Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-01-22
FROM HEDGESVILLE.

FROM HEDGESVILLE.
The BuJu@ Family Hit Again-
Their NOtires Laid Bare-Ihe
Greea-eyed Monster ut Work.
To the Editors Of the Independent:
HEDGEsvILEE, Jan. II, '76.
The letter of your correspondent,
"High Knob" was a good hit, and
a deserved one, at the "Buzfuz"
family, and has created quite q
buZzing here. 1 remember well
the spite-spitting and slurring no.
tice of the marriage of one of our
former village belles,t to which your
correspondent has alluded.
"High Kuob," however only
gave part of the truth. Not only
were the first names of the two
worthy clergymen, who officiated
on that occasion, burlesqued as
"Rev. Brown" and "Rev. Bowen
| (McKown) with even the "Mr."
left of, but the title of the groom.
who was physician, was dropped
and an initial given to his name,
which did not belong to tt, so that
without the aid of association, his
identity would have been a mys-
terry. The inference of your cor
respondent, that the notice was
thus misprinted and slurred as a
small potato retaliation by the gal
liant Buzfuz, the younger, for the
omission to invite him to the we'd
ding, is seemingly strengthened
by the fact that the names of the
other brides and grooms, who had
condescended to invite him, were
printed correctly, as also were the
names of the officiating clergy
men. That inference is, SEEMINGLY,
further strengthened by the ap-
pearance of quito liberal puffs in
these cases-as if to give fair warn
ing thus: "All who desire cor
rect marriage notice, instead of a
funeral notice, and don't want to
see themselves caricatured in print.
will have to invite the local editor
of this paper to their weddings
This we make condition prece-
dent, as the lawyers say. But, if
he gets an invitation, we shall
neither slur the names of the hap
Ply couple, nor the clergyman who
ties the knot, and a puff may be
expected besides. Our paper is
publishc at so dead a loss that we
can't pay our debts from the in
come, and we are determined to
make sure, at least, of a good we'd
ding feed occasionally. An invite
and q good feed, or no correct no
tice,' shall hereafter be our motto"
Now, if the Buzfuz firm had
come fairly and squarely out with
such a notice as that, instead of
their motives to be inferred from
their way ofdoing things. nobody
would have complained, and 1
should have been spared the writ
ing of this communication.
1t is but just to the family who
were subjected to the modification
of the aforesaid funeral notice" of
the marriage of a former much re-
spected member thereof, to state
that they have not been consulted
with reference 10 this communica-
ton, and will be aware of my pur-
pose to write it for the first time by
seeing it in print. Shrinking from
publicity perhaps, they may not
thank me for sending it. But of
that l will bear the responsibility.
for one am not willing to keep
silent, while l see paper in our
own beloved county, with a pre-
tentious name, published on the
spite principle, whereof that run
by the firm of "Buzfuz & Son"
gives such frequent examples.
One of these examples was, sus-
pect, given in the late attack upon
the worthy and hereabout we'll
known and respected "Berkley
Boy" HE was born only about a
mile from where our village
stands the real motive for which
unquestionally was desire to an
nOy the editors of its successful
competitor, the INDEPENDENT,
through one of its correspondents.
That accomplished, las they hoped,
the green-eyed monster was salts
fed, and father and son expressed
their satisfaction to one another
with sardonic grin such as only
Buzfuz could possibly put on.
VINDEX.
Ex-senator Brownlow and the