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Corner of Queen & King Streets,
AIartinSburg, West Nilgi n.

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FIRST DAY OF APRIL, 1871.
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where shall be glad to see all my old patrons
The house Is new, commodouS, rooms pleasant
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Jan. y. 1871 WM. RTTLEDGE.
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ENTLER HOTEL,
SHEPHERDSTOWN. w. Va.

HAYING leased the Entlcr Hotel, it is now
( open for the accommodation OF the Public
The Table will be beautifully supplied with all
the Injuries and substautials that the city and
country markets afford. None but polite and at
tcutive servants will be employed, and nothing
shall be left undone that will contribute 20 the
comfort and pleasure Of guests. The Stable will
be attended by an experienced Ostler.
l.. Z. ETCHlSON,
February 5, 1876. Proprietor.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22

Wendell Phillips is not an admirer
of President Hayes. lie describes
him to a reporter of the Cleveland
Leader as "a political Rip Van Win
kle, an old fashioned Northern snob-
that class which, before the war, be
lieved that all the honor and all the
gentlemen resided in the South. They
never could eat dirt enough to satisfy
their own morbid appetite for submis.
sion" Mr.. Phillips expresses the be.
lief that for the next few years there
will be no Republican party, but that
in time new divisions will call the old
Northern earnestness into action, when
the negro vote will come to the front
and an impartial administration will
follow. ....
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22

Country PAPERs-We find the
following sensible and truthful para
graph in tho Galveston Ncps:
1t is obvious that many OF the papers
of the State are better than their pub
fishers can we'll afford to make them
on the patronage they receive. They
are of ia, more service to the COUNTIES
10 which they are published than most
of the citizens suppose, and where i'm
migrants are desired or surplus lands
offered for sale, the citizens will DO we'll
to sustain their local papers in the most
liberal manner. In the early days OF
Galveston some men interested in
building up the city each subscribed
for as many as twenty-five copies of
the paper printed here, and had them
sent to leading citizens OF other States
in order to awaken an interest in Texas
and induce immigration. Few people
have even faint idea of the influence
of the press in this direction; save
those connected with newspapers.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22

Our readers will recollect that some
time since as the result Of a political and
personal quarrel between Louis Cards
and Judge kiOward at 81 Paso, the
latter was compelled to leave the
country, promising not to return. lie
however soon returned, killed his
antagonist, aud again fed. Nine.
tenths of the people OF that region be-
ing OF Mexican birth, and Cards
having been favOrte with them,
they resolved that Howard should die
in case he returned. The Sheriff, it
appears, appealed TO the Governor for
guard to bring him back, and some
twenty State aud U. s, soldiers uu-
dertook the job. They were surround.
ed by several hundred Mexicans, com.
PEELED to surren der, Oh the 18th inst,
and Howard and two other men were
shot to death-balance held rs prison
ers. (Some half dozen soldiers had
been killed before.) U. S. troops
were sent to their relief. but too late.
Dispatches from Washington state
that the Government does not con.
slider this affair in any degree inter.
national, but that steps will be taken
to guard the persons and PROPERTY q
Am erican citizens from assault in flu
ture.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22

We paid San Marcos Il visit last
Monday, hut remained only a few
hours, consequently dia not gather
many items If interest. Business
seemed dull. though the merchants did
hot complain, and Julian of the FREE
Pass was in fine health and spirits.
Gan Marcos being afflicted with a cor
poration and city officials who are no
respecters of persons. We made our stay
as brief as possible, and took good care
not to hitch our team to any of the
beautiful shade trees CD which adorn
the streets. -Lockhan Echo.
We congratulate our neighbor on his
escape from the clutches Of our city
officials" but are not so sure about
their being mo respecters of persons.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22

A TELEGRAM has been received from
Col. A. NJ. Gentry, New York, on Mon
day last by President House Of Hous-
ton, announcing the shipment OF ten
miles of steel rails for the Texas West
ern Narrow Gauge road. Business is
evidently meant, and when work is re.
sumed west of Pattison it will doubt
less be with force sufficient to put
trains across the Brazos early in Feb
uary.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22

IMAGINATION has at last, very reluc-
family, knocked under" to the will OF
the French people. So their struggle
for nearly a hundred years for freedom
aud self government IS at last crowned
with complete success. In their aspir-
atoms and achievements towards Re
publican institutions, they are. beyond
comparison, the foremost people Of the
Old World.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22

