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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-01
SAINTS AND SINNERS.

There is evidently something wrong
with the saints. Every day some
new scandal story is told, full of re-
voting details, connecting ministers
and other church officials with high
crimes against decency and morality.
These tales are accommodating with
rapidity, and almost every locality
seems to have it's share of them
From the city to the quiet town the
Eandal spreads like an epidemic and
men who have for years looked upon
the ordinary worldly man with saint
ly, deprecating mien, and Stunned
him for his vices, is accused of ex-
cesses that were not dreamed of by
his non-professing brother.
That these criminal charges are
made against professional christians
does not lessen the value of religion
to us nor make it the less sacred but
it Injuries the cause, because it des-
troys respect for the church, the great
temple that refines and purifies our
natures and elevates our civilization.
One of the main causes of all this
trouble is that we have too much
sentiment and not enough square
practical business about the manage
ment of our religious theories. Do
away with the official presence of that
hypoeritical brother, who says long
prayers in public places with lust
ful eye upon his neighbours wife or
daughter, and "thanks God he is
not like other men, and put in his
stead the strong, sensible man whose
moral and physical nature prevents
him seeming other than what he is,
and then give latitude within the
church for the rational enjoyment of
the pleasures of life, and we will
have less of these stories. and less Of
these criminal intercourses.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-01
Mr.. GhOaGG and the ADEDi-
Gi0gsS How.

A great many boys mistake their
calling, but all such are not fortu-
nate enough to find out in as good
season as did this one. 1t is
said that Rufus Choate, the great
lawyer, was once in New Hamp-
shire, making plea, when boy,
the son of a farmer, resolved to
leave the plow and become law
yer like Rufus Choate.
He accordingly went to Boston,
called on Mr.. Choate and said to
him: ''I heard you plead in our
town, and ] have desire to become
a lawyer like you. Will you teach
me how?o
GAS well as l cam" said the law
yer, "Come and sit down."
Taking copy of Blackstone down
he said: "Read this ultil I come
back, and / will see how you get
on.'
The poor boy began. An hour
passed. His back ached, his head
ached, his legs ached. He knew
not how to study. Every moment
became q torture. He wanted air.
Another hour passed, and Mr..
Ch0ate came and asked, "How do
you get on?"
"Get on why. do you have to
read such stuffas this ?''
eyes"
"HoW much of it ?"
"All there is is on these shelves,
and more, looking about toe great
library"
Hoy long will it take ?"
"Well, it has taken me more
than twenty-five years"
"How much do you get ?"
"My board and Clothes
"Is that all ?"
"Well, that is all l have gained
as vet"
"Then," said the boy, II will go
back to ploughing The work is
not near as hard,an pays better"
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-01

1t is now rumored that the grass
hopper has marked Missouri for his
own this summer. If there be any
truth, in this telegraph report there
is serious cause for alarm to adjac-
ent States. One theory of the prog
ress of the plague held insects were
advancing from year to year, thenew
generation springingup where the old
ones persisted, and the invasion, pro-
crossing rapidly eastward. The best
scientific authorities did not favor the
theory, but the facts in regard to the
career of the plague seem to confirm it.
If Missouri is now doomed it behooves
Illinois and Indiana to set to work
and stop the invasion if human inge-
nuity be available to stay the march
of the cnrse.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-01


