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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-02-21

crowd collected eager TO see the
the Jun the proprietor dispersed
them with his crooked cane and
shut the door but failed to lock it.
The valentine was opened anu the
ciiizan grabbed the poker and
commenced hostilities, and but
Tor the timely arrival of assistance
blood.hed would have ensued, He
blamed the young man for send
ing it, which was stoutly denied.
A very interesting little circum-
stance occurred during our sleigh
ing spell that should not be ne
elected. Four OF our village gen.
tlemen went to Martinsburg, and
from some cause unknown to US
were unable to get home and
stopped at farm house near here
and put up for the night. The
next morning a couple of the
party being more thoughtful than
the others, went to the cellar to
get some meat, as they bad to
cook their own breakfast. The
other two awakening in the mean
time, heard the noise and thought
some one was trying to rob the
house. One armed with a musket
and the other with a half-pintfiask
proceeded to the attack. But when
they got there the supposed thieves
cried out, quit. stop; don't shoot"
and when they recognized one
they proposed drinks,
and SO it was settled.
NIGHT UwI,.
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Hard Scrabble.

Picking up your valuable paper
the other day we noticed news
flom all parts of the county ex-
cept here. If you will except
few items from this point we shall
be glad to furnish them to you.
The health of our village is gen.
orally good, with the exception
of several old ladies who have
been sick for some time.
Several days this week had a
touch of Indian summer in the
atmosphere. a
Said an old clergyman to the
children of his flock, "Never for
get to keep on the right side of
the public house, that is the out
side." Many poor convict would
be saved from life of misery, and
many a man from the scaffOld,
had he never tasted the intoxicat-
ing cup.
Some young gents are rather
hifalutin. DIT least they imagine
themselves so, and how fattering
Is imagination. Gentlemen, a let
moderation be your guide and
you will never become over.bal.
anced. To be extreme is TO be
odious. To regard those who
probably know "a much as you, is
feature in he character of every
one. that is in the highest degree
cOmmendable. T
Passing along the road the other
day we thought we had found
very beautiful knife. On picking
1t up II Was found to be only a
handle without blade. So do
we hear very beautiful sermons,
well written and well read, but
they are without the blade. They
cut out no cancers of sin, and
carve out no models of piety. Ser
mons must have blades.
Since we have commenced our
items we have heard that some of
our farmers have lost some valua-
BILE horses with a disease unknown.
A young man told beautiful
young girl who was about to be-
come bride that she must re-
member that man and wife are
one. She exclaimed. Lord, if you
were under my fathers and moth
er's window when they were
quarreling you would think they
were at least half dozen or six.
We learn that the members of
the Nj. E. Church at GerardstoWn
will hold a series of oyster suppers
at that place Feb 9th ana 18th,
the proceeds to go for the benefit
of the pastor, Rev. w. G. Griffith.
All are cordially invited to at
tend. AWRY.
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Little Georgetown.

We have a complete mud en-
barge.
The river was quite high last
Saturday. but has receded to its
usual stage.
The rise in the river brought
out the dip. net fishermen, and a
large number of suckers were
caught.
The wheat is looking fine for
this season of the year.
The roads are in a fearful con-
dition. The bottom has fallen out
in some places.
The farmers are anxiously wait
Ing for the ground to dry out, so
they can commence blowing.
There will be but few changes of
residence in this neighborhood on
the lst of April.
The attendance at the public
school in this District, is rather
small, owing to the bad condition
of the roads.
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CARRYING OUT PLEDGES.

