Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-10-26
Local Misceilany.

Spirit Office.
Thanks to Mr.. R. S. Leisenring for
!. late Maryland papers.
County Court November 1st; Cir
cult Court November 10th.
In the races at Hagerstown on
Thursday, G. F. johnson, driver of
Maggie Mitchell, was badly hurt.
Col. Frank Beckwith has purchased
from Col. Jno. NJ. Coyle an unim-
proved lot on South George street.
Mr.. Jos. H. Cockrill is erecting an
addition to the dwelling of Mrs. An
ME Sheetz, on North Mildred street.
The work of erecting the telephone
poles for the line from here to Berry
vile, via Summit Point, is progressing
rapidly.
Mr.. F. L.. Beller has contracted to
erect a frame dwelling house on
"Springdale," the farm of Col. John
D N. Coyle.
A fire in the Blue Ridge mountain,
south of Charlestown, for several
nights past, presented an imposing
spectacle.
D Fife, a little daughter of Mr.. G. b.
LaBoyteau, fell whilst playing, on
Monday of last week, and broke one
of her arms.
CharIestown is now fully connected
with the outside world, for business
purposes, by two telegraph lines
the Western Union and the B. & o.
The pick-pockets got in a full days
work at Hagerstown last Thursday.
Messrs. f. A. Yates and Geo. w.
NARROW, of this county, yer among
the victims.
The Messrs. Updegraff, live bus
mess men of Hagerstown, extended
marked courtesies to visitors last
Thursday, for a share of which we
extend thanks.
The charges at the Maltby House,
Baltimore, are surprisingly low for
the accommodations furnished. 1t
is located in business centre, and
Especially adapted to merchants and
planters.
For low prices in Cry Goods, No
tions and Gents Furnishing Goods,
fair dealing and gcntIemanly accom-
mediation, the firm of j. c. Hoffman
& Sons, Hagerstown, are not to be
e1celled.
The Baptist congregation have
purchased of Mr.. Jas. w. Butt two
large sized heaters, to be placed in
the basement of their church for the
purpose of heating both that and the
main audience oom above.
The barn and adjacent out-huild-
ings of Mr.. w. II. Karicofe, near
kearncysville in this county, were
destroyed by fire last Thursday morn
ing. Loss, we understand, about
$4,000, upon which there is no insu-
rance.
The Citizens and Independent
Fire Companies paraded, with
drum corps, last Tuesday afternoon.
The Citizens Company afterwards
brought out their apparatus and
emptied the cistern of Mr.. John II.
Bishop.
The dinners and suppers given last
week for the benefit of the Citizens
Fire Company netted the sum of
Slo2. 23-a very handsome amount,
considering that nothing else was
going on at the time to attract the
country people to town.
The Memphis express, due at
Charlestown at IL :O7, A. NJ, did not
reach here on Sunday until late at
night, owing to an accident to a tres
tie on the Shenandoah Valley Rail
road, by which two locomotives, at
tached to a freight train, were pre-
cipitated through.
The giving way of a hook in the
ceiling of the NJ. Z. Church South at
Shepherdstown precipitated a costly
new chandelier to the floor, destroy
ing the chandelier and running a por-
ton of a new carpet, to the dismay of
the ladies who by their active efforts
had just secured these articles. For
tunately the lamps were not lighted
At the time of the accident.
Fire was discovered in DR.. Buffers
stable in Shepherdstown on Monday
evening of last week, and although it
al extinguished without doing Sc
rious damage to the stable, a horse be-
longing to Mr.. William Lucas was so
badly burned that he died the nextday.
1t is supposed that a colored man had
accidentally left matches in a vest
pocket in the stable, and that the horse
rubbed against or trod upon them,