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

Sr1R1r Office.
: Convocation at Zion Episcopal
Church to-day.
1.-The grounding must have gotten
sick last week.
Mr.. Woody johnson has been
quite ill, but is now better.
Blackburn i1ughes, ESD, of Mar
tinsburg, was in town last Thursday.
Regular monthly meeting of the In
dependent Fire Co. this (Tuesday)
evening. q
The attendance at our Circuit
Court last Tuesday was mitch greater
than for long while past.
"A company for the manufacture of
the Karicofe Germ Harvester has
been organized in Martinsburg.
Mr.. j. II. Myers, the cnterprising
Harper's Ferry Clothicr, has gone to
New York to lay in new STOCK of
goods.
aAspecial Communication of Malta
Lodge, No. so, will be held Tuesday
evening, February 10th. Work in
NJ. NJ. Degree.
Mr.. C. D. Ely (not Mr.. Hill) has
rented the store-room of Col. Jno. L.
Gibson, southwest corner Of Main and
Charles streets.
! 1fyou want to see something pretty,
call and examine The porous vases,
with verdant coating, at the store of
Capt. Edgar Lee.
Mr.. Milton Hirschman, of Morgan
town, gave us & pleasant call last
Friday, whilst OH MS return from an
eastern business trip.
The boss hog of the county for this
season was killed GU Saturday last.
by Mr.. Philip Gordon, residing near
Charlestown-its weight $40 lbs.
Detective ALI. W. Burnett, of
Charleston, Chief of the Eureka De-
tective Agency, was i'll town several
days last week, and paid US q pleas
ant call.
Several of our farmers have in
formed US that the growing wheat
looks remarkably well, and that the
present prospect for a good crop is
excellent.
Mr.. C. A. Pottertield is closing out
his drug stock at IIarper's Ferry, and
will shortly move to Charleston in
this State. We wish him success in
this not to him new field.
The reduced rates at the 7" Maltby
House, Baltimore, show that it is
alive to the requirements of the times,
and determined to give its patrons
full value for their money.
In the Court of Appeals proceed
ing for last week we note: Richard &
Welshans, anpelle, VS.. j. f. Schlcy
ct. al, appellants, APP. and sup. F.;
Jefferson county, submitted.
a protracted meeting will be held
by the Rev. w. d. White, of Harper's
Ferry, in the Halltown school-hous
beginning Monday night, the 16th,
and closing Friday night, the 10th
of February.
Blackburn Hughes, Esq, EXec,i-
tor, has sold the farm of the late Jo-
siah d. Flagg, containing Isl acres,
near Shenandoah junction in this
county, to Mr.. John d. McGarry, at
S45-25 per acre.
The continued rains and warm
weather of last week broke up the ice
in the rivers and carried off the snow
rapidly. The Potomac and Shenan-
doah were quite iiigli, but no damage
done that we have heard of.
The dinners and suppers given by
the ladies of the Baptist congregation,
at Washington Hall, last Tuesday
and Wednesday, were sumptuous,
served in gcol style, and well pa
tronized, and yielded about s12O net.
The property of the late Jas. H.
Rodrick, on Main street in this place,
was sold on Friday last, by Messrs.
Frank Bcckwith. Forrest w. Brown
and George Baylor, Special Commits
sioners, TO the widow of Mr.. RodricE,
for 81 800.
A colored boy drove gentleman
to Charlestown IN a BcrryviIIe livery
outfit, last Wednesday, received the
pay from tile customer and forthwith
proceeded to get on jollitication.
Our Town Sergeant took him in out
of the weather.
Mr.. Nelson Beall, of Frostburg,
one of the wealthiest meh in AIlegha-
ny county, Md, and an uncle of
Messrs. Horace and OIin Beall of
this place, died Saturday night in
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