Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-07-06
SPIRIT OF JEFFERSON.
TUESDAY MORNING. JULY 8. 1880.
Various Items.

Various Items.
A Methodist missionary has been
appointed chief physician of the Chi
nese army.
Rev. S. G. Ferguson, p. E., will de-
liver a temperance address in Keyser
on July 10.
The minister of . Washington
church has discontinued the usual
preyer for the President.
The design for the Second Mary
land Confederate monument at Get
tysburg has been adopted.
Securities are taken at Cape Henry
this season six feet long, and in larger
numbers than ever noticed before.
Goodson district, Washington
county, Va, has voted against license
to sell liquor by about 800 majority.
A swarm of bees attacked a freight
train in Nebraska, and it was fully an
hour before the engineer could pro-
ceed.
A site in Richmond, Va, for the
equestrian statue of Gen. Robert +.
Lee has been selected by the Monu-
ment Association.
In every land and cline, the merits
of st. Jacobs Oil as the only conqueror
of pain, are being acknowledged by
the press and people.
Commissions have been forwarded
to II. Kyd Douglas, Philip w. Avirett
and Wilbur +. Jackson as colonies in
, the Maryland militia.
Mr.. Nathaniel Burwell, for many
years prominent citizen of Roanoke
county, Va, died recently in the
Western Lunatic Asylum at Staunton.
An effort is being made by the r.
E. Lee Camp of Confederate Veterans
at Richmond, to have a chapel erected
on the grounds of the Confederate
Home near that city.
Henry Watterson, writing from
London to the COurier-JoWrndl, COM
pares Gladstone to jefferson Davis,
and says he thinks them, many lead
ing characteristics, very much alike.
The management of the Ohio River
Railroad Company are making prep
arations to build repair shops and en-
gine-houses at Parkersburg, w. Va,
the work to be completed by the end
of the summer.
Her features are not regular, yet
what an attractive face she has !" 1t
is her beautiful hair. Once it was
thin, grayish and fading. A few bot
ties of Parker's Hair Balsam wrought
the transformation. 1t will do as
much for anybody.
Three members of my family, says
Mr.. James A. Sample, Cash Room,
office of the Treasurer, u. S., who
were suffering from aggravating
coughs, have been much benefited by
taking Red Star Cough Cure. None
of the ill effects so noticeable in other
cough remedies, have followed the use
of this.
The Consul at Cairo, Egypt, furn.
ishes some interesting facts In regard
to American Commerce last year
The records kept at the mouth of the
Suez Canal show that only three
American vessels entered Port Said
during the year. England leads the
list with 2,73O steamers. Then fol-
low France. 293; Germany, 155;
Holland, 1879; Italy, TO9; Austria,
II; Russia, 81; Spain, 20; Norway,
25; Egypt. 13; Turkey, 10; Por-
tugal, 5; Sweden, !. England sent
4 4,341 1872 tons of freight, while
America sent 2, 149.
The contest for the Democratic gu
.bernatorial nomination in Georgia is
becoming exceedingly warm and some
hard things are being said about the
leading aspirants, Gen. J. B. Gordon
and Hon. A. o. Bacon. For instance,
the former is charged with looseness
in certain financial transactions. and
and with having been paid to resign his
seat in the United States Senate in
order that ex-Gov. Brown might be-
como his successor. On the other
hand, Mr. Bacon is accused of having
resigned the adjutancy of his regiment
during the war because of his cowar-
dice. and with " shamefuIly mistreat-
ing and cruelty beating his wife" To
the credit of Gen. Gordon and Mr..
Bacon. they unsparingIy d enounce the
personalities to which some of their
adherents resort.