Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1888-02-14
SPIRIT OF JEFFERSON,
TUESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY IA, 1855
Various items.


Smallpox is still raging in Brook
Barbour county has organized a
Democratic club.
A full line of Silver Ware just re-
ceiFed at C. w. BRowS's.
Sunlight is often the very best
medicine, especially for children and
elderly people.
For tired feet change shoes fire.
quently, for no two shoes press the
foot in the same part.
oil-cloth may be kept bright for
years if properly vanished each sea-
son with good varnish.
Chicago capitalists have a scheme
on foot to purchase the celebrated
Libbey Prison and remove it to that
city.
The great dry goods establishment
of Barnes, Heugerer & Co., in Buff
falo, N. Y, was destroyed by fire,
and other property damaged, causing
total loss of S1,200,000.
A company has been chartered in
Richmond, Va, with capital of
$50, 200, for the manufacture of
mems underwear. The incorpora-
tors are well-known business men.
The shoe shops in the Virginia
penitentiary were burned Jan. 31st,
entailing loss on the Davis Shoe
Company. of Boston, of S15O,O0O
to S175 900 and about $50, 900 on
the State.
A sewing apron, in whose pockets
repose a needle, thimble, small scis-
sors and reels of black silk and cot
ton as we'll, if kept handy for emer-
gencies, will save the house-mother
many step.
The Lenton season begins on Ash
Wednesday, February 18th; the first
Sunday in Lent fails on February
18th; Palm Sunday falls on March
10Th; Easter Sunday comes on April
1st, and closes the Lenton season.
By the use of Laxador, the golden
remedy for all blood and bowel dis.
eases the liver, the spleen, the kid
neys and the stomach are allsbrouglit
into harmonious action. 1t is be-
yond doubt almost valuable specific
and should be kept in every house
for an mergency
Mr. Joseph E. Gookus has sold his
dwelling house and lot on High
Street, adjoining the Shenanuonh vat-
ley Railroad, to Mrs. Mason Bennett
for six hundred dollars. Mr.. Henry
Reynolds, of Shepherdstown, has
bought of Mrs. Mary Sommers her
dwelling house next door to the Lu-
theran Church. The price paid was
'S7OO.-Shepherdsto,rn Register.
See to it that your child meets
with no neglect; when sick, use for
the diseases of babyhood DIR. Bulls
Baby Syrup;-it never disappoints.
26cents.
Tie latest concerning +" trusts"
comes from London, where it is ru-
mored that Jay Gould, together with
the Rothchilds, the Duke of Devon
shire and the Duke of Westminster,
is going to form a gigantic trust to
control the food supply of London.
The promoters propose to erect gra-
neries, warehouses, pork-curing es-
Establishments, &C., on sites convent
ent to the several great railroads
leading to Chicago. The products
are thence to be carried to New
York over the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad. and from thence to Lon
don.-Philddelphia Times.
Buttons made of dried fresh beef
blood are among the trimmings used
largely this season by dressmakers.
They are all made, says the New
York Times, in a factory near Chi
cago, and some 5000 or 10000 gall
Ions of the blood are utilized daily.
Many a woman who buys cheap jew
elry has earrings or brooches, belt
clasps or hair ornaments, or any of a
dozen other ornaments made out of
this dried blood. She may comb her
hair with the same material, and
think she is using horn or xylonite
or celluloid. when she is using only
the albumen left after the bulk of the
blood treated has evaporated.