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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1884-09-23
For Congress.
WILLIAM L. WILSON,
OF jefferson County.
Democratic State Ticket.


For Governor,
E. WILLIS WILSON,
of Kanawha County.
For Auditor,
PATRICK F. DUFFY,
OF Webster County.
For Treasurer,
WIN. T. THOMPSON,
OF Cabell County.
For Attorney General,
ALFRED CALDWELL,
OF Ohio County.
For Judge of Supreme Court of Appcals-Long
Term,
A. c. SNYDER,
OF Grecnbricr County.
For Judge of Supreme Court of Appeals-shor
Term,
SAMUEL WOODS,
OF Barbour County.
For State Superintendent of Free Schools,
BENZ. 8. MORGAN,
OF Monongalia County.
For State Senator,
a. r. UNGER,
OF Morgan County.
Democratic County Ticket.
For the House of Delegates,
r. PRESTON CHEW,
DANIEL B. LUCAS.
For Sheriff,
j. GARLAND HURST.
For Clerk of Circuit Court,
T. w. LATIA1ER.
For Clerk of County Court,
THOMAS A. MOORE.
For Assessors,
r. A. ALEXANDER. District No. 1.
CHARLES Il. TRAIL, District No. 2.
For States Attorney,
FORREST W. BROWN.
For County Commissioners.
". H. T. LEWIS (Uncxpired Term.)
JAS. LAW. IIOOFF (Eull Term.)
For County Surveyor,
8. HOWELL BROWN.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1884-09-23

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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1884-09-23


Cen Warwick, of Brooklyn, n. V,
delivered a Republican address in the
Courthouse in this place on Friday
night last. His speech was cosscrv-
alive in temperament and we'll dcliv-
cred, but was wonderfully lacking in
logical argument in favor of the pres
ent Republican party and its nomi-
nees. He undertook defense of
Blaine, but failed to convince any
candid man that the "plumed knight
is not guilty of all that is charged
against him. His reference to the
tariff was simply claim for the Re-
publican party of the natural increase
of crops by increased acreage under
cultivation since 1SG0,-and failed to
convince his hearers of any sound
reason in favor of high tariff. OF
the immense corruption in every de-
partment of the national government
he failed to speak. He was given an
attentive hearing, but the Democrats
of Jefferson have suffered no loss bv
his advent here.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1884-09-23
The Water Power of the
Shenandoah River

Also the following
SEVENTY-THREE TOWN LOTS
in Harper's Ferry:
Block B. Lot 2. on Shenandoah street. with
Double Brick Dwelling, now used us the Post
Office.
Wager Reservation, Lot IS. Brick Dwelling
Lots ) and North of Shenandoah street.
Block on same. Lot &.
Block AA. on Washington and Potomac
streets. Lots Z. 9. 10.
Block BIB, on Washington and Ridge streets,
Lots 2. 8. 5. S. 9. 10.
Block &C, on Washington and Clay streets,
LOt2.
Block ID, on Fillmore and clay streets.
Lots 4. 5.
Block EE, on Washington ana Clay streets.
Lots 5, +.
Also on Camp Hill the following:
Block IF. on Fillmore street. Lots 1. 8.
Block Hi. Lot 5. ON S. Cliff street.
Block u. Lots o, 70. Is. Fillmore. street.
Block XIX. Lots 2. s. 9. 10. II, 12
Block LII. Lots z. 8, 8, 10, II, on Boundary
and South Cliff streets.
Block II. Lot {. on Ridge street. =
Block l, Lot 10. on same.
Block j. Lots 6, UuiOn Square, 10, II, 12, IS
on Ridge street.
Block P. Lot 10. on Ridge street.
Block Q. Lots 1. 2, 3. j, Is, Ii, 1S, 20. on
Ridge and Putnam streets.
Block II, Lots !, 2, 8. 5. 6, z, s, on Ridge
Block s. Lots 2. 8. 4, $. on same.
Block U. Lots I. S. on same.
Bi9sk t. t9 SEs and 5, on 3an #sFt aud s.
Cliff street.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1884-09-23
Samuel Brown,

FASHIONABLE BARBER,
One door West of the Carter House. Charles
town, West Va.
HAIR-CUTTING and Shaving executed in
4 4 first-class style. Twelve Slaves for 81 100.
September %. lSS4-1m.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1884-09-23
exas Cow Bow!

