davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1870-05-25

mist and storm and darkness, but her Master
being at the helm, she securely ploughs her
way onward unto the end of the world.
The Ship heavenward bound in full sail
for heaven, and the port Of endless bliss.
The Hauem-signifes the voyage of life,
ending at the port, is moored in safe
haven, never more to return to the tossing
Of the wasteful ocean.
"Come heavenly wind and blow
/ A prosperous gale of grace,
TO watt me from below,
i To heaven my destined place;
Then in full sail, my port III find. :,
And leave the world and sin behind.
r JULES DELAUNAY.
TO BE CONTINUED.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1870-05-25
THE CHAMBER OF SICKNESS.


Chamber Of sickness much to thee I owe,
Though dark thou be;
The lessons it imports me most to know
/ owe to thee
A sacred seminary thou hast been,
I trust, to train me to happier scene.
Chamber of sicknessl Suffering and alone,
My friends withdrawn,
The blessed beams Of heavenly truth have shone
On me forlornl
With such hallowed vividness and power
As ne 'er were granted to a brighter hour.
Chamber Of sickness Midst thy silence Oft
A voice is heard;
Which though It falls ike dew on flowers, so soft,
Yet speaks each word
Into the aching hearts unseen recess,
With power no earthly accents could possess.
Chamber Of sickness In that bright abode
Where there is no more pains
Ii through the merits Of my Saviour God
A seat gain,
This theu1e shah tuue tny ~ lso. ha-o' 'sys,
Ibas in thy shelter passed a. e1r.y -J-
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1870-05-25

READ PASSAGE OF GoD's WORD before
prayer, for it is through this that we gain a
knowledge of God and of our duty; and, as
we are reminded of our duty, we can pray
for grace to perform it. Also much of the
language of Scripture is in the form of
prayer, and by using it we learn to pray.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1870-05-25

81 AM A MISSIONARY in my nursery"
once observed a Christian mother. "Sx
pairs of little eyes are daily watching man.
mas looks, as well as listening to her words;
and wish my children never to see in me,
that which they may not initiate"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1870-05-25

The BEAUTY of holiness, like the sun, is
seen by its own light.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1870-05-25

THE TESTIMONY OF REV. GILBERT TENNENT
AND PRESIDENT EDWARDS.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1870-05-25
Lay EXPORTERS.

FoR rHE CENTRAL PEEsBYTERIAS.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1870-05-25
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.
TO BE CONTINUED,

For THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1870-05-25

Resolutions passed By the Philanthropic So
ciety of Hampdem Sidney College, FRI
day, lMay 9Th, 1870.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-03-29
A Violent Negro Shot by a White Boy.

A correspondent of the CHARLOTTESVILLE
Chronicle, writing from Salem, Fauquir coun-
ty, Va, under date of the 21st instant, says:
An unfortunate encounter took place on
Friday between Clarence Thomas, youth,
and young negro man by the name of Peter
Brown. The circumstances, as brought out
by the examining court, were as follows =
They had had some words at The Plains some
time since about some trifing matter. The
negro, it seems, was not satisfied but after
wards met Thomas on his way from school, aud
being much larger and stronger. bullied him
with insulting language and by rubbing stone
upon his head, which so exaspernted the hoy,
(being unable to resent it, that the negro in
Dragging about what he had done, to the other
negroes, said she made him cry" and still
threatened further attack, against which
young Thomas felt it necessary to arm him
self, as they were both going to school in part
over the same road, and were liable to meet.
On last Friday evening, as he was returning
from school, the negro sprang out from be-
hind tree. aud young Thomas. in attempting
to defend himself with a stick. was jefked
down upon his knees, in which position he
succeeded in drawing his pistol and firing,
the ball took effect in the negroes face, rang
ing upward, killing him instantly, He at
once informed the neighbors. An inquest
was held. and the examining court would
have acquitted him on the testimony, but
thought it best under existing circumstances,
in order that the negroes should feel that am
pie justice had been done to them, to recog-
nize him to appear at court in the sum of
$3.50
The negro bore the character of being
quaresome, ill-natured fellow, and the princi-
pal testimony against him came from his own
color.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-03-29
SPECIAL NOTICES
rhe Scason,and its nm ze,s-

