Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1893-04-25
Various Items.


August has been fixed for Yir-
ginia day at the Worlds Fair
Or. Crumbacller has assumed the
SUPPLEMENTARY of tue lunatic asY-
lutn at Weston.
Two lines of electric railroad are
to RECONSTRUCTED between Washing
ton and Baltimore.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
contemplates the erection of hand
some cepot at Roanoke.
The war-sI,ips which have been as
sembling in Hampton Roads for The
past week sailed for New York yes
.terday.
Major james w. Newton. of Stann-
ton, has been appointed TO take
charge of the Virginia exhibit at the
Worlds Fair.
The new courthouse and other
valuable property at Fayetteville,
w. Va. have been destroyed by fire
loss S75, 600.
John Anderson, machinist. ofthe
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad shops,
died suddenly of heart disease at
his home in Martinsburg.
Granite from the battlefield of
Cedar Creek. will be used in the con-
struction of the new postoffice in
Washington, ID. c., and the new APP
praiser's building in New York,
Extensive preparations are being
made for the meeting to be conduct
ed by Sam Jones on the fair grounds
at Winchester, commencing June
End A tabernacle 120 feet by 80
feet, is under course of erection with
seating capacity of 5000 or more,
while other arrangements of like pro
portions are being made for the ac-
commodation of crowds, which no
doubt Twill copgregate to hear the
popular preacher.
The Rev. Sam p. Jones, of Geor+
gia, was engaged to preach ten days
in Bowling Green, Ky, and was
given 50, 800 for his services. Dur
ing that time more than $500 per-
sons made profession Of religion,
800 of the number joining the va
rious churches Sunday and being
baptized. Besides the work of con-
verting sinners, the Georgia evange-
list inaugurated great moral wave
against the liquor traffic and the city
council has refused to reissue the
saloon men license for the next year.
There are forty saloons in the city.
i Mr.. Leo Wheat, of Berryville, Va,
writes to the Baltimore Sun as fol-
lows: In your very Interesting
reference to Miss Jennie Cary's
adaptation of your 'sMaryIand, Ny
Maryland' to the college song
"Larriger Horatius,'' and which
war song was and still is so dear and
inspiring to us Confederates, please
allow me, as an old Leipzig student,
to add the additional interest to that
touching and very thrilling refrain
of IFS great antiquity. 1t is one of
the oldest as it is one of the sweetest
of German ballads, and is still sung
by that musical nation, as for
Heavens only knows how long it has
been sung, as any music-Ioving Ger
man can tell you, to the words so,
! 4duuCubduu W. 4auuSuUdutn. VIE
bleich sinddelner Blatter!''
Last Thursday night, between IL
and II O'clock, the building on the
farm of Mr.. George S. Knott, at Mo-
ler's Cross Roads, this county, was
destroyed by fire with all its contents.
The building was two-story frame
structure. The lower part was oc-
cupied as store.in which Mr.. Charles
E. Lamar carried stock of general
merchandise. The upper part wasIa
thaIl used by the Farmers Alliance,
the Grange, and for various pur-
poses. Everything in the building
was destroyed. We understand that
Mr.. Lamar places his loss at about
So, 600, and that 5000 in currency
belonging to him was consumed. He
was insured, but we do not know
for how much. The postoGice was
kept in the same building, and the
mail, &c., was burned Salso. The
loss on the building. which was in
sured, is about 5000. 1t is not
known how the fire originated.
iShepherdsto,on Register.