Governor Hamilton, of Maryland,
has caused commotion among the
members of that wing of the Demo-
cratic party in the State known as
the "canal ring" by his earnest en-
deavors to carry out the pledges of
reform made during the campaign.
In his message to the legislature, in
stead of moralizlng or reform in the
abstract, he plainly named some pla-
ces where the article was badly need
ed. His straightforward honesty
and plainness of speech, has given
offence to some of the "organs," who
are setting up a fearful howl at the
Governor. The Cumberland Times
goes so far as to say that "many of
the recommendations made by the
Governor, are practically impossible
to carry out without overturning the
party in power" That is very poor
logic. If a party cannot stand to
correct abuses and institute needed
reforms, the reforms ought to be car
ried out nevertheless, even at the
cost Of its overthrow. We have an
idea that Governor Hamilton is a
genuine reformer; that he means
business, and will insist on such re.
forms as he believes to be for the in
terests of the people, regardless of
how it affects the politicians.
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TAKE IT OFF.

The newspaper proprietors all over
the country are moving to have Con-
gress remove the duty on printing
paper and all material used in its
manufacture. They are compelled
to this course by therecent combina-
ton formed by the paper mill monop-
olists. The newspaper proprietors
of New Orleans, on Tuesday, adopt
ed the following:
Resolved That the representatives
of Louisiana in Congress be request
ed to use their influence to have the
duty on printing paper, chemicals
and materials used in the manufac-
ture thereof, re4oved or materially
reduced"
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COUNTY NEWS.
South Opequon.

The weather Is again warm and
pleasant, ike spring. The snow
did not last long. but those who
had sleighs made use of them
while they could.
Now is "A good time for ,ad
viewers TO ride over The county
roads and report five cents" is all
that is required to keep the county
roads in good order.
John w. Lamon, Esq. captured
and took to his home at Bunker
Hill, very fine 'dear" on JAN
uary the Goth ult. Good luck TO
We, Johnny! we wish you many
joys DER the sea OF life, with lots
Of squalls"
Norman Stuckey Edwa Pultz,
Ohio Smith and VIM. p. KearfOtt
left this place last Monday for
Ohio. We wish them all q safe
journey and success.
Geo. w. North still carries the
laurels at Bunker Hill. He is not
to be scared by heavy business.
He shipped from his place last
week 20 barrels dried peaches and
apples, 10 barrels beans, l box
pared peaches, barrel dried cher
ries, 2 barrels dried raspberries,
a large lot of dried black berries,
500 dozen of eggs, 800 pounds of
butter, and large lot of chickens,
turkeys and ducks, that being the
accumulation OF one week. He
can we'll claim to be the headquar-
tiers of business in the valley.
Last Saturday being valentine
day many jokes were played upon
persons in this section, especially
old maids and bachelors. Some
took offense and others did not;
they thought it no use to 60 of.
Garden making is near at hand.
We hear some people talking OF
planting out onions, making hot
beds, &c. 48fa a iI
The prospects are very fair for q
heavy crop OF wheat next harvest.
The wheat fields look better than
we have ever seen them at this
season of the year. a. 8
LITTLE SHAVER.
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EDIFYING.
sycamore

In these times of doubt as to the
political outlook in our State, it is
certainly a great comfort to have an
opinion so positice in its character as
to who will be the next Democratic
candidate for Governor, as that fur
nished by our genial friend Hon.
Ben. Wilson to a correspondent of
the Wheeling Register, and publish
ed in its issue of February II. A
similar clear expression in regard to
the probable Democratic candidate
for Congress in the First District,
would have.been equally edifying but
was unfortunately omitted. Col.
Ben. is too shrewd to be caught on a
pin hook by an "interyiewer."
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LYNCHED.

Page Wallace, the negro ravisher
of Mary Norman, was lynched Tues
day evening by band of one hun
dred and fifty masked Virginians, on
the Virginia side of the Potomac
river, near point of Rocks. He was
taken from the custody of the
Loudon county sheriff, who was con-
Quoting him from Hagerstown to
Leesburg jail. He was hung on the
very spot where he committed the
outrage, and Mary Norman, his
victim, fired the first shot into his
body after it had been swung to a
sycamore.
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THE PAPER COMBINATION

