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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-24
OUR NEIGHBORS.

The fires which have been raging
the mountains near Cumberland,
have caused great destruction Of
fences, timber, &c.
Mr.. John O'Brien the Baltimore
sculptor, has completed his statute
of Confederate soldier for the Con-
federate Monument to be erected at
Winchester, Va, and the entire
work will be erected and ready for
unwilling in June.
George Worth, two-year old son
of Mr.. John Harris, at Kabletown,
Jefferson county, was scalded by a
ket.ie of boiling water falling upon
him last week.
BY tie fire at Duflields, the Ma
sonic and Temperance orders lost all
their Regalias, Furniture, &c.
A grand Democratic Mass Meet
ing will take place at Winchester on
the Sd of May next. Senator Vor-
heese and others will be present.
The Spirit Of Jefferson says: The
largest mortgages ever recorded iu
the County Clerks Office of Jeffer-
erson have just been admitted for
record. They are given by the Shen-
andoah Valley Railroad to the FL
deity Insurance, Trust and Safe
Deposit Co., Trustees, Philadelphia
--one for $2,250, 900; the other for
ST. ,000, 900, with $4,000 additional
for each mile of single track, and
$4,000 more for each mile of double
track. The two mortgages will oc-
cupy fifty or more pages Of one of
our large deed books.
The Hagerstown Mail says: Sher-
if Zeigler of our county, informs us
that he was, few days since, called
upon to take charge Of thirteen
canal boats, loaded with coal at the
Allegheny county line, and convey
twelve of them under official protec-
tion to the Frederick county line,
leaving the thirteenth at Williams
port. These boats were under charge
also of the sheriffs of Allegheny,
Frederick and Montgomery counties,
as they passed through limits of
these counties. The reason was, APP
preheneion ofinterference by persons
who are resisting a less rate of
freight between Cumberland and
Georgetown than $1.25 per ton. We
believe the rate paid on the boats
referred to was $1.10 per ton. Sher-
iff Ziegler informs us that there was
no attempt at interference.
Rev. s. V. Leech thinks Freder-
lex county will give 100 majority
for local option, but then Mr.. Leech
is not much of a politician.
Miss Laura Morgan Lee, of Shep-
herdstown, was married at that
place on the 14th inst, to Lieut.. w.
A. Simpson of the United States
army. The Register deyotes nearly
a column to q description of the
wedding festivities.
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Obituary.
MRS. JOHN J. ABELL.
St. Joseph { MOI Gazette.


Friday morning, April 9th, at
half past four, Mrs. Bette Abel.
wife of Mr.. John j. Abel, died
after long period of delicate
health.
Mrs. Abel was born in Stephen
burg. Culpepper county, Virginia,
July Goth, 1920. Her father was
Captain Merrlwether Thompson,
who was well known in Virginia.
Mr.. Chas. M. Thompson, of st.
Joseph, is her brother, While
Mrs. Abel was yet child. Cap
tain Thompson moved to Jeffer-
son county, West Virginia, where
the family resided for many years,
until the parents passed away and
the children were scattered,
Mr.. and Mrs. Abel were mar
ried ON May 25th. 1841. In Charles
town, w. Va. They lost several
children before they came from
their native State and one daugh-
ter died here. Since then they
have been childless. But Mrs.
Abel adopted almost In infancy,
her niece, Martha Thompson, the
daughter of Gen. M. JEFF. Thomp-
son. She Is now Mrs. Martha
Isaily.
In her long life of nearly sixty
years. more than twenty-five OF
which she spent here, Mrs. Abel
gained the friendship and love Of
every one with whom she came In
contact. No lady had more friends,
or friends who loved her more,
She was all her life woman OF
great piety. Nor was hers mere
rigid adherance to q consistent
line of conduct. But her religion
permeating her whole life In such
a way as to make her disposition
peculiarly sweet, and her life JOY
to herself and a comfort and pleas
ure to all who knew her. From
youth to old age, she was gentle,
lovable, true woman. So peace
full and pleasant was her life that
Ii was impossible for her to make
all enemy, and her acquaintance
soon became friends. Had long
been quiet but devoted member
OF the Episcopal Church. Every
worshipper of Christ Church knew
her and gained continually
fresher strength from her unpre-
tending zeal. Her hand was never
slack Ia doing good, and no chari-
Nv aDpealed to her in vain.
The funeral was preached yes
terday afternoon at Christ Church.
DIR. Runcie paid a touching tribute
to her christian character, which
had for so long time been light
and Joy to the Church. The large
and the weeping of
many friends told the severe loss
that they suffered. The coffin was
decorated with floral
offerings of the lady friends OF the
deceased.
After the sermon the pall-bear-
ers, Messrs. J. G. Hull, /. w. Lin
coin, J. G. Evans, A. M. Saxton,
James Kay and F. b. Snyder,
bore the coffin to the hearse. A
long procession followed it to Mt.
Mera. There beside her daughter,
all that was mortal of a true and
noble Christian woman was laid
to rest. Her memory will not
soon die. Her place cannot be
filled. But her aged husband and
and friends have her life
rs q precious memory and her ex-
ample as q guide. She has gained
the eternal blessedness OF which
her peaceful life was the prelude.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-24