L. A. MOORE.
Clerk of County Court.
Sept. 90. 1854. IF. P. and Reg. copy.1
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1884-09-23

If you want the nobby styles in Fall Hats
go to BURNS &c SHUGERTs.
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State of West Virginia, !

September %. 18S4~5t. ~ '"''
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-04
THE BLIND ASYLUM.
annual Report of the Trustees and Superin-
tendeHt of the School.

The thirty-seventh annual report of the trus-
tees and superintendent of the Asylum for Blind
was filed with the Governor last evening. A
statement from the trustees gives the valuation
of the real estate of the asylum at 1856 OBS and
the personal property $l7 ,643.38, making a total
of 1913, 681. So The revenue from the appropri-
alton for maintenance was $27, 298.07 of
which $26, 1853. SO was expended, leaving balance
to the credit of the fund of $595 53 The appro-
priation for repairs was $2,O05.87 all of which
was expended except $257l. The receipts from
articles sold amounted to 1898 56, and 5000 "a was
collected from the different counties for clothing
The total balance uneXpended at the end of the
fiscal year was 81 1886, which has been trans
ferred to the general fund.
The superintendent, II. B. Jacobs. in his re
port, states that there is mistaken idea regard
ing the purposes of the school. ut is not he
says, as many suppose a home or an
asylum for aged helpless blind
people, nor il hospital for the treatment of eyes,
but an educational institution free sehool-for
the education of blind children
The number of pupils in the institution during
the year was 100 of whom ffty-six were males
and sixty-fOur females, and 105 of the number
had previously been in attendance, the remain
ing fifteen being pupils. The average
monthly enrolment was ll3. The girls are in
structed in sewing and handiwork, while the
small boys are taught bead-work. The boys are
taught broom-making and piano forte tuning
The cash fund for INDECENT graduates, the super
lntendent reports, now amounts to 1898. ~.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-04
Miscellaneous Notes.

The Woodruff Sleeping and Parlorcoach Com
pany announces quarterly dividend of l I2 per
cent.
1t is stated that the Grand Trunk is willing to
unite with the trunk lines in any steps they may
take to whip the Lackawanna road into the pool
traces.
The scheme of a railway from Winnipeg to
Hudson bay is still being agitated, and the Mani
toba government has been asked to name some
terms for guaranteeing the bonds
On December 31st there had been laid on the
northern division of the Mexican Central road
619 miles of track, and it was but twenty three
miles to q junction of the two divisions.
The gross earnings of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul road for 1883 given at $23 000, 900;
the operating expenses at 60 per cent; net re-
naming, 40 per cent, including dividends, fixed
charges, and a surplus of $3.50, 600 besides.
The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Company's rail mill at Reading Pa. closed on
last Monday. The managers give as a reasonfor
their action that it costs them $37 per ton to
make rails while in other parts of the country
they can be manufactured for $50
In the year 1883 there were killed by railroads
in the city limits of Philadelphia 1873 persons
The casualties were thus distributed: Pennsyl-
vania railroad So Philadelphia & Reading rail
road 49, Philadelphia Wilmington 4 Baltimore
railroad a. Philadelphia & Atlantic City rail
road l. Baltimore & Ohio railroad l, horse car
railways 49,
The Asheville and Spartanburg gap of nineteen
miles, between Henderson and Asheville, n. c.,
is reported finished, thus completing direct con
nection between the East Tennessee, Virginia q
Georgia system and the line for Charleston, s..
@. The rev route shortens the distance from
Louisville to Columbia 1873 miles, and to Viii
mington 16l miles,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-04