Shell jeweIry is still very fash
ionable.
Jet is used on second mourning
costumes.
Alpacas, without lustre, are
worn in mourning.
The newest neckties display
matelass figures, and the effect is
very rich.
Overskirts are never fined, and
very few Of the dress skirts, except
by a facing
For general wear, such as shop.
ping and for the house, for one in
mourning, tamise cloth is the most
serviceable.
Sleeveless jackets, made of gui-
pure insertion and black velvet,
will again be worn this spring and
summer.
Jet trimmings are not to be
abandoned, and ale still used upon
the handsomest black silks, over
dresses and wraps.
Breakfast caps are as much worn
as ever; those in the Charlotte Cor
day and Martha Washington style
being most popular.
Among the most stylish over
dresses are tabliers and fichu jack
cts, made of alternate stripes of
Litau braid, and beaded Yak lace.
In parasols there are no marked
novelties, and those sensible styles
which prevailed last summer will
be popular during this season.
Short pulled sleeves with high
bodies, fashion of twenty years
ago, are revived,a and will be large
ly adopted during the coming sea
son by young ladies.
The Spanish comb is much liz
demand now, and is to most faces
becoming. Side combs ere also
much in favor, and are used for
holding back stray tresses.
Bodies of all thin dresses, lawns
included, are lined with silk or
linen, the ground color of the
dress. Low Innings to high waists
and sleeves are entirely obsolete.
A pretty spring suit for miss
of fourteen is plaid de bege for
basque and overskirt, with sleeves
and lower-skirt of the same color,
but plain. Trim with knife pleat-
ings.
In washing your hair do not use
Sal Soda, as many do. 1t is very
injurious: Lukewarm water with
white CASTLE soap is made advisa-
BILE A little ammonia is good for
cleaning the scalp also.
orange flowers continue the cho-
sen emblem of the bride, and are
wGrn in greater or less profusion,
according to the richness of the
toilet. The veil should be tulle,
and reach to the hem of the dress.
Fans are of a medium size, from
10 to IL inches in length, and the
pointed styles still remain in ia
vor. Persian paintings, in which
the monogram or initials is some
times introduced, is che newest
fancy,
A new material just introduced
is Drap de Thirty. designed for
deep mourding. 1t is heavier than
bombazine, and presents larger
twill. There is but the one quail
ty--the width is thirty-four inches
price So. per ward.
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What Negligence Costs.
| From The PbiLddelDhiG Times. I

- iVbe tfec u iott'tNVN NltcS a tHttS.l
Last winter Mayor Stokley de-
clared, in answer to many COM
plants, that he was powerless to
enforce the ordinances requiring
property-owners and residents to
keep the pavements in front of
their houses clear of snow and ice.
The twelve hundred men at his
command could not visit all the
dwellings in Philadelphia in
twenty-four hours, he said, and the
fine was too trifiing. What he
failed to accomplish, the verdict of
jury in the Court of Common
Pleas yesterday, in awarding dam
ages of $4,000 to a poor woman
who fell and broke her leg on an
icy pavement, will very likely eff
feet in q large degree. Thus we
see that twelve coed men and
true have succeeded where twelve
hundred policemen failed. rs
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-01
IRE THEY EPIDEMTCs

Crime, disaster and misfortune
must surely be epidemic; so closely
do the various examples follow upon
one another that it seems to be no
matter Of doubt that there are laws
governing their existence, as yet to
us unknown. Our fathers remarked
this recurrence and gave to us there
suit Of their observations in the adage
Misfortunes never come singly. -
Just now our columns are crowded
with accounts ofmurder and attempt
ed homicides the telegraph brings us
every day items upon items of the
most serious crime known to the law
from all parts of the land, and any
one who has had occasion to follow
closely the run Of the news for the
past two weeks, cannot but be struck
with the sudden rise in murders and
murderous attempts. Since last Mon
day morning, mention has been made
by telegraph of over fifty cases Of this
class of crime. Suicides have their
run, as well as murders fires and
shipWrecks class themselves and hap
pen, each of its kind, all III lump.
There is no disputing this disposition
of crime and there is no accounting
for it. And as it comes to be more
fully recognized that some undefina-
BILE influence is at work that some
hidden spring is flooding the world
with disaster, the relations between
the criminal and society are being
more thoughtfully considered. 1t has
long been the generally accepted the
DRY that if there were more men
hung there would be few MURDERS"
and founded upon the definitions of
murder laid down in the statute books
guarded by the definitions and allow
ances that experience has suggested
this would seem to hold good. But re-
cord is against the theory. Not SO
very many years ago the slightest of
Tense was punishable with death in
England, and 50 severe and undis-
eliminating were the laws, SO sum-
mary the method of their execution
that u dozen criminals, whose trial
happened on the first three days Of a
week, were hanged on Friday and yet
every Friday claimed its share of un-
fortunates to perish on the scaffold.
In the first burst of horror and in
dignation that a brutal murder eX-
cites hang him y is the most uni
versal cry; society, alarmed demands
the "eye for an eye and tooth for a
TOOTH" but calmer thought is condu-
Give to calmer tone. Punishment s
higher aim is protection and reforma-
ton rather than revenge, and if the
examples of hanging, balanced against
the fact that crimes seem to flow in
channels, and we meet them as the
world every August and November
falls into meteoric stream, give us
good grounds that hanging is not pro-
tective as it certainly is not reforma-
tory, we are left to discover some 9TH
er mode of disposing of our murder
ers.
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A qua rterly circular of failures fol

