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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1877-08-25

Why don't you wear hush maj
asked little boy. A hush! what is tba.
my dear? never heard Of such thing. -
" Why, yes you have ma. Iasked aunt Ma
ry, what made her back stick out SO, and she
said Hush, ny dear. SO you know what
IL is"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1877-08-25

10 a suit for divorce in New York, Mrs
Mary S. Rowe, wife Of Wm. Rove, testified
tha, her husband struck her becaufe, 10 answer
to an inquiry, she expressed the opinion that
" Gen. Grant drank TOO much"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1877-08-25

There is perhaps, no more perfect picture Of
peTplexity than the countenancc Of man who
finds 10 his pocket letter which his wife
gave him month ago TO mail, and holds it up
to the light in a futile effort TO determine
whether there is anything in it that would con-
yict him if he..wetc to carry it 10 his pocket
the rest Of the year, and mail it on the ami
versary Of the day on which it was written.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1877-08-25

See here, wife, you indulge that boy too
much. lie is a perfect mule" "Oh, hus-
baud, please don't accuse our BOY Of having an
ass for father The old man wited.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1877-08-25

They were husband aud wife, aud as they
stood before the Capitol iu Washington, she
asked What's that figure on top? 2" +" That's
a goddess" be answered. "And what's a
goddess ?" " woman who holds her tongue ?"
he replied. She looked at bin sideways, aud
then began planning how to make peacb-pie
with the stones in it, for the benefit Of bis soro
10th
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1877-08-25

It makes Nyack boy sick TO look at the
picture Of Turk and think what big pocket
he could have 10 bis panialocns.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1877-08-25
POETICAL.
FLoREN oE yANE.

The following beautiful lines were written by
Philip Pepdleton Cooke, of Winchester, Virginia.
They were pronounced, at the time of their APP
pearance, by Blaekrood's Magazine. the most ex-
quisite poetical gem America had produced. Al
though the hand that penned them and the brain
that conceived them have mouldered into the
dust, the sweet and mournful cadence will long
find echo in the hearts of the admirers Of true ge-
MUS:
Iloved thee long and dearly,
Florence Nane;
Nv life's bright dream and carly
Hath come again;
renew within my vision
Ny hearts dear pain
It's hopes and thy derision,
Florence Vane.
The ruin lone and hoary,
The ruin old.
Where thou didst heark my story
At even told;
That spOt-the hues elysan
OF sky aud plain,
treasure in my vision,
Florence Vane.
Thou vast lovelier than the roses
In their prime;
Thy voice excellcd the closes
OF sweetest rhyme;
Thy heart was a river
Without a main
Would mad loved thee never
Florence Yanc!
But fairest, coldst wonderl
Thy glorious clay
Lieth the green sod under;
Alas the day
And it boots not to remember
Thy disdain.
To quicken loves pale ember
Florence Vane.
TIE lilies cf tie valley
By young graves weep
The pansies love 10 daily
Where maidens sleep;
May their bloom, in beauty vying,
NeTer'wane,
Where thine earthly part is lying,
Florence Vane.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1877-08-25
Mtsic tx cAMf."

remember a musical event of the late war,
which gave delightful touch TO nature. In
the autumn Of 1862, the two opposing armies
rested upon the opposite banks Of the Kappa
hancock. a band belonging to federal regi-
meut was 10 the habit Of coming to the rivers
brink each evening aud discoursing sweet mu-
sic, to the delight Of the soldiers Of both
armies. 1t was late October evening, at the
season Of the year when Indian simmer adds
peculiar beauty to the autumn. Is usual, the
band appeared at sunset and the shores Of the
river were lined on one side with blue and on
the other with gray The first strain that
came over the water was Yankee Doodle"
accompanied by the shouts aud cheers Of the
Northern sodiery. Again the music changed,
and "Dixia" rolled out on the evening air, and
the ripets dancing back over the pebbles Of
the stream bore to the opposite bank the de-
faut shouts of the Rebels. Another change
how sad and sweet The evening sunset had
rpened into twilight when Home, Sweet
Home touched tender chord in every SOL
dier breast The Northman was carried back
to the cottage on the blue hills Of Vermont,
where wife and children were awaiting his re-
turn, and the Southern boy was again in his
home beneath the palmetto receiving the bless
ings Of a sainted mother. There was a reign
of solemn Stiffness" and as the touching
strain died upon the melowed plane, uoiseless-
ly the soldiers retired from the river banks TO
seek their hard beds on the ground, where
they could dream Of peace and hOme.-Edito-
nal C9rrepondeh Wheeling Reqister.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1877-08-25
Corner of Queen 4 King Streets,
MartinSburg, West Nirgi'a a

