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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-07-24

Mr.. Perrell, gathered in all his tur-
keys on. Tuesday, and then declared
that as one was missing they had
roasted too close to us ON Monday
night. They apologized afterwards
by saying they thought Buzfuz' was
among the party. That riled us,and
we made them take it back; for
whatever else we have been guilty OF
we have never travelled with b. in
this world, and Ii there Is any dis
elimination hereafter according to
any church doctrine, trust the dis
elimination is in our favor. We are
not writing malieiously, but know
ing Buzzy likes to be noticed, are do
ing our level best to please him.
Yesterday was full Of excitement.
In the forenoon we were reinforced
by the appearance Of Mr.. G. w. Wis
ner, and as the cars oars broke the
water under Ike's vigorous muscle,
they ran into Il flock of wild ducks,
and being without a shotgun, Mr..
WIS revolver was soon heard speak
ing to them--and, strange to say,
he brought down nice large one,
hitting IL two times in three shots.
Notwithstanding this excellent
shooting he had TO yield the palm in
| field practice in the afternoon. Lo-
gan has been unfortunate. In addi-
ton to the heavy conclusion caused
by the grasshopper kick yesterday,
his rod and line were stolen yester-
day, whilst we were at dinner. As
sisted by our c0lored force, he gave
chase, and in about a mile and half
miles, captured both thief and prop
erty, brought them to camp, where
they were Immediately tried by Judge
Fleming, who in consequence OF a
nap on the end deck Of Il boat, wore
too pair of spectacles covered with
the tail end of blue coat, SO
that he couldn't see justice. The
thief was condemned to be
| gashed, and Ike soon had it skinned,
| for it was a huge eel. Last night we
had music. 1t was enjoyable. The
various strains, the high overhang-
| ing rocks, the green trees, the white
tent, the turbid water of the Poto-
mac, the blazing camp fires, the gilt
tering stars, the magic-like stiffness
of the night, furnished a fitting time
for music, and the tongueing Of a
trio of hounds in the chase was mu.
sic suitable to the hour and scene. =
We are indebted to Messrs. Joseph
Turner, Thomas Payne, Anthony
Hedges and Fred Stockman for this
seasonable entertainment.
We start this morning for the up
per Potomac, and hope for plenty Of
bass.
| p. s. Ike is the champion eel
eater. He finished three last night.
| @. X. a..
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Always Tell the Truth.

~
We heard the story of a man living
on King street, who went home the
other evening with a good deal too
much steam on. Not desiring to let
his wife see his condition, he quietly
slipped into bed, saying by way of
excuse that he was suffering severely
with the stomach ache. His good
wife not dreaming of his condition,
got up intent an allaying the suffer-
ing of her dear husband, and made
large mustard plaster, which she
applied without resistance to his
stomach. He had gone sound asleep
before the application was made, and
was not aroused from his stupor till
near morning, when he was startled
by dream that he had died, and was
broiling on the old mans gridiron in
the lower regions. He awoke to find
a blister ON his stomach as big as a
pancake. He is walking about now
with two hands in his pants pockets
to keep his clothes from the sore
spot, and is ready to fight at the sight
of mustard cruet.
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To Kill BED Bugs.

The following recipe for getting
rid of certain very common pests
may be found useful: The best mode
of getting rid of bed-bugs is to fumi-
gate them with birthstone. Houses
standing long and empty, which have
swarmed with them, have by this
means been effectually freed from
them. Place in the centre Of the
room dish containing about four
ounces of birthstone remove from
the room such metallic surfaces as
might be effected by the fumes; close
every aperture, even to the key-hole,
and light the birthstone. After or
5 hours enter the room and open the
windows for a thorough airing.
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COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

The Council met last Tuesday
night, pursuant to adjournment
Present, Mayor Chambers, Council
men RussIer, Hill, Showers, Frazer,
Staley, Farrin and Hoffman.
Minutes Of last meeting read and
approved.
Mr.. Miller was added to the water
board.
Messrs. Blakeny and Kavanaugh
withdrew their names from the IL
cense bond of b. Stewart, and the Ii
cense was withdrawn.
Itwas ordered that no more money
be spent by the corporation upon the
repair Of corporation pumps.
Messrs. Showers, Frazer, Hill
Hoffman and Russler, were appoint
ed a committee to inquire into the
feasibility of erecting a mayors of
flee, comcil,room and station-house,
upon the site Of the present mayors
office, and report at the next meet
ing.
Bill Of A. j. Blake was laid over.
Messrs. Frazier, Staley, Farrin,
Hoffman and Hillswere appointed a
committee to examine accounts re-
turned by the Sergeant as uncollect-
able.
A committee of two was appoint
ed to examine iron pipe laid by Mr..
Blocker on Liberty street, and adj
just his bill.
The Water Board was ordered to
clean out the dam at the Water
Works.
The nuisance committee were in
structed toinspect the Tuscarora and
report as to its condition and devise
means to keep it clean.
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List OF Transfers.