A qua rterly circular of failures for
he first three months of the year,
just issued by Messrs. Dun, Barlow
q Co., does not present such a bad
showing. The figures show 1913 fail
ures, with gross liabilities Of $38, S73,-
600, being only about 1913, 900 more
than one quarter of.the amount Of the
previous year, and nearly $20,000,0 900
less than for a corresponding period
in 1873. The circular states that in
New York city especially there is no.
ticed a very considerable diminution
in the number Of failures. In two OF
three very important lines of trade
there has not been any failure at all
of prominence during the first quar-
ter of the year, while the few very
distinctive failures of the year, thus
far, have been confined to branches of
trade in which there have been very
few failures hitherto. Even these
are to be attributed far more to an
over production and undue competi-
ton, excessive even in prosperous
times, than the result of general de-
preston. There are important indi-
cations of gradual though slow re-
turn to activity and prosperity in
several leading departments of bust
ness, and the above figures show that
the trade, thus far in the year, has
been by no means disastrous, if not
altogether satisfactory.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-01

1t is stated that if the present po-
htical compromise in louisiana shall
be an abiding and peaceful one,a for
eign company, with capital of $780,
100000 has been organized for
the purpose of investing in Louisiana
land and pursuing agriculture as a
science-labor saving machinery.
steam power, etc.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-01

Planters in Tennessee are complain
ing greatly of an unprecedented des-
truction of mules, horses and cattle
by the buffalo gnat. 1t is estimated
that within the past ten days 800, 900
worth of stock has been killed by
them within a radius of a hundred
miles, taking Memphis as the centre
of the circle.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-01

And now the milk weed is to be
made useful. It's milky substance is
TO be converted into India Rubber,
company having been formed in
Canada for the purpose.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-01

California raisins have been pro-
nounced by experts superior to the
imported Malagas. AT present more
than one-half of the raisins exported
from Europe are sent to this coun-
try.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-01

"A venerable African, over in
Alabama, has sententiously expressed
the cause of the decay of Southepa
prosperity in these words: Afore the
war came, the white gentlemen
tended to the politics and the mig
gers worked. Consequence was crops
was good and white folks had plenty
of money. Nowadays the white
gentlemen and the niggers am both
gone crazy on politics; don't neither
of 'em do no work, and consequence
amt neither or 'em got 'nough to
buy corn bread. :" ~
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-01

Senator II. G.. Davis by his labor
and success in obtaining an appropri-
alton of $500, 900 for the Improvement
of the Great Kanawha river, has caus-
ed the people of the Kanawha Valley
to vote complimentary resolution las
follows
OFFICE OF KANAwHA BOARD, }
CHARLESTON. w. VA. !
At a meeting of the Kanawha
Board, held March 16, 1875, the fol-
lowing resolutions were adopted:
Resolred, LIST. That the Hon. Hen
ny G.. Davis, United States Senator
from West Virginia, has eminently
entitled himself to an expression of
our thanks and regard, in having CIV
EN- to the appropriation recently made
by Congress for the improvement of
the Kanawha river, his generous and
active support, and in having thus
contributed to inaugurate the COM
mencement of what we confidently
believe to be the great work of our
day, viz. The establishment of the
great water lines between the East
and the West.
I'd. That the President transmit to
Senator Davis copy of these Reso-
buttons. Sass
w. f. GosHoRN, Pre't.
j. ID. BLAINE, Sec'y.
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MRS. 'LIZdBETH Lii PIERRE
PALMER.

