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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-08-25
Special Delivery System.

a
WASHINGTON, August PA cir
cular relating to the immediate de-
livery system, which is to be put into
operation October L, has been pre-
pared and will be sent to postmasters
at once. After quoting Sec. s of the
postotiice appropriation bill, which
provides the terms under which inn
mediate deliveries are to be made,
the circular says it has accordingly
been decided tointroduce the special
delivery system on October /, 1885,
at all postotfices at which it is per
mitted by law. Those at which the
free delivery system is in operation
and those in cities and towns having
a population of 1000 or over. as
shown by the last census. Suitable
supplies of these special delivery
stamps willbe sent to any postofice
in the country, which may make re-
QUESTION for them, and when received
they arc to be taken up by the post
master in his account current, and
accounted for quarterly in the same
manner as ordinary postage stamps.
They are to be sold by postmasters
in any required amount, and to any
person who may apply for them, but
they can be used only for the purpose
of securing the immediate delivery of
letters and when received in the mail
at any Office designated as special
delivery Office. Under no circum-
stances are they to be used in pay
ment of postage of any description or
the registry free, nor can any other
stamp be employed to secure special
delivery except the special delivery
stamp. The special delivery stamp
must be in addition to lawful postage.
The special delivery stamps must be
effectually cancelled at the office of
mailing in same way as ordinary
postage stamps.
A letter bearing special delivery
stamp in addition to lawful postage
may be mailed at any postofE1ce, but
it will not be entitled to an immediate
delivery when addressed to post
office to which the special delivery
system has not been extended.
Special letters will be delivered by
messenger within the carrier limits Of
free delivery office and within q
radius of one mile from the postotfice
at all other special delivery offices.
Postmastcrs Mt fourth class offices arc
not entitled to commissions on the
special delivery stamps in any case.
No effort will be spared to expedite
the mailing of letters bearing special
delivery stamps.
Postmastcrs are urged to use all
available means for furnishing the
public with Information in regard to
the special delivery system. A list
of special delivery offices will be fur
nished to postmastcrs, and must he
conspicuousIy posted in the postofti-
ccs.
[Signcdl WILLIAM F. Villas,
Postmaster-G Gcncral.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-08-25

Mr.. Hendricks has provoked an is
sue that will so thoroughly expose
the shams and shallowness of the
civil service law, as it is sought to be
executed, that the President will per-
haps try the Democratic idea of fl
ling offices. Mr.. Aquila Jones, q
Democratic partisan, was appointed
post master at indianapolis at the So
licitatiOn of Mr.. Hendricks. When
he took the office he found only one
Democrat among the eighty odd em-
ployces. The law of exclusion had
been closely drawn against all Dem
ocrats and the civil service law was
powerlcss to get one an appointment
in that office. 1t was Intellectual and
useless as means of helping wor-
thy and deserving Democrat into a
place even if he had passed an exam
ination with the highest merit. Mr..
Jones began the work of cleaning out
Republicans andputting in Democrats
and a howl nearly waking the dead
went up from the wumps. A COM
plant was made that Jones was vio-
lating civil service, and a committee
went out to examine into the matter.
When they arrived at Indianapolis
those who had been the noisiest in
their complaints went into retirement
and would not testify. The commit
tee, however, went on with the exam
ination and it is said that their report
will certainly commend the course
pursued by tile new postmaster.
Mr.. Jones is understood to be an Of
fensive partisan, and a Democrat who
believes in whooping up the boys.
The result of the affair is clearly
Democratic victory.
[Pdrkersburg Sentinel.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-08-25
A Remedy for Poison Oak.

DR.. S. A. Brown, o. S. N, Mare
Island, Cal, believes that he has found
a specific for the eruption caused by
contact with poison oak, &c. He
writes: "This specific is bromine.
l have used it with the same unva-
rying success in at least 40 cases.
The eruption never extends after the
first thorough application and it
promptly begins to diminish. With
in "a hours, if the application be per-
sisted in, the patient is entirely
cured. 1 use the brominc dissolved
in olive oil, in cosmoline, or in glyc-
crime. The application with gIyc-
crime is painful, and, L think pos
sesses no advantage to compensate
for irritation. The strenghth of the
solution is to 10 to IL drops of bro
mine to the ounce of oil, used by
rubbing gently on the affected part
three or four times day, and espe-
cially on going to bed at night. The
bromine is so violate that the solution
should be renewed within "a hours OF
its preparation. .''-Hdgerst0aCn Netcs.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-08-25
[Signcd] WILLIAM f. Villas,
Postmaster-Gc Gcncral.