The paper manufacturers haye
formed combination, and forced
the price of printing paper up so to
so per cent. This has been done
while the labor cost of manufacture
ing ncws paper has not materially
advanced, and while it can be profit
ably manufactured for 7 cents a
pound, and but for the duty could
be imported for cents pound, yet
the mills in this country have put
the price up to 10 and IL cents, and
talk of making it IL cents. al
Mr.. Fort, of Illinois, has intro
duced in Congress bill placing
printing paper, and all material used
in its manufacture, on the free list.
This bill ought to pass Every cent
levied upon paper is a tax upon the
intelligence of the people. The STA
bility af the Nation depends on the
intelligence of the people, and
therefore it is matter of
national Importance that ali duty
should be removed from print paper,
and from all articles used in its man.
ufacture. AS the matter now stands,
every publisher in the United States,
and all the people of the United
States (for the tax must ultimately
be borne by the people) are at the
mercy of the paper mill combina-
ton. If the present high prices of
paper are persisted in, it will neces-
state an advance in all classes of
periodicals and books. School books,
the cost of which is already burden
scarcely to be borne, will be higher.
So that the duty on printing paper
is a tax upon the intelligence of the
people. 1t is a tax upon education.
Mr.. Forts bill ought to pass. and
the people, who are interested in the
price of school books and other liter
allure, ought to watch closely the
votes Of their representatives on the
bill, and see if they stand with the
paper monopolists or with the people.
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IN For A FIGHT.

In conversation with a leading
Greenbacker of this county, the other
day, he gave it as his opinion that
the Greenback party in this State
would nominate full State, Congress.
sional and County tickets, and that
they would develop good deal more
strength than we were disposed To
credit them Within fact, would as.
tonish the natives.
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TRUE CHARGES.

The House Committee on Foreign
Affairs, to whom was referred the
charges against Congressman Ack-
len, of Louisiana, of having submit
ted a spurious report, reported to the
House on Wednesday that the char
ges were true. Instead of bouncing"
Acklen, as his conduct deserves, the
matter, after some discussion, was
referred to the Judiciary Committee
for action.
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OE COuRSE.

A bill in the English Parliament,
giving Ireland equal rights of fran
chise with England and Scotland,
was defeated on Monday. England
is not disposed to accord to Ireland
the smallest claims of justice.
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SUFFERING IRELAND.

oOFP Ln1NU IhELANU.
The public mind is now filed with
the situation Of affairs in Ireland.
The discussions provoked by the
visit of Mr.. Parnell and the muuifi-
cent gifts that this Nation is making
toward the relief of the starving
Irish peasants make the situation in
Erin an uppermost topic. The prox-
innate cause of the present distress
was the failure of the crops last
year, but what must be the penury
of any people whom one season 8
failure reduces to starvation /? The
pith of the whole trouble lies in the
most odious system of land tenantry
known. Our treatment Of the In
dams has been princely and chivalric
when set over against the land con-
fiscations in Ireland by British inya-
ders. Following out the English plan
we would have been justified after
our war with Mexico in farming out
the lands Of that fertile country to
the generals, captains, privates and
suffers of the armies of Scott and
Taylor. This is exactly what the
English did in ireland. Uhey con-
quered the Hibernians and confisca-
ted their soil.
The Irish peasant claims-and
with every show of justice-that he
is the rightful owner of the soil he
cultivates, and not the foreigner
who inherited it as the spoliation and
coniscation of war. Rory is not
alone in this opinion. There are
many English people who say that
he is right, and that the soil ought
to be returned to its proper owners.
Mr.. Bright is one Of the leading
champions of the idea, and in a re-
cent speech he elaborated with great
detail the plan he proposes for the
gradual restoration of the land to its
occupiers. He would stop the for
nation of great estates by abolish
ing primogeniture and entail, and
would enact that whenever man
owning land dies without will his
land should be divided as personal
property. He also proposes to reach
the matter in another way by having
a government commission to aid the
tenants to buy, lending them not all
but say two-thirds or three-fourths
of the price. Mr.. Bright computes
that rents now paid for land are so
high that the farmers need pay for
35 years no more than he now pays
for rent in order to make the land
absolutely his own. He believes that
if such an act were passed large
quantities of land would be thrown
into the market by landlords who
would be anxious to get rid of prep
erty that has been such a source of
annoyance to them. 1t is extremely
doubtful that the present Tory gov
eminent will go this far, but it has
been reported that the government
will introduce a bill in Parliament
doing away with entail and allowing
present tenants for life to sell their
estate.
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SINNERS Gap.