The Democrats OF Fayette coun.
ty will meet July 6 to nominate q
candidate to represent them 10
she House Of Delegates O candi-
date for prosecuting attorney |;
sheriff; president OF the county
court; assessor and surveyor.
There will be twenty delegates
from each magisterial district on
the basis of representation OF the
vote cast for the gubernaforial
candidate in 1875.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-24

1t is SAID that the Senate Com
mittee has agreed to report a rule
providing that the electoral votes OF
anv State shall not be rejected ex-
cept by the concurrent action of the
two Houses.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-24

THE bill providing pensions to
soldiers and sailors of the Mexican
war was defeated in the House OF
REPRESENTATIVES on Monday last.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-24

There is a rumor to the effect
that the Cumberland and Moore
field railroad project has collapsed.
In ell respects the enterprise Is in
q bad state Of health.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-24

UNDER an act of the last legisla-
ture, drawn and introduced by Hon.
E. B. Faulkner, the bonded debt of
Berkeley county will be funded on
the first of next January. This act
authorizes the County Court to issue
$105,000 6 per cent. taxable bonds,
which can be exchanged for OUT
standing s per cent. bonds, at the
option of the holders, or sold and
the proceeds applied to the redemp-
tion of the old bonds. There is now
outstanding $4,000 of the county
bonds bearing s per cent. There is
$4,000 in the sinking fund, which
will be applied to their redemption,
leaving $105,O00 TO be taken up by
the issue of new per cent bonds.
Under this arrangement the county
will save annually, in interest,
$500, the difference between s and
6 per cent. Besides, the new bonds
being taxable, it win add largely to
the taxable property of the county,
and also to that of the corporation
of Martinsburg.
Under a similar arrangement, con.
summated by mutual agreement, the
corporation Of Martinsburg, during
the past two years, funded its bonded
Indebtedness bearing s per cent. at
the lower rate of 5 per cent, thereby
saving to the corporation $4,000
annually.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-24

Mrs. HERMAN, the grandmother
of the Hood orphans, died suddenly
a few days ago in New York, and
the little ones have thus been de-
prived of their last natural protector.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-24

THE anti-taird term convention
is to be held in st. Louis on the 9th
of May. The movement seems to be
growing rapidly, and leading Repub-
licans from all sections of the coun-
try have expressed hearty SYM
patty in it and expect to be present.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-24

THE motion of the counsel OF
Dennis Kearney, the California agi-
tator, for delay until application
could be made to the Supreme Court
for writ of habeas corpus, was re-
fused. The commitment was made
out and he was removed to the
House of Correction where, after
going through the hands of a barber
and dressing in a convict's garb, he
was placed in a cell. 1t is not likely
that any movement made by the
prisoner now can relieve him.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-24

ARCHBISHOP GIBBONS, of Baltl-
more, sailed for Europe on Thursday
of last week.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-24

