Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1884-04-08

great Worm destroyer, 25c.
Canvassed Hams, of superior quail
tty, for sale by S. S. Dalgarn.
A company is organizing at Point
Pleasant to bore for gas and oil.
The County Levy in the Republican
county of Preston is s1.58 on the s1OO.
Senator Vance declines to draw pay
for his private secretary, who is his
son.
Mr.. Alfred Coale, for many years
gate-keeper at Camden Station, is
dead.
The practicability of obtaining the
electric light for street illumination in
Hagerstown is being discussed.
Rev. L. r. Milbourne has accepted
a call to the pastorate of the New
School Baptist Church at Luray.
Rev. G. w. Finley, of Romney, w.
Va, has received q unanimous call to
the Presbyterian church of Murfrecs-
boro, Tenn.
Rev. DIR. w. H. Kirk, of North
cumberland county, the oldest Baptist
pastor in Virginia, died recently aged
over so years.
Hon. d. II. Leonard informs a
Wheeling Register correspondent that
he is not a candidate for Judge of the
Court of Appeals.
Dav'd Dudley Fields is reported
as saying that it is the dream of his
life TO have New York and Brooklyn
united under the name of Manhattan.
Mr.. Thos. Fitzgerald, Supervisor
at one time of the Valley Branch, has
been promoted to Master of Trans
portation of the Ohio Division of the
B. & o. r. r.
The House committee on public
buildings and grounds has agreed to
recommend the erection of a public
building at Clarksburg, West Vir-
ginia, to cost $4,000.
GEO. II. HAGaEY is in the Eastern
Market, purchasing his Spring Stock
OF Goods. His Ze;gler BIOS Shoes,
for Ladies, Misses and Children, are
in store. Has also received an in
voice of Gents Furnishing Goods,
taking she Diamond iShirtfor a-leader.
5000 Shingles and 400 Locust Posts
for sale.
The manufacture of heavy steel
cannon of s and 1O-inch bore has been
commenced at the Washington Naval
Arsenal. Between Is and 20 Of these
guns are now being made.
PhcnoI SodiQuc is one of the most
useful mixtures the chemical art has
produced. 1t cures cuts or burns
more quickly than anything else we
have ever used For catarrhal af-
fections, infections fevers, ETC., it is
one of the best preventives known.
We know it to be good disinfcctant
and heartily recommend it as such.
Times, Marietta, Pa.
An engineer, representing the Val
ley Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, has been in Roanoke and
vicinity engaged in an examination of
the approaches and departures to and
from that city, with view of extend
ing the Valley Road to North Carroll
IA.
OUr IN AR1zoNA.-Iron. A. W.
Sheldon Associate Justice of the
supreme henct' OF ARIZONA territory,
"IltGS Is 1o'lo"S II ahordS me
great pleasure TO say, from my per
sohal Observation, ana you know the
seoPe OF S"ch mas Decn very extended
thao 81 jacobs Oil Is the great and
wonderful conqHeror of pain, the
sovereign cure for all bodily aches
ana pans, and cheerfutly bear this
'csIlmohy'
The committee Of Union and Con-
fcderate soldiers have decided to hold
mass meeting at Cooper Union,
New York, April s, in aid of the Sol
dicrs' Home in the South, proposed
to be established at Richmond, Va.
General Grant will preside, and the
following gentlemen have been invited
to speak: Generals j. B. Gordon, of
Georgia; J. ". Daniel, of Virginia:
" - bu'ier. OF South Carolina: e.
=. hTeckenTi4ge' OF Kentucky; Cen
eFal " IN. l. sherman, Benj. +. But
ier' John a. Logan, j. 4. O Beirne,
NJ u; McManon, W. 5. Hancock and
KEY t1ea y ward Beecher-
Mr.. GouGH on SILK HArs.-ss 1t