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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1876-01-29
r Il INEW SERTESJ CHARLESTOWN JEFFERSON COUNTY W. Va
POLITICAL.
MOTHERS WAY.

Oft within our little cottage,
As the shadows gently fall
While the sunlight touches softly
One sweet face upon h wall,
Do we gather close together,
And in hUshed and tender tone,
Ask each others full forgiveness
For the wrongs that each have done.
Should you wonder why this custom
At the ending OF the day,
Eye and voice would quickly answer,
at was once our mothers way
If our home be bright and CHEEKY,
If il hold welcome true,
Opening wide its door OF greeting
To the many-uOt the few;
If we share our Fathers bounty
With the needy day By day,
'Tis because our hearts remember
This was ever mothers way.
Sometimes when cur hearts grow weary,
Or our task seems very long,
When our burdens look 70 heavy,
And We deem the right all wrong,
Then we gain new, fresh courage,
Aswe rise to proudly say,
Let Us do our duty bravely-
This was her dear mothers way.
Thus we keep our meu.ory precious,
While we never cease % pray,
That at last when lengthening shadows
Mark the evening OF life's day,
They NAV find Us waiting'calmly
To 90 home our mothers way.
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VIRGINIA FREE PRESS.
4 B. & v. T.B. GlLIlEEl. EDITORS
Saturday, January 90, 1876.
pla,ne's "White Feather. -

During the discussion Of the Centennial
Bill, in the Houso Of Representatives, on Tues
day, Mr. Waddel, Of North Carolina, had oc-
casion to alude to the late discussion Of Am
nesty and the violent onslaught upon Conied-
crates by Mr. Blaine and said:
"Oue elementint the House had not been heard
from in that diScussiou-the element of the
Southern soldiers in the late war, Of whom be
W one. T.gS had sat in silence aud taken
the fire which the gentleman from Maine
,Mr. Blaiuel had opened on them. with no
other feeling than that of gratitude for having
escaped from 50 terrible an enemy as he (Mr.
BlaneD must have been during the battles Of
the late war. Laughter If now, When
that gentlemau's 5 hair was silvetiDg and bis
natural force percepthly abatlng, he could
develop such intensity of spirit, how must his
plume have waved in Tie fOfepart Of that con-
ilict which had occurred at a time when he
lBlainc) was young and strong and healthy
Laughter. That element had not yet spok-
en- 1t could not be goaieJ into the discus
sion. On the contrary, it had exhibited a
spirit which be believed the American people
would not soon forget. 1t had met storm Of
hate aud persecution, as the swan meets the
pillows with breast of down"
Mr. Blaine, it will be remembered, is one Of
those terrible fellows who staid at home and
let his $500 substitute endure the hardships
and perils of war.
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REMOVED

To 2O4 and 2OG, Opposite Hamilton Easter
d Co.
" n RApnrTr JESSE HIGGINS.
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A Lesson in Grammar.


Jake did you ever study grammsr? ?
i did sir
In what case Is Mr.-T
lie is an objective case.
How 50 2
Because be objects to paying his subscrip-
tions that's been owing for three years and
half
Right. What is noun p
Don't know, but know what reuown
is.
We'll, what is it
Running of without paying The printer,
and getting on the black list as delinquent.
Good, what is conjunction 2
a method Of collecting outstanding sub
scription 10 conjunction with the constable
never employed BY printers until the last eI-
lemity.'
That's right. Go to your seat, and quit
shooting paper wads at the girls
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Shannondale Factory.

and viii there manufacture Wooden Goods on an
increased scale-having greater facilities and more
Improved Machinery, beside full corps Of COM
petent workmen. Every article heretofore man
ufactured under nv supervision will, in my pres
ent establishment, be produced in greater pericc-
ton, and will compare fayorably with the best
fabrics.
am in the market for Wool, and will purchase
at the Factory, and through my Agents in Charles
town, Messrs. Duke a Gallaher-sllowing the
highest market price. Ifmore convenient for my
old customers who NAV desire 10 exchange Wool
for Goods 70 deliver the Wool in Charlestown,
Messsrs Duke Il Galaher are authorized to re-
ceive and receipt for the same.
Information as to prices, &c, may be had by
addressing me az kabletown, or my Agents at
CharlcStOwn.
Thankful for the very liberal patronage hereto
fore extended me, trust to merit, by careful at
tenton to business the manufacture Of superior
goods and by moderate charges, continuance Of
the good will and custom o! old friends and trial
by new ones
A. McCARRELL, Jr.
May %, 1874. Spiri, eopy.
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d1l377 4
Grand, Square and Upright
PIANOS

