Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1900-07-03
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town are endeayoring to organize drum
corps.
West yirginia's Fruit Exhibit at the
Paris Exposition receiyed second pre-
MUM.
Mrs Elizabeth Harp, life long resi-
dent of shepherdstown. died June "a,
in her s1st year
1t is estimated that the wheat crop of
France viii be from $4,000, 600 TO 10000.
900 bushels short this year.
Gen. Adna R. chaffee has been APP
pointed by the President commander-in-
chief of American forces in China.
Theo. Jones. colored, had his left arm
torn off by machinery in German Smiths
sumac mills. Winchester. last Thursday.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee hasrefusedto leave
his post in Cuba on account of yellow
fever, althoughhe has permitted his staff
to leave.
Ex-senator Faulkner will entertain the
marshals of the 4th of July parade in
Martinsburg with buffet luncheon at
Boydville."
Gen. Thos. L. Rosser, who few years
ago was the most ultra uureconstructed
ex-Confederate in Virginia. has gone
over to the Republican party.
Mr.. L. F. Grantham. son of Mr., j. II.
Grantham, killed on the farm occupied
by Mr.. Miller Bane bald eagle that
measured #. 9 in. from tip to tip at a
distance of 100 yards.
The drys carried Buena Vista, Rock
bridge county. Va, Thursday. by 40
majority. All the merchants. with two
exceptions, closed their places of business
and worked for the dry" ticket.
Governor Tyler. of Virginia, pardoned
last week from the penitentiary James
Hart, who was convicted of assault by
the perjured testimony of woman. and
who has served II ofhis IS years.sentence.
Mr.. NoFval E. Wilson. a weIl=known resi-
dent of Bolivar, this county, died on Tues
dav, aged o. years. He was brother of
Governor r. Willis Wilson, and was his Sec
rotary of State 1Ss4,lSsb. Mr.. Wilson was a
bac helor.
A new postal rule that recently went
into effect, is that persons, who through
carelessness get mail through the post
Office that belongs to another and fail to
return same, are liable to fine of 5000
or one years imprisonment. This applies
to newspapers thus taken from post
office as well as other mail matter.
Bishop Alpheus w. Wilson. of the NJ.
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afternoon to start on hisffth visit to the
mission fields of his church in China,
Japan and Korea. He will return to
Baltimore about the slater part of October.
1901, and on his way back will attend the
sessions of the great Ecumenica1 Confer
once of the Methodist Church of all the
World to he held in London In September,
1901, and to which he has been chosen as
the representative of the Southern Meth
odist Church in this country. Mrs. Will
son will accompany her husband. this
being her second visit to the foreign
mission fields.
Judge L. N. Tavenner, who recently
was before the State Democratic Conven-
ton for nomination. for the Governorship,
a few days agoin charging grand jury
of one of his courts endeavorcd to impress
upon it the Importance of preserving the
purity of elections. and stated that it was
equally necessary to protect the nomina-
ting conventions. Any candidate who
pays the expenses of delegates to CON
vention is liable to Indictment, or who
gives money or other thing of value to
any delegate for his vote, or employs any
one to work for him on election day
The law throws safeguard around the
nominating conventions and the elections
also.
Ex-vice President stevenson's wise
words I'VE haye within two years
quad-upled our standing army although
our Administration DECLARES we are at
peace, anduse it as special police against
the laboring men in all conflicts between
labor and capital. We are endeavoring
to jam through the Senate a treaty with
the most powerful naval power in the
world which deprives us of the power to
fortify the proposed Nicaragua Canal,
which Blaine declared to be practically
an American coast line and which gives
to that great power equal access to this
canal with ourselves; we have cast to the
winds the most hallowed and distinctively
American dogma. the Monroe doctrine,
and, to crown our blunders and mistakes,
according to- the assertion of Joseph Cham
berlain, member of the British Cabinet,
who ought to know, have entered into a
secret understanding with the British
Empire while it is attempting to despoil
and destroy the gallant Dutch Republics
in South Africa In unrelenting i1ostil-
ity to all this, the Democratic party
faithful to the tenets of Jeffsrson-will
stand for tariff for revenue only" for
reduction to the minimum to the people
of the cost of every needed article of
consumption 1t will stand in reality as
we'll asin platform the antagonist of trusts.
Believing that " whereverthere is a wrong
there is remedy, it will favor such
legislation as will seek to curb the spirit
of monopoly and place an effectua1 check
upon the trusts.
Mr.. T. L. Shirley was in town Thursday
looking after the money in county treasury
to pay for sheep killed by dogs. He found
that the fund was sufficient to reach fifty