Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-08-31

Miss Cecilia Jones, aged 81 years,
the oldest resident of Warrenton Va,
died recently.
Thirty pins and needles have been
removed from the body of young
lady dressmaker at York, Pa.
Hon. George c. Cabell has been re-
nominated by the Democrats of the
fifth Virginia congressional district.
An italian has, it is alleged, in
vented luminous printing ink that
renders it possible for newspapers to
be read in the dark.
Prof. Grothe, Brooklyn Board of
Health, says Red Star Cough Cure is
free from opiates, and highly efffca-
cious. Twenty-Five cents.
1t is stated on reliable authority
that the recent decree from the Vati-
can concerning the knights of Labor
has no application to the United
States.
Wonderful results have been ac-
complished in reproducing the tones
of the human voice by an improve
ment upon the phonograph called the
graphophone.
Under the laws of the State of
Pennsylvania, fine of $50 can be
collected from any person who allows
the pestilential Canadian thistle to
grow on his land.
The Scientific american says if a
bottle of the oil of pennyroyal is left
uncorked in a room at night, not a
mosquito or any other blood sucker
will be found in the room.
Geo. II. Hagley offers a job in Hats,
and has dropped prices on Summer
Clothing, Gloves, Slippers, &C., to
suit the end of the summer trade, also
has 20 Building Lots for sale.
A man who is dying on the Island
of Jersey has confessed that he muir
dered n woman named Nancy Laurens
in December, 1874: her brother was
convicted of the murder and hanged.
After the most exhaustive practical
tests in hospitals and elsewhere, the
gold medal and certificate of highest
merit were awarded to st. Jacobs Oil,
as the best pain-curing remedy, at
the Calcutta international Exhibition.
At the Lexington Convention an
old Virginia politician, who heard
the speech of Capt. G. Julian Pratt
of Augusta, remarked to an Augusta
delegate: elf your man could put
that manuscript in his pocket he
would be one ofs the first orators in
Virginia. ''-IStaunton Vindicdtor.
A woman living at Mextecas, Mex
leo, who. in somnambulist, had
formed the habit of taking her young
est child in the small hours of the
night to the edge of precipice in the
mountains, where she would dangle
it. Tuesday night it slipped from
her grasp and was dashed to pieces on
the rocks below. The authorities had
her arrested rs witch, and if found
guilty at her trial she will be hanged.
NIeteorologists have found that
there can be no thunder and lightning
without rain. When thunder is heard
beneath a clear sky, the reports either
GolLC 1lOih SicdNo VI oA y IAS
result of some other cause than dis
charge of electricity. Harvest or
heat lightning is produced by dis
tant storm. Thunder seldom accom-
panies heat lightning, the sound
reaching only about twelve miles,
while lightning is often seen, by re-
Election upon nearer clouds, at a much
greater distance.
The late Samuel J. Tildcn's estate
is valued at about Sc, 100000 one
third of which goes in trust to his
relatives, about 100000 for free Ii
braries in New Lebanon, and Yonkers,
n. Y. The balance, about 81 ,000,-
900, is left to the trustees, John
Bigelow, Andrew Fl. Green and
George w. Smith. ''If in the discre-
tion of the trustees they choose to
establish free library in New York
city they may do so, and if not they
are at liberty to use the funds that
a free library would cost in the pro-
motion of any charitable or education
al cause"
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