Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1883-05-01
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of cloth daily.
Airs. Faeue, editor of the sKeyser
Echo, has been appointed postmis-
tress at Keyser-
The South Florida papers are still
fayorably discussing the propriety of
dividing the State. !
The hog cholera is reported to be
playing havoc with the hogs in Rap
pahannock county. Va
Fred Douglas is said to be worth
one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars. and still says he wants little
more.
HIessrs. earn & Co., of Ellenton,
Fla, have already realized $500 from
one acre of land planted in beans in
January
Mr.. John G. Whittier says he is
panied and Indignant at the wanton
destruction of forests in the New
England States.
The use of the Psalter has been
made regular feature OF the services
at Mount Vernon Place Methodist
ChGrch; BALTIMORE.
The Winchester Paper Mill Com
pany employs fifty-two hands. con-
sumes ten tons of straw daily, and
produces forty tons OF paper per
week.
Rev. DIR. Chas. F. Deems, of New
York, has been invited to deliver the
baccalaureate sermon this year at
Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
Tenn.
Ex-Goy. IIoratio Seymour will be
IS years old on the 31st of May. He
is living in quiet retirement >at his
home, Deerfield, near Utica, New
York.
The largest railroad depot in the
world is in course of construction at
Birmingham. England. It will cover
eleven acres and cost over a million
dollars.
Eliza Pinks.on, the famous Louis
lana witness in the electoral contro-
versy of 1851, recently died in
Jail at Canton, Miss. where she was
serving term for larceny
TIE store house OF Mr.. Wood at
RileyviIIe Station. on the S. V. II. Il.
| in Page County. WAS destroyed by
fire few nights ago. tits supposed
to be the work of an incendiary-
Cen a. M. Scales. OF North Caro-
lima, will deliver the address before
the army of Northern Virginia, at
Richmond, next October. his subject
being the Battle of Fredericksburg"
Miss lizzie Shehett, aged Is years,
of Rockingham county, Va, was killed
= few days ago, by the discharge of
a gun Whether the shooting was
accidental or the young lady commit
ted suicide is not known.
| Mr. Chas- Stapleton Pelham Clin-
ton, son of the late Duke OF Newcas-
tie. who recently purchased splea-
| did estate near Charlottesville, Va.
has become secretary and treasurer
Of the AIbetnarle Jockey Club.
| Ask the druggist about Phcnol So
dique if your young chickens arc
sick 1t is the greatest remedy for
pip. gapes. cholera, lice. etc which
kill millions of young chickens every
year 1t has many other uses. A
bottle will save ten times its cost
See adv.
| Hons Henry G. Davis. president.
James c.. Blaine. 4. p. German. S.
B. E!kins- Mr. VIM. keyser, Major
/ Alex. Shaw and Mr. John y. Ham
bletcn. of the West Virginia Central
Railway board. held a meeting in
Baltimore on Saturday. The sue
cess of the company in its coal ope-
ratIons in the Elk Garden regions
has been SO satisfactory that the
proposition to push on the road is
strongly supported by the capitalists
interested in it. President Davis re-
ported that the work between Shaw
and the head waters of the Potomac
is being vigorously pushed. the rails
are being laid and the means are
provided to complete this portion of
the road. 1t was ordered that the
road be extended. if in the judge
ment of the president it be deemed
advisable. to the junction of the Bea-
yer and Blackwater rivers. distance
| of some six miles from the Summit
near Fairfax Stone The president
was also authorized to have made
surveys looking to connection with
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
The president reported that he had
opened coal department of the
company in Baltimore, with branch
offices in New York and Boston, and
his action was approved.
Cen JubaI ~ Early has written 4
long letter in regard to the erection
of the proposed monument to Gen.
Robert Z. Lee. i'll which he makes this
proposition: s'If forty-ninc gentle
men will unite with me we shall each
contribute the sum of $1,000. to be
paid into some bank in the city of
Richmond. and placed under the con-
troll OF gentlemen of undoubted re-
! sponsihiiity and integrity, so that
there may be no danger OF its loss.
and that then an artist be selected By
committee to be appointed by the
contributors to the said fund for the
| purpose of executing in bronze an
| equestrian statue of Gen. Lee. which.
when completed, is 10 be placed upon
| a pedestal in some suitable public