The human body Is chiefly composed of tissues
and hbres as sensitive TO every change IN the
dition OF the atmosphere the delicate cleo
troTneter, or the quicksilver in barometer tube,
The stomach. the skin. The nerves. the luugs.and
the excretory organs especially liable to he at
-feeted by these variations, and the best defence
against their disastrous tendency IS TO keep the i-
gestive machinery, which feeds and nourishes the
whole ~ ste m, in good working order.
II the stomach is weak or disorderrd, neither the
blood nor the bile be IN healthy state, and.
upon the fitness OF these tVOlmportanI fluids for the
offices assigned to them by nature. and the regular
ity of their flow, health in great measure dePepds.
When the air IL heavily laden with chilling va
gestion should be object of peculiar care Is
weak and languid, the whole physical structure VIII
be enervated II 1t is vigorous, The entire organza-
ton will be strong 10 the untOward and de-
pressing influence of damp and vitiated -aimos-
phere.
pure and powerful tonic is therefore especially
needed as safegrard against the diseases most
common in the sp ing, and HOsietters Stomach DIT
ters-bein. the most wholesome and potent mediCine
of the class present known course oil II u par
ticuIarIy advisable this period OF the ear inc
stomach will thereby be toned and strengthened
the liver and bowels regulated, the nervous Sstem
braced up, and nature put in state OF active de-
fence aZainst the Iniasa which soperinduees inter
nittenf and rentient fevers, rhenmatisms. nervous
debility. headache. hypOchondria and other COM
rlaints which aptto assail the,untoned and un-
fortified organizations. The body is strengthened
without exciting the brau md consequently no I'M
follows its revivng and renOvating
operation.
March ], 1870.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-03-29
RA1bRoAD-WHo ARE VOTERS ?

All male Taxpayers who are not of unsouud
mind &c, and who have resided in the State
for one year and in the county for thirty days
preceding the election on Thursday next, are
entitled to vote on the question of subscrip,
ton to the Shenandoah Valley Railroad stock.
And as under the laws of West Virginia
(COde, chap 81 sec 81 capitation tax of one
dollar is levied "on every male iphabrant
whether white or colored who has attained the
age of twenty.one years." such persons are
deemed tax payers, and are therefore all of
them entitled to vote at the coming election.
We trust that this right will be generally ex-
ereised, and in favor of Subscription"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-03-29
Serious Riot among Strikers.

CHICAGO, March 25.-On the 18th Instant
a general strike took place on the Des Moines
Rapids Government improvements, at Keo-
kuk, Iowa, owing to an increase of the hours
of labor without an increase of pay. The
strikers number eight hundred to one thou
sand, mostly Swedes and Irish. Yesterday
large party of the strikers, variously armed,
made an attack on the few laborers who had
resumed work. The belligerents, all differed,
advanced on the workmen with red flag
Resistance was made. and several hand-to-
hand conflicts took place, but the workmen
were soon overpowered by their assailants and
all quit work The rioters then moved ON
the stone quarrics adjacent where bloody
fight ensued, in which several men were
seriously wounded The rioters were greatly
augmented in numbers, and then advanced on
Sc0tt's Mills, when the General Superinten-
dent of the works, Mcdonald. and two others,
escaped the vengeance of the rioters by taking
to the river in a skifF Afterwards Sheriff
Bishop arrested nine of the rioters. There
were rumors this morning that the works were
held by seven hundred armed strikers, who
declare their intention to hold it against any
force that may oppose them. About noon
the Sheriff, with large posse of police. left
for the seat of war, but nothing has been
heard from them up to o'clock. although
numerous explosions ike the sound of mus
kerry have been heard during the afternoon.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-03-29

ATTEMPT TO FIRE OTTER BRIDGE-A
FIENDIsH SCHEME PREvENTED.-The freight
trains of the Virginia and Tennessee railroad
which left the Lynchburg depot yesterday
morning, on reaching the long bridge over
Little Otter creek, in Bedford county, found
that the structure was on fire. The trains
were stopped, and the flames, which were just
beginning to burn at one extremity of the
bridge, were, after considerable exertion, ex-
tiuguished. There were evidences that the
fire was ncendiary in its origin, and had been
built with the wicked and wonton purpose of
destroying the bridge, and maybe of sacrificing
the lives of all on board the several trains
which pass across it at that early hour.
[LynchJvg Republican.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-03-29
Berkeley County.