The following is list of transfers
recorded in the Office of the County
Clerk since our last report
J. III. Bristor to j. Nelson Wisner,
trustee; realty.
Berkeley Building Association to
j. Fl. Bristor; release.
w. Hartman and wife to DR.. N. ID.
Baker, bargain and sale; realty.
Thos. y. Hollis and wife to James
-Willes and wife, bargain and sale -
realty.
ID. Thompson and wife to JAS. Col
Inns, bargain and sale; realty.
Berkeley Building Association to
e. Herring, release; realty.
Berkeley Building Association to
&. Herring; release.
Chas. j. Faulkner, Trustee, to &.
Bentz, bargain and sale; realty.
Chas. Bentz to Geo. Myers, trust;
realty.
Berkeley Building Association to
A. r.. Bane and wife; release.
Berkeley Building Association To
( e.. w. Jackson; release.
Berkeley Building Association to
Jas. w. Day; release.
p. G.. Pendleton ct al, TO v. Pen
dleton, bargain and sale; realty.
Il. Hooge and wife to j. A. Boyer,
trust; realty.
Berkeley Building Association to
Jas. f. keenan,: release.
+. ID. Staley. Ex'r. Of b. Doll, to
w. Wien; release.
Berkeley Building Association to
l.. FL. Martin and wife; release.
i Berkeley Building Association to
j. Ii. Boltz; release.
Berkeley Building Association to
Il. Gerling, trustee; release.
Berkeley Building Association to
Walter Keedy; release.
Luther Miller to r. j. Isanogle
and husband, release; realty.
Luther Miller to Kinsey Cirque
bargain and sale: realty.
Berkeley Building Association to
J. E. Cox: release.
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On Sunday, Mr.. Richard Boyer, of
this place, a freight conductor on the
B. and O. r. r., met with a painful
accident near North Mountain De-
pot. He was bringing his engine,
which had been a ''helper'' that day,
back to Martinsburg, and stopped at
the spring for water. He had gotten
a drink and mounted to the tender
of the engine, when a studded jerk
threw him off upon the track upon
his hands and knees, spraining his
legs and sEinning his face and knees
ve.y badly. He was brought to this
place and is yet unable to be about.
Fortunately he rolled off the track
when he fell, thereby saving himself
from being crushed to death by a
passing engine. His injuries will
keep him from duty some days.
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A REPLY.
Jury goth, 1875.

july Goth, 1875.
/ have only this to say in regard to
the very elegant critique in to-day's
issue of the Statesman THAT the
imitation, which he styled a "yulgar
paraphrase,n is no paraphrase, that
term meaning u circuna,tlat0ry en-
ldrgement upon original matter, on,
"a, dnaplifed translation. Nor is it
vulgar, in any indecent, or unrefined
use of the language.
/ would like this custus naon,nt of
the Martinsburg Corporation, to
point out wherein ] have desecrated
the hottest and purest sentiments, by
feebly initiating the measure Of his
gifted, nameless bard
Haven't / illustrious presidents to
encourage me in such an undertake
ingY Did not Pope initiate Horace !?
Didn't Coleridge initiate penser, Dry
den, Catullus, and host of others !?
and, in our own day, don't Tennyson
initiate the old Greek poets?
j sing Of love, he of regret; which
is the holier, which the purer? In
conclusion, ! would wholly vindicate
the Editors Of this journal from any
spart or parcel" in the verses which
their contemporary brands lin his fa-
vorite fish-inarket patois) as "gar-
bage." They are too courteous to
refuse place to the Ms. of CORES
pondent, and, it may be, that their
optic nerves are not SO delicately
constituted as those of the " States
man'sn local, who saw garbage !"
where they saw only the careless eff
fort OF an idle hour.
In Difference to the Judgment
which allows me 20 be at least an
"cducuted fool ! would correct the
printers mistake in the fourth line
of the first verse, which should read,
"the ei.rioas musk, instead of ''the
various Masks.
Yours, truly,
+. :. g.. alias ANON UNA.
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TENTING ON the POTOMAC
CAMP CONSOLATION, 4
July 20, rs.
Dear Indepen7eaf.

