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Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1875-01-09
DEDICATION.
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The new church built by thecon-
gregation of the United Brethren
in Christ, on the land Of Mr.. John
It. Siler, near Oakton, in the val
ley of Back Creek, was dedicated
to God on Christmas day. The
audience was very large, and was
very pleasantly entertained by
Rev. P. HI. Thomas, who preached
a very interesting and elaborate
dedicatory sermon, from the latter
portion of the seventh verse of the
fifty-sixth chapter of the prophe-
cies of Isaiah; 6 For mine house
shall be called a house of prayer for
all people"
The speaker took a negative view
of his text in the first place, show
ing to the congregation what the
house of the Lord was not intend
ed fol-, then the use and purpose of
the house. Rev. Mr. Hammack
of Martinsburg was also present,
and assisted in the dedicato-
ry exercises. Owing to the
liberality of the citizens of
this neighborhood, there was but
a debt of seventy-five dollars on
the church on the dedication,
which was paid off on that day,
with but little exertion on the part
of The congregation. The church
is a most substantial building, and
is completely painted inside and
out, and is acknowledged by all,
to be the most elegantly finished
church that we have in our happy
little valley.
Six months ago where stood the
oak wrapped in green foliage, now
stands a building reared by man,
dedicated to the Giving God"
The short time in which this
house of devine worship was in
erection should reflect credit upon
Mr. Thomas, the preacher in
charge, and his co-workers at this
place. OAKTON.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1875-01-09

The last Spirit Of Jefferson has a
lengthy editorial on,the U. S. SEN
atorship, in which it takes occa-
sion to refer in pretty forcible
language TO the extraordinary
course of the nine gentlemen of
this county who affixed their
names to an autobiography of the
Hon. G. j. Faulkner, and in that
connection assuming to represent
the people of Berkeley. We make
short extract. 1t says:
GAS the time approaches for the
election by the Legislature Of an
United States Senator to succeed
Mr.. Foreman, the public interest
in the question naturally increas-
es. For ourselves, we have re-
Trained from expressing any pre-
ference among the numerous gem
tlemen whose names have been
mentioned in this connection.
The Eestern Panhandle, always
prolific in aspirants, if not in
statesmen, has her due proportion
of patriotic victims willing and
anxious to be crowned for the
Senatorial sacrifice. But in this
instance, as in SO many others,
her difficulty consists in the num-
Der of competitors, and the i'm
possibility of concentration upon
one recognized favorite. We are
we'll aware in Berkeley Nine very
respectable, and highly intelligent
gentlemen have printed, 1--WE do
not say written or eomposed), an
address to the Legislature, in
which they recommend the Hon.
Charles James Faulkner for tho
position. This proceeding on their
part is very unusual, not TO say ex-
traordilary. The voice Of a county
in such an important duty, is by
law intrusted to their representa-.
tives ia the Legislature. And yet
no delegate, 40 senator has united
in this recommendation. De they
regard themselves as instructed,
and superseded by the Nine? We
hope not. Indeed we know from
their we'll established regulations,
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1875-01-09

Iowa SPECIMENs.-The Des
Moines( Iowa. State Register prints
this statement: ga few days since
Jimmy Olmsted. who is good deal
of a geologist as we'll as a tip-top
letter carrier, discovered in Raw
sons coal mine several petrified
serpents, One was about twenty
feet long, eight inches in diameter
and was curled as if petritied at
the very instant it was ready to
strike. It's mouth opens well UNI
der the head, somewhat like a
shovel mouth shark. Jimmy Sc
cured the head and about two feet
of the tail, but the petrification is
so firmly imbedded in the rock
that it is almost impossible TO de-
tach it. The big snake is ola spe-
cies entirely unknown here. In
the same vicinity are oysters and
other marine shells. There are
half a dozen of the snakes. Some
one, in the interests of science,
should try TO disgorge some of
these specimens entire,
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1875-01-09