cipitated the rest of the train into the river If
the piers had been washed out before the engine
struck it, there would have been no possible
chance for the engine to get over the bridge, no
matter at what speed she was running. Aid it
is clear to his mind that the piers were
there in position at least, when the engine
struck them. and the shock carried them out
Mr.. Bouscaren, after reciting the observations
made by him in an examination of the remain
ing abutments Of the bridge-the middle pier
being undermined and gone-closes his testimony
with the following words: From the desc1ip-
ton of the bridge given by Mr.. Pearson, should
say that it was of ample strength to carry the
trans. The primary cause of the accident was
evidently the extraordinary flood that prevailed
at the time. AS to the manner in which it acted,
l cannot form positive opinion without having
seen the structure Il was before the wreck"
Mr.. Pearson testified that the bridge destroyed
one of the best of its class upon the road.
1t had been critically examined by him but
few months before the accident and was found
in first-class condition, in all respects-includ
ing abutments, piers and superintendent
and safe. He gave it as his opinion that the
foundation Of the pier undermined by the
flood the greatest ever known in Blue river as
well as the most sudden, and that it gave way
and caused the disaster.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-04
PETTIs, BAssETT & Co.
A VALUABLE ACQUISITION,
a New Enterprise Employing Several Hun
bred Men TO Be Located Here.

It is stated authoritatively that a result of
negotiations between Dri II. r. Allen and w. G.
DePauw during the last three days a partner
ship has been formed for building mandatory
in this city which will employ several hundred
men. The establishment will probably be located
on the site of the old rolling MILL in
and the construction of the build
ings, it is said, win begin early in the spring
The company will manufacture an improved
grain-reaper, which was recently patented by DR..
Allen, and in the operation of the business
very large number of men will be employed Mr..
DePauw has been in the city for the last three
or four days, and hare been in close consultation
with DR.. Allen The general details of the en-
terprise has been agreed upon, it is stated, and
yesterday afternoon Mr.. DePauw left for home.
The ground where the mandatory is to be 10
Gated is owned by Mr.. DePauw, and comprises
eighteen acres.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-04
Treating with the Burlington.

CHICAGO, Jan. "A conference between the
managers of the lines in the new western rail
way alliance and the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy with view to inducing that company to
form part of the new combination is now in
progress in this city. The Union Pacific, Rock
Island, Milwaukee & st. Paul, and Northwestern
are represented by the general managers of these
roads the only absentee being the representative
OF the Wabash which has no significance The
officers of the Burlington have had in their pos
session since Monday last copy of the tripar-
tite agreement the terms of which were under
discussion at this forenoons session. The state
ment is made in az authorized way to the Asso-
ciated Press that whatever conclusion is reached
by the Burlington company, the matter will nee
essaIily be laid before the board of directors of
that company for final action The meeting adj
joulned at o'clock, and there is very little pros
pect that decision of any character will be
reached to-day!
The meeting adjourned at 3 o'clock till 10 to-
morrow, to await the arrival of Vice-president
Hayes, of the Wabash No decision off any char
acter was reached.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-04
FLORIDA's RAILWAYS.
Northern Enterprise Converting Florida
Swamps Into Orange Groves.