VI NIartlnSDu1'g, " GSJ II'SI q.
MY OLD CUSTOMERS and the travelling pub
vi lie in general, are informed that on The
FIRST DAY or APRIL, 1877,
viii take charge Of the abose named Hotel
where l shall be glad 10 see all my old patrons
The house is new, commodious, rooms pleasant
and airy. and elgibly situated.
Jan. 27. 1877. WM. RUTLEDGE.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1877-08-25
AMERICAN HOTEL,
STANTON, "a.
Change Of NIanaacIiient I
"a. na. uArs EusEs4H, z-rvs.i~tv.
STAUNTON, "a.

IVHE management of this Hotel has changed
hands and il is being put in thorough repair,
being rcmodclcd and returniShed.
This Hotel is conveniently situated near the O. d.
o. K. II. Depot and accessible 20 Tie business part
o. the CITY. which will make it desirable for the
transient visitors aud especially for Commercial
men.
This Hotel is well ventilated and delightfully."-
cool in summer. The proprietor will spare no
pains to make it frstclass Hotel.
Terms moderate and special rates will be made
Nm. CARTMELL,
Jan. u. 1877. Proprietor.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1877-08-25

NOAH WALKER * CO.,
Celebrated CiOthiers OF Baltimore, Md,
Announce the Introduction OF plan Of ordering
Clothing and Underwear
By LETTER,
To which they call your special attention. They
Will send on application their improved and aecu-
rate
RULES FOR SELFNEASURENENT,
and a full line Of samples from their immense
stock Of CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, COATlNGS,
SHIRTINGS. 1c. thus enabling parties In any
part OF the country TO order their Clothing and
Shirts direct from them, with the certainty OF re
eeiyiog garments OF
The Very Latest Style
And lost PqJect Fa ARaHdGe.
Goods ordered win be sent by Express to any
part OF the country.
States they have for Forty-Ihree ears
ENCELLED
in an departments Of their business, which is
substantial guarantee as 20 the character OF the
Goods they will send out
4 large and well-aSsorted stock OF
IgEADV-MADE CLOTHING
always on hand, together with full line Of
Furnishing Goods,
including all the latest Novelties in Design, and az
POPULAR PRICES.
When Goods are sent per Express c. Q. D.
there will DE no collection charge on amounts OF
so and over.
Rules TOR Measurement. Samples Of Goods
and Price list sent free on Application.
The attention OF ttc Trade is invited 10 our
Wholesale Department. which is always kept up
90 the highest standard.
NOAH WALKER q CO.,
Manufacturers and Dealers in Mems and BOYS
Clothing and Furnishing Goods, either ready
made or made 60 order.
I65and IUI Baltimore street, BALTIMORE,
May 10, ls7G-ytE ND.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1877-08-25
PERSONAL!

NOAH WALKER * CO.,
Celebrated Ciothiers OF Baltimore, Md,
Announce the Introduction OF plan Of ordering
Clothing and Underwear
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1877-08-25
CONTINENTAL HOTEL,

