Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-07-07
Various items.

10y hiSub AS1hSIeWGSh dG OuEQdL0 ,
Green county, n.
a party of Mexican editors is
making a tour of the principal cities
of the United States.
There were dropped from the rolls
of the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, Tuesday, 119 employees.
The Standard predicts a large
wheat crop in Great Britain to the
disadvantage of American exporters.
The amount returned by the app
praisers of the personal estate of the
late John w. Garrett is So, 774, 500. 80.
Jno. Mccullough, the veteran ac-
tor, was on Saturday week committed
TO the Bloomingdalc insane asylum,
near New York.
Rev. DIR. j. A. LefeYre, of Frank
lin Square Presbyterian Church, Bal
timore, has accepted the presidency
of Davidson College, N. G.
VIM. G. McComas, of Hagcrstown,
last week, made sc miles in 8 hours
on a bicycle, the route being from
Hagerstown to Winchester, and re-
turn.
The conductors on all the lines OF
the West Side Division Railway in
Chicago, struck Tuesday for the rein
statement of fourteen discharged
employees.
Professor John NJ. Klein. Ken
tucky's astronomer, has predicted the
appearance of a beautiful comet in
the Southwestern heavens early in
August or the latter part of July.
Mrs. Lucille Yscult Dudley, who
tried to kill O'Donoyan Rosa, in New
York, by shooting him, has been ac
Quilted on the ground of insanity,
and committed to the MiddIctown
IN. W Insane Asylum.
The salaries of all Mexican officers
are to be reduced in consequence OF
the financial embarrassment of the
government. The President of Mex
leo has set the example of submission
to the public emergency by accepting
SIS 1000 instead of SIC, 900 per an
mum.
B.. j. Hart, a retired New York
merchant, died of a carbuncle last
Sunday. The carbuncle was but a
pimple the size of a pin head ten days
before his death. at the time of his
death it was as large as n mans hand
and had eaten over an inch into the
flesh.
Mrs. Fannie II. Davis, a niece by
marriage of Hon. jefferson Davis.
died at Canton, Miss, Wednesday,
after a lingering illness, aged 20
years. She was u native of Virginia.
She married Gen. Joseph r. Davis,
nephew of Hon. jefferson Davis, but
was divorced some ten years ago.
Mr.. Coppola, of Cincinnati, has
recovered 500 from the Baltimore
and Ohio Railway for not furnishing
himself and bride. on March I'd last.
with the sleeping-car berth for which
their tickets called. "The Judge
gravcly charged the jury to duly
consider the fact that the couple were
newly married."
An "%infcrnal" machine, consist
ing of q wooden box containing a
cooked pistol, with wires attached to
the trigger and fastened to the lid of
the box, was received through the
mail by J.. Lum Smith, publisher of a
Philadelphia weekly paper. The ma
chine was so clumsily arranged that
the pistol was not discharged.
Senator Beck, accompanied by a
beautiful young lady, called upon Mr.
Alcck Boteler, of West Virginia,
pardon clerk in Department of JUS
ticc, a day or two ago, to urge the
pardon of the brother of the young
lady referred to, who had been con-
victed of the infraction of one of the
U. S. statutes. Mr.. Botcler did all it
was possible for him to do in the
matter, and give q printed form of
recommendation for pardon to the
Senator to take to the Attorney Cen
cral for his signature, if he would APP
prove it. The lady remained in Mr..
BoteIer's room. In a short time the
Senator returned and handed the pa
per back to Mr.. Boteler. The latter
hcsitated about opening it. lest the
lady might faint if the pardon was
denied, and might do the same if it
was recommended. But finally
opening it, he saw the recommended
ton had been made. Just as he ex-
pected, the lady swooncd but re-
covering herself in q moment, she
rose, and, opening her arms, adj
vanced toward him. He backed be-
hind his desk, aud pointing to Mr..
Beck, said, "him, him!" but when
she returned to Mr.. Beck, he retreat
ed toward the door, and pointing to
Mr.. Boteler, repeated the latter's
words, saying, him, him!" The
lady by that time had regained her
self-possession entirely, and advanc-
ing toward neither. expressed her
thanks to both.-WaShington Cor. of
the Alexandria Gazette.
y full and complete assortment of Ladies'
and Misses Shoes and Slippers. Also, big line
of Mems and Boys Shoes. We will sell Won
these goods for less money than same have ever
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