Wool is off five cents from the
starting price. Wheat is on the Ge-
cline. In fact, sharp break in
prices has taken place during the
past ten days. Many leading articles
of consumption, including iron, cot
ton, wool, pork, lard, wheat, and
other products, have experienced a
decline, more or less abrupt and
decided. We do not, however, look
upon this as an unfavorable symp-
tom, but, on the contrary, it is a
wholesome one, being merely reac-
ton from the too rapid advance in
cident upon the growing prosperity
of the country. Speculative prices
have been ruling in many important
articles, and the present decline i'm
parts a much more healthy tone to
business than has of late prevailed.
That prices may recover and advance
again to a certain extent, is not I'M
likely. The fluctuations from hard
times to good, and from good back
again to hard, go on with rythmycal
power. 1t will settle down soon to
something of solidity, and rest there
for a few years, when the same in
evitable cause, extravaganza and
speculation, will disturb it again and
again. lrtf
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-01-29
Expensive Exercise.

A PROFESSIONAL gentleman who re-
sides on Elizabeth street has noticed for
some weeks past that his appetite was
leaving him. He felt so weak and de-
bilitated that he at last consulted his
physician, a practical old fellow, who
said to him:
Young man, you need nothing but
exercise"
"All right, doctor, I'll purchase a
pair of dumb-bells and some Indian
clubs at once.''
Dumb-clubs and Indian bells! fudge!
Burn your street-car tickets and buy
yourself bucksaw and saw-hOrse and
cut your own stOve-wOOd.
Acting on this suggestion the young
gentleman assaulted a hardware store
and VIGOROUSLY carried off the best
wood saw in the establishment. Then
he had a four-dollar horse made and
bought two or three cords of four-foot
wood and began to take treatment"
The first morning he sawed for an hour
before breakfast and thought it delight
full. The next morning he felt little
lame and sore, but took the prescribed
"dose' regularly. In the evening the
saw "pinc6ed, and he left it sticking
in the log which lay across the horse.
His wife suggested that he had better
bring the saw and buck into the house,
as some person might steal it.
81 wish they would" he replied, as
looked at his blistered hands.
Saturday morning he found his saw
horse and saw were gone, and having
expended about twenty dollars for wood
and saw, and experiencing no beneficial
results in this treatment, he has con-
cluded to try seine other.-Detroit Free
Press.
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eggs, chopped fine, no doubt makes a
good food for turkeys to commence
with, but it is not at all necessary. One
of the most successful breeders of tut
keys we know of never fed a crumb of
boiled egg, but commences with stale
bread-crumbs, slightly mixed with new,
fresh milk, giving them five or more
feeds daily, but only in such quantities
as they would eat up clean at every feed.
Onion tops or lettuce, chopped up fine
and mixed with their food. was given,
while an occaslona. seasoning of red
cayenne pepper was supplied. They
were treated to sweet milk for drinking
purposes, and when they got some little
age cottage cheese was literally sup
piled, and they are very fond of it.
There is as much in the care as in the
feeding, and they must have the best of
both to induce them to stay with us.
Dampness and dew are fatal to young
turkeys; the remedy suggests itself in q
nreventive -
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Turkeys.

If you are thinking Of raising turkeys
next year study up the subject this win
ter and hatch the earliest eggs you can
procure. DO nothing half way, but
make up your mind to give them the
best care for the first ten weeks of their
existence; after that they will take care
of themselves. The following advice
from the american Poultry Yard is ex-
cellent and should be closely followed:
:" In some cases even the best of care
fails to secure a good number of young
tuakeys. Before they have fully feath-
cred up they are the tenderest of birds,
but when they have put on q full dress
Of feathers, nothing is more hardy or
less liable to disease or disorder. As
young turkeys, like young gaineas, make
such rapid growth Of feathers when
young, they require constant care and
food in fair quantities and often, to en-
able them to Withstand the great strains
on their systems, and not supplying
them fully at that stage Of growth is
what causes so many to drop off sud-
denly from no apparent cause. Boiled
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-01-29
"PATCHLE."

