Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-04-21
Various items.

Over go, 900 paper car wheels are
in daily use on American Railways.
Capt. j. NJ. Mentzer, editor of the
Hagerstown Herald and Torch, is
dead.
Edward Pierrepont, secretary of
the American legation at Rome, is
dead.
1t is thought that the Confeder-
ate relief bazaar receipts will net
$50 OO0.
President Cleveland fame is being
placed on an enduring basis. a new
city in the oil field has been named
for him.
Vanderbilt University at Nashville
has fifty-fve professors. This is one
of the best equipped universities in
the world.
Ex-Governor Waller of Connecti-
cut, who goes as Consul General to
London, used to sell newspapers in
the streets of New York.
Hon. John T. Harris wants to be
the next Governor of Virginia. So
says the Washington correspondent
of the Alexandria Gazette.
Gen. T. L. Rosser, C. S. A., called
in and saw Gen. Grant and expressed
sympathy and brought a box of flow
ers with him for the General.
1t is said that while the British
troops in the Soudan are dying from
the effects of the heat, the Arabs have
as much as they can do to keep warm.
The ceremonies attending. the in
auguration of the new Mccormick
observatory of the University of Vir-
ginia were held at Charlottesville on
Monday of last week
Under proceedings of an inquisi-
ton of idiocy before the Court of
Ordinary at Columbus, Ca, recently,
Blind Tom, the famous blind pianist,
was placed under the guardianship of
General James n. Bethune.
An old carpet was taken up from
a San Francisco room the other day
and burned. The ashes of the car
pet yielded more than $4,000 in
gold-dust. The room from which it
was taken was in the United States
mint.
The New York Legislature has
passed the Niagara reservation bill
and it goes to Governor Hill for his
signature. BY the terms of the bill
the land around the falls becomes a
free park forever, the owners being
paid a valuation fixed by commission
ers appointed by the State for this
purpose.
Representative j.. Henry Shaw,
Democratic member of the Illinois
Legislature, was found dead in his
bed at Springfield Sunday week.
This makes the third member of the
Legislature who has died during the
present session. Mr.. Shaw's death
will delay n final ballot for United
States Senator twenty days longer,
as an election to fill the vacancy can
not be held before the expiration of
that period. His death leaves the
House a tic.
The Richmond authorities are find
ing more evidence connecting Thomas
y. SlhN MS Will lLS IluIOCI vi l. I'LL
ME Lillian Madison, whose body was
found in the reservoir. Herman
Joel, a German matchmaker of that
city, when at CentrevilIe, King and
Queen county, a year ago, mended
for Cluverius q gold watch key,
which Joel is expected to prove is the
key found at the reservoir, beside
Miss Madison's veil, on the day the
body was found.
On last Monday night the safe in
the counting room of G. G. Janney
was forcibly entered and burgIarized.
Two holes were drilled in tie door,
and by dynamite or some other pow
crful explosive it was blown off. The
nett proceeds to the burglars was
forty cents, although they carried off
some papers and notes that are of no
value to any one except Mr.. Janney.
Mr.. Janney thinks that the job was
performed by experts, and that the
fact came to their knowledge that be
had received quite a large sum of
money late that evening, which for
tunateIy he did not put in the safe.
CMurtinsburg Statesman.