Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-04-06
Various Items.

The Salvation Army is taking
Charleston by storm.
Samuel R. Sterling, the defaulting
treasurer of Rockingham county, Va,
has been arrested.
Brown & McKinney's tannery at
Frederick city, Md, was damaged by
fire Saturday morning.
A fire at Culpeper, Va, Saturday
morning, destroyed property estima-
ted at $4,000 in value.
Over IS horses have died in Camp
bell county, Va, within the past few
weeks from strange disease.
By vote of 80 to II the New Jer-
sey assembly has passed rate of
railroad fare at one cent a mile with
in 20 miles of New York city.
The railroad strikers and officers
of the law came into collision near
Fort Worth, Texas, Saturday, and a
fight with firearms followed, in which
several persons on both sides were
shot.
Ex-senator Henry G. Davis, Messrs.
Blaine and Elkins' Democratic part
ner in coal and railroad operations, is
likely to be candidate for the seat
now occupied by Senator Camden, of
West Vrginia.-N. Y. Star.
A fire at Key West, Florida, Tues
day, destroyed the principal part of
town. There was no water supply,
the cisterns being dry. The loss is
at least 81 100000, with little insur-
ance, probably not S1O0:000!
The trial of r. Butler Malone, son
of Senator Malone, charged with
shooting colored waiter at Welcher's
Hotel last summer, resulted in the
Police Court of Washington on Mon
day, in his being found guilty of SIM
pie assault and fined 500.
The trial of DIR. White at Abing-
don, Va, charged with shooting
Judge Ward, was concluded Satur-
day, the jury finding the accused not
guilty of the felony charged in the
Indictment, but guilty of an assault,
and assessing his fine at 1915.
The iron bridge, lis feet in length,
over Gooney Run, on the line of S. ".
r. r., resting upon substantial stone
abutments built by Mr.. j. Gallery and
assistants, was finished last week and
reflects credit upon all engaged in its
construction.-Wd Warren Sentinel.
/ Mr.. Kinsman has forty acres of
cabbages on the reclaimed land on
Lake Tohopekaliga, Florida, and has
been offered $4,000 for his crop
He declines, and expects to get near
ly twice as much by shipping. 1t
will take $50 cars to move the crop.
At Mines, Page county, Va, few
days ago, a difficulty occurred be-
tween Sergeant E. w. Fogg and a
young man named James Miller, of
Port Republic, Rockingham county,
which ended by Fogg shooting Miller
in the forhcad, but not dangerously.
Col. H. Kyd Douglas, since he de-
livered his lecture on the "Southcrn
Volunteer" in Lowell Institute, Bos-
ton, where it was received with such
great favor, has received an offer
from a weli-known and reliable lee
ture bureau to deliver the lecture fifty
times in the leading cities.
Gen. w. H. II. Flick, the genial U.
S. District Attorney, is in failing
health, and it is feared that he will
not live through his term of Office
He is suffering from dropsical af-
lection which is assuming danger
Gus aspect. This will be sad news
to the Generals numerous friends
throughout the State.-State Journal.
At the conclusion of Congressman
Wilson's CIV. Va.) speech the other
day on the pension appropriation bill,
which is highly complimented by both
Democrats and Republicans, Hon. j.
Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, placed
the red ribbon in button hole of his
| (Wilson's) coat, distinguishing the
Second District member, the orator
of the House. Gazette.
The Martinsburg Statesman says
between Alpine and Sir Johns Run,
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, ,
in Morgan county, a Pittsburg firm is
tunneling the mountain for white sand
for glass manufacture. When ground
it is like granulated sugar. The ca
pacity of the mill is fifty tons day,
and the supply is inexhaustible. The
proportion of silica in this sand is
greater than any known in the United
States.
A decision rendered by the Su-
preme Court of the United States a
few days ago is regarded as an i'm
portant one, not only for the amount,
but for the principles involved. 1t
was an appealed case from the Circuit
Court for the Western District of
Virginia, in which VIM. A. Glasgow,
executor of one Spears, was dccreed
by Judge Rives to pay over again
about $40, 900 which he had paid for
a tract of land in Confederate money.
The United States Court reverses
Judge Rives out and out, holding that
the first payment was in every respect
good. The decree reversed with
costs, and the cause was remanded,
with directions to dismiss the suit.