July 20, rs. !
Dear Independent:
Well, here we are comfortably To-
Gated on the banks of the Potomac.
After selecting the site for our
tent, the first exciting incident was
the shooting of an immense black
snake-equal to the one which Nc
Cardell, OF the Cumberland Times,
carries in his boots. His snakeship
was dispatched by Mr.. W., who hes
itated long time before firing.
and wanted to know whether the
snake was alive or dead before he
shot. Ike, our colored boy, says Mr..
w. was little nervous about shoot
ing, for fear if he missed, the snake
itself would make fight. We pitched
our tent on the ground where the
snake was killed and Ike says he did
not sleep any all night for think
ing about snakes. In fact, the entire
party We're little nervous over the
matter.
After getting the canvass in order,
the clamorous inner man was salts
fled by !" Ike'sn delicious coffee, ham
and eggs. Then the hook was cast
but with all our huge expectations,
the oft-quoted lines from Horace,
ssridicatus mus 9suscetuf est" was
made apparent-an insignificant sun
fish was caught. Then the idea Of
bed struck us, and we crossed from
the Maryland side and assisted our
friend Jacob Ropp, Esq, in saving
his oats by taking a boat load to our
tent. Then we settled the avidity of
our stomacls, took a good smoke
and approached Morpheus. Whilst
some were working up their imagi-
nation to McCardell's standpoint on
snakes, the solemn silence was bro
ken with a cry from Logan, 'sI've
got bitel' followed by the agoniz-
ing cry, mol a grasshopper kicked
me- Then Ike's oats got full OF
bees, but after awhile dull stiffness
reigned, but along on, the deeper
stiffness of midnight was broken by a
loud thud from Fleming's hand, fol-
lowed by an ejaculation, 81 didn' I
hook him. On inquiry, we learned
a mosquito had drawn blood from f
At daylight this morning we were
aroused from a sound sleep by the
beating OF the gong, which ear-split.
ting instrument Mr.. +. had impro.
vised out of frying pan. It's liorri-
BILE, especially to sleepy man
at such an unreasonable houI
III the morning. Wisner tried
to ignore the gong, but finally crawl
ed out, muttering something about
Or. Halls disquisition against early
rising, &c. But his health was not
materially effected thereby, if we
may be permitted to judge by the
quantity of ham and eggs which he
put himself outside of at breakfast.
The boats are ready, and we embark
for cruise up the river in search of
fish. We will give you the result OF
the expedition in another letter.
TOURIST.
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CAMPING OUT.
CAMP CONSOLATION,
July %, 1876.
Dear Indep@sde1.t:

y
Dear Independent:
The weather has not been as favor
able to camping out rs wished. 1t
rained pretty much all day Tuesday,
and about five o'clock in the evening
a regular water spout struck our
camp, and came near washing us out.
Our tent, owing to failure to prop
erly ditch it, was badly flooded, but
we stuck to it like old soldiers, and
Tuesday night slept in water and
under wet coverlids. We crawled
out all right Wednesday morning,
our only regret being that the rain
had made the river muddy, and
spoiled the bass fishing. After the
sun got fairly up Wednesday morn
ing it soon dried us out-in fact
when the mercury began to reach for
the nineties, we began to wish for a
cooling shower. But we managed to
keep cool ; and here is how we did it.
Sitting by fountain,
That wells from a mountain.
Or more properly from a slight ele-
walton Of ground, with our feet in
the water, our classic head shorn q la
the 9 boys,p our hat cooling in the
stream, our coat upon the np-tufned
root of one Of the aged forest trees
whose branches sigh in the early
morning wind d sweet refrain to the
music Of the myriad birds which sing
among the green leaves, we We're as
csol as cucumber and happy as a
clam. We wonder how you all exist
in town. Are you entirely dissolved
mot as political organization, but
as physical body? Why don't you
come here and steep your senses in
the fellucid Lethe wherein the young
goslings and tiny ducklings are just
now padding their OWN canoe"
Here the ice-cold waters gush be-
meath the long, creeping, bare roots
Of the trees where the storms Of half
q century have carried off tile earth
under which they had their tangled
windings. Surely in this sweet soli-
tude, one can rest from business
cares, and defy the summer soistice.
We do rest, and likehist0iic gypsies,
live each day without a thought OF
the morrow.
Our experience in this expedition
has been quite varied. In town with
our store clothes on, we are regarded
as a human being, and without any
kieptiinaiiiae instincts. And here,
With the starch off, our good looks
seem to have departed for cur friend
Jacob Ropp, Esq'r,, seeing the glare
of our campfire, Immediately start
cd all his hands tohousing his sheep,
whilst our cheerful Maryland friend.
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To Keen sober.

