Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-07-14
SPIRIT OF.JEFFERSON.
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY II, 1885.
Various Items.


Miss Patsey Goodwin, of Amherst
county, Va, died recently, aged 90
years.
They have started discussion in
the Minnesota papers on the question
whether the mamma which the Israel
ties ate in the wilderness was not
locusts.
While digging holes for telegraph
poles on the plains, seven miles from
Merced, CAL, the workmen struck a
stream of water within three feet of
the surface.
A floating island about one hun
dred feet square is at present an in
teresting object in that portion of
Lake Marsebsic, Me-, known as
"BIack Pond"
The undertakers of the country are
organizing to oppose cremation, and
are inventing embalming processes in
preserving u corpse that will render
it impossible to cremate.
To most children the bare sugges-
tion of dose of castor oil is nauseat-
ing. Why not, then, when physic is
necessary for the little ones, use
Ayers Cathartic Pills? They COM
bine every essential and valuable
principle of cathartic medicine, and
being sugar-coated are easily taken.
We find the following seasonable
advice floating about on the sea of
newspapcrdom: Never go where
you are not wanted. If man wants
you to go to his room he will ask you
to do so, and if amerchant wants you
to visit his place of buiness he will
invite you through the columns of
your local paper. 1t is wrong to in
trude upon privacy: don't do it."
A party of ladies and children near
Waycross, Ga, were scared nearly
out of their wits by the appearance
of two tramps, who carried matters
with a high hand until a mouse ran
across the floor, when the desperadoes
screamed wildly, endeavored to pull
up their pantaloons by the roots, and
otherwise stood revealed Con the
nearest chairs) as two ladies of the
neighborhood, fond of practical
jokes.
Jos. S. Fisher, Wytheville, Va,
says in the yeaR1883 he used Powell s
Prepared Chemicals for wheat, and
increased the yield four fold. In pro-
portion to cost was the best fertilizer
he ever used. The cost of Powell's S
Prepared Chemicals is Sc per bbl., a
sufficient quantity to make one-half
ton complete fertilizer. Address
Brown Chemical Co., Baltimore, Md.
A Congressman was complimenting
the President the other day on the
appointment of good Democrat
and a faithful worker in the party -
whereupon Mr.. Cleveland replied:-
All right; 1 have reason to hope
he will be capable and honest man
in the place; but, as you're his friend
you'd better warn him that if 1 catch
him misusing that place in any way
for party purposes I'll flip him out
as quick as lightning-just as quickly
as I'll flip out a Republican for doing
that. will not have it-tell him to
remember that
Almost every person has some form
of scrofulous poison latent in his
veins. When this develops in scrofu-
lous sores, ulcers, or eruptions, or
takes the form of rheumatism, or or
ganic diseases, the suffering that en-
sues is terrible beyond description.
Hence the gratitude of those who
discover, as thousands yearly do,
that Ayers Sarsaparilla will thorough
ly eradicate this evil from the system.
The Secretary of the Navy, in car
rying out the policy of retrenchment
in his department, has reduced the
number of subscriptions to newspa-
pers in order to bring the amount ex-
pended therefor within the statutory
limits. The law prescribes that the
amount expended annually by each
department, with the exception of the
State Department, shall not exceed
500. But little attention has hither-
to been paid to this law in the Navy
Department, and the newspaper bill
has amounted to several hundred
dollars above the limit every year.
The Secretary has reduced the num-
of papers for the entire department
to thirteen, which requires total ex-
penditure of s98.28 annually.
The Charleston Ne,os recited the
following as reasons why the people
of South Carolina should be content
ed with their State, and not seek
homes elsewhere: "Several black
bears have been seen in North Caro-
lima recently. There was shower of
turtles as large as silver dollars in
Raleigh few days ago. A bolt OF
lightning struck pond near Ashville
and killed a number of fish the week
before last. One hundred and sixty
seven snakes were killed in an old
fort near Beaufort in one day, and a
ghost has been seen near Rocking
nam. In Georgia man living near
Athens dropped a spool of thread
into hole from which locust had
just emerged, and the entire spool
unwound without reaching the bot
tom of the hole.'