Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-07-28
SPIRIT OF JEFFERSON
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TUESDAY MoRNING, JULY as 1855.
Various Items.

TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 2s. 1885.
Various Items.
Psper printed and put up in tablet
form at the SPIRsT Office.
Seven cents a pound is the best
price Iowa farmers can get for good
libutter.
The decrease of the public debt
during the month of June WAS. SS,-
f99s, ,998. 70.
Allie of General j. E. B. Stuart,
written by a prominent Confederate
officer, will soon be given to the pub
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o'Donovan Rossais in st. Louis in
conference with the Fenian Brother
hood to raise more funds for dynamite
projects:
A number of persons were poi.
soned, some fatally, in Illinois re-
Gently, from eating dried beef made
from diseased cattle.
Two ladies have been elected to the
yestry of st. Luke's Episcopal
Church ut Chadd's Ford, Pa, and the
l.election has been confirmed by the
Bishop.
During Fourth of July picnic ut
Fort Worth, Tex, eleven persons
were poisoned from eating canned
meat that had been packed in. lead
cases. All recovered after intense
suffering.
sYice=President Saml. Spencer,
John K. Cowen, general counsel, and
Frank Harriott, general freight agent,
Baltimore and Ohio officials, recently
visited Moorcfeld, Hardy county, to
look into the project of the South
Branch Railway to MooreGeId. They
met a number of the leading citizens
of that section, and it is believed
that the long-expected railway will.
soon be built.
Judge Maynard, Second Comptrol-
Ter of the Treasury, has rendered a
decision that naval officers who travel
at Government expense are not en-
titled to mileage, and that mileageis al
lowable only when they travel at their
own expense. This is areversal of a
former decision of the accounting
officer and will result in saving to
the Government of several hundred
thousand dollars.
Ayers Ague Cure is strictly a
vegetable preparation, harmless, and
warranted to. cure all maIarial dis
orders.
At Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 4th
of July, the Mormon authorities
undertook to celebrate the day by
hanging tile national flag at half-mast
on public and private buildings A
committee of citizens, embracing
several ex-Confederates and the rep
resentatives of a Grand Army post,
waited upon the mayor and sheriff
and compelled them to run the flag
up to the masthead.
A lady writes: "-I have used
Ayers Sarsaparilla in my family for
many years, and could not keep house
without it. For the relief of the
pains consequent upon female weak
ness and irregularities, consider it
without an equal"
The following appointments of
new postmastcrs in Virginia have
been made: Dayton, Mrs. NJ. De
Yieri WaIlaceton, j. g. Lynch; Ivor,
I. L. Bayne; Luray, j. S. Cray
SON; Rockingham, r. W. Carpenter; {;
Smithville, !E. A. Morrison; Mines,
A. G. Rhodes; GoochIand C. H.,
Chas. n. Powell Hamburg, d. NJ.
Stoner; MiddIetown, Jas. II. March !;
Criglersville, II. NJ. Hall; North
River, p. Burgess Btlshville, Miss
NJ. x. Rice; Amissville, n. j. Cropp /;
Williamson, II. D. Cole.
Not a particle of calomel or any
other deleterious substance enters
into the composition of Ayers Ca
thartic Pills. On the contrary, they
prove of special service to those who
have used calomel and other mineral
poisons as medicines, and feel their
Injurious effects. In such cases
Ayers Pills are invaluable.
The Washington correspondent of
the Alexandria Gazette says: a gen
tleman familiar with the affairs of the
W., o. 6 w. r.. r., in the city to-day
says the new bonds of that road could
be sold without difficulty, and at a
pretty good figure, hut not as good
as the company holds them at. He
also says the charter of the Shenan-
doah Valley Railroad Company does
not permit that company to either
buy or lease other roads, but that of
the W., %. G w. R. R. Company
does, so that if the proposed reor-
ganization of the:former company, by
which provision will be made for the
extension of the road of the latter to
BerryvilIe, be effected, that reorgani-
zation must be made under the char
ter of the latter.
have just received new assort-
ment of Ladies' Set, Misses Set and
Children's Eardrops. We keep the
largest-Stock of JewcIry in Charles
town, and at prices that defy compe-
tition. We sell at small profits
All our stock is new and pretty.
Fine assortments of Gents and La
dies Plain Gold and Set Rings; Cuff
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