Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-04-15
Various items


Gen. John @. Fremont and District
Attorney Fellows are seriously d in
New York.
Contracts have been made for tie
early completion of a dummy line
from Roanoke to Salem, Va.
Miss C. L. Haynes has been grant
ed a license to practice medicine by
the Virginia board of medical exaulis
ners.
A. II. Gillserson, formerly hard
ware merchant of Staunton4 died sud-
denly in thai city Sunday night week
of heart disease.
Rev. DIR. A. C. Dixon, of BalHs
more, viii begin series of meetings
at Second Baptist Church,. Richmond,
Sunday, April 20.
Miss Winnie Davis, .'the daugllte5
of the Confederacy, is said to I'D
engaged to Mr.. Alfred Wilkinson
of Syracuse, N. Y.
The stable of c. A. Ford, ofCIarka
county, Va, was burned, together
with sixhead of horses, two COWS and
farming implements.
Mrs. Henrietta Robins, widow al
the late Benjamin Robins, died in
Winchester Tuesday. She owned the
Taylor Hotel in that city.
The Army and Navy Society of the
Confederate States in Maryland viii
take 1000 men to Richmond to wit!
ness the unwilling of the Lee nonuE
ment.
The famous seventh regiment, New
York State guard, will be invited ID
be present and take part in the exerE
cises incident to the unwilling of the
Lee monument in Richmond on the
29th Of May.
The last of the NIillers on trial as
one of the principals in the Browns
burg homicide has been discharged.
Not a single conviction has taken
place in this famous case, though five
indictments were found.
The Salem IVA. } Register of re-
cent date says: 1--WE are glad to
state that the engineers of the Valley
Railroad are here and at work sur
veying tllu approaches 10 Salem, pre-
paratory to the completion of the
road from Lexington to our grow
ing city. We have always said the
road would come. and we now feel
that it will come in short time
a dispatch from Charleston in this
State says: An eastern syndipair. of
which it i said President NJ. T.. IL
gals, of tile Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad, il member, has purchased
the Old Splint Coal property, of $40
acres, three miles above this city,
and will lay it off in town lots, the
town to be known as Kanawha CITY.
The price paid was $4,000 and it
is said that an iron furnace will be
erected there at once.
A Washington dispatch says: Ere
quent inquiries have been made as to
the cause of the delay of the secu-
rites of the ex-disbursing clerk of
the Department of Justice in making
good his shortage" The bonds
men are Nathan Golf. of West Vir-
ginia, and Mr.. G. 81. Harris, of this
city. 1t understood that Mr.. Gnu
WHO is a man of large means, made a
proposition to the Department of
Justice to compromise for So, 900
about one-half of the amount in
VOWED. The department refused this
tender, and as Mr.. Golf showed no
inclination 10 take any action tile pa
pers in the case were forwarded sew
eral months since to the district at
torney's Office here, with Instructions
10 bring suit against the securities
1t was said at the Department of jus
tice to-day that the reason nothing
has been done is hccattse the district.
attorneys Office is overwhelmed with
business.
The Knoxville ('Tenn) World, an
organ of the colored people in that
section, says: sin 1883 Tennessee
cast 1879, 9Sg votes for Mr. Harrison,
and out of this number more than
$4,000 were colored voters. And
since Mr.. Harrison's induction into
Office every Democrat who held pres
idential office under Mr.. Cleveland
has been asked down and out and
their places filed with Republicans.
yet in no case has single cofored
Republican got even the crumbs that
fell from the masters table. =
The more thoughtful and intelligent
negroes are tired of such promises,
and unless some degree of recogni-
ton is shown them the future will find
them divided and scattered; when
they are needed, as they will he 90,
they may have wandered far away
beyond your reach and control, for
the negro no longer worships by
types and shadows. hut by what he
nnts in thn ,,n,, .,f Ii. L.. >,