We have had plenty of mud
lately.
A young man In this place has q
pair of blue miitens-a present
from lady friend.
We congratulate our friend Mr..
Il. on the appearance in his home
of an heir. From all accounts it
is fine fellow. '
The Hon. Samuel Hedges, who
has been on visit to friends in
Baltimore, has returned to his
home, and is looking hale and
hearty.
Last Saturday being Valentine
day the young folks employed
themselves sending valentines.
Our assistant postmaster got his
full share, and did not seem pleas
ed with the one with spec}acles on.
Thomas l.. Richard, ESQ.,, of
Shepherdstown, was registered at
the Mansion House last week.
Thomas was looking up his lady
acquaintance and expects to carry
of one one of our fairest daughters
soon.
Earnest Perry, Esq, of Mary
land, Is visiting friends here. Mr..
Perry is also one of the committee
from the Maryland legislature to
negotiate for the purchase OF
Berkeley. Jefferson and Morgan
counties. ~ ~t
Among the Improvements go
ing on in this place, we notice our
friend, G. Mason Cornelius is put
thug down a fancy pavement in
addition to otherwise Improving
his property. Mason expects 10
join the grand army of Benedicts
in week or so. 'Il "'
The Moral Reform Association
met last Friday night and held
an election for officere The So
ciety has forty-five enrolled mem
bers, but owirg to the incl. m ,ncy
of the weather only twenty-eight
We're present. They elected the
following officers: Jacob Naylor,
President; E. C. Henshaw, Vice.
President; w. G. Richard, Secre-
tary; f. G. Collier, Treasurer; DR..
Butler Assistant Secretary. They
expect to have a lecture next FRI
day by the Rev. S. S. Wilson.
Our poet at this place has COM
posed new piece of poetry, read
ing thus:
Ely has the whooping cough,
Rollen has got the measles
That's the way the sleigh-ride goes,
Pop goes the weasel.
We have examined the above
piece of poetry and pronounce it
superfine. We would like to have
it set to music so that we could
present copy of it to the gentle
man who composed it.
Another catastrophe occurred
here which came very near re-
sulting in b!oodshed. One of our
citizens was told by the postmas-
ter that there was a valentine in
the office for him. He would not
lift it himself, but under the prom
Use of compensation he sent a little
boy for it. The boy got it and
took it to the citizens place of
business. There being quite a
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ANOTHER DARK HORSE.
Our Washington correspondent
says the Hon. VIM. r. Morrison, of
Illinois, is looming up as dark
horse in the Democratic presiden-
tial race. Mr.. Morrison would be a
strong candidate.
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DEATH OF REV. DIR. JETER

DEATH OF REV. DIR. JETER.
Rev. DIR. j. r. Jeter, a well-known
and prominent Baptist Divine of
Richmond, Va, died in that city on
Wednesday morning, aged IS years.
Deceased was a native of Bedford
county, Va, and entered the minis.
try in 1922, travelling for FIVE years
over Virginia, preaching as an evan
gelist.
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AD vERTIsINc RATES.
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 81, 1880
A GOOD MOVE.

A resolution was offered in the
United States Senate oil Tuesday,
that United States vessel carry
free, contributions of food and sup
plies to Ireland.
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MONDAY NIGHT.

