Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1833-06-13
appointments BY TIE President q the Unit
eR States

| LOUIS MCBANE, Oh bcfaWaTc. 10 DC
Secretary OF State. in the place OF Ed
WARD LIVINGSTON, appointed Minister to
France
WILLIAM J Duane. Of Pennsylvania,
to be Secretary of the Treasury, in the
place Of Louis McLASE, Secretary oil
State
EDWARD LIVINGSTON, late Of Louislana,
to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipoteniiary Of the United states to
the Court of His Majesty the King Of
the French
Thomas PEsNEST BARTON, Of Penn
sylvanIa, 10 be Secretary of the Legation
of the United States at Paris.
The changes of the Cabinet, which
have been for some time expected, are at
length officially announced Mr.. LIVING
SION goes on an honorable mission to
France, McLASE succeeds him in the
Department OF State, and Mr.. Duane
succeeds Mr.. McLANE in the Treasury
Department.
We shall be sorry to part with Mr..
| LIVINGSTON, who. we believe, has with
| fidelity as well as ability dischar ged the
duties. TO the performance Of which we
entirely approved of his being called
MIR McLANE, however, will, we trust
and believe, pursue the same elevated
course as his predecessor. He will al least
we are sure, find himself more at home
| in his present office than In his last or
| all the high offices in The Government. that
Of Secretary of State mas the least neces-
sary connexion with party politics. or
! with the scramble for official favors and
privileges Of any kind; which enviahle
exemption we hope the new Secretary
will be as greateful as We have no doubi
| his predecessor was. He enters the of
flee with some advantages not enjoyed by
either of his late predecessors. who had
never been in the diplomatic service Of the
country, as MIR. McLANE has These
advantages, IT is TO be presumed, will be
used beneficialy for the country.
As for the new Secretary of the Trea.
sury, our favorable opinion of his per
sonal qualities has been freely delivered.
| We trust he may sustain as nigh a charsc
ter in his nntrled public station. He makes
such sacrifices !, OF interest and convenience,
| III accepting it. as we are sure he would
not make but under an imperious sense
oil civic duty. Let us hope that, in the
sequel, he may never have reason to re-
| greet having done so.-ySat Int
Tough Snake Story. The following
extraordinary story which seems to be
well authenticated, is taken from late
| Ithica Journal
Messrs. Mack s. Andrus- If you should
thlk the Circumstance am about to re
late sufficiently curious to deserve place
10 your paper, 1t Is at your service: On
Saturday afternoon, was engaged with
two Of my sons and a hired man, Reu
ben Havens, in cleaning small piece for
summer crop. Havens cut down a dry
stump of a tree about IS feet high: as Il
was falling, perceived striped snake
about two ieet long crossing stone a
bout Is feet from the foot of the tree
The tree fell on The snake, and owing to
ITS being little flat on the lowerside, or
to the shape OF the stone, the snake was
cut IN three pieces as smooth as il could
have been done with a knife; the middle
part remained mashed under the tree. II
It had not bern witnessed by four of us,
and | mad not the evidence of the fact TO
4
lowed.
| The part Of the snake which had The
head on, ID about two minutes erawled
under the tree to the tail end which had
worked itself TO about foot from the
stone ~ apparent agony The head par
immediately took the other part into it,
mouth, and fairly carried it under The
stone, which was fiat and about thre,
feet over. All this was so singulsl
that had the curiosity to make one q
the boys watch the stone until we aui
work at night. About three hours after
, wards. when we chopped up the tree ans
with handsplke lifted the stone, ",
found the snake with the two cut end
joined together and able to attempt max
, ing his escape we however caught il
} The cut was not entirely healed. but WI
carried 1t home. and have il well an,
sound IN box for any body to see, a
, my house. about mile from the vi
! isge The cut is entirely healed, an,
leaves ring around the snake; and VIVA
, As curious. the ends OF the streaks on tn
two parts do not match
81 MATTHEW SEELY.
Ithica, April 30. 1888.
The wife of Mr. Peter d Miller. il
Upper Bern township. Berks county, (Ps
. was safely delivered OF three sons at on
e birth, who with the mother, are all dom
u well .er
MIR GoKpEs.-Sr.-Ths above icon
n eelVe Is worthy of being put in your pape
= as circumstance which seldom happen
= II took place on Friday last, and | saw tn
!. father this day, who informed me 18th
IS mother and children are all doing well.
rs Yours Respectfully,
>. JOHN T SIMPSON
q Hamburg, May 7th. 1888.
in The above notice and certificate
4 from the Reading Journal We are gla