1t is a fearful commentary upon
a people that they cannot enter in
to o political contest without re-
sort to violence, bloodshed and in
timidation, in it's conduct
and to fraud and forgery
in ascertaining and making up
it's results. But such is the case
in Louisiana.
For the past three days, these
hostile factions have been opposed
to each other there, one seeking to
maintain q fraud, and the other
seeking to inaugurate one. Both
have been prevented by the strong,
energetic action of Sheridan, and
lives have been saved and the peace
of the community have been pre-
served by the use of questionable
authority. We say questionable
authority" because we do not like
to characterize these acts as we
would if they were applied to our
own peaceable and law-abiding
people, and do not believe they
should be weighed in the same
balances. This case of Louisiana
is specially Its own case, and the
precedent made there by the use
of the strong arm of the govern
ment does not apply, and will not
extend to any other in the Union.
That there would have been ter
rible riot, and that blood would
have been freely shed on Tuesday
last had it not been for the pres
ence of troops, few will attempt to
deny. One correspondent, an eye
witness to the scene says, 'bowie-
knives and pistols were in every
hand;" and still another, who writes
for a non-partizan paper, says, "it
was a yawning hell, and the pull
of q trigger would have precipi-
tated q terrible revolt" SO far
then as the use of the military
went to keep bloody hands from
each others throats, their efforts
are to be applauded; but for their
further use of sustaining either po-
litical party in an enjoyment of
their frauds and crimes, it is to be
severely condemned. We do not
applaud, or even sustain, the ac-
ton of the government in this
Louisiana business It's action
has been almost as disgraceful as
the acts of the two parties in that
State, and Congress is responsible
in great measure for it all. 1t was
admonished of what would be the
course of the Executive if they did
not do their duty, and they failed
to heed the admonition. The pres
ent terrible scenes there are the
results of such negligence. We
hope that they will take hold of
this subject now and give it intel
ligent and speedy solution. Every
man there should rise above
party in the execution of this i'm
portant duty 1t is no longer a
party or State matter, but one in
which every American is interested
-one in which the good name of
every American is at stake-and
the people demand that it shall be
speedily and equitably settled.
Ds--
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1875-01-09
LOUISIANA.
Wrecked by Corrupt POIiti-
clans.

For the past five years there
has been a bitter, unrelenting guar
rel in Louisiana between the two
political parties for the spoils of
office. Neither party has now,
nor never has had,any claims what
ever to honesty or sincerity of pur-
pose. The acts of both have been
pregnant with dishonesty. violence
and most infamous political chica
merry has been INDUCED in on both
sides.
Two years since the tact and
shrewdness of Kellogg, aided by
the power of drunken Judge
since deposed-triumphed over the
disorder and insolent endeavors of
the McEnery faction. From that
day to this the condition of affairs
there has been most disastrous to
the public peace and disgraceful
beyond description, and the most
lamentable part of the whole bust
ness is that neither party can claim
vantage over the other as a con-
servator of the peace or q laborer
for the public welfare.
Violence and chicanery on the
one side, has been met by cunning
and fraud on the other, and the
supremacy of the Kellogg faction
has been maintained by the power
of the Federal Government To day
we have the natural offspring of
these disorders in the events trans
piring at New Orleans, and the
chaos that comes up to us from
the disordered city gives little hope
that quiet responsibility and can
did effort for the good of the State
can be expected of either party
now seeking control of public af-
fairs
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1875-01-09
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
An Historical COPrectiOn-Rem-
iniscence of Berkeley Boy.
Old Time schools, Etc.