Another of those strange beings
which make up the crowd that hover
around the Beecher-Tilton trial, and
give evidence for one side or the 9TH
err, mounted to the witness-box day
before yesterday and added another
disgusting chapter of sentimental
bosh to the almost impenetrable cloud
of smut that has enyeloped the trial
from its inception. She, like all the
rest of the gang, had strange theories
and believes in spirits, good and bad.
Believes she can read the secrets of
other peoples lives. Declared that
spooks We're present in the
court room lowering around
the actors in the scene. She
said that her belief was that 8 no hui
man soul was responsible for its acts.
She explained her strange theories at
great length and declared that man
and wife should separate when they
could not live togetherIhappily, and
admitted that she had given practi-
cal demonstration of her belief by
leaving one husband one day and
marrying DR.. Palmer, her present
one, the next. Her story differed
somewhat from the rest, but it was
only another branch of the same sto-
ry of vice and immortality that has
been told from the beginning of the
trial, but given in palmer and more
unmistakable language. She gave no
inspirational kisses as did Beech
er, but a good square buss" that
meant business, and said so. Her
language was not quite so elegant or
eloquent as either Beecher's or Til
ton but it was more blunt and hon
est but no more disgusting, and gave
us a fair insight into the character of
the people that make UP the famous
crowd.
Mrs. Elizabeth La Pierre Palmer
is a spiritual medium and believes in
all the crazy theories that have
brought the principal actors in this
great trial to grief; but she is no
worse than the rest, and a fair expo
men tof those sentimentalists that are
bringing reproach upon our religion.
We have heard enough Of these
things during this trial as retailed by
brazen women and amorous men and
the whole business ought to "step
down and OUT and got some sort Of
seclusion where their licentious in
SEPARATIONS can be INDUCED in without
being offensive to decent people.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-01

Two hundred thousand silver half
dollars have just been sent to the
Sub-Treasury at Baltimore. All the
naints in the country are
busy with silver coinage, and when
the amount on hand reaches eight or
ten millions, say about the fourth OF
July next, the experiment of specie
payments it is thought will be tried.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-01

Hatters say that the head grows
larger as O man grows older.-Ex.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-01

Three hotels at Sing Sing, New
York, burned Friday night. Loss,
$4,000. "tQu
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Frank Blair and John c. Brecken-
ridge are both dangerously i'll.
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1875-04-07
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j]@oi is 90lt einige Monate lang 6as glmt
zines Bistbumsberluelers perlpdltete.
Aus Treibur9 lpirb unter Dem
12ten Mdrs seI9rieben: @eitern tuuroe
bon Der bieli9en @traftanlmer Der Gr5=
bistbumspermeler &iibel, trob ieines Yro-
teltes sssen bic Gompeten3 6es @eri9tss
bofes, lue9en ~9eiebtuiori9er llebertrasuns
pun &ir9enfunctionen" 5u elmer @eIbbuBe
ban 500 90. ooer se6n,p61entli9er Sc
fdnenibtrofe perurtbeilt.
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aus per1 16ieoenen 9lrtiteln Der 8erliner
@ermania le6suno5 5i9Mntla9epuntft
berousgefunoea: oarunter flint 8ismart=
beleioi9un9en> cine Talffrdnt'lng> oiperie
@dmd6un9en Der &ir6en9elebe unb Mhf
forocrunge,, gu ibtbefolgung. Bis<
morf un0 SSolt batten oie Qlntla9ebant
leer, ouf Befebl oes Yrdl dlioenten rief Der
Bote bes @eri6ts ben porgelabenen Yaul
&oliolef breimal aus. Ser @eri6tsbof
bel 6lieBt sesen Yaul &o1iolet in contu-
maciam gu DerDonoeln. 9err Selienoorf
beeriinoet III ldngerem Wprtrage bic 1eas-
unoapansigfa9eQln 9uloi9un9 unb beam
troete ben p. &Dliolet nit orei Sobren
@eidn9niB gu BE ira fen uno bic au9en=
blidli9e @erbaf flung su bel6lieben. vWie
man er5dblt, referrirt ein Correspondent
Der Trantf furter 3eitllng> lit 9err &ollio=
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ueberrei6ung oes @aroiualsbutes an ben
Gr5bi1dof Mannin9 fano beue ill., Der
let. @re9orp-&ird)e ftatt.
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cpque erl1ien mo- bic be}on0ere 8erebrun9
bes +. @er5ens Seiu ibren Nnfan9 nabm,
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tificates. Sic &otboliten Staliens riiiten
|T6 i6on iebt gu perl6ieoenen Nnoa6 ten
ii. 6eierli6feiten, nit ,pel9en lic Oele
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bon Sen Prieltern I'M GlIaB einen Gi6>
ben 1ie ni9t I9>uDren t0nnen> perlongen
uno iie wesen 9}eniten5 aus ibren @tsllen
entfernen ,piro olsoonn ber@llaB 9etuon=
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in bieIem Sample 5ur @eite iteben miro !;
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oui bic Bep6lterung 5dblen 5u t0nnen.
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9enben N{ebrbeit fir ieine prielter uno
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