Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1882-10-31

TUESDAY HoRSna. ooTonER 81. 1881.
g Thirty5threo States will hold elections on
Tuesday, November 7th.
'iae The President has issued his proclamation
setting apart Thursday, November 3Oth, as
day of public thanksgiving.
Preston aud Morgan counties, at the latest
Information, had not certified their returns of
the late election to. the Governor.
The Wheeling Regtster of October 25th
says that ''Mr. Mason's vote in the Second
District will probably DO reduced by about
LOGS, owing to the failure of Preston county
to certify her return within the limit of the
law"
The Wheeling Late'hgencer, Republican,
publishes the revised vote of the Congress,
siOnal election in this District, which elects
Wilson over Mason by seven majority. The
Wheeling Register, Democratic, makes Will
sons majority eight.
Tho Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad Com
pany has presented Miss Jennie Smith, the
temperance rovivalist, with house and lot
and GOV at Mountain Lake Park, Garrett
county. Miss Smith will bring her mother
from New Jersey, and locate at the Park
An election for members of the First
Branch of the City Council took place
Wednesday in Baltimore The Democrats
carried seventeen of the twenty wards, the
Republicans carrying two wards, the Eley,
enth and the Fourteenth, and the United
Labor party the Eighteenth
+ The Wheeling Register publishes the of.
hcial vote for judge of the Supreme Court at
the recent election in all but two counties,
which give Snyder, democrat, 2,772 majority
over Guthrie, republican. 1t is supposed the
remaining counties, Mcdowell and Wyoming.
will add 400 to Snyder's msjority.
The eighth annual congress of the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church, assembled in Rich,
mond on Tuesday last. Bishop Gallahor, of
Louisiana, delivered an address, and after the
administration oftho holy communion, Bishop
Whittlo, of Virginia, spoke few words of
welcome to the, members of the congress.
@A''U'Hey Oencral or TINS State, in
answer to the questions of the State Super
lntondent OF schools, says that Teachers sal.
aries can only be determined by the grade Of
certificate, end that because one teacher has
more pupils than another or can live cheaner
than another, has nothing to do with the fix.
ing of salaries.
a f,T evenings ago Judge Jerry" Black
presided at political meeting at York, Pa.
On taking the chair he said: "I hardly in.
tended to be here tonight, but 1 saw in a Its
tie newspaper that Judge Black would now
have to show his hand in this campaign.-
"Ihere they are," and no gracefully held
forward both hands. 'There is no stain on
them. They never held BRIDE"
The next Legislature will witness the novel
sight OF father and son representing the same
county 10 the Legislative halls, but sent by
different political parties-the former by the
Republicans, the latter by the Democrats.
At the lato election, Kanawha county elected
d: d. Brown aud j. f. Brown to the House
of Delegates, the first named, Republican,
and the other, his son, Democrat.
A programme for the week of PRAYER com
meacing January 9Th, 1888, has just been
issued by the Evangelical Alliance. The
suggested topics for the several DAYS cover
such subjects as thanksgiving, confession,
prayer for the church universal, for families.
tor the nations, and for missionaries, md
special reference is made to education, to in
temperance, and to the opium traffic
News received at Democratic headquarters
from all parts of the North is of the most en-.
-oouraging character The Indiana delepa.
ton now stands 5 Democrats to Repub-
hcsns, but the Republicans themselves con-
oede the loss of three members, while the
democrats claim ten members, and say they
have good chance for two more. Indeed
the news from the North is SO cheeripe that
some sangulno Democrats anticipate ground
swell and hopo that not only the next House
but that the Senate of the next Congress will
be Democratic.
Archie Campbell, of the Wheeling Intel
Rgeacer, has discovered that John Barton
Payne has left West Virginia Gin disgust"
He also predicts that Judge Hoge and Mr..
Lucas are both dead. We informed Mr. Lu>
cas- of AFohie's prediction, and he merely re-
marked that he hoped when he did die his
friends would get man of more brains than
Archie to write his obituary. We informed
MIR. Lucas, that Archie also called him a
poet He denied the soft impeachment, but
SAID that by way of acknowledging the COM
plinent, he would dedicate to Archie the fol-
lowing lines: