Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-03-24
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with acute rheumatism.
There are 5o,ooo,ooo eggs con
sumed daily in the United States.
Alton tanner in a circus in Vienna
was killed and devoured by a lion
last Friday night.
Secretary Lamar has called for the
designations of all the chiefs of bureau
in his department.
But nine counties out of the fifty
four in this State grantlicense for the
sale of liquor at retail.
Mrs. Louthan, wife of Mr.. Carter
NJ. Louthan, died at her residence
near Berryville, recently of consump-
ton.
The old war instruments of the.
Stonewall Brigade Band have been
sent to Baltimore to be exhibited at
the Confederate Soldiers Fair there.
New York takes a census five years
after each National census. Mr..
North, managing editor of the Utica
Herald, is to supervise the count this
year.
Mr.. David Lee has been appointed
general superintendent of the Main
Stem Of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road in place Of MI. w. ii. Clements,
resigned.
The ten plaques of a newspaper
office are bores, poets, cranks, rats,
cockroachcs, typographical errors,
exchange Gends, book canvassers,
delinquent subscribers, and the nan
who always knows how to u the
paper better than the editor does
himself.-Pdper World.
A dispatch from Hinton, w. Va,
dated March 18th, says: For the past
five years a very bitter political feud
has existed between Ebert Fowler,
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of
this (Summers) county, and j. Speed
Thomson, lawyer. About 2 O'Clock
this afternoon the two men met on
Second street, at a place where the
sidewalk is very narrow. There
seems to have been some dispute as
to who should step aside, whereupon
both drew their revolvers. Fowler
fired once without effect, and then
threw his revolver at Thompson, who
fired four shots, two of them taking
effect in Fowler's leg, below the
knee, SCATTERING the bone.
Alarge meeting of the colered peo-
pie of Norfolk, Va, was held a few
evenings ago, at which regularly APP
pointed debaters discussed for three
hours the question, "Can a colored
citizen become a Democrat through
principle?" The affirmative speaker
maintained that the colored people
were not indebted to the republican
party, but to the war, for their free
dom, and heartily commended the ut
terances of President Cleveland in his
inaugural in regard to the freedmen.
The remarks of the negative speaker
were of the war issue kind, and full
some in praise of Senator Malone,
who vas pronounced Z" the best friend
the colorcd race ever had" But
such arguments failed to convince,
and the audience unanimously voted
that "a colorcd citizen could become
a Democrat through principle"
The Washington Post has the fol-
lowing: After the public reception
the President received in the library
a delegation from the Washington
conference of the NJ. l.. Church, COL
ored. He received the visitors cor
daily, and, after listening to the
greeting from the chairman of the
delegation, said that he had been
given to understand that the colorcd
people were afraid of oppression un-
der his administration. He wished
to take the present occasion for as
surfing them that under the new adj
ministration their condition would be
as good, if not better, than ever be-
fore. He said that he considered the
colored people citinens of the United
States, and as such HE was interested
in their progress. He urged them to
continue their efforts in the direction
of education and in the church and
assured them of his good will and
support. When the delegation re-
turned to the conference, their re-
port was received with enthusiastic
applause.
The British crown is not the prop
crty of Queen Victoria, but of the
nation. All the crown jewels are
kept in the Tower of London. The
room in which they are kept is a
ground floor apartment, with sombrc
stone walls eight feetin thickness. It
is small, and in its centre stands a
huge, ironbarred cage, oblong in shape
and rising nearly to the ceiling
Within this cage is a stand, terrace
topped, and covered with velvet
which was at one time white. Atthe
extreme top is the crown made for
Victoria. Below it. on one side, is
the crown of the Prince of Wales,
and on the other that of the last of
the Stuarts, the four Georges and
William w. One crown had served
very we'll for all of these men, but
when, in 1887, the royal head gear
had to be put upon a woman's head,
it was, of course, much too large, and
a new mi had to be made. Besides
the crowns, there arc in the collec-
ton the royal wand, a solid gold
stick three feet seven inches in length
the royal communion service, three
large fonts all of solid gold, out of
which the royal children are baptized,
besides numerous other valuable