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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1873-09-06
NV Va SATTTRDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1873 NO. 3

"Hes had his share. fancy" said the
widow.
How u said Martha
"Iu giving them to you. lie bought them,
his brother and he, on purpose for you, they've
been saving up ever since you've been i'll"
But-how-ever--did -did-thcy-g the mo-
ney?" SAID Martha
"Ch, went messages and held horses aud
things, in their meal times" said the widow.
&" low good of them +" said Martha, crying a
little between weakness and pleasure.
' Yes they are good children, especially
Tom; it was his thought
A little dew Of mothers pride and JOY moist
ened the widow eyes. The good nurse object
ed to tears on principle; but, as She said after
ward " she had net the heart to interfere"
when Martha, half raising herself, drew toward
her aud said "Will you be my friend indeed
I've never had any in all my life. Nobody
cared for me since my mother died.
Somebody cares now, then, said the widow,
with her voice still as clear and chcery as lit
tie birds, "you shall be to me instead Of my
daughter that died, if you like. She would
have been just about your age. 1t used to re-
mind me of her when Tom was telling me about
you
"God bless youl" said Martha, whose tears
Of joy would not let her say more.
But when the widow had gone, and the kind
skilful nurse was arranging her for sleep, Mar
tha said " God forgive me for despairing. III!
never say again, who cares"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1873-09-06
Collection Depot.

THE Charlestown Depot. Winchester Stras-
burg Branch OF the B. d o. Railroad. has
been madea Collection Depot. Freights will here
after be collected at Charetown, instead, as here
toforc, at the points from which shipments are
made. An persons receiving freight on and after
August lst iS72. will be required topay for the
same before removal. j. u. SIAhNl'
Apr.S 1872. Agent.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1873-09-06
d. @ NEW SERTESl CHARLESTOWN JEFFERSON COUNTY, W "
POETICAL.
BABY-FAITH
By MARGARET j. PRESTON.

OH beautiful faith of childhood! How
1t beamed tonight on the upturned brow
Ofmy three year Love, as she knet to say
Her prayers, in her guileless, dreamy way.
"And wouldn'tmy darling like" ! said,
As softly ! stroked the bowing head,
-"Iike to be good, and by and by
Go to home in the happy sky,
Away and away above yon star, "a
Where God and his holy angels are y
She lifted her drowsy and dewy eyes,
And 4 shy. scared look Of half-surprise
Rippled and filmed their depths Of blue
And kept the gladness from breaking through.
al think would like TO CO." she said
Yet doubtingly shook her golden head,
And clasped my hands in her fingers small,
'But, then, I'm afraid that / @iJhfJaH
Ont at hc moon! ~
Her baby eye
Saw only an opening in the sky
4 marvellous oriel, whence the light
OF Heaven streamed out across the night
Where the angels lean, as they come and go,
A-gaze at our world, so far below
She mused a moment in tender thought,
Then suddenly every feature caught
A new, rare sparkle, and could trace
The dawn Of the trust that flashed in her face
But God is good lie will understand
That Baby's afraid, and will take my hand
And lead me in at the shining door,
And then shall be afraid no more.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1873-09-06

OF all countries in the world Americas least
endure alcohol, and Society is working up to
the fact that practically it is now the greatest
enemy which it has to contend with.
c. W. A.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1873-09-06

GooD TriE.-On Frilay last tic Eastern
passenger train was stopped at Keswick depot,
about 50 miles from here, by the engine break
ing. A telegram was sen, to tlis place for
help, when engine No. 48 left here in charge
engineer Bearlsly, at ssoPM running back
wards, and at 4.S5 bad reached the disabled
train, coupled on to it and started back this
way, having made the trip IN nearly a mile
minute stanaton Kndical1r.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1873-09-06
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AND

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AND
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A large assortment of Second Hand Pianos al
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Send for Illustrated catalogue containing the
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July -, lS72-yearly. April -, 1873.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1873-09-06

The damsel who was accused Of breaking a
young mans heart, has been bound over in tho.
bonds Of matrimony to keep the pieces y
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-10
Typhoid Fever.