HAvE received upwards Of FIFTY FIRST
Ill PREMIUMS, and are among the best now
made. Every instrument fully warranted for hye
years Prices as low as the exclusive use oil the
very best materials and the most thorough work
manship will permit. The principal Pianists ana
composers and the piano-purchasing public, of the
South especially, unite in the unanimous verdict
of the superiority of the STfEFF PIANO. The
DURABILITY of our instruments is fully estab-
Iished by over SIXTY SCHOOLS AND COLLIE
GES in the South, using over 300 of our Piano':
Sole Wholesale Agents for several OF the prin-
cipal manufacturers OF Cabinet and Parlor Or
cans; prices from $50 to 5000. Aliberal discount
TO Clergvmen and Sabbath Schools.
large assortment OF second hand Pianos, at
prices ranging from SIS to $500, always on hand.
Send for illustrated Catalogue, containing the
names of over :. 600 Southerners who have bought
and are using the Stief Piano. ,.,,
CHAS. NJ. STIEFF.
Warerooms, No. North Liberty Street,
BALTIMORE. ND.
Factories, 81 sc Camden Street, and 10 AL
Perry Street.
Nav ., 1874.
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Ayoung woman Of Pekin. H.. was asked
BY her minister If her husband feared tie
Lord. She replied. " Fear him Bless you, lie
is so afraid Of him, that be never goes ont Of
Sunday without taking b'- gun along
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nUR Stock consists Of beautiful and varied
assortment OF English, French and American
Coatincs, Suitings, Cloths, Cassimeres and Vest
ings, which we make up in the Best Merchant
Tailor Style. Mr.. Alexander, whose reputation
is wellknown for cutting and fitting, will give his
personal superntendance to this department.
Orders from the country promptly attended to,
and satisfaction guaranteed.
METTEE d ALEXANDER.
Sept. %, 1875.
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REMOVAL.

lTATHERS &CO., MERCHANT TAILORS,
vi have removed from No 3 to No.32 NORTH
CHARLES ST., northwest corner of Lexington,
where they will continue their business as former
ly, with well-assorted stock OF Choice and Sea
sonable GOODS, which they will be pleased to
make up to order, and in the mcstapproved style,
at moderate prices.
March Is, lS72--ly.
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JARRETT * HIGGINS
MANUFACTURERS AND JopDEs OF

MANUFAcTURERs AND JopBEs OF
Hats, Caps, Straw Goods.
and Ladies' Furs.
No. 2Oi and 2O6, ". BALTIMORE g.,
B. L IM0RE
January 10, lsG7.-Nov. q, 1915.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-24
Silk Culture.

Three million dollars worth of silkworms
eggs are IN transit by rail across the coun-
try. The silk manufacture of the United
States has already grown to proportions
surprising to those who had not investi-
gated the subject until they saw the superb
Centennial Exhibition. This surnr;sa wss
shared in an important degree by the
FRENCH SILK weavers, who came over with
their exhibits hardly willing to admit that
They bad any competition in this country.
Ihey have gone home and reported that
there Is nothing that the Yankees can not
90 when they give their minds to it,. Silk
WIZ always be luxury. 1t can never be
maze cheap in comparison with other dress
goods. But it can be made cheaper than it
now is, and this country can avoid the ne
cessity OF paying $4,000, 900 to SIS, OO0, 900 q
year to the silk weavers of Lyons and Mar
seilles.-Clereland Leader.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-24
:Wu Orleans 4epablif''i',
afFlCjAl JOURNAL OF THE UNITED STATES
sfetcIAL JOURNAL Of NEW ORLEANS.
IFor the New o. leans Republican,
MUSIC'S MINISTRY.
BY A. d. COLLINS

