Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1889-11-05
SPIRIT on JEFFERSON.
CHARLEsTows. JnyyzRsON cOUnTr. W. Va,
Various Items.


London to build a tower 1880 feet
high.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company has received new com-
pound passenger locomotive.
B. 7. Babbitt, the well known
soap manufacturer is dead. He
leaves a fortune of several million
dollars.
Mr.. w. L. Judson, of New York,
has designed tower for the world $
fair to be ! 900 feet high, or 600 feet
higher than the Eiffel tower.
DR.. Talmage undertakes to say that
there is not healthy laborer in the
United States who, within the next
fifteen years, if he will refuse all in
toxicants and tobacco, may not be-
come a capitalist on small scale.
Headache, whether arising from indigestion
or nervousness, thoroughly unfits any one for
attentio to business or any other active effort.
| LaXador always cures this distressing disorder
giving prompt relief after the first dose. Price
% cents.
The smokeless powder intended
for use in the Austrian army is now
declared to be perfect. Besides its
initial advantage of being smokeless,
it is said to give velocity some 20
per cent. greater than that of the or
dinary powder.
When it is fully recognized that 5he of the
| first and highest rights of the baby is to have
a bottle of DIR. Bulls Baby Syrup. there will be
more rest for the household and comfort for
the little one.
S. B. CHM, Republican, was re-
Gently appointed postmaster at Glen
Allen, near Richmond. The office is
worth $500 a year, but Mr.. CHM de-
clined it, for the reason that he was
not willing to comply with the condi-
tion requiring him to devote over ten
per cent. of it to campaign expenses.
To regulate the stomach. liver and bowels,
Dr. Pierce's Pellets excel. One dose.
The Secretary of the Interior has
directed that the Indians in south
western Colorado be prevented from
slaughtering the deer for the hides
only. The treaty provision which
allows these Indians to hunt, the Sec
retary holds, does not give them the
right to kill game necessary to sup
ply nGGu as u GIlOOs
Hoods Sarsaparilla is purely vegetable
preparation, being free from injurious ingre-
dients. 1t is peculiar in its curative power.
The United States government has
given a contract to Merchant & Co., /,
of Philadelphia, for 100, 900 pounds
of copper blanks and 80, 600 pounds
t'of fnickeleblahlssstO 5bezeonRerted into
pennies and nickels at the Philadel-
phia mint. This means a return of
brisk business. When pennies and
nickles are wanted trade is picking
up.
The consciousness of having remedy at
hand for Group. pneumonia. sore throat. and
sudden colds, is very consoling to n parent
With a bottle OF Ayers Cherry Pectoral in the
house, one feels in such cases, sense of Sc
curity nOtl,n Il sc can give.
Gov. Lee has received cablegram
from NJ. Mercie, the French sculptor,
saying that information about the
Lee statue had just been mailed
The Governor had hoped to he able
10 unveil the monument in Decem-
ber, but it now seems that Mercie's
figure will not reach Richmond in
time. The unveiling will take place
in all probability in May.
"The world grows weary praising men,
Aud Wearied grows of being praised-"
But never wearied grows the pen
Which writes the truths that have amazed
the thousands who have been given up bv their
| physicians and who have been restored to
complete health by using the safest of all rem
| edies for functional Irregularities and weak
nesses, which are the bauc of womankind. We
refer. of course, to DIR. Pcrce's FaYoritc Pre-
scrPtion, the only 9lLdrdnteed cure for all those
chronic ailments peculiar to women. Read
the guarantee on the bottle-wrapper.
A wonderful revolution in -four bar
rel making is promised by patent
which has been granted for the max
ing of barrels out of cotton duck, in
stead of wood. The new material is
impervish to water and resists fire a
long time. 1t weighs to the barrel
about ffteen pounds less than wood,
and can be manufactured 10 per cent.
cheaper. The cotton-ducll barrel can
be rolled up into small space and re-
turned to the mills for frequent use.
The barrels can thus be returned as
solid goods and thus save space
The flour merchants of Atlanta. Ca,
have given ita fair trial and pronounce
it success.