THE bell had rung, the school was out.
And from the hall with busy feet
The boys rushed forth with laugh and shout,
And crowded through the village street,
Like prisoners from their cells broke loose,
Escaping from the calabOOse.
Across the street, and all alone,
4 small boy walked with rapid gait,
Like one unknOwing and unknown,
With head erect and form 81 straight;
tie needed not the crowd that cried,
"Scc Patchie' on the other sidc.'
Wondered much why this should be,
But when l looked | knew too well:
The noblcst of them all was he.
But sad to think, more sad to tell,
He from the crowd had been detached
Because his pantaloons were patched.
No answering word escaped him there;
watched him as he climbed the hill,
Then thought. Each others burdens bear,
And thus the law Of Christ fulfill;"
And So Joined him on the road,
Hoping to tighten his sad load.
lspoke in loving words and kind;
He, smiling, looked up in my face
He had true and noble mind
And answered with manly grace:
My father, sir. has long been dead,
And mother earns our daily bread.
" To school she sends me every day:
do the best there that can;
And mother says she Il get her pay
When grow up to be a man;
And, sir. hope that shall be
All that my mother wishes me.
They call me Patchie:' don't care"
Said he while passing through the gate;
1t . what we are, not what we wear,
That makes us good and makes US great. I"
He touched his cap and said, Goodnight;
whispered, - Noble, brave and right"
started on my homcward way:
Not only boys. but men, thought,
Pass DV the DOOR ones every N0vs
Only the rich and grand are sought;
This world. so full of foolish pride,
Puts "Patchie" on the other side.
Mrs. s. T. Perry. in S. s. Visitor.
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commodate the people that will assem-
BILE at meeting called in the interest
of some projected railroad. But q
meeting held for the purpose of arous-
ing public sentiment on the subject of
better earth roads, on which anyone
can travel without cost, would not be
attended by dozen people, and most
of them would be opponents of the
measure. Still the wagon-track will be
used fifty times where the 'car-track is
employed only once.
Farmers aud other people living in
the country often complain of the ex-
pense attending the construction of
good roads. They do not like to pay
for them. They seem to forget that
they are obliged to pay for poor roads
ana that they generally pay very dearly
Tor them. Poor roads wear out horse
flesh, break harnesses and destroy wag-
ons and carriages. They prevent MAX
ing quick trips and hauling large loads.
They often operate against the interest
OF farmers in various ways. The condi-
ton OF earth roads generally depends
on the state of the weather. During
and soon after heavy rains they are al
most impossible. As consequence
farmers are generally obliged to market
their crops and took when the roads
happen to be in good condition. 1t
often occurs that at these times produce
is low, while freights are high, and that
the reverse is the case when the roads,
owing to want of proper construction,
are in very bad condition.
Neither town nor village people seem
to properly appreciate the value of good
public roads. The former are indebted
to them for the principal portion of
their trade and the patronage given to
mechanics. The latter owe much of
their financial prosperity, as well as
most of their social pleasures, religious
advantages, and the means of intellect
ual culture, to the condition of the roads
leading from their homes to the large
towns in the vicinity. At the present
time there is nothing by way Of public
improvements that is so much entitled
to attention as the common roads
throughout the west. As rule, there
is no lack of sufficient railroads and
other means of public conveyance and
transportation. In nearly every con-
siderable town there are commodious
school-houses and spacious halls and
churches. But the roads are abomina-
BILE. They are little less than q dis
grace to our civilization.-CA Chicago
Times.
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NEW YORK CITY, June 10, 1879.
II. H. WARREN u Co.: GENTLEMEN-I
hereby certify tnat my wife has been using
Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure for
Bright's Disease, and she is now entirely re-
covered. When all physicians remedies
failed, she was induced to try your remedy,
and received beneficial results from the first
bottle. After taking four bottles she was
entirely cured. Yours truly,
ROBERT 3. FITZGERALD.
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Hlnts to Rutter.Makers

q the title of a valuable little pamphlet, sent
free to any address for one stamp Address,
Butter Improvement Co., Buffalo, N. Y. 1t
tells you how to increase amount Of butter
from given amount of cream six per cent,
improve quality of butter twenty per cent,
make "gflt-edge" or golden colored butter
the year round. Every farmer and dairyman
should send stamp for it.
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Mr.. Byron was once called up at an
unreasonable hour in the morning by
. friend. "Ah." he said, ga rose two
hours later would have been quite as
sweetv'
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-01-29