by A. u. COl&-lNs.
The merry ma, Oh Of yoatbfn feet,
Three hunrred. less or more,
Had ,l cd the hail and filed the street.
3he sehoolday's task WAS DER.
Come horneward went " weary pace.
Willie Others sought the green;
Some sought the rivers laughing face,
And some the wood sereIe.
Some s.ay.d 10 gee the teachers III
Reve al ruler dread;
Two sat upon The window Sill.
And ancient Virgil read.
oueyou'b b. wi b aching heart and b1nia,
still geied the1e e.one,
And, hidcen de. p bis life o. Iair,
TootheIs was unkno WI.
While mnsing IN the chapel still.
The sounds all c ed away,
Save frcm tie ,as!c window sill
kntn an eoho gay
Two happy maidels came to sing.
They woke The silver noies;
Piano 10 ,,hed lis tremtlir stiiags.
and WED III If choral throsts.
They lightly trip from waltz - sons,
Or sound pathetic air;
The " nth II ade glad is borne s'orE;
And up he Colleen ttlir
All pay ed with musics rrecicul ft.res,
HIS bouyant spirit bsunde.
And all the VIZ. aih Of silver tones
His burning br.w surround.
Tie music melting softly low
Its wilder frolcs cease
And in its measures sweet AID low.
TIE W. airy oath finds peace.
Aspnry argh-a playful talk.
The ma dens 60 their way;
Tho ,euth now takes his homeSaxG walk
1t crimson clofe of dsv.
HI. g,yer heart and nimbler fee.
GOLDEN secret reli
The magic ninttrel, music sv eet.
Hath wrough. its charm full well.
Nor fnew the maidens 10 what dranght
or healing SLED their cong
What inning sunbeam, when they laughed
Broke on his night so long.
Nor know they yet. ror yet Go dream
What angels pumed their wings.
And few to feed the choking stream
OF life with purer springs
OF purpose, that therefrtm should few
flood. whose surface bright
Should Mirror all the stars that gov
Aud heavens OF rener light
Such ministries hath music. when
The heart weighed down with pain
Feels every icy look of men
Whose only care IL gain.
Then sing! let merry music fill
Some soul that hungers lone;
And laugh! let urny laughter thrill
Some heart by taunts made stona
OF poverty and suffering
TIE world Ia full to-day;
Their freezing, sicbly state should wiring
Tie tears from hardest clay.
Then bail to Christmas chimesi whose swell
Makes 6 ad the waning year.
The gos pei to the poor" they tell
1.-THE sufferer, GOOD cheeIv
W Ollesne, December Is. 1876.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-24