From the Martinsburg papers of last week
we cory the following: =
= Emma Green, aged - years was
drowned in Backcreek last Sunday.
= On the 18th inst. Mr. William Jones,
of H gesvile. thrown from a cart and
had his shoulder blade and shoulder dislocated
and broken, besides sustaining other injuries.
: In consequence of the continued severe
illness of Judge Chaplin. he has been com>
neIed to postpone the holding of Court in
Berkeley until the first week in May
- Mr.. Paul Strausner, on Saturday last,
arrested man by the name of Gabriel Monroe,
who, short time ago, broke Jail in Rocking
ham county, Va.
= The b. q o. r. r. Company has dis
charged some eighteen Of the employees in
the Machine Shops at this place some Ten
or twelve train-men on the second division,
and abomt forty in the shops at Piedmont.
- Maj. J. H. Bristor, real estate agent,
has sold for W N. Vancleve the property
known as the 'sVancleve's Homestead" near
Vancleycsville, containing $50 acres, to
Messrs Riggs q Marsh, of Marshal county,
West Va, for IS dollars per acre. This farm
is the best limestone, and considered one of
the most productive in the Valley.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-03-29

SHENANDOAH VALLEY R. R. COMPANY
As advised in our last issue, the Board of this
Company met in Washington city on Wednes-
day, the 23d inst. The President and each
of the Directors present, save Gen. S. Med.
Moore, of Rockbridge. J. W. Wright, Esq,
was appointed Chief Engineer, assisted by
Messrs Barrett and McElroy, who will, at
an early day, commence the survey and loca-
ton of the route JTarren Sentinel.
B@= If you don't want to disgust everybody
with your offensive breath, cure your Catarrh
upon which it depends. $500 reward is Of
fered by the proprietor of DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy for a case of Catarrh which he can
not cure. It is sold by druggists. Can get
it for Sixty Cents by mail from DR.. r. V.
Pierce Buffalo, n. Y.
DR. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery is
the great Cough Remedy and Blood Purifier
of the age. Sold by Druggists.
NEVER REFUsED.-Moncy and new SUBJ
scribers at this Office.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-03-29
Supervisors, Court.

The Board of Supervisors met on Tuesday
last, and from their proceedings we extract
the following -
Ordered, That B. ". Knode be appointed
road surveyor of District No. 3, Grant Town
ship.
On motion theapplication of John W Firth,
to retail spurious liquors at Leetown was
rejected.
On motion the application of j. Il. Eas-
terday & Co., to retail spurious liquors at
Charlestown was rejected
Ordered, That John Cook, Road Surveyor
of Shepherd township, open the road leading
from the Warm Spring road to the Charles
town road, between the lines of Mrs. Neal
and james Glenn.
Ordered, That DR. 9. T. Mason VIM Grow,
Dangerfeld Lloyd and S. Howell Brown, be
appointed viewers to view the Old Mill road
and report at the next regular meeting ofthe
board.
Ordered, That DR.. James Logic, DR.. o. G..
Mix and j. V. Moore be appointed COM
mittee to meet and confer with a committee
to be appointed by the Board of Supervisors
of Berkeley County, for the purpose of en-
quiring into the necessity and propriety of
having Bridge built across the Opequon
Creek at the crossing of said Creek known as
Minghini.s ford
On motion; Rev. N G. Bracket was APP
pointed County Superintendent of Free
Schools to fill the uuexpired term, Uice Rev.
G. G.. Baker removed from the State.
Ordered, That the County Superintendent
of Free Schools receive compensation at the
rate of 5000 ner year.
Ordered, That @. r.. Stubs States Attor-
ney be authorized to ernploy the services of
an able lawyer to assist him to prosecute the
case of the State vs. Albert Moore.
On motion the Board adjourned to meet on
Tuesday April 5th, 1870.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-03-29
LIBERAL OFFER /

