Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1883-04-17
Various Items.

w. III. Wright has sold his farm
near Winchester to Isaac Bowman, for
SO, 525.
Westyirginiah has but three counties
without newspapers-Clay Calhoun
and Pocohontas.
Accounts from all quarters up to
this date are favorable to plentiful
crop of peaches.
A Copper mine, five feet in thick
ness, has been discovered in Summers
county, this State.
Eve boys under twenty years of
are in Jail in Portland, Oregon,
charged with murder.
Rev. DIR. Richard McIlwaine, of
Baltimore, has been elected president
of Hampden-Sidney College.
Mahogany, ebony, rosewood and
cedar are used as fuel by the poorest
people in some parts of Mexico.
About $50 miles of thread are
made each day in American mills.
1t was all imported thirty years ago.
Thursday, June 2sth, has been
fixed on as the day for the unwilling
of the recumbent figure of Robert E.
Lee, at Lexington, Va.
Judge A. NJ. Lybrook, of Patrick
Co., Va, has on his farm an apple
tree, one hundred and twenty-five
years old and still bearing.
Rock-salt on Vermillion Island, off
the coast of Louisiana, is twenty feet
thick, and has to be blasted with dy-
Mantle, 200 tons being mined daily
in this way.
Most men will chin and dodge and
come back at you on any argument,
but no man will allow another to split
hairs on the ssNext!'' in a barber
shop when it's his turn.
"Revolutionists," said Dumas,
s.are a good deal like the street
sprinklers. They can make it mud
dy in sunshine, but they can't make
sunshine when it is muddy
Something new in scarf-pins is a
tiny gold pig with diamond eyes.
Most people are free to say it is a
most appropriate ornament for many
of the society young men of the day.
The Norfolk Firginian estimates
that there is coal enough in the mines
recently opened inPocohontas county,
West Virginia, to supply the demand
of the North for 200 years to come.
A steamer in California keeps a
sheep that is trained to go out on the
gang-plank when a flock of sheep is
to be loaded, and show them the pas
sage over is safe, when they follow
him as their leader into the boat.
Levi Furstenberg wealthy citizen
of Baltimore, aged sixty, married a
girl of seventeen, i'll treated her and
then by false pretence of its being a
business matter got her to sign away
all her interest in his estate, worth
s150,000. She has brought him into
| the courts.
The sum of S.. oOc-which might
profitably be multiplied ten times
has been offered by NJ. Paul to the
French Academy of Medicine, to
found prize for the discovery of a
cure for diptheria, the competition to
be open to the world, and not confin-
ed to the medical circle.
The Texas bill regulating railroads
has passed the Legislature of that
State. 1t provides for State En-
gineer, who shall inspect the roads
and their methods to prevent unjust
discrimination, under q penalty of
fine in the sum of $500 for each
offence. Passenger fare is fixed at 8
cents 4 mile for adults.
One year ago, in the busy little
town of Crisfield, in Somerset county,
Md, so well known for its extensive
oyster trade, eighteen houses were
destroyed by fire. The loss of prop
erty at that time was estimated at
seventy-four thousand dollars. On
Saturday last another fire broke out
in the same town, which devoured
sixteen buildings, among which were
several stores, the value of the prop
erty destroyed being put at about
fifty thousand dollars.
On the 9th instant, Mr.. Vim. l..
Meredith, clerk at Thornburg's livery
stable, in Staunton Va, got a package
of candy out of the postoffice, adj
dressed in woman's hand to his
daughter, Miss Florence, young
lady of about eighteen years. On
taking it home it was handed around
among the family. The daughter
finding her piece quite bitter, threw
it aside. A little child ate some, also
Mr.. Meredith two gum drops, and
Miss Maria Hubby, n lady boarding
in the family, several pieces. In
about twenty minutes Mr.. Meredith
and Miss Hubby were attacked with
spasmodic contractions of the mus
cles, violent pains and retching. DIR.
F. L. Henkle was called in and pre-
scribed emetics, and during the night
the patients were relieved and pro-
nounced out of danger. The child
was not affected. This morning DIR.
Henkle examined the candy, and
found in several of the soft pieces
small openings had been made and
white powder placed inside. He
thought the powder was strychnia,
and, taking what was found in one
gum drop, he procured kitten and
injected it under the skin of the cat