Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1883-06-26
SPIRIT 0FJEFFERs0N.
TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE %. 1888.
Various Items.

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Various Items.
Mr.. John w. Garrett has present.
ed his fine Arabian horse Damascus
to the King of Italy.
If you want to select from the
largest variety of Tobacco in Charles
town, go to DALGARN's.
Alarge supply of Stitchdown Hand
made Shoes, the best made, just re-
ceiyed by S. S. DALGARS.
The citizens of Lewisburg, w. Va.
have voted to subscribe $4,000 to
the East River and Greenbrier Rail-
road.
Work Given Out. On receipt of
your address we will make an offer by
which you can earn s3 to 81 evenings,
at your home. Men, Women, Boys
or Girls can do it. III. c. Wilkinson
& Co., 1870 and 1877 Fulton Street.
New York. Ja9-6m.
The remains of a man with his
hands over both ears have been dis
covered in the ruins OF an old Italian
town. Another body, with widely
distended jaws, was found a few feet
distant. 1t is supposed to have been
the mans wife.
Hance Brothers & White, ,manufac-
turing chemists of Philadelphia, are
public benefactors by their introduc-
ton into this country of Phencl So
dique, the marvellous remedy for so
many ills and injuries that man and
beast are subject to.
A colored secret society is said to
exist in Yalobusha county, Miss.
members OF which are bound by oath
to perjure themselves in courts of
law to protect brother members
Recently one of the members disclos-
ed some of the secrets of the order,
and was flogged nearly to death.
1t seems impossible that g remedy
made of such common, simple plants
as hops, Buchu,- Mandrake, Dandeli-
on. &C., should make so many and
such great cures as Hop Bitters do;
but when old and young, rich and
poor, pastor and doctor, lawyer and
editor, all testify to having been
cured by them, you must believe and
try them yourself, and doubt no lon
ger.
a seif-acting sofa, just big enough
for two, has been invented. When
wound up it Will ring warning bell
just before ten o'clock. At one min
ute after ten it splits apart, and while
one-half carries the daughter of the
house up stairs, the other half glidcs
out in the street with her young man
aboard. The only objection the stern
paterfamilias makes to the contri-
vance is, that should the biushing
damsel in the last scene shift be ssin
arms" on the gentlcman's side, or
vice versa, the picture presented to
tue upper story OR street would be un-
bearable,
On and after Monday, July 2. a
single domestic money order may be
issued Tor any amount from one cent
to one hundred Dollars. The fees
are reduced at that time to the fol-
lowing: Orders not over SO, eight
cents; SO to SIS, ten cents; SIS to
$50, fifteen cents; $50 TO $40, twenty
cents; $40 to $50, twenty-five cents; :;
$50 to $50, thirty cents; $50 to $40,
thirty-fve cents; $40 to $50, forty
cents; $50 to 500. forty-fve cents.
Postmasters cannot issue more than
three orders to the same person in
one day, in favor of the same payee,
at the same Office.
Henry Ives, OF Pennsylvania, says
that one test of good farming brought
out by last years exceptionally severe
drought was the superior crops of
those who kept right on. stirring the
soil, even when all the weeds had been
killed and there seemed to be no more
to conquer, and they were stirring the
soil that was already open and loose.
In one field of corn of eight acres
only one acre was hoed, as it was
thought it could do no good in such
extreme drought. That acre returned
about as much as the other se1en.-I
Potatoes that were titled well gave 125
to 175 bushels per acre, where those
neglected yielded thirty to sixty.
Not the least gratifying features at
the speech-malling on the Latrobc
Wednesday down the bay where the
hearty tributes paid the Shenandoah
Valley of Virginia by the NIassacllu-
sets editors. They were unanimous
in recognizing the iiospitalities tender
ed, the beauty of that grand section,
and its immense agricultural and
manufacturing possibilities. One of
the speakers, who is successful
wine producer on the sterile coast of
Massachusetts, is confident that the
Blue Ridge is to become the great
grape-growing section of the United
States, whilst the Maine editor, who
had joined the Massachusetts, editors
on their excursion, declared that he
saw more rich, tiIIable land between
the Potomac and Natural Bridge, in
Rockbridge county, than his entire
State could boast of. BcH. San.
State School Superintendent Butch
er, in his regulations for County
Teachers Institutes. says:
Newspapers are perhaps the great
est ally of the teacher in the war upon
ignorance and prejudice. This is the
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