February 5,lS76.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-27

WORDS OF WISDOM.-The following,
clipped from an exchange, will bear
reading and a careful considerations:
Better TO wear calico dress without
trimming, if it be paid for, than to owe
the shOp-keeper for the most elegant
silk, cut and trimmed in the most be-
witching manner.
Better to live in lOg-cabin all your
own than a brown-stOne mansion be-
longing to somebody else.
Better walk forever than run into debt
for a horse and carriage.
Better to sit by the pine table for
which you paid three dollars ten years
ago than send home new extension
black walnut top, and promise TO pay
next week.
Better to use old cane-seated chairs
and faded two-ply carpet than trembIe
at the bills sent home from the uphol-
sterer's for the most elegant parlor set
ever made.
Better TO meet your business acquaint-
ance with free don't owe you a cent?
smile than to dodge around the corner
to escape dun.
Better to pay the street organ-grinder
two cents tor music, if you must have
it, than owe for grand piano.
Better to eat thin soup from earthen-
ware, if you owe your butcher nothing,
than to dine off lamb and roast beef
aud know that it does not belong to
you.
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These fellow mortals, every one, must
be accepted as they are; you can neither
straighten their noses, nor brighten
their wit, nor rectify their dispositions;
and it is these people-among whom
your life is passed-that il is useful YOU
should tolerate, pity, and love; it is
these more or less ugly, stupid, incon-
sistent people, whose movements of
goodness you should be able to admire,
for whom you should cherish all possi-
ble hopes, all possible patience. And
would not, even if L had the choice, be
the clever novelist who would create a
world so much better than this in which
we get up in the morning to do our
daily work, that you would be likely to
turn harder, colder eye on the dusty
streets and the common green fields, on
the real breathing men and women, who
can be chilled by your Indifference or
injured by your prejudice; who can be
cheered and helped onward by your fell
lOw-feeling, your fOrbearance, your out
spoken brave justice.-George Eliot.
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The EXCESSIVE USE OF MEDICINE
1t would be utterly impossible to tell
how many constitutions have been i'm
paired, how many digestiOns ruined,
how many complexious spoiled, and
how many purses emptied, through
medicine. What is that you say? that
a stitch in time saves nine, and that the
right medicine, quickly taken, averts
danger? Very likely. We quite be-
Iieve that. But in ninety-nine cases out
of hundred, where is the danger? and
what is the emergency of the case?
Medicine is often the precursor of after
misery; and the poor constitution has to
pay dearly for its medicinal flip. The
wiser philosopher of the present day is
gradually delivering us from these pO-
tent perils. Nature has self-righting
power within her; there is kind of Wis
medicatrix in the physical frame. Treat
the body kindly; letas much pure air as
possible get to the lungs, and as much
fresh water as possible be applied to the
flesh, and as much healthy exercise as
duty permits be given to the muscles,
and early rising as circumstances allow
be afforded for the recruitment of the
brain, and then medicine will be a very
avoidable affair.
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ITO be continued

ADVICE IN REGARD TO THE EYES,
The more you avoid glaring and glanc-
ing lights IN the rooms you habiIually
sit in, the better. Therefore-although
the following advice is certain to meet
with no attention from the great major
ity-it is our laughably painful duty to
recommend ladies to have as few mir
rors and other looking glasses, gilt pic
ture-frames and mOuldIngs, bTight-cOl-
ored curtains and highly polished furni-
ture, in their drawing-roOms as possible;
and what they must have should be 50
placed as not to allow bright lights to
De thrown upon them. HIghly-colOred
curtains are additionally injurious when
the windows are open, so that the vari-
Gus brilliant aud dazzling coloTs are
flung about the room by the incoming
breeze. A very bright carpet is an ill.,
furious thing, and, when combined
with a brightly-painted ceiling, mad
ness. These things may be a merry life
for the eyes, but they are short one.
A patterned, sOber-toned carpet,
and a soft sky-grey or stOne-colOred
ceiling, are my own private fancy. The
almost inVarlable whitewash of the
British ceiling would be constant in
Jury but for the grave fact that the Brit
lsh Isles are not Overburdened with sun
light. But whether reading, writing,
or working in any other way, it should
always be done with an oblique light,
and never with a horizontal light
FraSer'S Magazine.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-27

| ion in guilt2 And has he ever showed

ion in guilt2 And has he ever showed
symptoms of reform?"
"a mans business is his own affair,
madam! L associate with whom I
please"
"There is one person with whom you
will associate no more, John Smith, and
that person is Edna Rutherford, your
former wife J"
John raved and swore furiously for q
while and then begged like child to be
forgiven and reinstated.
"This comes of women imbibing in
dependent notions" said Mr.. Handel,
solemnIy. mo woman would have
thought of taking such stand as this
when I was a boy. 1 knew a dear
mother in Israel in my childhood who
endured privation, suffering, and even
stripes from a drunken husband for the
Lords sake. But, bless you, she was
none of your strong-minded sort"
"And 1 knew slaves in my childhood"
retorted Edna, "who endured toll with
out recompense and stripes without
stint, without thought but that they
must endure. Their children ran away
and otherwise resisted the injustice,
though, and so will the daughters of
your model, if they should marry
badly"
"And SO you intend to turn your law
full husband out o. doors, do you?" asked
John Smith, doggedly.
az have no husband I" was the decided
reply.
"We'll see about that w cried John,
with an air of extreme Importance, as
be posted off to see a lawyer and Edna
hurriedly resumed her work.
ITO be continued.1
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-27