Northern Enterprise Converting Florida
Swamps Into Orange Groves.
Probably in no State of the Union has there
been more improvement wrought through the
repairing of old roads and the building of new
ones than in Florida in the year 1883, and with
this improvement in the way of transportation
there has been an even more marked improve
ment in the general business of this one of the
Gulf States. This prosperity has been brought
about largely through the efforts of syndicate
of which Major B. S. Henning, well known in
this section, is president This company has
constructed and has in operation 494 miles of
railroad in Florida, namely Fenandina to Ce-
dar Keys, l54; Waldo to Lake Panasofke, includ-
ing branch to Silver Spring 81; Jacksonville to
Harris Road Junction, D. Jacksonville to Chat
tahoochee, 209; Tallahassee to Saint
Marks 81; Drifton to Monticello, 4; to-
dictate has the following extensions already com
menced: Lake Panasofkee to Tampa bay, TO-
branch via Leesburg to Indian river, l04; branch
to Brookville, 90 Bronson to Suwannee river,
20-and when completed will own 713 miles of
railway. The railroad company also owns a
line of passenger and freight steamers which run
daily between Fernandina and Savannah Miles,
$50. The portion of the road between Fernan-
dina and Chattahoochee passes through the fer
tile garden lands of Florida connecting with the
Pensacola division of the Louisville & Nashville
at Chattahoochee. The branch to Cedar Keys
passes through the extensive lumber tracts of
land while the southern division passes through
the extensive orange groves of Florida. Work
is to be pushed at once on the extension from
Leesburg to the choice lands which lie between
the Little lakes, where orange culture is so
rapidly developing. Push is the motto
of Major Henning. Within the last thirty days
he has purchased four new engines, $50 freight
cars, forty five miles of steel rails, and 200 600
cross ties. While the earnings of the three divis-
ions in operation steadily increasing,
Superintendent Maxwell states, had he been able
to furnish cars the exhibitwould have been even
more favorable. With the beginning of this year
a line of fine sleeping coaches has deem put on
the main line, and the several divisions are being
operated with as much regularity and system as
the best Northern roads. One singular feature
is that nearly every road in the State outside of
the Henning system. will with the completion of
the latter become feeders, which makes their
system much more valuable than were they to be
competitors.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-04
Local Notes.

Officials of the Erie fastfreight line state that
they now have more idle cars standing on side
tracks over the country than at any time in the
last two years.
The engineers, fremen, and conductors on roads
centering at Terre Haute have fitted up at
tractive and comfortable hall, in which to gather
for social talk or in which to hold their meetings
Some $500 has been expended in fitting up the
hall.
The unusually severe weather of a few days
past has made railroad men extremely cautious
and the higher officials have instructed their
subordinate employees to neglect no precaution
that will insure the safety of the trains and their
passensers
The Pennsylvania company's management
have ordered engineers to move trains with ex-
treme caution, and to run at much lower rate
of speed than the time schedule calls for where
there is possibility Of danger were the time
schedule made.
One ticket scalper at this point is reported to
have sold $12 600 worth of tickets in 1883. Four
prominent Indianapolis roads are said to have
furnished him tickets, which in addition to what
as a scalper he has naturally gathered in has
made his operations very profitable.
The Nickel-plate line starts out in fine style,
sending full train out on Wednesday and six
teen cars yesterday from Indianapolis. An i'm
preston is abroad that the Nickelplate line is to
operate over the West Shore road. 1t is a
Slflctly anu Is ONti uliS NEW
York Central
The scheme of the directors of the Indianap
oils, Decatur & Springfield to settle with parties
who held claims against them by paying fifty
cents on the dollar, seems to be working well.
These claims amounted to some $4,000, and
within thelast week $3l 900 of these claims have
been presented and settled.
NJ. E. ingalls,, president of the Cincinnati, In
dianapolis, St Louis & Chicago road. on Wednes
day last contracted for twenty miles of steel
rails, weighing sixty seven pounds to the yard,
which he will lay the c., i. & c. division.
The main line between Cincinnati and Lafayette
and the Harrison branch is now laid with steel
rails.
H. r. Dering, general passenger agent of the
Jacksonville, Madison & indianapolis road, is in
excellent humor, as in footing up the earnings
from the passenger business in 1883 he finds they
exceed those of 1882 800, $40, or nearly $50 900.
While he credits this handsome increase to the
popularity of the road, it should be borne in
mind that an exposition at Louisville lasting 100
days helped largely in the increasing of the pas
senger revenue.
The receipts from sales of tickets at the Union
railway uptown office, in 1888, reached $685.,
642 40. Ticket Agent Rech expects to double
these figures this year, as it was far into the year
1889 before the travelling public knew of the up
town Office IndanapOlitans, however, begin to
realize the benefit of an uptown Office, where
they can purchase tickets without being pushed
about by the crowd or deafened by the noise Of
trains, as is the case at the Union Depot,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-04
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
PERSONAL AND LOCAL.
Movements of Railroad BIen-SnOw Troubling
the Northern Lines-Trains Delayed.

