Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1889-11-19
Various items.


1t is reported that Samuel j, Ran
dali cannot fully recover his health.
Alarge cotton factory is to be erect
ed at Berkeley, suburb of Norfolk.
Illinois is probably the only State
in the Union in which forest trees are
increasing.
The authorities in Waynesboro, Pa,
in compliance with recent town ordi-
nance, arrest tramps and make them
work on the streets.
George White, former resident of
Martinsburg, has been arrested in St.
Paul, Minn.a for marrying a young
girl there while he had a wife and
child in Martinsburg.
Every glorious act of a great life starts for
ward an eloquent fact. DR.. Bulls Cough Sy-
rup is the glorious act of n lifes study, and, it
is positive fact that it stands without rival.
Mr.. A. H. Anderson, of Greenbrier
county, this State, has donated to
Randolph-Macon College, Virginia,
the sum of 50 900 to be used as loan
fund to educate divinity students.
.'Hope for a season bids the world. farewell. .
when man finds himself IN the relentless grasp
of neuralgia. but he smiles and takes heart
when his wife brings him bottle of Salvation
OH.
John Geary, for many years en-
gagged in the iron business in the
Shenandoah Valley, died at his home
near Staunton, Va, recently. He
left the bulk of his property, worth
probably $40, 900, to Bishop Keane
for the benefit of the Catholic
Church.
The worst feature about catarrh is its dan
gerOus tendency to consumption. Hoods Sar-
saParilla cures catarrh by purifying the blood.
A Tennessee editor gives this ac-
count of the difficulties under which
he labors: How is it that our read
ers expect us out here, twelve miles
from a railroad, twenty-five mites
from river, millions of miles from
Heaven two miles from the devil and
only 200 yards from a whisky shop,
TO get odt newsy, lively, and inter-
esting paper?" se
| The Lady Godiva must have had exception
ally long hair since it completely concealed her
lovely person. Since Ayers Hair Vigor can't
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merly. 1t not only ypromotes the growth of the
hair, but gives it rich, silkeu texture.
In Albemarle county, Va, about
eight miles southeast of Charlottes.
vile, there is a slate pencil factory,
conducted by Mr.. Roche, employ.
1 ing about fifty hands and turning out
daily six cases of pencils of ten
thousand each, making an output OF
10000 pencils per day. The facto.
ry has been running successfully fol
a number of years., Near this fac
tory is an extraordinary deposit Of
soapstone of fine quality.
aBoils, carbuncles and other skin ernptioni
indicate that the system is endcavoriDg to re
| ject poisonous acids. and that Ayers Sarsapn
Iilla is imperitively needed. 1t ia theiPOst re
liable of all blood medicines. AS. yo6r drug
gist for 1t, and take no other.
Postmaster G General Wanamaker
has awarded the contract for furnish
ing adhesive postage stamps for the
four years beginning on the 1st Of
January next to the American BanL
Note Company of New York, the low.
est bidder, Steel, of Philadelphia
having failed to comply With his pro
tposal. The award was made FOL
stamps of q reduced size, the new
stamp being about one-eighth smaller
than those in npresent use. The design
will be changed to conform to the re.
1uction in the size of the stamps, and
new engravings will be made through
out. The new contract also calls fol
some changes in the colors. The one:
cent stamp will continue to be printed
in blue; the two-cent stamp, now
printed green, will be printed brigh
carmine, and changes will be made
in some other denominations.