Queen Victoria's elegant grandson,
Prince William of Prussia, has recently
received the highest honor in her power
to bestow upon a foreign prince, in be-
ing made Knight Of the Garter. Three
members of the German imperial fam
ily-father, son, and grandson-now
bear this august decoration. Besides
the Crown Prince of Germany and his
SOD, two other foreign princes who are
not reigning sovereigns have received
the Order of the eGarter-Prince Louis ol
Hesse and Prince Christian of Schles.
wig-Holstein. The Order of the Garter
consists of the English sovereign and
twenty-five knights, with the addition
of princes of the royal family. Special
statutes are passed for the admission OF
foreign sovereigns or princes. A major
ity of reigning sovereigns now wear
this decoration.
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quently followed around by one of the
brightest, prettiest, red curly-haired,
eight-year-old specimen of an embryo
solon in Washington. Johnny ]. Pat
terson, Jr., and John Young Brown,
Jr., divide the interest as beaus and gall
lants at the favorite parties in their
small world.
EX-sECRETARY RoBEsoN
Is kept busy explaining the reason of
the apparent deficiency in the books of
the Navy Department. Careful anal
ysis of his statements will probably
prove them correct.
SECRETARY SHERMAN
Has grasped the financial bull by the
tail and it threatens to bear him further
from the resumption of specie than
was previously anticipated. Secretary
Schurz has, after profound study,
evolved a very plain and seemingly
practical system of civil service reform
which will not have the effect of max
ing any radical change, but will chiefly
affect the admission of new employees
in his Department. All the clerks
are on their best behavior, as good
conduct, both private and official,
is now in general demand, while supe-
rior writers and arithmeticians plume
themselves upon their knowledge of
business and rate their tenure of office
chances accordingly. The Ottman $47,-
600 Treasury steal is still on the tapis
and will soon be concluded. The round
of Easter receptions has not thoroughly
commenced, although the programme
for concerts and evening entertainments
this week has been full to repletion.
The telephone concert announced for
last night, of which hoped to render
you description, has been postponed
till Monday next when, it is to be hoped,
WashingtOnian scientists will receive
the benefit of the performance. Another
wholesale discharge of Treasury female
clerks will occur, and 23O of the poorest
unfOrtunates will then be thrown out
upon their own resources again. They
deserve pity. FELIX.
Washington, D. c., April 6, 1877.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-27

WOMAN SUFFRAGE.-A bill has been
reported in the Connecticut Legislature
giving a woman who pays taxes and
owns over $500 worth of property the
same right to vote as any tramp who
sleeps under the hedges and robs the
hen-roost for a living, and wears the
same shirt thirty-six months. There is
something indescribably grand and i'm
pressing in the mighty development of
this age of progress and civilization
Burlington Hdo0keye.
1t is well the time is coming when
error cannot always rule, neither can
falsehood be forever triumphant. Dis
like it as the fogies may, the time has
come when everybody must be exam
ined. There is Dothing that can escape
the closest scrutiny, however old, sa-
cred, or firmly rooted it may be; though
its foundations lie deep in the rubbish
of ages, there are those who will dig and
discover whether it rests on sand or
rock; though its head reach the clouds,
there are daring spirits who will mount
as the eagle and examine its top-stone.
1t is well that this scPutinizing spirit
should be abroad. 1t is time that every
door was opened, not excepting the
church door, and Reason invited to
walk in.-COtar (CdL.) Enterprise.
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THE EXTRA SESSION.