THE LAND SwINDLERs.-The Dis
trict court has beeo occupied the entire
week in trying Ham. Mccullough
was sentenced to six years IN the peni-
Tertiary OF last Monday. Hams trial
then began. His counsel made strong
fight. Ham felt confident of acquit-
tai. and was in excellent spirits through
out the tedious trial. But the counsel
for the State were wide awake, and de-
termined to give him all the law would
Kermit. and they had the satisfaction
Of having verdict rendered in their
favor. After r'"as by the counsel on
both sid So. lated ali day Fri
day. the jury i.' r'd at l;lOn. m, and
returned in ten minutes with verdict
Of guilty, aud affixed The penalty at
ten years in the pepiieniiary. which is
the full extent of the law AEs'ia
CSpital.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22

Our gallant young friend of the Sc
gum Times attempts to deny the soft
impeachment" Of having devoted a
portion of his time during his recent
>oiouru at the Travis House in this
place. to the delicious and exciting
business of sparkling" Vain effort
the facts are too well known to be
against him. by way of retaliatiou,we
suppose, he draws upon his imagina-
ton iu order to make out similar case
against us. We had no previous idea
Of the young mans gifts as romancer.
1t he sees fit to turn his attention to
that department of literary work be
could hardly fail of success.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22

The wal correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Commercial contrasts the spirit
of the proclamations Of the Turkish
authorities, breathing the spirit of hui.
manity, with the blood-thirsty and
brutal tone of those of the Russians.
1t may SAVIOR of an Irish bull, but we
think, of The two, the Turks are the
better Christians.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22
HAYES is finding rougher work than

HAYES is finding rougher work than
travelling over the country seeking ap-
plause for being good boy" He
undertook lately to displace some of
Conklings appointees in New York,
merely 10 spite that Senator, but Was
sigma lily beaten in the Senate. Only
Eve Republicans sustained him, while
some Of the Democrats opposed him.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22

GRANT is of the stolid John Bull
type-hence he was so great u favoritc
in England. But in France they see
through him Il great deal better. The
MacMahon party appear to be the only
special friends he has there. The Re-
publican leaders aud press freely criti-
cize and ridicule him, and Victor HUI
20, whom he proposed to visit, declined
to receive him.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22

OUR Texas exchanges have consid
cradle to say of a large delegation of
prominent people frot, the old North
western States who have lately visited
our State They came as far as Austin.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22

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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22

ON the 18th inst, that noble, true
maR and favorite poet, John G. Whit
tier attained his 10th year. Many of
our principal authors sent him literary
tributes appropriate to the occasion.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22

PRETTY POLLY PEMBERToN, a
Love Story, by Mrs. Frances Hodgsou
Burnett, author OF "Theo, That Lass
O. Lowrie's," etc., and reprinted from
Peterson's Mugazinc, is published by
r. b. Peterson H. Brothers, Philadel-
phia. This novel deserves more than
passing notice. 1t calls itself II love
story" and by this standard, and this
only, therefore. should it be tried.
Judged in that way, it is like "Theo, y
as nearly perfect as possible, The vol
ume is issued in uniform style with
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BORROWING TIE PAPER from week
to week is small practice that many
resort to, but custom that any honest
gentleman should not be guilty
of. II tie paper is worth borrowing,
it is worth paying fo-, and no doubt
every borrower spends more time IN
procuring it from his neighbor. weekly,
than it would require to earn five times
the annual subscription price.
We copy the above from Our Home
Journal, of New Orleans. 1t hits
many persons in this vicinity, to whose
consideration we commend it.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22

JUDGE LELAND, who has just been
appointed Postmaster at Waco, is an
independent, while Chase, the iDcum.
bent, was pronounced Republican.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22

THE Turkish government has ad.
dressed a square, manly note to the
great powers OF Europe ,suggesting their
mediation in the interest of justice and
peace.
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SATURDAY.. ....DECEMBER O.


BoTu the up and down stages on
the Coucho line were recently robbed,
the mails cut open.
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LOUIS KossUTH urges Austria to
maintain the independence of Turkey
as O barrier against Russia.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22

The Presidents views on the silver
IS ue will not please any sectiol ct the
country.-AHann Constellation.
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-05
prince Under Fire.