Movements of Railroad Men-SnOw Troubling
the Northern Lines-Trains Delayed.
c. c. Waite, vice-president and general man
ager of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
lines, is so i'll as to confne him to his room.
The health Of H. b. Hammond, president of
the indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield road, is
such as to give his friends some anxietK as to
results
C. H. Warren has been appointed general pas
senger agent of the St. Paul. Minnesota & Mani
toba road vice H. c. Davis who has accepted a
similar position on the Northern Pacific
NJ. E. ingalls,, president of the Cincinnati, In
dianapolis. St Louis d Chicago, passed through
the city yesterday route for Lafayette. where
accompanied by his wife, he went to attend the
wedding Of a niece.
Lee Shaw has been appointed agent of the
Decline at Muncie vice John NJ. Lands. Mr.
Lands will remain with the company until Jan
10, when he goes to Minneapolis to take the
agency of the Merchants Dispatch
A. B. Southland, traffic manager of the L., N.
A. & c., spent a couple of hours in the city yes
terday, and then left for Chicago. He says it
will be some days before he gets matters
Strengthened out and things moving smoothly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-04
A Model Stuck Farm

A company composed of Mr.. Allen Fletcher,
of this city, and several Eastern capitalists has
been formed for operating stock farm of fine
breeds of cattle near indianapolis. It will be
the largest enterprise of the kind in the country,
and capital of quarter of a million dollars
will be required in the business. The company
will be incorporated in few days, and the farm
will be stocked at once. They will breed and
sell only the finest stock Nine carloads of the
finest breeds in Europe will arrive here in about
e week, and will be turned ON the farm
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-04

Eminent Engineers Giving Their Testimony
Before a Coroner's Jury.

Before a COrOners Jury.
An investigation of the disaster at Blue river
bridge on the Louisville New Albany & Chicago
road, is now going ON at New Albany The cor
oner has taken the testimony thus far of Colonel
F. DeFuniak, formerly general manager of the
L. & N, and civil engineer who ranks among
the first men in his professnn in this country
Mr.. G. Bouscaren, of the Cincinnati Southern
railroad, gentleman who has filed the most re-
sponsible positions on the most noted railways of
the West and South, and as superintendent and
constructor of railroad bridges; Mr.. j. H. Pear
son, chief engineer of the L., N. A. & G. Mr..
DeFuniak is of the opinion that the two small
piers in the middle of the river must have been
undermined by the Unprecedented food, and
were all but standing up with weight on
Them and when the heavy weight of the engine,
increased by its speed, struck the bridge the
piers tottered and fell over, which permitted the
engine to go over the bridge, but, Of course, pre-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-04
GENERAL NEWS.
Troublesome Times with the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Drifting Badly.

IIUU0I6sOIIt IItIes WIIll JIle NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Drifting Badly.
In the northern part of the State the railroads
are experiencing good deal of trouble from
snow, which is drifting badly. Superintendent
Sherwood, of the c., l., st. L. & c., says in his
railroad experience he has never seen a more
difficult time to move trains than on Wednesday
night With extra engines and a large force of men
they were out all night between Templeton and
Kankakee, the snow blowing in and covering the
track as fast as they could pillow and shovel it out.
rough time, their Chicago train not reaching
Indianapolis until noon yesterday, although due
at APO A. NJ. The Chicago & indianapolis Airline
was SO badly blockaded with snow north of Frank
fort that all trains were abandoned for the day.
Trains on the Wabash came in several hours
late
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-04
The Morton Monument Association.
The following contributions We're made we
ertlay to the Morton monument fund:
The Lost Found.

Mollie Michener, of Kokomo, and Allie Wag-
oner, of Aderson, whose fight from home was
mentioned yesterday in a special to the Journal
were found by Superintendent Lange yesterday
morning and they were returned to their par
ents. They had been communicating with an
employment bureau in this city, and had left
home with the idea that they would support
themselves