Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-03-31
Various Items.

Henry Ward Beecher favors the
nomination of Secretary Lamar for
President in 1888.
The machine works at Roanoke
have recently turned out two fine
passenger locomotives.
Ruffner Bros. wholesale grocery
and the Hale House, in Charleston,
were destroyed by fire March 23d.
The Staunton Spectator favors the
nomination of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee as
the Democratic candidate for Cover
nor of Virginia.
The brick building situated on Main
street, in Luray. known as the Jordan
property, has been sold to Walter
Campbell, of Culpeper, for $4,000.
MI. Ebert Fowler, assistant pros
ecuting attorney of Summers county,
died from the pistol-shot wounds in
flicted by j. Speed Thompson, at
Hinton, March 18th.
Just Received. and last ut n few days,
twenty-seven Pieces of Cotton. Slightly Soiled.
We'wtn offer them at 80 cents pei yard. We
are now receiving from the Eastern Markets,
two weeks. lots of Bargains which we cannot
describe. s. D. H1RscHNAN 81 Co.
Armour & Co.. of Chicago, recent
ly received an order from the British
government for 5000, 900 cans of
meat for the army in Egypt. To ex-
ecute this order 20, 900 cattle are re-
CURED.
G. Erb, of Clarke county, is so
well satisfied with his experience in
furnishing milk for the manufacture
of cheese that he has purchased for
his W use at home the machinery
for making cheese, and will keep
se~venty-five cows to run the estab-
lishment.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
prepared a circular letter to be sent
to collectors of customs, requesting
information as to the practicability of
reducing the expense of collecting
the evenu from customs by %curtail-
ing the present force of clerks and
other. employees.
The Tennessee Senate has passed
without opposition, a bill opening to
all telegraph companies the right to
run their lines along the railroad
lines-a privilege enjoyed solely
by the Western Union. The bill was
passed in the interest of the Balti-
more and Ohio Telegraph Company.
which proposes to extend it's lines
through Tennessee.
Bishop A. w. Wilson, who left
Baltimore some weeks ago to seek at
Hot Springs, Ark, recuperation from
an attack of maIarial fever, has re-
gained his health, and is at present
in Nashville, Tenn; He has had some
slight trouble with n of his eyes,
and if the weakness returns he will
be obliged to go to Baltimore at once
for consultation with an occulist. But
he expects to be able to remain in
Tennessee until after the annual
meeting on May /, at Memphis, of
the bishops of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church South.
The body of the young woman
found some days ago in the reservoir
at Richmond, has been identified as
that of Miss Fannie Lillian Madison.
of King William county, where her
parents live. Upon attaining her
majority last summer, she left home
and went to Bath county, as COVER
ness in a family there. The circum-
stances connected with her move
ments indicate that she was the vic
tim of q foul murder. She reached
Richmond on Friday morning and
went to n hotel. After breakfast she
received through a messenger anote,
which she answered, and Immediately
went out. apparentlyin haste. About
eight o'clock in the evening she re-
turned to the hotel, accompanied hy
a man, who remained outside while
Sue went to her roOn. She returned
in a few minutes carrying a small
valise, and the two went away togeth-
er. The next morning her body was
found in the reservoir. When found
she had a bad bruise on the left eye
and temple, and another at the mouth.
There were indications of a struggle
near the place where she was found.
A search was made for the man last
seen with the deceased, and it was
found to be a young lawyer of King
William county named T. j. Cluve-
RUS, by whom she had been betrayed
"a relative and prospective joint
heir with her to the fortune of an aged
female relative, still living. He was
arrested and lodged in jail in Rich
mond, and the evidence against him
is increasing daily.