Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1891-09-15
Various Items.


The new glass works at Buena
Vista, Va, went into operation Au-
gust, 81, and glass bottles and fruit
jars were made in presence of large
crowd of spectators.
The Staunton Shoe Company at
Staunton, Va, assigned September 3.
The liabilities are about S22, 900; as
sets about the same. Want of ready
money was the cause of assignment.
Peter Page, an engineer, of Basic
City, was held up on a recent morn
ing by three colored men and robbed
of his watch and small amount of
money. The thieves were pursued
and captured and the property recov-
cred.
A simple remedy for neuralgia is
to apply grated horse-radish to the
temple, when the face or head is af-
fected, or to the wrist, when the pain
isin the arm or shoulder. Prepare the
horse-radishi in the same manner as for
table use.
The Swift Powder and Cartridge.
Company of Cincinnati, has p1r-
chased 191 acres of land adjoining
Basic City, upon which they propose
to erect an immence establishment.
1t is claimed the works, which will
manufacture all kinds of powder,
WITH give employment to 500 opera
tors. at
Col. Wash. Dearmont, leading
citizen of Clarke county, is critically
i'll. A few weeks ago he was stricken
with paralysis, from which he had
partly recovered, but while walking
about his home he fell to the ground,
his head striking against stone,
since which time he has been growing
worse. Colonel Dearmont served
with distinction in the Confederate
army.
What steam is TO the engine, Hoods Sarsa-
parilla is to the body. producing bodily power
and furnishing mental force.
Hon. w. C. P. Breckenridge, Ken
tucky's gifted orator, addressed a
great Democratic meeting at Creston,
Iowa, recently. The speech was an
able one, not only in its lucid expo
sition of our constitutional govern
tnent in its relations to the, theory of
q protective tariff, but in the practi-
cal illustration of the abortive and
injurious operation of a protective
tariff as at present maintained. g /
congratulate you and the country
said Mr.. Breckenridge in concluding
his great speech, Sc that we have at
last reached point where the issue
between the parties is one which ap-
peals equally to every industry and
to every condition, and that affects
the whole republic and every part of
it, and that our triumph gives to our
adversaries better opportunities for
their future, secures to them, as to
us, more comfortable homes and pre-
serves for their children as ours, the
principals which we received from
our fathers. There can be no bitter
ness in our victory. We do not of
fer. wealth through the sweat of the
poor, nor ease obtained by theIabors
of others, nor i'll cotton gains under
the stipulations of statutes, nor even
a splendid government entangled by
treaties with foreign nations, com
PEELED to cover the ocean with ships
of war and to erect upon our coasts
enormous Notifications guarded by
standing armies, but we bring in
hands, as the gifts of a peoples
triumph, good government underim-
partial laws, plain modes of living,
pure baIlot-boNes, incorrupt Legisla-
tures, upright courts, a just distribu-
tion of the rewards and toll of a
thrifty people aud the glorious dem
onstration to the world that all out
RACES may be remedied by the peace
ful modes of suffrage, by the simple
but sublime DEGREES of free people
speaking through the ordinary forms
of election" The speech was re-
ceived with warmest demonstrations
of approval by the immense audience,
including many prominent Republt-
cans, and Mr.. Breckenridge has been
earnestly requested to fill series of
appointments, embracing all sections
of Iowa.