"RrGnT PEARr." "-"I was right
peart till the rheumatic sot in" said
a suffering old man who lived near
the swamp. Fact is, wherever you
live you can't be "right peart" If
you are victim of this troublesome
disease. Captain C. w. Hostenpil-
Ter, Springfield, o., says, /" found
great relief from minHammatory rheum-
atism hy using Browns Iron Bitters. I"
Thousands of othcrpeoplehav found
similar relief.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-08-25
NEW SERIES, VOL. *, NO. 81.
PoETlcAL
Dead Flowers.
M RnEANoR KIRK.


weask and we are answered not,
And SO we say God has forgot,
Or else there is no God
The years
Roll back, and through mist of tears
1 see child turn from her play,
And seek with eagCr feet the way
That led to her fathers knee.
"If God is good and Kind, !" said she,
Why did he let my roses die2''
A moments pause, smile, sigh,
And then, "a do not know, My dear;
Some questions are not answered here n
"But is 1t wrong to asls" ':Not so,
My child. Thatwe should seek toknow
Proves right to know beyond doubt;
And so some day we shall flnd out.
Why roses die"
And then wait,
Sure of my answer soon or late;
Secure that love doth hold for me
The key of life's great Mystery;
And oh! so glad to leave 1T there!
Though my dead roses were SO fair.
GChristiau Union.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-08-25
Poverty and Suffering.

"'I was dragged down with debt. poverty
and suffering Tor years. caused by a sick family
and large bills for doctorng.
was completely discouraged. until one year
ago. By the advice of my pastor. commenced
using Hop Bittcrs, and in one month we were
all well. and none of us have seen sick day
since, and want to say to all poor men, you
can keep your families well year with Hop
Btters for less than one doctors visit will cost
know it, A WoRKINGMAN.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-08-25
HOTELS.
Taylor Hotel,
+, WINCHESTER, VA.
Charlcstown, w. v

TTNHE undersigned takes pleasure in announc-
elsewhere, that he has undertaken the manage
ment of this Famous Hotel for term of years
To those who know him it is useless to say that
he viii spare no effort to render the TAYLOR
HOUSE worthy of their patronage. Strangers
and the public at large arc cordially invited to
give the Taylor House trial. He has relitted
it from top to bottom, and with No. cooks and
polite and accommodating employees in every
of the Taylor Hotel, famous among travellers
for the last fifty years. Every Department of
the House will be conducted with view to the
comfort and convenience of its guests.
t3@ Special Facilities for Commercial Tray
clers. Terms to transient visitors go. per day.
and advantageous rates 10 weekly and monthly
Boarders. 1IENRY WULFERT.
April 10, 1851.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-08-25
MISCELLANEOUS.
A Safeguard.

The fatal rapidity with which slight
Colds and Coughs frequently develop
into the grayest lnaladies of the thrOat
and lungs, is consideration which should
impel every prudent person TO keep at
hand, as a household remedy, q bottle of
AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL.
Nothing else gives such Immediate relief
and works so sure cure in all affections
of this class. That eminent physician,
Prof. F. SweetZer, of the Maine Medical
School, Brunswick, Me-, says:-
HMedical science has produced no other ano-
dyne expectorant SO good as ATER's CHERRT
PEcToRAI. Itis invaluable for diseases Of the
throat and lungs."
The same opinion is expressed by the
well-Lnown DR.. L. j. Addison, of Chicago,
ILL.,, who says:-
ST have never found, in thirty-fiye years of
continuous study and practice of medicine, any
prcparation of so great value as ATEn's CHERRY
throat and lunge. 1t not only breaks up colds
md cures, severe coughs, but is more effective
than anything else in relieving even the most
serious bronchial and pulmonary affections"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-08-25

