Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-06-02
Various Items.

Small pox has broken out in Shen=
andoahs Iowa.
Cholera preYailsin Calcutta, India,
to an alarming extent.
Peace negotiations between France
andsGhina areSconcluded4
There were IS, 900 visitors from the
North to Florida last winter.
The banking capital of the United
States to-day is s728, 100000.
Cholera stiIlpreSails in p townsin
Spain: TITS spreading toward the
Frenchsfrontier:
Gov. Cameron offers 81, 900 reward
for the arrest of the lynchers of II.
II. Terry, in Bedford county, Va.
The Shenandoah Valley Assembly
will convene on-fts beautiful grounds
near Mt. Jackson August 4th, and
last ten days.
A number of persons have been
%Iipoisoned recently at Blanton. Pa,
and several are dangerously i'll from
eating canned corned beef.
Judge jackson has entered a de-
cree for the sale of that portion of the
ohio Central Railroad leading from
Point Pleasant to Charleston:
Rev. Jas. Nelson, D: D., Of Farm
I.ville, has been elected to pastorate of
the Staunton Baptist Church, recently
vacated by Rev. Allen Curr, d. D.
The contract for the construction
of the water-works at Harrisonburg
has been awarded to A. L. Jones, of
Philadelphia, his bid being $25 600
The Winchester Times says: Ex-
Judge Jos. II. Sherrard has returned
home. We regret to say that the
improvement in his eyesight has not
been as great as was anticipated.
AS long as he lives, General Grant
will receive from the Paymaster of
the United States Army a check every
month for 81, 1873; his annual salary
as a retired officer being $4,000.
The new postal card under the new
contract will be delicate pink in
color instead of the present yellow.
The size will be the same but the tex
ture of the card is to be improved.
A site has been secured for a new
NJ. f. Church South at Martinsburg,
w. Va. The site is in a nice neigh
borhood, is more central than the old
one, and incyery way said to be more
desirable.
Salvation Oil, is what you want. 1t
kills pain and cures the worst cases
of rheumatism, neuralgia, sore throat
h~oarscness, and headache. Take no
" just as .good.". Price twenty-five
cents a bottle.
The wages of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway employees, will be re-
duced ten per cent. on June 1st.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers and other organizations agree
to the reduction.
AS Miss Ella Taylor, a beautiful
young lady, was passing the cemetery
in MiddIetown, Ohio, 4 few days ago,
one of the party with whom she was
with suddenly exclaimed, "Thcrc is a
ghost" They started to run, when
Miss Taylor fell and expired before
medical aid could arrive The result
of Il practical joke.
Hostilities arc raging in Knott
county, Ky, between two factions,
one headed by J.. G. Jones. a respect
able citizen, and the other by a man
named Hall. In an encounter on
May 10 four men were mortally
wounded. Some reports say that the
members of the Jones party have
been arrested, while others say the
Hall band are invested in a house by
the Jones men, and cannot get out.
The Chicago Egening Journal, a
staunch Republican paper, speaks of
Mr.. S. Corning Judd, the newly-ap-
pointed Democratic postmaster of
that city, in warm terms of praise.
1t declares that he is every inch a
man-an able lawyer, a good citizen
and a devoted ~churchman. The only
objection the Journal has to Mr.. Judd
is his democracy, to which, it says,
he ceilings with tenacity Of life in
tdefeat and in victory, right or
wrong"
A Patent from the State of Virginia
to L. T. Moore, James p. RELY and
Holmes Conrad, of this city, was is
sued this month for nine thousand
nine hundred and five acres of land
lying within nine miles Of Winches-
ter, embracing nearly the entire
North Mountain. A mountain of iron
orc and manganese is to be found be-
meath its surface. The Patent is
being recorded in the Clerks office
of the County Court of Frederick
county. Winchester Neers.
You will find at our house a beautiful line of
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WM. KAHN & Co., Sadler Building.