Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1889-09-17

SPIRIT Of JEFFERSON.
CHAnInaTows. Jnrrrnson ooUs4T, W. VA.
TUEsDAYMoRNINe. sEpTEMBER IA. 1850.
A colored anti Malone club has
been organized in Norfolk, Va, with
ia members.
President Harrison has received the
resignation of James w. Tanner as
commissioner of pensions,
U. S. Marshall White has appointed
VIM. II. Lnmon, of Bunker Hill,
Berkeley county, deputy.
Disastrous fires werein progress on
Sunday night at Louisville, KY, Jack
sOnville, Fla, and st. Joseph. Mo.
Hon. Samuel S. Cox, member of
Congress from the ninth district of
New York, died last Tuesday night,
at his home in New York City.
Ex-senator Riddleberger took the
stump at Woodstock, Va, on Monday
of last week, in advocacy of the cleo
ton of the whole Democratic ticket,
State and legislative.
A New York Republican leader
made the prediction in Washington
that Democrats will carry the Legis-
lature and elect United States Sen
ator in place of Mr.. Evarts.
Hon. John f. Lewis, ex-United
States Senator from Virginia, and one
of the staunchest Republicans in that
State, has written a letter in which he
announces his purpose not to support
Malone for Governor.
Gov. Wilson has informed State
Senator Morris that the West Vir-
ginia Legislature would be called
about January 1, 1890, to settle the
governorship question, and to attend
to other matters of important nature.
MIR. A. H. Snyder, recently con-
nected with the Woodstock Vtrgintan,
has severed that connection and asso-
ciated himself with the Rockingham
Register, Harrisonburg, Va, in edit
ing and publishing the latter paper.
1t is tolerably safe to say that the
Illinois coal-miners will not carry ban
ners in the next Republican campaign
inscribed protection Fills the Din
ner-Pails." Nor will the woolen-milI
operatives bear aloft the motto, ''Pro-
lection and Steady Employment.
Charles Scott, of Parkersburg,
has been appointed pardon clerk in
the Department of Justice, vice Hon.
Alex. R. Boteler 1t is understood
that Mr.. Scott was especially com
mended to Acknowledgement Miller
by ex-Congressman Golf and Stephen
b. EikIns.
A convention in the interest of re-
storing the Chesapeake and Ohio ca
nal was held at Hagerstown, Nd,
last Tuesday. Resolutions were
adopted favoring private management
of the canal, and committee appoint
ed to wait on the Governor and board
of public works.
Senator Kenna, of this State, in
New York recently, declined to com
NIT himself to an interview as to the
site for the proposed worlds exposi-
ton. He said in all probabilities the
matter will come before Congress in
some shape, and then he will have to
indicate his preference.
The Cleveland, Ohio, Plain Dealer
characterizes as cable and exhaust
ive," the series of articles on trusts
and monopolies written for the Balti-
more San by Hon. VIM. L. Wilson,
of this State. The Plan-Dealer adds /:
Nobody who is even passably in
formed upon current events can deny
the facts stated; no intelligent man,
unless blinded by prejudice, can fail
to see their logic
The gubernatorial committee final
ly adjourned last Tuesday, and will
not again meet until the secretary has
completed the formal report for pre-
sentation Tn GoverDo, IViIso, or,ll Tho