Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-02-16
Various Items.


Hot-house strawberries are selling
in New York at Sd per box.
Thos Littleton, of Leesburg, Va,
died recently, aged sc years.
The young ladies of Morgantown
donated 500 to Miss Jennie Smith.
Mile. Rhea declares Washington to
be the most beautiful city she has
seen. qE r
Frederick Mertens, Sr., prom
inent citizen of Cumberland, Md, is
dead. ~
Miss Addie Sherman, the we'll
known evangelist, is holding meetings
at Cameron, w. Va.
A bill has been introduced in the
Legislature of Virginia to tax dealers
in firearms $500 a year. .r ill.,,
John L. Keefer's mill near Fred
erick city, Md, was burned Wednes-
day night; loss over 81, GOO. ast
Samuel NJ. Kefauyer's mill, near
Middletown, Frederick county, Nd,
was destroyed by fire Thursday night.
A Personal Controversy is in pro-
gress between Gems. Thomas l.. Ros-
ser and L. t. Munford, both of Vir-.
ginia.
The fine residence in Luray, Va,
belonging to the estate of the late z.
B. Borst, has been sold to Miss Belle
G.. Borst for $4,000.
A disastrous overflow of the Sus>
quehanna has caused great individual
loss to the residents of Port Deposit,
Nd, and adjacent points.
a report from Chicago says that
an effort will be made to remove the
Sovereign Grand Lodge, Odd Fellows,
from Baltimore to that city.
A report comes from Richmond
that Hon. John S. Barbour will retire
from public life, and decline to be a
candidate for reelection to the House
of Representative. -.
The bazaar in Lexington for the
proposed monument to Stonewall
Jackson, netted 81, 40. Besides this
amount the ladies have collected sew
eral hundred dollars.
Lizzie ScolIy, aged fifteen years,
while walking over bridge on the
Lehigh Valley Railroad, Tuesday,
near Shenandoah, Pa, fell across the
rails and was cut in two by train.
Grand Master J. j. Hetzel has or
ganized lodge of Good Templars at
Romney. The lodge starts out with
twenty-five charter members, and is
the sixteenth recently organized in
West Virginia.
Congressman and Senator-elect
Daniel, of Virginia, had a fall on the
ice at Washington the other day, the
force of which was borne almost en-
tirely by the stump of his lost leg.
He says it hurt worse than amputa-
ton.
The temperance people of Cameron,
w. Va, bought the stock of liquors
of their only saloonist, and after eX-
acting his promise not to engage in
the saloon business in that place
again, cmptied the whole stock into
a creek.
Senator-eect John W. Daniel, of
Virginia, has accepted an invitation
10 deliver the address at the unveil
ing of the statue of the late Hon. b.
Ii. Hill, at Atlanta, Ga. The date
for the ceremonies has not yet been
announced.
In addition to the five hundred
freight cars noticed as being built at
Roanoke recently, the railroad COM
pany has awarded another contract
for five hundred cars more, also for
fourteen locomotives, all of them to
be constructed at Roanoke.
The new tariff bill to be introduced
in the U. S. House of Representative
by the Ways and Means Committee
of that body will, it is understood,
have large free list, embracing salt,
lumber, iron ore and nearly all the
raw material used in the manufactures
of this country.
John P. Mullaly's livery stables, in
st. Louis, were burned Thursday
morning. The employees, who were
trying to get 65 horses out of the
burning stables, were mistaken for
thieves by the police and dubbed to
insensibility. . The result was that IS
horses were burned to death, causing
a loss of SIP, 900.
A Dispatch from Danville, Va,
states that party of North Caro-
linians on Friday week pursued a
white man named John G.. Wilson,
charged with mule stealing, into Pat
rick county, where he was taken from
party of Virginians, who had him
under arrest. The North Carolinians
dragged the man into the woods near
Spencer's Store and hanged him to a
tree. The body was left hanging,
and no coroner's inquest having been
held or other notice taken of the mat
ter by the county authorities, some
of the people on Sunday afternoon
cut it down and buried it. Wilson
lived in Patrick county.
Not Symptoms, but the Disease.
1t would seem to be a truth appreciable by
all. and especially by professors of the healing
art that to remove the disease. not to alleviate