of Mr..
Scoville, lecturer, with the trial as a
theme, before a general audience in wash>
ington, to obtain the necessary means for his
subsistence, having, as is alleged, exhausted
his revenues in the defense Of his miserable
brother-in-law. The lecture was slimly at.
tended although many tickets were sold, and
at its conclusion, a vote of thanks was ten.
dered the speaker by those present In the
course of his remarks he stated that he had
NO expectation that Guiteau would be per>
mitted to live to the end of the trial 1t
would be easy for desperate man to stab
him as he passed from the court room to the
prison van, and he had reason to apprehend
that this would be his fate If the prisoner
should be hanged, and an autopsy should de-
velop the fact that he was insane, it would
be almost the last case of capita punishment
in this country The sickness of several of
the jurors at different times has had the ef.
feet of complicating the case. and the coun>
sci for the prisoner has intimated that point
will be raised in case of conviction, upon. the
eligibility of two of the jurors, who are in
the employment of the government VERY
little importance is attached to this point.