Let everybody attend the meeting
announced to be held in the court
house Monday night, to take meas
ures for raising contribution for
the starving women and children of
Ireland.
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To take deep. long breath in
the presence of any one having a
contagious disease is danger. The
less infected air taken into the
lungs the less the chances of con-
tracing the disease.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-04-27

No Crow FOR THEM.-The good peo-
pie Of the good old county of Culpeper
have no idea of eating any part Of Ma
homes black "crow" in the presidential
election. The Times of that county
says its people ''are solid" for the de-
mocracy, land that Hon. James Bar
bour, DIR. r. s. Lewis. DIR. E. d. Glib
son, Messrs. Jacob Eggborn, George
Williams, 8. M. Newhouse, G. English
and score of others-all prominent
and influential citizens who are yet re-
sddjusters, declare they will not support
the Malone readjusters in their little
scheme of an unpledged electoral ticket.
These gentlemen will support the NOM
inee Of the Cincinnati Convention,
whoever he may be. And DR.. E. D.
Gibson and George M. Williams, re-
Gently appointed members of the read
juster county committee, publish cards
in the Times declining to act.
This will doubtless be the feeling and
sentiments of nine-tenths of the white
people of Virginia in the November
elections. Because some of the con-
servatives are readjusters they are not
so false to their people and their party
as to vote in a national election to sell
out our old State to the negroes and re-
publicans to serve the ambitious pur-
pose and greed of only a few dema-
gogues.-D0nville Post.
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THE "PEoPLE's FRIEND. "-Those
who are always clamorous as being the
"friend of the people" are generally the
greatest demagogues and frauds of the
day. The following extract from a
memorable speech of Benjamin Watkins
Leigh, delivered in the Virginia con-
vention of $4,000, is, says the Danville
Post, as applicable to the rotten class OF
politicians in Virginia who are now
acting under the lead of Malone and
Massey, as it was to a certain class OF
demagogues denounced by the great
Virginia orator and statesman fifty years
ago. They claim to be the peoples
friends" but they are the worst enemies
the people ever had, and friends only to
themselves:
''There is, said the distinguished ora
tor, another class of men who q think
have sprung up in Virginia, or rather
began to be distinguished as Q separate
class, within the last fifteen years. They
do not regard themselves as a part OF the
people; they profess themselves the
peoples servants, the peoples friends,
the peoples men; meaning nothing
more in plain English, than that they
are the men for the peoples money.
There are courtiers of the
people, as we'll as courtiers of kings
The motives of both are exactly alike
their ends the same; their conduct is
different only in mode. And it is equal
ly true of the courtiers q the people, as
Of the eoHrtiers of kings, that, exactly
in proportion to the contempt they en-
terrain in their hearts, for the persons to
whom their batteries are addressed, il
the extravaganza Of their adulation."
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DISCOVERIES IN NINEvEH.-In re-
cent address before the American Geo.
graphical soeisty in New York city,
among ether things, Chief Justice DAILY
said -
"Fresh discoveries of the cuneiform
inscriptions at Nineveh revealed the
the fact that the ancient Assyriaps were
acquainted with the existence of spots
on the sun, which they could only have
known by the aid of telescopes. These
it is supposed they possessed. Mr.. lay
ard found crystalline lens In the ruins
of Nineveh. The Assyrian Cyclopedia,
imprinted on bricks, was an exhaustive
work. The inscription on these bricks,
on being deciphered, disclosed that
houses aud land were sold, leased, and
mortgsged; that money was loaned at
interest," and that the market gardeners,
to use an American phrase, "Wqrked on
shares :" that the farmer, when plough
ing with the oxen, begIiled his labor
with short and homely songs, Two of
which have been found; and to connect
this very remote civilization of ,000 B.
G. with the usages Of to- day, the Chief
Justice, in conclusion, refe erred to one of
the bricks of this library in the form of
a notice, which was to the effect that
visitors were requested to give to the
librarian the number of the book they
wished to aoneult, and that it would be
brought to them; at the perusal OF
which, his Honor said, one vas dispQs>
ed to fall back upon the exclamation of
Solomon, that there was nothing new
under the SUM-"