Wishing to conform to the Cash System as
far as possible, We make the following prop
osition to our patrons:-All subscribers who,
previous to the FIRST DAY OF APRIL
NEXT, come forward and pay their subscrip-
tions in advance, will be furnished with the
Spirit Of jefferson at TWO DOLLARS
AND FIFTY CENTS, for the current year.
In making this offer, we wish it to be dis
tinctly understood that it ,oiR an no case apply
to present subscribers .olto do not pay before
that time. New subscribers will have the
benefit of the same terms.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-03-29

portion of the county shall be required to ship
their products as heretofore, they yet will get
the advantage of the general reduction. The
proposed subscription will be by the whole
county for the benefit of all the people of the
county. This form, of aid is the one every
where adopted. Examples of liberality, or
rather of enlightened enterprise, in this re-
spect, have recently been given by the city of
Baltimore which, by vote of its people, has
been directed to issue its bonds in aid of works
of like character-one of which indeed lies
hundreds of miles away and under the juris-
diction of another State The money thus
furnished by the city will be expended, every
dollar of it, elsewhere, and yet there has been
no hesitancy in voting its appropriation. Our
case is different Under the term of SUBJ
mission, the sum subscribed must be expend-
ed in our own county, thus giving employ
ment to our own people to the benefit of the
laboring and industrious classes Of the COM
munity.
We trust that these facts and views will be
seriously pondered by the voters at the coming
election, and that there will be deep interest
shown in matter that so greatly concerns the
prosperity of the county. Such an oppor-
tunity for its advancement and development
may never again occur IF this road should
be located elsewhere, our regrets may here
after attest the sincerity of our repentance at
having turned our backs upon it; but such
regrets cannot repair the self inflicted injury
which such rejection in our Judgment will
inevitably impose.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-03-29
RALLROAD-TO TAXPAYERS.

Remember that the property of all railroad
companies like that of individuals in the State
and in the county, is subject to taxation.-
And as the line of the Shenandoah Valley
Railroad through the county, will be nearly
or quite twenty miles long, and as each mile
will cost from twenty to twenty-five thousand
dollars, there will be added at once to
the taxable basis of the county four hundred
or five hundred thousand dollars of railroad
property, besides the hundreds of thousands
of dollars also to be added for increase in the
value Of private property. Think of this aud
vote for subscription.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-03-29

RAILRoAD-Not a git Jut a subscriP-
Hon-The idea has very strangely gotten
abroad that the subscription of s25O000 to
be made to the Shenandoah Valley Railroad
on Thursday next will be a doadtion-a giH
will have nothing of value to represent the
sum thus appropriated. This is not true
not word of it. 1t is not a gift, but a SUBJ
scriPtiOn. The county will get for the amount
subscribed an equal amount of stock in the
road, and we hazard nothing in saying that in
less than six months after the completion of
the road, its stock will be as valuable as the
SIX pc cent bonds of the county that will he
used for the purpose of the subscription.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-03-29
The Storm in New York.

New York, March pa terrific easterIy
gale and rain storm has prevailed here all day
and this evening.
New YoNK, March 2T.-Tkis afternoon
an unfinished building on Forty sixth street
below Eleventh avenue, gave way to the vi
olcnce of the wind, and falling on frame
dwelling adjoining, buried the occupants,
benjamin. Donnelly, his wife and four chill
drcn. in the ruins. The husband and wife
and three children were taken out dead. The
fourth child was cxtricated with both legs
broken. The accident caused great excite
ment in the neighborhood.
BUFFALO, March 27.-It has been snow
ing and raining all day, and the snow is
six inches deep.
NEW York, March 27.-The storm has
caused a treshct in the Hackensack and
Passaic rivers. The water is higher than at
any time the last ten Years. No serious dam
age is yet reported, though considerable
quantity Of hay has been carried away, and
the embankment along the line of the New
Jersey Railroad to the present encroachment
of the Passaic river has been partially washed
away.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-03-29

"BR1cK" PoMERoY.-Wc copy the fol-
lowing extract from tile Elmira Gazette
1.-The impression has gone abroad that
Brick Pomeroy's lecturing tour was for the
purpose of retrievingpecuniary losses sustained
in the publication of the Dcmocrat So
far from this being the case, ace hno'o that he
left here with less money than he had when
he left New York, and that not one dollar
derived from mis- lectures found its way into
his pocket for permanent keeping Every
cent above actual expenses was donated to
charitable purposes; aud one instance, alone,
was narrated to US by one who knows, illus
trating the big-heartedness of the man. At
Watkins, a poor woman came TO Brick"
and with -brimmed eyes and sorrow
choked utterance told the simple story of
her restitution and want. The narration had
scarce ended ere he thrust his hand in his
pocket and handed her thirty dollars, with
a 'God bless you" which could only find
acknowledgements in the silent thanktulness
of a heart TOO full for utterancc. This is
not solitary instance of that practical charity
and noble heartedness which CLEANS through
the tuching life lessons of his Saturday
Nights"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-03-29