The following recipe to cure drum
kenness is given in the Scientific an
ericoa, and we commend it to those
who are in need Of such remedies
"There is prescription in use in
England for the cure of drunken
ness, by which thousands are said to
have been assisted in recovering
themselves. The receipt came into
notoriety through the efforts of Jno.
Vine Hall, commander of the Great
Eastern steamship. He had fallen
into such habitual drunkenness that
his most earnest efforts to reclaim
himself proved unavailing. Atlength
he sought the advice of an eminent
physician, who gave him prescrip-
ton, which he followed faithfully for
seven months, and at the end of that
time had lost all desire for liquor, all
though he had for many years been
led captive, which he afterwards
published, and by which so many
drunkards have been assisted to re-
form, as follows: (" Sulphate of iron
. grains; peppermint water, eleven
drachms, spirit nutmeg, one drachm;
twice day" This preparation acts
as q stimulant and tonic, and par
TALLY supplies the place of the ac-
customed liquor, and prevents that
absolute physical and moral prostra-
tion that follows sudden breaking
off from the use of liquor
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AGood Move.

We are glad to see that the Com-
Gil are taking steps looking to the
erection of new building, suitable
to the transaction of the business of
the Corporation. The old rats nest
which now serves for that purpose is
disgrace to the city, and we hope
that the committe in whose charge
this matter was placed by the Coun-
ell Tuesday night, will loose no time
in arranging for new building.
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List ofDead Letters.

The following list of letters remain
in the post office July II, 1875, and
will be sent to the Dead Letter office
July 81, if not called for:
Ellie Blessingham, Newton Brown,
Deborah b. Brown, s. s. Brown,
Joseph Carder, Joseph Davis, w.
Griffin, Michael Lands, Hamilton
Myers, Denton Prather, Kate M.
Ridenour, G. G. Smith, Margaret M.
Slayton, Daniel swrigard, William
Winters.
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There is a young lady in this town
who rose at five O'Clock in the morn
ing, got breakfast, washed and hung
out fifty-seven pieces, performed two
waltzes and grand march on the
piano, made an elaborate toilet, had
a tooth pulled, and made call all
before half-past eleven o'clock A. NJ,
the same day. She would make a
vigorous wife for some man who was
too lazy to work, and who needed an
occasional drubbing with the broom
stick, and we have numbers of such
in this town.
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Let them Alone.

1t is a subject of marvel to most
people that so many people die in in
fancy but to an observing and reflect
ing mind the wonder is that any chill
dren grow to maturity. When you
and / feel miserable we want to be
left III quiet. Repose is the sweetest
remedy for our nervousness or other
other ills, but baby is trotted,
bounced, toted, chucked under the
chin, poked in it's cheeks, or some
body's thumb thrust into its tooth
less mouth, irrespective Of the need
Of ablution, and then if baby isn't
happy it is reputed very irritable
Tickling the baby's feet, creeping the
fingers like the motion Of a mouse
across it's breast, and up into its sem
sitiye neck wrinkles, is anothermode
of amusing baby. Of course the
child laughs, and the idiots who tor
ment it forget that it is the same ex-
preston with which they reply to Il
similar process from the hand of some
mischievous but tormenting fiend.
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The soft side.

A lady correspondent, who assumes
TO know how boys ought to be train
ed, writes to an exchange as follows:
Oh, mothersl hunt out the soft,
tender, genial side Of your boys ma
ture." Yes, that's a good thing to
do; but Martinsburg mothers find
the soft side of their boys with an
old shoe without half hunting for it,.
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Worth Its Weightin Gold

Undoubtedly the greatest modern dis
covery in medi cine is DA C0STAfS RAD
ICAL CURE for Dyspepsia, Billiousness,
Constipation, Headache, loss Of appetifsh
distress after eating, sour stomach, etc.
It acts IA no other medicine ever did,
end sure relief is guaranteed in every case
where ii Is faithfully used II tones up
the stomach, purifes the blood, invigo.
rates the liver and drives al morbid hu'n-
ors from the system. IF you are suffering
from any arrangement Of the stomach e
liver try it, Many case IL TYPHOID ard
bilious fever has been prevented by isa
timely use. Trial size 70 cents, sold BY
.. J. BRIDGE; Druggist.
Next door TO the Post9h a.
April 6, is -lyerdSweow.
JusT RECEIVED, another lot Of 10
doz. 3-button kid gloves, all sizes,
at 81. per pair, the best and cheap
est glove in town, at
FL N. DEArnicR
Oct 21tf.
Summer hats cheap at DeAtriekS.
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The Corn.

