Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-04-07
Various Items.
Gen. Grant is rapidly declining.

Gen: Grant is rapidly declining.
Agricultural reports-The corn
popping.
Aiplot has been exposed in Madrid
to assasinate King Alfonso.
The Revised Edition of the Old
Testament will be issued in London
on May 1.
Steps are being taken for the es-
Enlistment of a telephone system in
NJ artinsburg.
Assuit for 10000 amages,for as
sauIt has been brought against But
ler Malone by John Willis
Friends of Mrs. Garfield deny the
published reports that she is to marry
Rev. Mr.. Taylor, of Pennsylvania.
Amovement is being made to build
a railroad from Alpine Station, on the
B. & o. r. R., to Berkeley Springs.
Secretary Manning has appointed
Eugene Higgins, of Baltimore, chief
of the appointment division of the
Treasury Department.
Secretary Lamar is GO ard the old
est member of President Cleveland's
Cabinet; Postmaster-G General Villas
is as and the youngest.
Jos. Sprigg has been elected mayor
of MoorefeId, West Virginia. The
vote on liquor license stood: For Ii
censc, Sc; against license, 50.
The Swift Manufacturing Company
of Columbus, Ga, has just completed
three bed spreads made of silk, cost
ing s125 each. They will be sent to
the New Orleans Exposition.
Prince Bismarck's SEVENTEEN birth
day was celebrated with enthusiasm
throughout the German empire last
Wednesday, and many presents were
bestowed upon the chancellor.
Hon. T. r. Carskadon, of Keyser,
a leading West Virginia Republican,
has resigned his position as member
of the State committee, and left the
party for the Prohibitionists.
The Wheeling InteHigencer pub
fishes letters from various counties
of West Virginia showing that the
accounts of widespread destitution in
numerous sections of the State have
been greatly exaggerated.
r. p. Hughes, the United States
Marshal for the Eastern District of
Virginia, who was some $1,000 short
in his accounts and left the State,
was arrested in Texas en- route to
California, and brought to Richmond
for trial.
Amob of 1000 women, wives of
the Turkish soldiers, to whom the
government is in arrears for pay,
drove the finance minister out of a
back window of his office last Wednes-
day, by the ardor of their demands
for money.
1t is a remarkable distinction to be
the father of eleven daughters, but
much more remarkable to be the
father of eleven married daughters.
This is the privilege of Mr.. Burnard,
the editor of Punch, who has not been
in good health of late.
/" I am told,'' writes a New York
correspondent, that General Grant
recently received a letter of sympathy
from General Fltzhugh Lee, of Vir-
ginia, who; spoke for the ex-Confed-
crate soldiery in such n kindly man
4er as to touch deeply the recipient
of the letter."
A dispatch from Lynchburg, Va,
says that reports from numerous
points show that abandoned wheat
fields, which were about TO be plowed
up for other crops, have come out 80
finely since the warm weather as to
change entirely the crop prospect re-
ported earlier in the season.
Postoflicc Inspectors Henderson
and Smith have captured George w.
riddles at New Market, Va, charged
with raising postal money orders.
riddles has been engaged in this
business for two years, and he has
victimizcd nearly all the largest post
offices in the country. He has on
numerous occasions, it is alleged,
raised a ffty-cent money order to
fifty dollars, and successfully worked
it off on an unsqspecting postmaster
or postal clerk.
a very unusual scene occurred at
the scranton, Ia, Presbyterian
church Sunday week. To sixty CON
verts was being extended the right
hand Of fellowship by the congrcga-
ton. Mrs. ". w. Wilton, a mem
Der, also extended her hand. Aaron
Mcdonald, who is not q church mem
Der, and who claims that she is a
party to cheating him out of $500
by her husband making over his
property, o in his pew and in a
low voice called attention to the fact
that Mrs. Winton was "a hypocrite
and a robber'' and not fit to welcome
new Christians. The pastor inter-
ferrcd. but q tumultous scene was
enacted before order could be re-
stored.
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