WASHINGTON, d. G. Jan. !.
I write in relation to an item
which your worthy Missouri cor
respondent has put on record in
the INDEPENDENT, as local histo-
nv, in in his letter correcting the
mis-statement that William Fer
ren, of the United States Coast
Survey, was 'native of Berkeley
county" In correcting one error
he has fallen into another. This
had better be corrected in turn, so
that while we make history it
may be left as correct as possible
for the use of the future writer of
the "Annals of Berkeley who
ever he is to be.
"Rev. John Boggs, The Presby-
terrain clergyman" todS born on
Back Creek, near the birthplaces
of the other two persons named in
the article referred to-John Can
by and J. f Snodgrass. But Pro-
fessor Ferrel is of a later genera
ton. Your correspondent has
probably COMPOUNDED him with his
son, William Boggs, who was q
cotemporary of Ferrel's, and edu-
Gated in part at one of the same
log school houses that he attended,
though no, by the same teacher as
the writer of this was-with Will
liam Boggs as q schoolmaster-for
which memento of childhood /
looked wistfully, but in vain, while
cunning last summer, on the farm
of young John Zorn," as the
present proprietor is sill called on
the edge of which it stood. The
inevitable pine bushes have taken
the place Of the primeval oaks that
bent their grateful shade to the
old school house, and have hidden
the spot whereon it stood.
AS | revert to those days long
past--for they antedate the present
by more than a third Ola century,
/ recall custom, which
by contrast, should cause
the present race Of Back G. eek
boys, and Berkeley boys generally
to feel grateful for the change,
which has been effected in school
facilities since theyoung Mountain
State had its birth amid the throes
of civil war. So Indifferent were
the parents of that day as to mat
ters of education, That we big
boys" We're compelled to gather
fuel during the dinner recess, to
replenish the huge, open mOuthed
fire place around which for lack of
a stove, we formed Il ''circle, "long
before the spiritualists made that
word go familiar. We had the
School master, for our medium"
Nor were traps" wanted then, !
may mention by way of rendering
the comparison more complete /
can attest several which were not
only heard, but distinctly felt hy
not few Of the Other boys as well
as by your correspondent.
The compliments Of the season
to the editors, compositors and
pressman, not forgetting the
"devil," OF the Independent, which
seems so well prepared for a sue
cessful career during the New Year
that is opening its arms OF welcome
to us all j. h. S.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1875-01-09
INDEPENDENT
Published Daily and Weekly by the
INDEPENDENT PRINTING CO.
THE TOWN COUNCIL.

ElSeWnefe Will DE IOuDu Jue pro-
ceedings of the Town Council at
the meeting held on Tuesday
evening. Although for two years
past it has been apparent that the
bed of Queen street, the principal
business thoroughfare of the town,
was worn out and sorely needed
repairing, and although this fact
has repeatedly been called to their
attention, still no action has been
taken.
The fact has leaked out, however,
that the question was partially con-
sidered on Tuesday evening, and
action defeated by the most fool
ish and illiberal sentiments. One
man would not vote for it because
certain improvement was needed
in his ward, and another because
High street was in q terrible con-
dition, and another one because
some other street in his ward need
ed repairs, and SO on.
Now to say this is child's play
and foolish, would be mild con-
demnatory terms. Suppose the
man who owns lot of forty feet
front on Queen street refuses to
pay taxes on it because it is as
sessed at $4,000, whilst the same
sized lot on High street is only as
sessed at $500. Wouldn't he be
considered a fool? This is q par
alell case, however, for the men
who owns property on Queen ST.,
between John street and the bridge
over the Tuscarora, really pays
thribble the taxes that persons
living on High, Liberty, Water,
Raleigh or Stephen street pay.
The reason is obvious. It is the
centre of the town. The business
is transacted there. Space must
be economical. It is the point
toward which the business and the
people converge. All visitors to
the town naturally seek the COM
mercial centre. Every person OK
poets to find that part of the town
beautifed, clearly and enjoying
every modern convenience, there
fore the best buildings are to be
found there, and ii is on just such
principles that Now York has
Broadway street, and other cities
their street of all streets. All this
being true, isn't it really small ftp
penny-bit business to cavil about
such question We know that
some people act upon the idea
that their duty consists in q steady
effort to Illustrate things by little
technical objections and insinua-
tons, but we sincerely trust that
the representatives of the town are
not thus actuated, and that they
will rise above local desires and
local issues in their respective
wards and look to and act for the
general interests of the whole
town.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1875-01-09
The Lumber Trade.

