Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-08-12
SPIRIT OF JEFFERSON.
Jsv1znsOx County,, W. Va
TuEsDAE MoRNINa. AUeusr Ia. Ig90.
Various Items.

IS gwen as 10, ,4OO.
Charleston has just completed its
first street railway line.
Neither Richmond nor Petersburg
will hold an agricultural fair this
year.
Census returns show gain of 2o,-
600 in the Petersburg census district
in ten years.
A hotel to cost s75, 900 is to be
erected at Buena Vista to replace
the one recently burned.
Monongalia is to have a court.
house to cost $4,000, to be paid fol
in five annual instaliments.
T. n. B. Staggers, of Fairmont. is
announced as a Republican candidate
for Congress in the Second District.
There will probably be from so to
40 Farmers Alliance men in the next
United States House of Representa-
tives.
The Virginia Live Stock aud
Dressed Meat Company was formed
in Staunton, Va, recently, with a
capital of 5000, ,ooe.
a new electric brake recently ex-
perimented with in England stopped
q car travelling at the rate of thirty
miles an hour in 200 feet.
In the handle of the new tennis
racEsets is place. for tiny bottle of
smelling salts, which the fair PLAYERS
use to inyigorate themselves,
The West Virginia Central railway
WILDE extended to Beverly, Randolph
county. The company has CON
tracted for three hundred additional
coal cars.
Nearly 1000 heads of families in
the Province of Quebec alone. have
made application for the State boun-
ty of 100 acres of land voted to Ca
nadians who are the fathers of 13 chill
dren OF more.
Miss Ella Eagan, daughter of Rod
.erick E. Eagan, clerk in the asses
sor's Office, in New. York, died in
Jersey City from blood poisoning
caused by the bite Of centipede or
thousand leg"
a boy named William Ashly. aged
thirteen years, has been living under
"a tombstone in Richmond (Va. !
cemetery and fed by other boys. He
was arrested for vagrancy, but es-
capped and disappeared.
To prevent pie juice from running
out in the oven make little opening
in.the upper crust and insert little
roll of white paper perpendicularly.
The steam will escape from it as from
a chimney and all the juice will be
retained in the pie.
A new hotel is about to be erected
at Middletown, Va, on the Valley
Branch of the B. & o. Railroad, by the
Middletown Land and Immigration
Company. The third annual immi-
grafton meeting will be held at Mid
dletown, September 3, 4 and 5.
A Scotch writer says that he has
sprinkled wasps and bees with rose
coIored powder and has found that
thus handicapped they could with
ease keep up with the, fastest trains.
They we're not carried along. By The
rush of air caused by the train, but
would enter and leave the cars b7
the windows, sometimes disappear
ing for a minute or more and then re-
turning.
A recent decision of the. courts
maintain that if man wants to 90
faster than another ahead of him on
the road he is going he has right
to pass, and if he is prevented by
the other, and an accident happen
thereby, the man thus obstrdcting
the road is responsible for the dam
age done. No man has right to in
fringe on the rights of others in try
ing to pass.
A Tallahassee dispatch to the Flor
ida Times Union says: Miss Eppie,
daughter of Mr.. Robert Munro, died
on Saturday night. Two weeks ago
she wore bunch of daisies at her
throat, and a spider or some other
poisonous insect crept therefrom and
stung her. Erysipelas set in and
went to the brain. She suffered un-
fold agonies. The best medical skill
was callen in, but to no avail"
In the primaries and conventions
being held over the State, everything
points to the nomination of Judge
Lucas for the Supreme Bench with
unanimity and without opposition
Not only this, but all expressions of
opinion regard such a course as the
proper one, both from a political
standpoint, and, what is more .impor-
tant, especially from judicial stand
point. The worst enemy of Mr.. Lu-
Gus will not deny his pre-eminent fit
ness for the position.-Mar. Sta.
The decliug powers Of old age may be won
derfully reeuperated and sustained BY the daily
use of Hoods sarsaparilla.
John Kibler and j. L. Romeck, of
Waynesboro, Va, were returning
there from a hunting expedition
William Kibler was going out to meet
them, and when a few yards from
them his brother John, who supposed
his gun was not loaded, pointed it
and called to him in fest to 9haIt. y
As he did Hot stop John pulled the
trigger. To his horror it was dis
charged and his brother William fell
to the ground shot through the heart,
dead. The deceased leaves a wife
| and two children.