At a recent lecture on typhoid fever at
Guys Hospital, Sir William Gull re-
marked that two hundred and fifty years
ago one of the kings of England died of
the ague, but now by improved agricul-
ture and drainage the disease had be-
come rare, and certainly few die of it.
Typhoid fever, he asserts, is as prevent
able as ague, and two hundred and fifty
years hence deaths from it will be rare,
The disease is caused by virus of ma
ture, which may get into the healthy
body, increase in it, and destroy it. 1t
is an accidental condition, and not one
of the ordinvry processes of nature.
The origin of the disease is somehow
or another connected with drainage; it
has therefore been called the filth fever,
and to get rid of the filth is to get rid of
the fever. This was illustrated in the
case of the Milbank prison, where
typhoid and dysentery were once thor
oughly established, but where both al
most wholly disappeared when the
water supply was changed and efficient
drainage provided. In closing his re-
marks on the treatment of the disease,
the lecturer said that no man can ap-
proach case of typhoid fever without
paying some attention to hygiene. This
he claimed was of the greatest import
ance, and with it he would prefer to
carry any one through the disease by
wines, soups and fresh air, rather than
by drugs GGLGGy.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-10
Extraordinary Murder by a Child.

A few miles from this city, on the op-
posite side of the river, is Mr.. George
Humphreys plantation, known as the
Dalkieth place, on which there are
several colored families living. The pride
of one of these families is very pre-
cocious little six-year-old boy, whose
sprightliness and intelligence have been
the Joy and admiration of his parents,
and the remark of all who knew the lit
tie fellow. Some time ago little
stranger appeared in the family to claim
O part of the love and care of the parents
and divide the parental affection with
the little six-year-old. He had no love
for the baby, was jealous of it, and its
presence in the family was a sting in his
little breast. In his own childish way,
he brooded over the matter for some
time, and seemed finally to decide upon
a course of action.
Day before yesterday, while the men
were in the field at work, and the woman
either with them or engaged elsewhere,
the children we're left alone about the
cabins to amuse themselves as they might
see fit. The mother of the infant and
the little six-year-old had left the baby
snugly slowed away in the cradle asleep,
and her little boy in the yard playing
with the other children, when she went
away. She had scarcely gotten out of
sight, when the little boy gathered up a
brickbat, almost as much as he could
carry, and walking into the cabin where
the baby lay, began to pelt it over the
head with the brick until he actually
succeeded in breaking the infants skull,
and mashing it almost to jelly. He
then managed to get the child out of the
cradle, and dragged its lfeless body to
the woods, short distance from the
house, where he hid the body in the
bushes, and returning to his pIaymates-
said to them ''I beeve till ole baby"
He then led them to the spot where he
there lay the little innocent with it's head
crushed, and life extinct. When it is
considered that the perpetrator of this
most foul and atrocious crime is only 6
years old, it almost staggers belief
Vicks6erg (Hiss.) Herald.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-10
ReSurgam.

A strange case of resuscitation lately
took place at the hospital of the Val de
Grace, at Paris. A man had hanged
himself in the Rue st. Jacques, and
having been cut down and examined by
the medical men, was pronounced dead.
The clinical lecturer, however, desired
to try one last experiment, and he opened
the chest and attempted artificial respir-
alton, but without success. He then
applied the pole of an electrical battery
to the pneumo-g gastric nerves, and passed
a strong current at intervals of four
seconds. Soon after some signs of
respiration appeared, and in five min
utes the cardiac pulsation was percep-
tible. The epiglottis was tumefied, and
the tongue had to be drawn out with
pincers to leave a passage for the air.
A few ounces of blood were obtained
from the medico-cephalic vein, the
dilated pupils contracted, the signs of
life became more and more manifest, a
few drops of alcohol were given, mus
cular contractions became visible with
out electricity, warmth returned to the
feet, the pulsation in the carotid arteries
recommended, and the patient was cured.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-10
Curiosities of Weather.