Next IN importance to the iron
interest Of this country comes the
lumber trade. 1T is estimated in
memorial recently presented to-
Congress by the lumber dealers of
the United States, that the sum of
S44, 900, 900 is invested in this in
dustry, with an annual production
of $20,000.000, affording employ
ment to 100000 men. Pennsylva-
MIA ranks first with an annual
production of $2S,83s,985. New
York stands second, producing
timber to the amount of S2l, 23S,-
228, giving employment to %, 400
men. The amount of pine and
hemlock timber yet standing in
The forr> Of the tim Der States is
estimated st Z25, 900 900, 900 feet.
Besides thi%. Canada and Califor-
mia have each one million feef
thus nearly doubling the aggre-,
gate total Of tim Der on the North
American continent.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1875-01-09

Oliver Downing, a wsll.kRown
Boston architect, has just died on
the day of the funeral of his wife,
he being ninety years old and she
81, and they having lived together
81 years.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1875-01-09
The Baltimore Sun of the % th

The Baltimore Sun of the % th
inst. sayss
"Hon. Charles James Faulkner,
member of Congress elect from
the second district of West Vir-
ginia, was in the city yesterday.
He left for New York last night,
for the purpose of participating in
the annual supper of the Manhat-
tan Democratic Club, which takes
place this evening"
1t was PAS sen,we believe, who
represented the organ at the an
nual reunion of Tammany. Well,
Mr.. Faulkner, is a decided inn
provement:as a representative, but
then these small vineus honors
might he distributed.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1875-01-09

that they are not men to shrink
from the discharge of their duty
because of their relief therefrom,
offered them by gentlemen, how
ever respectable, whom the people
have not chosen as their advisers.
We believe that both they and the
delegates from Jefferson, will pre-
fer as Senator any gentleman of
requisite capacity from our own
section, who can be rendered
available against a competitor
from a different locality. Thus far,
and no farther, should they be
willing to commit themselves.
But lest the address signed by
the Nine estimable gentlemen re-
ferred to, should create a false i'm
preston abroad with reference to
the choice of this. Panhandle for
Senator, we feel justified in declar-
ing, in the most emphatic terms,
our conviction that Mr.. Faulkner
is not the choice of the Democra-
cy OF Jefferson His most ardent
admirers here, believe that he
should be content with the position
already assigned him, and are a
good deal worried, not to say dis
gusted, with his Unsuitable desire
TO grasp every office within the gift
of the people, without awaiting
their Invitation, or considering
the claims of his peers. Neither
the opinion of the Nine, nor our
own is conclusive, yet ours is en-
titled, we humbly conceive. to as
much weight with the Legislature
as theirs: ard will no doubt be
quite as highly appreciated, when
we volunteer to that body the ex-
preston of cur belief, that in JEFF
ferson the Hon. William FL Ira
vers is preferred, and in Berkeley,
Judge John Blair Hoge.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1875-01-09

IN Dorchester, Nd, vendors Of
bitters will be indicted under the
local option laws.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-05-19
Nail Kcgs-Iron versus wood.

Editors Of The InlelgCnpr:
Another Indication Of the rapid deple.
ton Of our Forest timber is the growing
scarcity Of cooper sLnll. The millions Of
nail kegs which are annually made and
never used twice, begin to form serious
item in the cost Of nails rcr key.
The demand Of the age has again been
met, this time the need Of honor rcSts on
the brow II our tOwhsmpn George Me.
Kim.
4 metallic nail kcg which "flls the
bill' IN every particular can le Scen al
the Office u Messra. Cnllcttson, WILEY x
Go. 4 revolution il pending in the new
metallic mai kcg that will dispense with
M array Of boys now engaged in mailing
hoops, fastening heals, Ne, these may 10
Ia school or learn d better trade, II il
water tight and when hacked. nniis
can bc shipped IN wet days. No project.
ed nails inside to impede packing saving
time and reducing the inside measure.
mcnt Of the package which with the
difference in thickness Of stnye md No.
20 sheet iron will amount To considerable
in storage. We might continue the
recital Of points Of difference and supc.
riOtity, we mention one more, the i'm.
portant one, II costs lcss than the wooden
kcg and can bc used repeatedly.
Nails and nail kegs can now he made
from the same mctnl-truly this ia the
May H. 1879. lRON AGE.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-05-19