BEST Book FOR EvERrBoDY.-The
new illustrated edition of Webster's
Dictionary, containing three thousand
engravings, is the best book for eUera,-
body that the press has produced
in the present century, and should
be regarded as indispensable to the
well-regulated home, reading-room.
library, and place of business.
Golden Era.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-08-25

General Logan's forthcoming book
will make it appear that there were at
least two men engaged in the late war.
General Sherman's st Memoirs" leave
the impression that therewas only one.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-08-25

General. G. w. c. Lee, oldest son
of General r. E. Lee, has recalled
his resignation as presidentof Wash
ington and Lee University at the re-
quest of the Board of Trustees.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-08-25

sS5" None genuine without q bunch of greer
Hops on the white label. Shun all the vile
poisonous stuff with Hop or Hops in theii
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-08-25
IADVERfIslNG RATES.

One Square a inch orlessJ u TO Sweels. 81. so
Each subsequent insertion so
One Square, three months. 4 90
One Square, 6 months. S(SOs
One Square, one year. ,.siO. 100
Candidates Announcements.-For County
Officers. S5.00S State or Congressional, 5000.
Others at regular Advertising Rates
Obituary Notices exceeding i've lines 10 cts
per line.
and Whole Columns, to Annual. SemisAnnnal
aud Quarterly Advertisers.
No advertisement to be considered by the
month or year unless specified on the Manu-
script, or previously agreed upon between the
Darties.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-08-25
Book Notices.

HARPER's MAGAZINE for September is one
of the strongest and most attractive Numbers
ever issued. First of all. General Horace Por-
ter's "Reminiscences of General Grant, will
command the readers attention. The article.
which is of considerable length. is full of per-
sonal and characteristic anecdotes. hitherto
unpublished, and is accompanied hy an cx-
ceptiODally good portrait. engraved by KrueIl
from a photograph presented by General
Grand to Mrs. Thomas Mast several years ago
All the departments are well sustained.
GoDEY's LADY's Book for September is a
number full of notable attractions. The from
tispiece is an illustration to one of Dorothy
the Nightingale" The fashion cuts and fancy
work designs are admirable. both in drawing
and color: The literature of this issue en-
braces powerful story by Amelia B. Edwards.
entitled The Four-Ftfteen Express
PETERsoN's MAaAz1SE for September opens
with a beautiful steel-engraving. sThe Drink
at The Spring., and contains. in addition. a
\ mammoth cOlOred fashion-plate some flftv
| other illustrations. etc. The stories are ali
good g year for single copy. with great
| reductions to clubs. Charles J. Peterson. sos
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, Pa
BRAINARD's MUSICAL woRLD.-Thc Aupus,
| number is very interesting. both in literature
! and music, and We commend the World to All
! who like music and wish to keep informed con.
eerning the art Address s. Brainard's Sons
% and 04 Euclid avenue, Cleveland, o.
| Our LITTLE ONES AND NURSERY continue,
bright and interesting. and is always welcomed
! 1oIks- Russell Pub. Co., Boston; subscription
| $3.50 year.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-08-25
Shoe Repairing.

THE undersigned has rented the shop of Mrs.
Brooks. on Main street. seven doors east
of the Hull Pump corner. and is prepared to dc
all kinds of BOOT AND SHOE REPAIRING
upon short notice and at reasonable rates.
Your work respectfully solicited.
LEWIS WINEBRENNER
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-08-25
AYERS
Cherry PeetOraI

Is not new claimant for popular conf
dcnce, but a medicine which is to-day
saving the lives of the third generation
who have come into being since it was
first offered to the public.
There is not a household in which this
invaluable remedy has once been in
troduced where its use has ever been
abandoned, and there is not n person
who has ever given it IL proper trial
for any throat or lung disease susccp-
tible Of cure, who has not been made
AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL las,
in numberlcss instances. cured obstinate
cases of chronic Bronchitis, Larnygitis,
and even acute Pneumonia, and has
saved many patients in the earlier stages
of Pulmonary Consumption. 1t is q
medicine that only requires to be taken in
small doses, is pleasant TO the taste, and is
needed in every house where there nre
children, as there is nothing SO good as
AYERS RYPECTORALfO for treat.
ment of Group and Whooping Cough.
These are all plain facts, which can be
verified by anybody, and should be re.
membered by everybody.
Ayers Cherry PeCt0ral
PREPARED BY
DR.. j. G. Aver &c Co.. Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all druggists.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-08-25