Perhaps there is nothing about which
ordinary people talk so much at random
as the weather how, in their time, it
was colder, hotter, drier or wetter !;
whereas, as matter of fact, although
one year may differ from another, the
average of wet and fine, of cold and
heat, is maintained from generation to
generation. The greatest cold expe-
rienced in England has been 5 degrees,
and in France "A degrees; the greatest
heat i'm the shade) has been, in the for
mer country, 96 degrees in the latter,
1861 degrees. In Africa, on the one
hand, and British North America on the
other, the extremes of temperature upon
the globe have attained a scale of 240
degrees. The most curious incident
with respect to extreme cold that ever
took place in warfare was the capture
of Dutch vessels by cavalry, which
since they were frozen in on the Trexel
-Pichegru sentagainst them. In Africa,
besides the heat, there is sometimes an
altogether unexpected inconvenience.
The traveller in the desert suddenly
hears one of his Arabs exclaim "The
torrent the torrent p' and everybody
has at once to hurry to the nearest eIe-
ley in which he has been journeying is
hidden by deep body of water, which
hurries with its rocks, trees and wild
animals. Nay, on one occasion, it is
recorded by M. d'Abbadie, that he
found an Arab looking disconsolately on
the wet ground, after the passage of
sucha food-which does not last beyond
a few hours-for what the Frenchman
took to be his pipe or his lance. "Don't
talk to me about pipes and lances," was
the irritable rejoinder; "that torrent
has CARRIED off my camel, my whole
fortune, and my wife and children. :"
The explanation of this phenomenon is,
that when cloud bursts on the barren
hills there is neither soil no root of
trees to absorb or arrest the passage,
but it rushes down to the eplain, like wa
ter from a house-roof.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-10
A Strange Story.

A horrible report comes from India.
A gentleman living in the interior, be-
ing something of a naturalist, had a
great passion for hunting snakes. His
wife, however, had great aversion to
them, and could not bear to look at a
dead one. He thought this all nom
sense on his wife's part, and resolved to
cure her of her fear by making her fa-
miliar with snakes. One day, while
hunting, he killed an exceedingly large
boa-constrictor, which he brought home
and stretched out on the verandah in
front of the house. After dinner he told
his wife he had something on the ver-
andah he wished her to look at. They
went to the door together, and as she
stepped out he closed and locked the
door. She screamed frightfully, but he
thought her fear would be soon over,
and so he remained in the hall making
sportive remarks for his wife to hear.
AS her screams continued he opened the
door only to see his wife in the agony
of death, crushed in the folds of a mon
strous boa. It appears when one of
these serpents is killed that its mate
will always follow the body if it is taken
away, and will avenge itself on the first
object it meets. In this case the boa
had followed its dead companion, and
had lain in wait for some one to appear,
on whom it could fasten it's coils. The
gentleman went mad on the spot, and
had to be conveyed to an insane
asylum.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-10
The Freedom Of the Press

The ConstitutionalCon Convention of Penn
sylvania has incorporated the following
into the new Bill of Rights for that State:
'sThe printing press shall be free to
every person who undertakes to examine
the proceedings of the Legislature or
any branch of the Government, and no
law shall ever be made to restrain the
right thereof The free communication
of thought and opinions is one of the
invaluable rights of man, and every citi-
zen may freely speak, write, and print
on any subject, being responsible for
the abuse of the liberty. No conviction
shall be had in any prosecution for the
publication of papers relating to the off
cial condnct of officers or men in public
capacity, or to any other matter proper
for public investigation or information,
where the fact that such publication was
not maliciously or negligently made shall
be established to the satisfaction of the
jury. And in all indictments for libel
the jury shall have the right to deter
mine the law and the facts, under the
direction of the court, as in other cases. "
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-10
Governors Salaries.

The salaries of the Governors of the
States range from 81, 900 to So, 900 a year.
Louisiana, the least able in her present
financial condition, except perhaps South
Carolina, to pay a big salary, pays So, 600
a year for her Governor. McEnery and
Kellogg could afford to divide as COM
promise of political differences and still
have better pay than a good many Gov
ernors get. California comes next in
the lis, paying 81, 600 year, probably
in gold, though now that greenbacks are
in circulation in the Pacific States, Gov.
Booth may have to be content with
them. Nevada, the silver State, thinks
she can afford Sc, ,O00a year for;the luxury
of a Governor, and pays it without
grumbling. None of the other States
pay more than 81, 600, and most of them
$1,000 and under. The great State of
New York pays but 81, 600 for the able
administration of Gen. Dix, while Illi-
nois gets the services of John il. Bev-
eridge for 81, 500 year. A Vermont
Governor manages to get on with 81, ,OOO
year, but as he watches over a far
more limited territory than Gov. Furnas,
of Nebraska, who gets no more, he
ought not to grumble.-Cincin'aati
Commercial.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-10
A Singular Strike.

