Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1889-03-26
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Mail is now carried between New
York and San Francisco in 113 hours.
Ez-President Cleveland celebrated
his SD birthday by starting on trip
to Cuba.
Gen. Wade Hampton has restored
two captured flags Of Pennsylvania
regiments.
Mrs. Harrison is replacing the col
ored servants at the White House
with white help.
Samuel j. Randall thinks President
HarrisolSWiIlr run broad and nation
al administration.
The offices Of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Road are to be removed from
Richmond to Cincinnati.
Ex-President Hayes makes a con-
tribution to the Confederate Veter-
ans Home at Austin, Texas.
A poplar tree was cut and sawed at
Angerona, jackson county, which
made BIO feet of inch boards.
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Mr.. Thomas NJ. King has entered
the service of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad again as second Vice-presi-
dent.
Barnum's Hotel, Baltimore, will be
closed on April A, or about that date,
and the property will be disposed of
by the present owners.
Hon. John T. Harrismade speech
at Harrisonburg last week, announc-
ing his candidacy for the Democratic
nomination for Governor of Virginia.
1t is estimated that no fewer than
sixty of the Pennsylvania militia viii
die from the effects of exposure at
the Inauguration in Washington on
the 4th of March.
At the local option election held in
Leesburg district last Thursday, the
"wets" won by majority of S.
This remains the only ''wet" district
in Loudoun county.
William Stevenson, well-known
citizen of Loudoun county, Va, re-
siding near Aide, committed suicide
by hanging. He had been in poor
health for several years.
The hoard of directors of the Bald
win District Fair, Stanton, Va, have
resolved to extend an invitation to
President Harrison to be present at
the next annual meeting of the fair.
A contract for the erection of n
hotel, to cost $50, 900, at Buena Vista,
Rockbridge county, Va. has been
awarded to j. P. Pettyjohn, of Lynch
burg. The hotel is to be completed
by July.
| Parkersburg is to have canning
factory that will give employment to
two hundred hands and will be in
charge of the former superintendent
of the famous McMurry factory at
Frederick.
The new administration will not be
embarrassed for funds. The treas
ury now holds 1925, oO0, 900 in gold
and $298, 900, 900 in silver. Certifi-
Gates outstanding S132, 521,-
600: silver $245, 129, 900.
James G.. Blaine.s grandmother
IGillespie was a native of Loudoun
county, Va, and the Osborns. Hea-
tons and other prominent families are
Idirectly related to the new Secretary
lof State. The parents of Secretary
Window were also natives OF Loudoun
county.
/ By direction of Governor Lee,
Brigadier- General Charles j. Ander-
son has issued an order for the re-
forming of the second regiment of
Virginia volunteer infantry. The
six companies, one each at Pocahon-
tas, Pulaski City, Staunton, Harrison
burg, Woodstock and Winchester,
will constitute this command.
A Richmond, Va, special to the
New York Tribune says: g There is
so little money in the treasury of Vir-
ginia that Governor Lee says. he can
not pay the expenses of the soldiers
who shall go to New York on April
80 to celebrate the Inauguration of
Washington. Hence the volunteer
companies of this city decline to go.
Norfolk, Petersburg, Lynchburg and
Danville will send companies, but
they will pay their own expenses"
Frank Beaham, watchman on the
Shenandoah Valley Railroad, while
in his box near Rileysville Station, in
Page county, Va, last Saturday
night, was shot through the head and
instantly killed. The assassin used
thirty-two calibre revolver and
fired through a glass window. John
Cameron, who lives in the neighbor-
hood, has been arrested. A thirty
two-calibre revolver was found on
his person with one chamber recent
ly discharged.
A Washington dispatch to the
Wheeling Register says: Mr.. Stephen
B. Elkins has made all his arrange
ments to leave New York City and
take up permanent residence at Ell
kins, West Virginia. 1t is the inten-
ton of Mr.. Elkins and the other gen
tlemen connected with the Davis road
to make Elkins the Altoona of West
Virginia. All the shops connected
with the road are to be located here,
and Mr.. EIkins himself will buiId a