Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-03-02
Local Miscellany.

Lent begins March 10th.
WooD and Corn wanted at the
Sr1R1T Office.
Harry T. Talbot came home on a
visit last week.
Hon. VIM. Mines, of Virginia, was
in town last Thursday.
The Shepherdstown corporation
election will be held March 9Th.
Rev. Dallas Tucker left home last
Wednesday, on trip to Lynchburg,
Va. 5','.
We've pleased to have call, on
Saturday, from Brother little, of
Shepherdstown.
Regular conclave of Potomac Com
mandery, knights Templar, this
(Tuesday) evening, at y O'Clock.
Mr.. David Howell read sermon
in the Episcopal Church on Sunday
morning, in the absence of the pas
tor.
A. r. Pendlcton, Esq, of Winches-
ter, and j. S. Bragonier, ESQ.,, of
Shepherdstown, were in town on
RThursday.
There will be an annular eclipse of
the sun on the 18th of March, at :02,
P. NJ. A small part may be visible
when the sun sets.
B The Rev. w. D. White will hold
services at Halltown on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Friday evenings of
this week, at O'Clock.
Mr.. Vincent G. Moore, Of this
county, passed satisfactory civil
service examination and has been APP
pointed postotfice inspector.
5. Hen. Logan Osburn came up from
Washington, where he is spending
the winter, and spent short while in
town last Tuesday. We were pleased
to find him in good health.
Mr.. Louis E. Brown left yesterday
for Berryville, Va, to enter into bus
mess there on his own account. The
best wishes of host of friends &C
company him to his new home.
One of the heaviest winds ever
known here, with cold wave, pre-
vailed from Thursday at midnight and
during Friday. We have learned of
noserious damage resulting, however,
in this locality.
y fellow feeling makes us Won
drous kind is illustrated in q" mine
host" of the Malthy House." Bal
t!more. who having bees 8 one of
en- knows how to make the 'boys"
comfortable and happy.
MIR. s. f. HORNE, who has been
engaged in the Photograph business
here for some months past, will leave
this week for Baltimore. Mr.. II. has
won the favorable opinion of all who
have como in contact with him while
here, and their good wishes will follow
him elsewhere.
Ouresteemed fellow-townsman Col.
WIN. P. CraighiIl contributes, in
another column, an interesting item
in connection with the founding of
Charlestown, whose centennial ami
versary it is proposed to celebrate
next october. We hope to have our
readers entertained with further ar
ticlcs from the Colonel upon this sub
ject hereafter.
Mrs. S. f. Martin, of Baltimore
Railroad Superintendent of the Wo-
mems Christian Temperance Union,
recently effected an organization at
Sandy Hook, Md. Thirty ladies and
twenty-thrce men signed the pledge
and identified themselves with the
organization. Mrs. Charles L. Cole
was chosen president, and at suisse
quent meeting the names of forty per-
sons were added to, the membership.
AN alarm Oh uESs~stS SOulutu SlOEI-
ly before o'clock on Thursday after
noon, occasioned by smoke arising
from the cellar under the store of
Mr.: S. S. Dalgarn, in the Lee Hall
Building, on the second floor of which
the SPIRIT office is located. For a
short while serious conhagration
seemed to he imminent, but Fortunate
" was warded off. The fire was
found to be located among some
packing in a box near the outer door,
where spark of fire had fallen,
and the prompt use of three hand
grenades by Mr.. Olin Beall put it
under such control that the box was
with little diffiulty removed from the
cellar and the fire extinguished. Both
fire companies responded promptly to
the alarm, and had their services been
needed would doubtless have done
effective work.
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