AS the army appropriation was not
passed, no lawful expedient for main
tanning the army seems possible. Mr.
Hayes, appreciating well the danger of
going outside of strict law in this mat
ter, refuses to adopt any other than the
regular method. 1t is possible that this
lull will be of short duration. In this
case the old wounds and sores may have
occasion to bleed afresh. Should the
settlement in Louisiana be like that of
South Carolina, all trouble will be
ended, as the proviso against the use of
the troops in the South, upon which
the House insisted, and which caused
the failure of the passage of the bill in
the Senate, will no longer be needed.
After the Speaker is chosen, the sup
plies voted for the army, the civil SER
vice sundry bill amended, and the few
new appointments confirmed by the
Senate, there will be little or no work
left for the extra session, as it is scarcely
probable that Congress will care to leg
islate upon any of the several hundred
untouched bills introduced during the
last session, or that they will trouble
themselves during the hot weather to
consider conscientiously the vast fields
of unfinished business" surrounding
them,
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-27

~ should think, your Honor" said
an attorney in Judge Cs courtroom
the other morning, as he picked up the
water-pitcher which sets on the edge of
the judicial dias, 81 should think, your
Honor, that you'd get somebody to
build fence around this here pitcher,
or else put your spittoon over on the
other side.n
Whats the matter, sir ?" inquired
the Court.
Matter! Why the outside of the
pitcher is covered with tobacco juice.U
TITS matter of indifference to me,
SIR"
"Matter of indifference, your Honor
Why, it is filthyp'
II don't care, sir; the court never
drinks water"
Then the attorney sat down and
looked indignant.
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HAMPToN's RECEPTION.

All the South Carolinians that are
able to get away, though but small
proportion of white men are represented
among the office-holders from that
State, are Fastening to witness the evac-
uation of Columbia and the wild rejoic-
ings consequent upon Gov. Hampton's
return. Sinister hints are thrown out
by the disconsolate ousted politicians,
but amid the popular elation but little
attention is paid to their muttering.
Even Senator Patterson, the most pro-
nouuced opponent of the Hampton re-
gime, has made his peace with the victo-
rious Governor, and promised to bury
the tomahawk of war. Apart from his
extreme views in politics, Johnny Pat
terson, as he is Familiarity called, is a
whole-souled, genial man, and through
the session of Congress borrows much
interest from the ladies, being fire.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-27

This was Robert Stephenson's remark
to the man who used to bother him
about perpetual motion: "It you will
take yourself up by the waist6and OF
your breeches and carry yourself round
the room, will consider the matter"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-27

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the
year 1876, by Mrs A. ]. Duniway, in the office of
the Librarian of Congress at Washington City.J
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-27

People who advertise only once in
three months forget that most folks
can't remember any thing longer than
about seven days.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-27

Woman's degraded, helpless position is the
weak point of our institutions to-day-a dis
turbing force everywhere, severing family ties,
filling our asylums with the deaf, the dumb,
the blind, our prisons with criminals, our cit
les with drunkenness and prostitution, our
homes with disease and ddeath.-[NationalC Cen
tennial Equal Rights Protest.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-27

A baby, says a French writer, is an
angel whose wings decrease as its legs
increase.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-27

A CASH TRANsACTIoN.-Ag gentleman
living on Duffield street the other day
hired boy to walk home beside him
and carry a bundle, having first agreed
to pay the lad fifteen cents. Reaching
the house, the man found he had no
smaller change than quarter, and he
said:
'If you will call at my office at two
o'clock, Pll have the change"
"But it was to be cash down." pro-
tested the boy.
$50 it was; but I haven't the change,
you see. You'll have to call at my
Office"
"pll CALL" growled the boy, as he
turned away, "but know just how it
will work. When l knock on the door,
a cross-eyed clerk will yank it open, ask
me what l want, and when L tell him
he will yell out, That man went into
bankruptcy last September, and now
you gitp That's the way they allus
play it on me, sir, an I'd rather lose the
fifteen cents than to call the clerk a
dodo and have to dodge coal-scuttIes all
the way down stairs"
The gentleman walked with him to
the nearest grocery and made change.
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There have been many crises in the
silk trade of Lyons which have caused
as much or more distress than the pres
ent one. In 1749, 10000 hands were
thrown out of work, and the municipal
ity was obliged to distribute bread gratis
to the amount of three milliens of francs;
in 1854 fresh suspension of occupation
neeessitated a similar measure of relief;
in 177S, of 1900 looms, SAL were un-
employed; in 1873, the stagnation Of
trade further increased the number of
workmen unoccupied, and the king, to
relieve the distress, ordered a quantity
of stuffs from the Lyons manufacturers,
and forbade any one to appear before
him not dressed in brocaded silk; in
1857, in consequence of the high price of
the raw material, the manufacturers
were compelled to cease working the
looms, aud $4,000 persons were left
without the means of subsistence. Com
mercial crises were also experienced in
1878, 1928, 1851, and in 1852.