Es7" Roger B. fancy was L. 6 Chief JUS
tice for % years. lie entered upon the duties
of the office poor man, and died leaving his
family of daughters literally without penny
Two of them are clerks, and thus earn liveli-
hood. Mr.. Stanton left a wife and son in full
health, life insurance of $4,000, to say
nothing of 100000 raised by private SUBJ
scription. Radical newspapers, with all their
clamOr for economy, support gift of $4,000
for the Stanton family. Had it been Taney's
poor daughters instead of STATIONS well-off
family, they would have "died first" and such
is the difference between Radical preaching
and practice.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-03-29
Maiden Speech of the Golored Senator.

The New York World, in skctching the
first speech of Revels, the colored Senator
from Georgia, says:-
The particular side of the Georgia question
which Revels espoused is not worth regarding
that being matter in which he had no choice,
and was obliged to take his cue from his
Radical patrons in the Senate. But the
grounds on which he attempted to vindcate
the negro character were selected by himself,
and do him no discredit If what he singles
out as topics of eulogy are accepted by his
negro constituents as just grounds of pride,
the speech is calculated to do good. We
hope it may steady and confirm them in the
sentiments and conduct for which they are
praised Mr. RevelS dwells. with warmth
and affection, on the fidelity of the negroes to
the families of their masters in the late civil
war. He makes it merit that they did not
then rise in resurrection that they took no
advantage of the helpless aud exposed condi-
ton of the wives and children Of their en-
plOyers, but served and protected them with
dutiful obedience throughout a struggle in
which their own freedom was at stake. 1t
cannot be disputed that their faithfulncss il
such a session Of temptation was creditabie to
their character; and when they find them>
selves praised for it by their own Senator. and
see it put forward us ground of confidence in
their moderation and good intentions, they are
taught TO measure their conduct by really
excellent standard And so when Mr. ReveIs
disclaims, in their behalf, any intention to.
thrust themselves into power and dominecr
over the whites, the disclaimer ought to OPP
crate as an inculcatinn Of duty. So far as
they defer to his opinion and respect his judg-
Il, i
furnishing the rule by which their political
aspirations ought to be restaimed IF they
will act in the spirit for which they are
credited. by their Senator, and make n merit
of their moderation and fidelity, they will
greatly increase their chances of cordial,
pleasant relations with their white fellow
citizens.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-03-29
D lie D..

At ''Avon," Fairfax county, Va, on the 18th
inst, of Pneumonia, in the 4Ith year of her age,
Nj ARTHA. wife OF Richard H. Cockerill and daugh-
Ter of the late Thomas w. Lee, Of Locust Grove
Jefferson county, w. Va.
In Kabietown, on the 9th inst, little CHARLEY i,
infant son Of !. w. and Pleasant Z. Walraven,
aged months and - days.
At the residence her husba nd Mr.. John TalIey,
near Wildwood, Clarke county. on the lItn inst.
Mrs LOUISA TALLEY, in the 65th year of hcra age.
At the residence of his daughter. in Berkeley
county, on the l7th inst, Mr.. ASAHEL VANME-
TER, IN the s5th year of his age.
Near ToInaha wk Springs, in Berkeley county, on
the 18th inst, Miss ANN ELIZABETH, daughter OF
John and Nancy Wigie, in the 23d year of hci age.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-03-29
TO BRIDGE BUILDERS.

THE Stockholders of "the Shena ndoah Bridge
l. Company at Harper's Ferry having resolved
to restore the Wooden Superstructure OF their
Bridge across the Shenandoah River at HarPer's
Ferry, on their Abutments and Piers there, invite
Proposals from Bridge Builders,
at once, for Erecting and Constructing said Wood
Superstructure.
The site Will be shown by the und ersigned at
Harper's Ferry-and any cOmmu nication may be
addressed TO him to Isaac Fouke, Esq, SecreIa-
~, at CdarlcstOwn, ". Va.
(SiguedJ S. v YANTIS.
March 90. lSTO-4t PTe=ident-
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-03-29

R6g- The House Committee on Military
Affairs have made a report exonorating all
who were accused of being engaged in selling
cadetships, except those who have been ex-
PEELED or censured. Mr.. Golladay, the only
Democrat involved, has been declared to be
free from blame.