One of the most curious strikes on
record has just occurred in st. Louis.
On the editorial staff of the German
newspaper, the Anaerika, is a gentle
man named Regenaur, whose hand
writing is said to be a wonder. For a
long time the compositors in the
Anaeriko Office puzzled their brains to
the verge of distraction in their efforts
to decipher this gentleman's manuscript
without complaint but at last, driven
to desperation, they appointed COM
mittee to wait on the proprietor OF the
journal, with the request that in future
they should be paid price and hall
for putting Mr.. Regenaur's copy In
type. The request was refused, where
upon the compositors struck in body.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-10
Humorous.

UNDER the weather-Old Prob.
A GRANT for the West-The emi-grant.
FIGURES don't lie except when cooked.
WANTED-A slipper for the foot of q
hill.
How TO keep books = Never lend
them.
THE best sense in the world-Reti-
cence.
AN end always to be kept in view
Dividend.
New YORK does not find Hell Gate
wide enough.
WHAT is that which never uses it's
teeth for eating purposes A comb.
NEW reading of an old proverb-Man
proposes, and woman seldom refuses.
IT is saidrthat the Digger Indians are
never known to smile. They are grave
Diggers.
Why is nature Like a baby? Because
there is generally squan when its face
is washed.
CHARLES KEAN said that bad horse
is like poor play; it can't run, and it
won't draw.
A YOUNG lady being asked her opinion
of mustaches replied, I" I always set my
face against them"
"HAvE you Goldsmith's Greece" was
asked of the clerk in store in which
books and various miscellaneous articles
were sold. "No," said the clerk, re-
fectively, "we haven't tGoldsmith's
Greece but we have some splendid
hair-oil."
HANDS have they, yet steal not
Clocks. Legs have they, yet walk not
Tables. Teeth have they, yet chew
not-Combs. Lips have they, yet kiss
Pitchers. Eyes have they, yet see
not-Needles. Hearts have they, yet
pity not-Cabbages. Ears have they,
yet hear not-Old book leaves. Arms
have they, yet toll not-Chairs.
Mr. CARPENTER, of Marquette, Mich,
had not the slightest idea he was about
to create an atmospherical disturbance
when he knocked the ashes out of his
pipe on the head of powder keg. And
when q fellow-workman conveyed all
that was left of Mr.. Carpenter to his
wife in bag, she quietly remarked:
'Just his luck. Hang him up in the
wood-shed, where the cats won't get at
him, till night. q"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-10
Look Ont for Horse.Thieyes.

Our rural friends are advised. to keep
sharp watch on all stragglers and
strangers offering horses for sale. Chi
cago and her suburbs are infested with
these villainous pests, who make nightly
raids on the stables In and around the
city. Many valuable equines have
turned up missing lately. 1t is the prac-
tice of the thieves to run them into the
agricultural districts and dispose of them
to unsuspecting farmers, who are only
too willing to buy because an apparently
cheap bargain is offered. which in too
many instances proves to be no bargain
at all, for very frequently the stolen
animal is traced and recovered, and the
purchaser has to whistle for the money
he has paid to the thief. Farmers IN
the country cannot be too careful.
"Forewarned is forearmed. Chicago
paper.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-10

CANINE STRATEGY Pittsfeld, Mass.
dog and Berkshire woodchuck recent
ly met in a clover field, and, as is usual
at such meetings of antagonistic princi-
pies, a battle followed. They were
equally matched in size and grit, and
the fight was long and furious, and it
became evident that whichever won
must employ strategy. The dog was the
first to discover and employ it. By
super canine efforts he dragged his ad-
versary to a small brook near the battle
field, and plunged him in, holding him
there until the woodchuck was obliged
to succumb, leaving the dog master OF
the situation.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-10
Singular Presentiment.