right after all! Come along"
They had reached by this time the end
of the lane where it passed round the
lower part of the old moss-grOwn wall sur
rounding the cottage and grounds. At one
OF the angles there was heavy nailed door.
Cant we get in here2" said Tom, giving
it poke impatiently with his stick. o,
dear, no; it hadn't been opened for years;
the path on the other side had been long
dieused and overgrown with bushes.
$50 much the BETTER" continued the
sailor; "the less chance of the place having
been disturbed"
Then the three, with Lillian following, all
now quite excited by Toms idea, soon found
their way to the inner side of the garden
wall through the ivied arch at the 'front.' en-
trance.
The seaman, with his experienced eye,
first of all took general survey. Then,
bushes, scattering the snow, new softened
by the warm sun, in showers right and left,
halted beneath q wide-spreadiDg gnarled
apple tree. There's the dolls nest" he
exclaimed, pointing up to o great bullying
bole or knot where two large branches
forked; II feel inclined to swing myself up
into 1t as l used, only I'm afraid it wouldn't
bear me now. Yes. there it is. and now I've
got it in line with the chimneys, just as in
the old days Then twenty long strides
will bring me down close under the wall
alb !! But this brushwood is thicker than it
used to be-" he continued, as he tramped
heavily through the neglected underground,
his companions watching him from the up
per slope by the strip of kitchen garden.
lie has reached to within a yard Of the
wall, and he stands peeriag for o while in
among thu densest part of the tangle.
Lifting branch there with his stick, and
putting two or three aside here with his
hands, he makes another step forward. peers
down once or twice again, throws M his
arm as IT in signal to those behind, and
then with shout plunges, as it seems,
headlong into the bushes and all but disap.
pears. George gets down to him IN q min
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sovereign.
No contemplate sum either for "humble
livers" in content, such as George and his
wife were; and it YVES with q grateful heart
that he prepared to place his wife's and his
childs portion in, as he thought, some more
profitable place of security than an iron
safe. Still, without any mean repining or
c0vetous feeling with regard to what they
had naturally supposed they would come
into, it was impossible for them to Danish
all sense of disappointment. The ever re-
curing question as to what the old man
itself have kept this sense alive.
The ne'er-do-weel renegade son, Tom
Hickman, who with all his faults was not q
bad fellow at heart, and very fond of his
sister, had never entirely broken off COM
municatiOn with home. His father, in his
anger, had forbidden the mention of the
lads name from the time he quilted Eng
land to 60 as common seaman before the
mast. But to his sister Alice he had from
time to time written; and when. by his last
letter, he showed that he had, after a
farming in Australia, with prospect Of
doing we'll, she had ventured to put the
letter into her fathers hands. He read it,
but he gave it back without any remark.
Nevertheless, it seemed he had not for
gotten it. Thus means were open for send
ing the fl5O0 to Tom without much diff
Guilty, and the loving sister in doing SO, We
may be sure, poured out in the fullness Of
her heart many entreaties that her brother
would profit by his fathers forgiveness and
generosity, and many an earnest hope that
he might be spared 10 return to his native
land.
Within twelve months Of old Matthews
death the WOOdwyns know that Tom had
received the money safely. He wrote:
cit has come in the very nick of time,
and by it's means you will see shall coin q
fortune that shall be large enough before
have done to compensate us all for the la
inevitable loss We sustain through the eccen.
trio and mysterious crotchets entertained
by my father in all money matters, though
don't despair Of your coming upon some
trace yet of the bulk of his property
w hat 1 have got, however, shall invest n
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pase. Let us thank Him that we stand here
together with one heart ond one hope, and
not a thought unshared by the other"
Somehow, Notwithstanding their gloomy
prospects, this opening of heart to heart
gave TO each fortltude which sent them
to sleep that night more peacefully, per-
haps, than had been the case for long
while past
CHAPTER II.-THE LUCK.
Christmas Eve, in this the most memora.
bio OF all years for the Woodwyn house
hold, fell upon Sunday. The long antici-
pated fatal call on the shares had come
about fortnight previously, and the poor
drudgiDg bank clerk, unprOmOted yet save
by q very slight step, had met it with great
difficulty and many sacrifices; but he re-
turned to his little home at Highgate on
the Saturday night, determined that at
least for the next two days care should be
driven from it's doors, and that nothing but
gratitude to the Oliver of all good for what
was still left to him should fill his heart.
So the best fare BETTING the season that
circumstances would slow, though falling
tar short, maybe, of the pr0fusiOn of some
former Christmas times, had been prepared
by the careful housewife. The minor p0r-
ton of it-for the great feast was, of course,
not to be dreamed Of till the mOrrOw-was
being set forth by degrees that Sunday
afternoon upon the table in the little parlor
looking out upon the lawn and garden, all
now crisp and brilliant under fresh fall an
canopy Of snow. As far as the immediate
moment was concerned, one thing alone
slightly clouded the happiness that, not
withstanding their troubles, beamed in the
faces of our two friends and their little
girl. No further news had been heard of
that other luckless and long absent member
OF the family.
81 could have wished" said George, "that
poor Tom could have arrived in time to eat
his Christmas beef with US. There would
be enough for him; and l had heartily
hoped that he might have come to hand,
as we say in the city, in time"
The words had scarcely passed his lips
when, after that fashion of coincidence"
so necessary for stories and plays. end
which by critical readers and audiences is
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asked his wife; mas he made much money
in other ways?"
"Oh, of course. Don't you know, Alice,
that it was he, and one or two more men of
his stamp, who laid the foundation of much
Of our most remunerative intercourse with
the silk trade in ChinaG And though his
name has never been prominent In the
affairs, it is said that he has been their
backbone; if he had lived fifty or sixty
years earlier he would have been just such
sort of man as the old East Indian direc-
tors were. Lord bless my heart, people in
the city who know more of these things
than do say he must be worth mint of
money. He is rather late, though" went
on Woodwyn. after minutes pause; "per-
haps you had better run and fetch grand
father. Lily; he can't have heard the clock. "
And the child scampered away through the
low open window.
A few minutes pass, and she is back
again, bresthless, frightened, and sobbing:
what is the matter, my darlingf What
is the mstterY" cries the mother, taking her
up in her arms. ,
Grandpa, grandpa" gasps out the little
one, grandpa won't peak; grandpa tum-
bled down on table,"
In q moment husband and wife are flying
down to the summerh0use. At q glance
they see the child's words are true; for
there, prone across the table at which he
has oeen writing, helpless, speechless, un-
conscious, lies the dear, kind old man, his
body partly resting against the chair, the
pen still in the outstretched hand as it lies
across sheet of paper, slightly smeared
with the last touch of ink. To raise him
and loosen his stiff, high, white neckclOth is
the work Of an instant on Georges part,
while Alice, bending over the distorted face,
calls loudly for help.
II comes, of course. in time. and Matthew
Hickman is laid upon his deathbed; for he
never RECEIVERS consciousness, and within
four-and.twenty hours of his apopletic seiz
ure his spirit passes peacefully away.
For one moment at the last the glazed
eyes turned with the faintest look of recog-
milton to the face Of the loving and heart
stricken daughter; q slight twitching of the
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-24