The growing corn throughout this
entire section presentsa splendid APP
pearance, being in a most vigorous
and flourishing condition, and there
is every prospect for an immense
crop if no untoward event should oc-
cur within the next four or six weeks.
Some of themore advanced fields, we
notice, are already in tassal.
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Hope FOR THE DESPON

No pulmonary complaint however chron.
ic, can resist the healing influence or Dr..
Morris Syrup Of Tar, Wild Cherry and
Horehound AS remedy for coughs,
colds, sore ront, hoarseness, asthinaan
all diseases the throat, lungs and chest,
leading to consumption, II has no equal
1t Is the best krown remedy for GROUP
and takes away oil the distress attending
WHO0PING COUGH, contains no opium
and is pleasant to take. Oough-worrl WIG
Tins whose lungs are racked and torn with
parovysms which threaten TO choke them,
find speedy relief in its use.
Hundreds who once thought they had
Consumption have been cured by II Trial
size 10 cents.
D. j. BRIDGE, Druggist,
Nextto Post Office.
Mario, 75lydaw COW
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Take the Bet.

We heard a farmer yesterday offer
to bet $4.25 that his hired hand could
take longer to get to the corn-lield,
get back to dinner quicker, eat more,
do less, and bear down harder on a
fencep panel than any other hired man
in this county.
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New Hotel.

Mr.. Pennington, Assistant Archi-
tect of the Baltimore * Ohio Rail-
Soad Company, was in town Thurs
day, looking over the ground for the
purpose of perfecting plans for the
remodling of the hotel at the depot.
1t is the purpose of the company to
re-arrange the hotel on somewhat
the same plan as that OF the Queen
City at Cumberland, making wide
porches with iron ratings around
the whole structure. The lower
stories Of the present building viii
be converted into Offices for the Off
GERS of the company, and the upper
stories will be raised and improved
and an extensive addition built out
into the yard placing the hotel Office,
parlors, &c, upon Martin street.
We learn that the work viii be conf
menced at once, and pushed forward
as rapidly as possible. We hope the
information is correct, and that soon
Martinsburg win have hotel
worthy Of the place. No one thing
is so much needed here as good
hotel, and the Baltimore y Ohio
viii deserve the thanks of our people
if it shall give us such a building as
is proposed.
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BALTIMORE, July y

FLoUR Howard st. and Western
Super S4. 25al.75, Extra $5a5..50, Fa-
mily $5.50a6.50, City Mills Super $4
25a4.75, Extra $5.12a5. 80. Rio brands
81 .00a7 70, family $s.25: market very
firm.
WHEAT--No. ] Western amber 81
As; No. z do. 48; mixed, SILL; No.
| western red 81 IA: No. 2 do SAL
No ? spring red 81. 35a1 40; Penn red
81 .40al .43, Md red .35al .43; do ann
Der l.45a1 80; do. white 81 .30al .45.-~
market strong and active.
CORN southern white, 96 cts; yell
low 81; western mixed S61 cents,
steamer 81 cents, Market steady fol
southern excited and higher for
western.
OATS southern new 63a65: wes-
tern white 63a64s mixed 62a00. Mar
kct quiet but firm.
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SATURDAY, JULY "a, 1875
patrons of Hushandrv.

The Pomona Grange of Berkeley
County will meet in Valley Grange
Hall, near Darkesville, on Saturday,
July 3lst, at 8 O'Clock, A. NJ. Dele
gates will be required to wear their
Regalia. w. f. LIGHT.
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T-I -

On the 18th inst, MAMIE Els
TELLE WILLING, daughter of Lewis
and Louisa Yelling, aged Is months.
In this place, Monday, July 18th,
1875, WM. YoNrz, aged 50 years, 6
months and 8 days.
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EVERY FARMER

in Berkeley county is requested TO see our
Country Hammered PIOW
Iron before purchasing. We only ask
you to see them, and we are sure of sell
ing. II. A. RIDDLE,
King Street Hall.
March q. ls75--wtf
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Ii you want to prevent Typhoid
Fever or if you feel as ii you were
going to have the chills and fever
take Or. Bulls Vegetable Pills.