Go to MILLING STORE for Jelly
Glasses, Glass Fruit Jars and Stone
Jars of all sizes at reduced prices.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-08-25

The weather signal service will soon
be introduced along the Valley rail-
road
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-08-25

uAIR-CUTTING and Shaving executed in
IL tirst-class style. Twelve Shavcs for 81 90.
September Is. 1SS4-1y.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-08-25

Prof. Joseph SaIyards died in New
Market on the 10th inst, in the 77th
year of his age. He was for many
years one of the foremost educators
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-08-25

We ask and we are answered not,
And SO we say God has forgot,
Or else there is no God
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-02-19
4 Chissse lynshlaet
celestial Esnplre.1

Just outside the west gate Of 6hAn6hao
city is q small hamlet whore lived an old
man and his son. The latter made It .
practice Of calling upon his father for
cash whenever he WAS In want Of Il,
until the thing got rather monotonous
for the father, who demonstrated with
his son, and being saucily replied to, tho
father attempted 70 apply '1paternal
correction on tho son; the son, ID rage,
then caught hold of the dOor-bar and
brought It down with such force on tho
fathers skull that be cracked il and
killed the old man. The neighbors,
hearing tho row, assembled at the door
Of the house where the murder was COM
mitted and captured the son as he was
endeavoring to escape.
The members Of tho fathers clan were
then called together, and at ! solemn
conclave it was decided to administer on
the spot the law set aside for paricides
instead Of appealing 70 tho magistrates.
which invAriAbay GuuDoo1nCG 1o1ay md
perhaps tho murderer might effect his
escape in the meantime. So tho paricide
was bound hand and foot and Just with
ont tho hamlet = hole WAS dug, and tho
wretched murderer consigned to ite.
depths. The mud was throSn into the
hole, and the members OF the clan
stamped by turns on tho grave until It
was On 9 level with tho ground, and 20,
without leaving I mound or any marks
to point out tha paricide's grave, the as
sembled crowd dispersed silently to
their daily vocations,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-02-19

Tie Iowa Congressional deiegattcn
has recommended TO President Arthur Ne
appointment OF Gen. Tuttic, OF Iowa, - Gov.
crnor or Wyomin {.
a resolution memoralizing Congress
to pa.- a bill o,s.n ng Oklahoma 10 settle
menf was adopted b.. tln III no senate.
The Texas House has passed . bill
for. ling the carrying Of deadly wcaponN
mahi,s ,ha ligintcst = nalty $50 and imprie
oninr Il III county jails.
president-elect Cleveland was in con-
sulta,ion ut New Jerk last week with Dom.
ocratic polite ans, and many waited on him
in the interest OF candidates for Cabinet 20
sitions. Tho Prcsidcntclcct accompanied ~
Daniel Manning, visited Mr.. Tfidcn 1t Cry.
stone on Sunday. Two hours were spent =
Mr.. Tildens dinnuer-sablc and longer pe-
riod in his study. The following y said to y
the slate for tho Cabinet, 20 far % now man
up: Hon. Thomas r. Bayarl, Secretary =
State: Abram 8. Hewitt, Secretary Of -
Treasury: w. r. Villas. Secretary Of war; =
Q. C. Lamar, Secretary Of Interior. and Sons
tor Jonas, of Louisiana, Postmaster General
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-02-19

While the aptitude for living to a
great ago is undoubtedly inherited, still
this tendency to long living many times
shows up In the character Of squirt, as
! single son Or daughter from q given
pair may attain to great age, all other
3oionS from tho Same stock being only
moderate long livers. As to longevity,
- No ordinarily meet with it, there are
physical signs that, fully inspected and
estimated at their worth, will always be
found to tally with the results.
Tho thoroughbred has 6 firm structure
throughout, clearly the result of trans
mission through an agency rendered
hrm of tissue by continuous and some
what severe training, ignoring accumu-
lation Of fat The latter substance in
excess, az even approaching this, places
tho horse, or the person with this pc
culiarity, as though with q sword aus
pended over him BY . very weak thread.
Life b prolonged BY such repeated
efforts - give vigoF, short of sapping
the vitality, and one Of the agencies
through which this is done il Ourtail-
ment Of tendency to fatness.
We have in trees corroborative evi-
denco that arm texture leads to long
life. The hardwood trees are copsid-
cred BY naturalists TO be long-lived in
proportion - they grow thick and stout
rather than tall. Slim plants are, Is a
rule, delicate and short-lived. We can
safely apply this similitude to the horse,
and calculate that the spindling, leggy
horse will not prove hardy or long lived.
The frm texture of the flesh and bones
Of the mule may be taken as evidence
that this concentration Of structure may
be considered to be associated. as rule,
with tendency to long life, and it ID
worth considering how far we can safely
depart from the popularity referred to.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-02-19
Destroy that Sign.