1.-The dolls nest" replied Tom. "DO you
| mean to say that Alice never told you any,
to have rare fun ,therel We used to sit in
the dolls nest for hours together when she
and l were children-didn't we, Alicea'
"Never heard of it," said George.
sob, it was only queer old hole in the
largest apple tree," broke in Alice. "It
made rough sort of seat, and Tom used to
lit me up into it and put his arm round my
waist, and hold me in alongside him, and
we used to call it tho dolls nest,' that's
years; but it is still there, l have no
doubt"
"Well. have often thought of it." said
Tom; Thought Of it when I've been thou
sands of miles away the other side of the
globe-thought Of it and dreamed of it
frequently, and you and l sitting in it,
dear
"Well, have never heard of it, repeated
George: "but goodnight now, old boy. I'm
sound, once more"
And not long after, everybody was fast
asleep, and stiffness reigned throughout the
house.
With Christmas morning the converse
ton seemed inclined to rise to the happy
key. Everything favored joyous tone of
talk; the sun shone bright and clear, and
set the snow and the icicles sparkling like
jewels.
Little Lillian looked fresher and better,
her mother said, than she had done for
weeks. She thought her uncle's return had
begun to act like tonic on the child.
Alice herself likewise seemed to have taken
dose of it, for there was genuine happi-
ness in her face to which it had long been q
stranger. As to the sailor, he had go
brushed himself up, and polished his brown
cheeks with soap and water, that he was
hardly recognizable for the travel-stained
wanderer of the evening before.
George Woodwyn alone had failed to
catch this infection of beaming looks. He
had meditative, absent air abont him,
quite usual, and ate his breakfast without
seeming to know what he was doing. To
all inquiries "a to what was the matter he
answered, "Nothlng;" there was nothing
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

same time. There are to-day seven
hundred and fifty million dollars in
all kinds of currency; of this
$340, 100000 are legal tender, $50 Co.,
600 fractional currency, and the bal
ance in National Bank notes. you
present your note you get so much
gold for it, but the note is still OH
hands for circulation, and this they
call imitation. Now experience has
demonstrated that 253 of coin will
always float paper. That was our ex-
perience in our State bank years ago.
25% of the currency would be $l75,-
100000. The gold to-day on hands is
$G0,OOO,O00. Year after year the sur
plus Of coin coming into the treasury
is over $4O,0O0,OO0. In two years we
have $l40,00O,0 900, nearly all we need
to commence resumption with. This
is not contraction.
They say reform is necessary to
make the currency better, have they
better plan? / fail to see it. | fail
to see it: they fail to present it; il
doesn't exist and they know it.
The increase in exports over inn
ports of breadstuffs in the last six
years has been from $40, 900, 900 in 1876
to $13l, 100000 in 1876. Add to this
SS9,0O0,OO0 of provisions exported
then you will get over $200,O00,OO(
of exports which goes to prove the
prosperity ofthe country. We have
paid over $70O,0OO,O00 of our public
debt besides paying the expenses OF
| the government and with this show
ing on the part of the republican par.
ty how con these reformers ask for o
change of administration?
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20
His Grounds for Divorce.

A Raleigh lawyer was interviewed
yesterday by an agriculturalist living
a score of miles from the city, who
said he wanted to secure a divorce
from his wife.
"You don't live happily with her
Ell ?" inquired the attorney.
"No; we don't seem to hitch wutl
a cent was the quiet reply.
''Does she scold and fret and max,
your home a hell on earth, so to speak
continued the lawyer.
"That's her, exactly"
"And you are prepared to prov,
that you have peaceful disposition
and that you have done everything
you could to make home pleasant 2
"You bet am! Anybody as know
me will swear that l wouldn't hurt {
flea, and that I move around home
like an angel"
wen, guess we can make out {
case" said the lawyer, as he took M
his pen and began to jot down thu
points. After moment he inquired
"Doyou think your wife will contes
the case? Has she any defense 2"
"Waal, now, l never thought O
that slowly replied the farmer. q
didn't know as she had anything to say
about it,"
"She may have. Has she any grounds
for complaint against you ?"
81 don't know much about law" an
swered the client in hesitating way.
81 know I've got hankering after
her sister Marian, and her sister Ma
riar has hankcring after me, but
whether them is good grounds for
complaint don't know!'
The lawyer hasn't filed a bill yet.