Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-03-23
Various Items.

A gun has recently been tested in
Detroit which will carry a ball 10
miles or more.
The colored people of Arkansas
have organized a State agricultural
society of their own.
Days Horse Powder is prepared
by A. C. Meyer & Co., Baltimore,
Md. Price % cents.
A cable message can be sent from
New York to London and an answer
received in six minutes.
A colored chicken thief was shot
and badly wounded by a spring-gun
on McDonogh farm, in Maryland.
Flax raising has become one of the
leading industries in Minnesota, 126,-
$40 acres having been devoted to this
purpose last year.
a family that arrived in Albany,
Ga, recently, Travelled in wagons the
entire distance from Illinois. They
were on the road five weeks.
The best reform in domestic econ
omy is the introduction of DIR. Bull s
Baby Syrup. Laudanum is no longer
given to babies. Only % cents.
Mr.. Blaine is said to be now en-
gagged in general overhauIing of his
old letters. He would like to get
hold of some which were burned, as
requested.
Mr.. Richard Rixey, OF CuIpeper,
while attempting to pick a cartridge
out of an old pistol with his knife a
few days ago, was shot in his eye and
dangerously wounded.
DR.: Bulls Baltimore Pills, the
tourists friend, should be kept by
all travelling men.
With The exception of the British
Museum and the National Library in
Paris, the Congressional Library,
with its two Kdndred and fifty thou
sand volumes is the largest library in
the world.
Houses For Rent. Apply to Y. II.
FIEoE.
The local-option law just passed by
the Mississippi Legislature allows a
town or district to prohibit the sale
of intoXicants after the county in
which they are situated has refused
to prohibit them.
\ little handbook recently pub
lished treats on what to do in cases
of sprains and other accidents. St.
Jacobs Oil should at once be applied.
1t is the greatest pain cure on earth,
and costs only fifty cents a bottle.
1t is said that Georgia's great
swamp, the Okefeenoke, can easily
he reclaimed by drainage into the St.
Mary's river, only a few miles dis
tont, and a magnificent area of land
made ready for the pillow.
"Ilt attend to it soon." Don't
cheat yourself in that way. Your
hair is growing thinner, dryer and
more lifcIess every day. Save it and
restore its original color, softness and
gloss by using Parker's Hair Baisam
while you may.
One of the largest land sales ever
effected in the Southwest was the re-
cent sale in Arkansas of $50, 600
acres belonging to the Little Rock
and Fort Smith Railway Company.
1t brought S1.25 per acre.
BY recent order of the authorities
of the Norfolk and Western Railroad
to yard masters and others, no work
of any description is allowed to be
done in their yards on Sunday. This,
of course, involves the stoppage of
all freight trains on that day.
For a fine line of Shirts of all kinds
from the Finest Dress Shirt to the
Cheapest in the market-go to Geo.
II. Haglcy's. His 30 ct. Shirt, with
Linen Bosom and Cuffs, Patent Cut
and elegantly made, tops anything in
the market. Call and see them.
The President has appointed a
numbcr of naval cadets at large.
among them being Franklin Buchanan
Sullivan, 4 grandson Of the late Ad-
miral Buchanan. and VIM. Turner
Saunders, son of the late Col. John S.
Saunders, both of Baltimore, Md.
In view of threatened epidemic OF
coughs like that of year ago in
Philadelphia, the Health Commits
sioner of Maryland officially recon-
mends Red Star Cough Cure for
throat troubles, as being free from
opiates, safe and sure, and having
none of the harmful features of otEer
cough mixtures. Only % cents
Mr.. John Bell Bigger, the clerk OF
the Virginia House of Delegates, in
responding to a vote Of thanks on the
eve of adjournment, said: - May we
meet again in this House, and in the
house of the general assembly of the
First Born, where no calendar is
called, full of disturbing questions :
where no adjournment is had, but
where there is one endless morning
hour of peace and harmony, and may
L be the recording angel"
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