A curious presentiment is mentioned
in connection with the drowning of
three schoo1boys at Norwalk, Conn,
June Z. The day before the accident,
DIR. Hays, an assistant teacher, re-
marked to fellow-teacher I have
dreamed two nights in succession that
three of our boys were drowned. 1t is
very foolish to speak of it, but some
how it haunts ne, and please have a
care to the boys when on the water. %
When Charley White, the first boy who
reached the house after the accident,
came in drenched with water, the Doc
tor exclaimed: "How bad is it? Who
is drowned? ?" and fell fainting into
Whites arms.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-10

contract has been made between the
Mexican Government and the Mexican
International Railway Company for the
construction of a road from the city of
Mexico to the Pacific Ocean and the
river Rio Bravo del Norte, the details
of which have just come to hand in the
Cosmopolitan of June 9th, a paper
printed in the Mexican Capital. The
fourth article of the contract provides
for an ingenious list of inducements for
the company to hurry up their work. If
the road is finished in nine years, the
company gets but 800, 900 as kind of
premium if in eight years, $40O, 600; in
seven years, 5000, 900; in six years,
81, 600, 900.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-10
THE NEwsBoY,s DEBT.

" Sir, if you please, my brother Jim
The one you give the bill, you know
He couldn't bring the money, Sir,
Because his back was hurted SO.
she didn't mean to keep the 'change;'
He got runned over, up the street:
One wheel went right across his back,
= And tother fore-wheel mashed his feet.
ssThey stopped the horses Just in time,
And then they took him up for dead,
And all that day and yesterday
He wasn't rightly in his head.
Z" They took him to the hospital
One of the newsboys knew twas Jim
And went too, because, you see,
We two are brothers, and him.
"He had that money in his hand,
And never saw it any more.
Indeed, he didn't mean to steali
He never lest cent before!
HHe was afraid that you might think
He meant to keep it, any way;
This morning, when they brought him to,
He cried because he couldn't pay.
s1He made me fetch his Jacket here;
It's torn and dirtied pretty bad;
It's only fit to sell for rag,
But then, you know, it's all he had
"when he gets well-it won't be long
If you viii call the money lent,
He says he'll work his fingers of
But what he'll pay you every cent"
And then he cast his rueful glance
At the soiled jacket where 1T lay.
" No, no, my boy Take back the coat,
Your brothers badly hurt, yon say7
Where did they take him7 Just run out
And hail cab, then wait for me.
Why, would give a thousand coats,
And pounds for such a boy as !''
A half-hour after this we stood
Together in the crowded wards,
And the nurse checked the hasty steps
That fell loudly on the boards.
thought him smiling in his sleep,
And scarce believed her when she said,
Smoothing away the tangled hair
From brow and cheek, " The boy Is dead"
Dead7 dead SO soon7 How fair he looked
One streak of sunshine on his hair,
Poor ladl Well, it is warm in heaven;
No need of change and Jackets there.
And something rising in my throat
Made it SO hard for me to speak,
I turned away, and left a tear
Lying upon his sunburned cheek.
-Hdrper's Magazine.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-10
Gen. Crook.

We are rather sorry that George Crook
didn't capture the Modocs. During the
war it was observed that when Gen.
Crook was sent after bushwhackers he
never brought any into camp to be
bothered w1th-they always met with
some accident. We remember an illus
trative occasion. Crook, then Colonel
of the Thirty-sixth Ohio, reported to
Rosncrans at Cross Lanes,a after the
battle of Carnifax Ferry. Rosecrans
was delighted to see him, because he
had good helper. The bushwhackers
were very troublesome. Crook was Or
dered to squelch them. About ten days
afterward Crook came into headquarters
looking like man who had been sleep
ing out O. nights. Rosecrans and the
rest of us greeted him warmly, and, after
glass of-water, said
Rosy" Well, Crook, what did you
do ?"
Crook" Cleaned out the bushwhack-
ers.''
Rosy" Didn't you take any pris-
oners ?"
Crook (drawling)- Well, yes, 1 did
have-seven, but the id fools fell off a
tree and broke their necks."
Headquarters took more water.-DGy-
ton Journal.