One may feel that he's getting old,
but he naturally dislikes that any :
thing about his appearance shoul d
advise others OF the fact. Yet
nothing does this SO effectually as
thin and falling hair. No woman
wants to marry o man. and business
firms hesitate to employ o man, who
shows this fatal sign. Parker's Hair
Balsam Is worth to you, III this re-
gard, more than It's weight In diana
onds. Use It, and have plentiful and
glossy hair. Many have had every
trace OF grayness removed and bald
spots covered BY using single bot
tel. feb.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-02-19

Matte !',.,.. shot and fatally wounded,
at Young. THO, ldward Shell, who had
seduccd he, nm: refused to right the wrong.
Independence (Kansas) dispatch: A
horrible murd n ar the village OF Radical
City, in this county. was discovered by Frank
Bonham, the eldest son of willow living ON
. farm near that place. On his return home
aftor = three Gays absence, no found his
mother, brother, and sister murdered. 10
two.
At Muskegon, Mich, Philip Ivet So
riously wounded h.s wife with revolver and
then killed himself. For years he lad como
no work on Their farm. and she sought relief
BY removing to tho city with her tircc chill.
drcn.
John Monaghan, once . well-known
marine grocer Of Detroit, but OF latc years
engaged in numbering at Aip,na, has made
m assignment to cover liabilities OF $4,000.
At Vincennes, Ind, Henry Strait
man killed his fathcr-in-law and fatally in
jured his wife. Tho murderer had four
children very III or typhoid fever and was
probably driven insane by grief and religious
fanaticism.
The assignment is announced Of D.
". Miller, proprietor Of the carriage COM
pany Of the same name In Cincinnati. His
liabilities are $le0 coo, with assets Of $l.5, ,UOO
The Union Pacific Road reports its
gross earninss for lss& ut ga. .al 600.
MASKED burglars entered Philip
Glass house. near Dayton, Ohio, bound and
gagged Glass and his sister and demanded
$1,000, which was In the house. Tho robbers
tortured Glass for threo hours, and while no
was suffering they enjoyed themselves slnols.
Ing and eating, but departed without the
money
Leo Linn, editor Of tho Courier,
walash, Ind, shot aud fatally wounded Rill
MCGUIRE Hickey, who made an attack on him
Of Chicago, and on his appearance in Wabash
Linn scored him severely az having been
hired to do tho intimidating at the pol last
November.
In an interview with correspondent
Judge Euscn.cr v. OF Utah, stated that the
enforcement OF tho Elmunds bill had ull-.
settled all business In tho Territory. Many
of tic Mormon leaders havc ic.n forced to
ficc-amons them being lcph Sears, n the
head Of tho 1i0n cooperative store.
A passenger train on the Burlington
Road was wreckcd OH b 'iirc near trcstun,
Iowa. Sc,cn persons Mcrc killed, inclu Ing
Superintendent iaseaprt and q civil en-
gineer named brown;
A monuments in memory Of the 10000
lown soldiers wiia d!cl In the waF l. to po
erected at les Meincs on the grounds of tho
new Capitol.
During riot between the Oh u. se ct
Eureka. tal., n stay hnllct killed ..l;cr.nan
David Kendall An :ndiy,niion mcctin. was
held ut once, Il. i t.. C.,.na,ncn wore o. d red
to pack their effects u tnkc the ,rst loat
for San FraMise. Tne xeitcnont 1, such
that NO more Chinese Will q allowed 70 10 10
.herc.
stuck company haa hasn "rsenis"a