The Prince of Roumania inspect
ed of the batteries at Kalafat soon
after sunset one evening late in May,
and Mr.. MacGahan stood by to de-
scribe the scene for the London
News. There were the gunners by
their pieces, and the Prince and his
staff standing on the parapet to
watch the result Of the fire. In a
moment the roar of the cannon was
to roll along the quiet waters, but
there remained a moment in which
to appreciate the placid beauty Of
the fair scene in the soft half-light
which had followed the going down
of the sun. The majestic river
flowed on with its puissant sweep
through its wooded islands. The
blue Balkans, their blue studded
with snow patches on which the
sun still struck and kindled them
into dazzling radiance, furnished
the background. In the middle
distance, from out a cineture of
green, rose the slender white nina
rets Of Widdin. From his post on
the pafapet, Prince Charles waved
his hand, and with a flash of flame,
and a white belch of smoke, and a
scream, too, that always gives a turn
to the blood, the first shell speeds
its swift way across the Danube. 1t
struck to the right of the great work
on the west flank of the river face,
and a moment later rising smoke
told that it had fired something.
Then one Of the big guns of the
Elizabeth Battery gave tongue, and
its projectilo Clipped fragments as
it bursts off the coping of the A
bastion on the river front. Several
shots had been fired from the four
Roumanian batteries which are
armed, before the Turks gave any
sound of life; but at length a white
puff from one of the bastions of the
river face told that they were not to
remain wholly supine. Their first
three shells fell in the town, aimed
no doubt at No. 3 Battery, but too
high; most of the others pitched
about No. l Battery, on the parapet
of which Prince Charles was still
standing. When shell fell and
exploded close to him, its dust reach
ing him, it was felt that he had
done enough, and more than enough
in the way.of example, and the War
Minister adding his expostulations
to those of the staff, the Prince
came down into the battery, where
he remained while the firing lasted.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-05

which the wife of a cabinet minis
ter who can scarcely have been
personally acquainted with the
Admiral, wrote to congratulate him
on the victory Of the Nile. Lady
Hamilton was even more demon
strative and Nelson took naive,
almost childlike pleasure in being
made much of, and called "great"
and "glorious to his face. He
had done great things, and was not
ashamed to own that he felt proud
Of his achievements. Indeed, self
assertion on his part occasionally
took an unpleasant form. Toward
the close of the war with the first
Republic, when the general distress
was sharp and bread frightfully
dear-in 1900 the prices of the
quartern loaf rose to one shilling
and tenpence half-penny-a curious
fashion arose Of giving dinners in
which the guests were asked to
bring their own bread. Nelson was
invited TO such a dinner, but
through some oversight he had ap-
parently not been informed of the
conditions of the feast. At all
events, when he found there was nc
bread he made quite a little scene,
called his servant, and before the
whole company gave him a
shilling, and ordered him tC
90 and buy a roll, saying
aloud : "It is hard that after fight.
ing my country's battles / should
be grudged her bread" One would
not like to have been present al
that dinner party, still less to have
been the host ; and, in truth, either
Nelson should not have been in
vited, or an exception should have
been made in his favor. 1t is alsC
part of the ill-natured gossip o
history that Nelson's last sigma
was not " England" but Nelsol
expects every man to do his duty
and that the officer to whom tn,
order was given affected to hav
misunderstood his directions, ant
substituted the sentence which wa
actually telegraphed. Southey say
it was received by the fleet with en-
thusiasm, but an eyewitness Of tn
battle has recorded the equal
probable fact that some unides
! Britons could not well make ou
what it meant. "Do our duty !?
quoth one Of them. F" Why, c
! course we shall"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-05
RurrIng Lepern alive.

Pail Mall eazsttsl
One of our India correspondents
writes to us: Among the social
peculiarities of Raipootana, leper-
burial is entitled to notice. When
a leper is past all hope of living
more than a few days or weeks, his
nearest relations arrange, with his
approval, for his immediate inter
ment. Self.destruction by burial is
called samadh, and is regarded as
highly meritorious that the disease
is sure to die out in the family of
the victim. So lately as 1875 a
leper named Oomah, living and
lingering at Serohi, entreated his
wife to put an end to his misery.
A Bunnia, or tradesman, was ac-
cordingly engaged TO make the
necessary arrangements, which
simply consisted in hiring couple
of laborers to dig a hole, into
which they thrust Oomah, consent
ing to his own death. The dubar,
coerced by the British government
at length took cognizance Of this
incident, and fined the witness 100
rupees. The Bunnia was sentenced
to three years imprisonment, and
the grave-diggerS each to two years,
but it is very unlikely that they
will undergo half that punish
ment."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-05
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