Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1872-06-22

= native OF w lnchester, a, ana lately
clerk with j. W. Campbell Il Co. of
New York. was found dead in his bed
room at l35 Hudson street, in that city.
The coroners inquest disclosed the fact
that he had committed suicide by taking
Paris green. He left n letter addressed
to his father at Winchester complaining
of the treatment he had received from
employers, ''insulted often, sick fire.
quently, and now having neithermoney
nor friends. He leaves two children.
The following letters were found in
Mr. Bushnell's room among his papers
One was addressed TO his father. J. W.
Bushnell, and the other to his children.
Ella and j. f. Bushnell, all of whom
reside in Winchester
OFFICE OF J. W. Il Co,
34S Hudson street, New York.
DEAR KIND OLD FATHER: Please
and for Gods sake forgive me. | re
member when we parted YOU said YOU
never expected to see me again upon
earth thought differently although |
suppose Won will be correct Oh how
my heart bleeds that cannot see Your
dear old face once more on earth, but |
hope t. meet YOU in heaven. You know
not what troubles | have had in New
York, | can say that | have done moth
ing in violation of law or 10 the injury
of any one, but To work in subbase-
ment under tyranical men from morn
ing until night, has afflicted me, God
only knows. Twas insulted often. ana
sick frequently, consequently gave il
up, and now | have neither money nor
friends. There are some who would
perhaps be friends, but | am too deS-
pondcnt to ask them tavorS, and as |
have no longer home upon earth !
will seek one in heaven, winch hope
to obtain, and where hope to meet
YOU. Your ailcctionate son.
J. W. Bushnell.
p. S.-Be sure and make my little
ones feel that am better of, | was
no account to them, though loved
them with fathers love. J. W. B.
DEAR CHILDREN Have no doubt
ere YOU receive this will be no more,
but here | am without friends or mon
cy; can neither get away or stay, and |
have therefore come to the conclusion
that ! am nuisance uIon this earth. |
will therefore leave it, with the hope
that | will join your mother, brother,
and sister in heaven. with other friends
gone before Please be good children,
and forgive me and pray for me, and |
hope 10 meet you in heaven.
Your atfectionate and perhaps lost
father J. w. Bushnell
SnEILrD CoRN-For contentment,
take plenty of religion, health, andmon-
ey. it doesn't make YOU as happy
as a coon in a corntield, then I'm no
doctor.
Il guess that Western land is rich,
said the stranger turning to the stage
driver Cultivate it as keerfully rs the
farmers do here at the East, aud it will
Weld a hundred and twenty five bush
els of shelled corn to the acre, easy.
Tend it in the common way, and it will
run seventy five bushels. Even plant
it on sod ground, and it will bring fifty.
And if you don't plant any seed at all
1t will turn out twenty-five or thirty"
81 Bump touched up the ofi-leadcr a
little, gathered the end of his long
whip lash in his hand with a dcxtrous
fling, elected all his surplus tobacco
juice, and then cody replied
"You cant talk very well, can you,
stranger
But the idea amt so very bad, arter
all, he continued, meiitatively tapping
the toe of his stogy boot lightly with
the tip of his whip stock.
There amt SO very much difference
irpnew sie arter all. It's mostly in the
cultivation.
There was us four boys at hum.
Couldn't tell that one has 80 much more
sense than tother till the ground was
broke and the crops begun to come.
Then, Jimminy Jinks, how some Of um
scooted away from the others
There's jim. He's got to be Judge
-l25 bushels to the acre. Eph he's a
lawyer-7j bushels. Sam is III Con
grcss. Reckon he wont run over %
| DuSUcio, luOuPil. anu H'It "hi 81
stage driver -25 to 80 bushels. Ground
purity neer alike by natur. All the diff
, crence in the world in the cultivation,
though But there allus must be some
, fellers as aint plowed nur planted wuth
a cent, or else there wouldn't be any
stage drivers And ! spose might "a
well be one of um as anybody GltuP,
Dick :"
And away the coach ratified, "a if 81
had come to quite final conclusion as
regards that matter.
Te,ter, Salt Rheum and all Skin Dis
eases cured by DR. Pierces Golden
Medical Discovery.
THE PEOPLES STAMP OF
VALUE.-The government endorse
ment, which legalizes the sale of Plan
TATIoN BITTERs, is not the only stamp
affixed to that famous vegetable tonic.
1t bears.in addition to that Official sane
ton, the still more valuable stamp Of
public appreciation. This inestimable
voucher Of its rare properties as Tonic,
Corrective and Alternative, is Of much
earlier date than the Government ere
Dental for millions Of sick persons had
pronounced it the grand specific Of the
age long before Congress thought Of
taxing proprietary medicines. 1t is un-
necessary to repeat, in detail, the pro
r.r+ies az this wonderful T.0etable In