You are setting in the first stages Of {
cold, or your wife at your side has lit
tie fever and the car is warm aud I'M
deniably close. Suddenly some person o.
eithcrscx remarks audibly, what every
body pcrccives and deplorCS, that the all
Is close. lie or she adds that such an at
mOspherc Is unwhOlesomc, that ii Is posi-
lively poisonous, that the car Is Black
Hole, and that We are all suIlocAting
and thercupon, the train flying at thirty
miles an hour, on bitter night or day,
up goes the window, and the blast drives
full upon you and madam, heated and III,
and there Is no escape for you, all the
seats being full, but to go forward and
stand. The good man or woman holds
the ground, insists that the oxygen Is ex-
haustcd, that We are all breathing carbon
ic acid gas, and that all the books
ngreC that apoploxy, paralysis, softening
OF the brain, with n vast train Of occult
maladics, begin under just such condi'
tiuns.
"And so, madam, to spare yourself tho
chance Of some remote disease you expose
my wife to immediate pleuriSy and pneu'
mOnia"
"Sir, you know nothing Of the hygiCnic
lava"
MADAM, you know nothing ofcommor
scnse."'
II is true that fresh air is desirable; but
| Al l,n
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-05-19

Low Rates Tor Money.

The money column in Saturdays Phil
adelphia Ledger contains the following;
1t is the twelfth or fifteenth week in
succession that has closed without the
variation Of fraction in the quoted rates
for the several classes Of paper dealt in
on the street. A peculiar phase OF the
present condition Of ailairs is the willing
ness to accept low rates on frst.class
securities temporarily rather than to nc-
ccpt higher rates on what seems to be
fairly good security. Money continues
to be the cheapest article in the market
to those who are in condition to give a
satisfactory consideration for its use, But
it il not yet so abundant that it can be
had for the asking, and, Furthermore, it.
very abundance in some quarters marks
the extent Of its general scarcity in 9TH
ers. And from this cause, perhaps, as
much any other, springs the general dull
ness in business, il indeed the proposition
may not be reversed, and the monetary
condition attributed to the dizziness il
business. 1t is evident, however, what
ever may be the cause, that there is much
less money in the hands Of the people
the conjunction Of whose small rills Of
payment usually go far to make up the
broad stream Of general prosperity, thar
has been the rule Of late years.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-05-19

A MERCHANT in Chicago has received a
letter from a correspondent in Nebraska
containing information which, II true,
must prove gratifying II is to the effect
that, though the grnsshoppcrs have de.
veloped in that locality by myrada, there
is an active enemy preying on them in
the form Of small red bug Of a tescrip-
ton not hitherto seen. This bug attacks
the gtasshoppcr' in bulk, and destroys all
ii attack. II this I've true, and the bug
become general in the grasslplnrdislricts,
then it- appearance will le welcomed.
That bug ought to lie cultivated that it
may prove the lelivcrer Of the country
from the threatened plague.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-05-19

THE recent marked decline in the tide
Of immigration to this country has at
tractcd general attention, both Mt home
and abroad. One Of the papers read at
the Social Science Convention, At Detroit
last week, presents quite m intelligent
resume Of the falling off, and It's causes
II appears that the tide from Europe Ia
the United States was highest in lSji
when the arrivals numbered i27S33. III
1873, they were about3SG,OOO, and in 1874
100000. The rule, tcrscly stated, is that
bad times in Europe regularly increase
and bad times in America invariably d.
minish immigration. In 1872, 10000
English immigrants came to this country,
and repetition of these figures is cx'
pected when times are better. Germany
has already sent us more than 2,hOO,OOC
people, and will, no doubt, continue to
be our largest source Of supply.