Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-10-20
Various Items.


The cholera has appeared at Tunis.
a. ~. Shaw better known as
Josh = Billings is dead:
The ambassa dors in conference at
Gonstantinople require further time
tosconsider the Roumelian question,
and have adjourned to await further
instructions from their governments.
The appeal of Louis Riel, the half
breed leader, came up for. argument
in London Tuesday, but was post
poned until the 21st inst. to await the
arrival of his Canadian counsel, and
Riel was further respited till the 26th
inst z
A robbery was committed in Win
chester early Thursday morning by
chIoroforming Mr.. Atwell Shell and
wife. The thieves took the keys out
of dress near the bed and opened
the bureau drawers; getting two hum
drcd dollars.
The jewelry establishment of MIR.
w. u. Jones, at Martinsburg, was
brokeninto last Wednesday night and
robbed of several hundred dollars
worth of jewelry. Most of the valu-
able articles were secured in the large
safe, and thus escaped capture.
Thieves entered the residence of
Mr.. Ed. Timberlake, on King street,
about 6:3O O'Clock, Thursday eve
ming, and stole trunl1ful of valuable
clothes. On the night of the same
day, they attempted to break into the
house of Mr.. j. w. Pitzer, but
came near meeting with warm re-
ception.-ndrtins5urg Independent.
The Abingdon Tirginian says that
Judge Ward, recently shot in that
place by DR.. VIM. White,.is rapidly
improving. His conditionimmediately
after the shooting was regarded as
being very critical, but the surgical
treatment has been SO cffectual that
all doubt of his final recovery is now
removed, and it. is expected that he
will be out in a short time.
The West-bound express train on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
struck a rock two miles east of Ohio
Pyle Falls, Pa, Tuesday, preciritat-
ing the engine, two baggage cars and
a smoking car into the river. Fire
man Saml. Goodwin was cut, bruised
and scalded, but not fatally hurt
Several passengers were slightly
bruised, but all escaped without Sc
rious injury.
At 1Iiller's Bend, near Weverton,
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
last Thursday night, an engine draw
ing a freight train eastward bound
ran over a door that had become de-
tached and fallen from coal hopper,
and with one car was thrown from the
track and prccipitated into the Ches-
apeake and Ohio Canal. w. II. Dol
phin, a fireman, was slightly injured.
At Point of Rocks, the same night, q
rock weighing probably thirty or forty
tons fell into the canal from the side
of one of the Baltimore and Ohio
tunnels.
DR.. j. W. NIcSherry and family had
considerable shaking up on Friday
morning about three o'clock. Mrs.
McSherry aroused the doctor by a
sudden scream, and upon his cnquir-
ing the cause, she said there was a
man standing in the doorway of their
room. DIR. Jim jumped up and ran
out into the hall, and down stairs
where he heard the man making his
escape through window into Spring
Alley. The intruder ran very fast
and made good his escape. A silver
card case and or 8 silver spoons are
all that appears to be missing. It is
thought that the party had been con-
cealed in the house when the family
retired. Some gypsy fortune tellers
had been in the house the evening
previous, who are supposed to have
been connected with the burglary.
iIdTtinSbur0 Statesman.