Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1833-08-15
MONDAY, AUGUST -, 1888.
I'm Incident Friday last the Hon.
Daniel Webster, William Wilkins, Har-


walked down TO the end OF Market street
4 where the names OF the two steamboat
which happened 20 be nearest, gave rise
to the following que desprit." Mr.
|sNyebster's eve was very naturally attract
ed to the "Boston,n and remarked
"There is a name that is very familiar to
me-" Yes. replied Judge Wilkins, the
next boat is the 'Sfatesman." "Ihe Bos-
bon Statesman is aname familiar to us ALL"
Pitts. Gag.
Hollis Hotel. .Neso York.--For near two
years past, the operation Of boring for
water has been going on under the roof OF
Holt's Hotel, in New York. After dig
cling 1870 feet, the workmen came TO a
Bold rock, cas- hard as granite and gneiss
rould form it," This rock has been per-
forated to the depth Of upwards of 500
fest--at progress Of from to 10 inches
per day. On Saturday, as mentioned in
pur- last, it was supposed the augur had
struck stream Of pure water, as il sud-
denly fell distance of near two feet.
The Importance Of the result, TO the
proprietor Of the Hotel, may readily be
conceived, when il is stated that he en-
ploys, constantly, three men. each with a
horse and car. owned by himself, and two
Dthers whom he hires, to bring him water
from Trapagan's well, more than two miles
from his house, at an expense Of eight
dollars day. This water is emptied into
four cisterns, holding one hundred and
twenty FIVE hogsheads, and his daily con-
sumption for drinking, cooking, and wash
lng is twenty four hogsheads.-Bah. Pat.
Extraordinary case IN SWgery.--The
Boston Medical Journal relates very sin
sgnlar case Of Empyema. from a cores
gondent-Dr. Allen. of Middleburg, Vt.)
The patient (aged 90) had been attack
ed in December, 1880, with lung fever.
Under the care Of Thompson practition-
cr, he recovered in five or six weeks, so
Ievell as to be enabled TO ride OUT yet af-
ferwards became SO enervated that his
voice failed him. his pulse was $50 the
minute. his cough produced purulent mat
Der. and his left side became considerably
Enlarged.
Enduring intolerabie pain, he was in
Huced to apply to DR.. Allen-who prompt
#y performed an operation on him, afford
ang not only immediate relief, but ultimate
srcmedy. An opening was made between
the seventh and eighth ribs; and the mat
tier apparently pus) gushed out so forci-
3bly that no tube was employed, and so
Amuch that the quantity amounted to sererl
quarts, peighiag sixteen pounds. The
wound was closed after the discharge, yet
continued occasionally to emit the puru-
lent matter for nearly year afterwards;
Z and then, it closed.
Immediately after the operation, the pa
tent found relief SO far as TO be enabled
TO walk about; and in December last he
was minus his cough, and apparently in
sound health. DR.. Allen supposes that
the quantity discharged from the side, a
u mounted in all to about buskeu The pa
tent now labors on his farm.
The amount OF money lost and won By
! gambling in England is almost Incredible
1 The Hells Of St. James, as they are called,
are made the subject of much newspaper
exposition and discussion; and the indig'
nation which has been excited against
these ruinous places Of resort, in that
community Of London, appears to be
lust and honorable, to the moral feeling oil
that metropolis. Occasionally, the most
heart rending disclosures are made. Young
men, of fortune and high respectability
have often, within regular periods during
the past few years, been robbed Of pro-
perry and honor, in these heHs, and gone
forth, from one nights desperate chances
beggars and vagabonds in the world. Ac'
tive measures have been taken TO break
up these haunts Of vice; but when check
ed in one part Of the capital. they arse "
MISUNDERSTANDING their victims, and IN
tecting unseen.--Phd. Cas.
in Immense Estate.-We extract the
following from the news books at tht
Northern Liberties Free Admission New!
Rooms: 1--WE noticed few days age
rumor which prevailed in this city, tina
the Chancellor Of New York had decided
IN favor of the claimants in the importan
case Of the Trinity Church, which ha
been contested in law many years, ant
which involves property to the amount o
rs miilsons of dollars; one Of the principa
heirs to which, we learn, is MIR. Georg
Bretcer, of Keningston, in this city, an ell
deriy gentleman, in moderate circum
atances, formerly clerk in the old Unit
ed States Bank. 1t is stated that the,
have made further claim to one hundreI
and thirty acres more, situated in th
centre of the city of New York, which
with the other lands, will not only embc
dy the church, but its revenues, as we
as some Of the most valuable and real e.
tate in that city. This property has bee
a subject Of dispute ever since the close
the American reyolution."-Phii. Clsro
An old maiden lady named Witham,
Nlounijoy township; Pa, in the sOth yei
Of her age, a few DAYS ago moved al
made an acre Of heavy grass into hay.