VEaETINE.-The great success Of the V.aE-
TINE as a cleanser and purifier of the blood is
shown beyond doubt by the great numbers
who have taken It and received immediate
relief, with such remarkable cures.
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five DOCTORS DID not CURE,

Mr.. Il. R. STEVENS:
Dear Sir-I hereby certify that have been sick for
three years. unable to get any relief whatever have
been under the Of five Of the best physicians each
one giving my illness = fiferent name The first said
General Debility; the second, Female Debility and i'm
p0verished blood the third Ltcer Complaint and Dys-
said Neuralgia the lungs and was certain would
never enjoy good health % concluded to give up doc
tors and commenced taking Patent Aedtcnes. At this
time was very weak. had pain in my side back and
chest slept very little and the food ate caused pain
70 ty pegetine; friend gave me bottle to try, not
thinking It would do me any good, had hope Of
heed was better and could sleep better The next two
my appetite came, and was able to enjoy my food
eep we'll have no pain, and an able to do most Of my
ofier and can cheerfiy recommend II to sny one III
need OF such medicine
Yours respectfully. MRS T. ALLEN.
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Vegetine
For Skin Diseases.
TORONTO. July Is, 1879.

H R STEVENS, ESQ.,:
Dear Sir-Having been troubled with . bad skin dis
ease breaking out into little my face etc,
was recommended to take vEGETINE lam happy to
inform you tnar It has completely cured me after tax
ing three bottles can highly recommend 1t to AM
one who Is troubled with skin diseases,
Yours faithfully, CHARLES T. BUTT.
We hereby certify that the above testimonial Is trua
mo man being In our employ at the time he was sick
WESTMAN & BAKER.
110 BAY Street. Toronto
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Entirely Recovered.

"A girl may smile and smile, and be
unwilling still.
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(5jl!l3iIl Medical Discovery

Dr.. Pierce's Golden Medical d.
common DlsecA, Rlmple,. OF 8raI
Rough Skin, In short, all disease
purifying, and invigoratinG medtctn
Especially has Il manifested 10
eles, sore Eyes, 9orofal0as ooEol
Heck, and Enlarged GLANDS.
II you feel duh, drowsy, debilit
On face or body, frequent headache
alternated with hot nushes, trregu
Torpid Liver or sD111ouaneoo.'
Medical Discovery has no equal, 81
In the cure q 1ronchleeo, y
o0mpelom, Il has astonished the y
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seen with small telescope, and by one
of Herschers telescopes &c, OOO, 600 stars
would have been brought into view in
the same section of the armament. We
here find in the depths of space the
worlds that will take the place of
those already known to us. But
after all there still remains the thought
that each planet is tending toward
death, and though the periods of time
are SO vast that they seem like eternity,
the dying out of the larger of these suns
appears to us like the death of the uni
verse itself. But take such an orb as
Sirius, which is thousand times larger
than the sun, and after his death all the
smaller orps will have died, but can we
escape the thought that there will still
remain others to take their placesp 1t
seems to me we cannot, if we remem-
Der how thoroughly we have been de-
ceived in the past. We thought the
earth the center of the universe; then
the solar system was everything, then
that system became one in a galaxy
of stars, and in turn the galaxy
of stars is lost in the infinitude
of stars. So may it not be in re-
gard to time and space as it is in re-
gard to matter; that time is one OF
many formations of the universe, that
there are higher orders so much
grander in form that very miracles Of
time in regard to them are like the suns
and planets that we see. There is a
lower order that wander through space
in which all the waste energies of suns
Our own sun included-are continu-
ally being poured; they may be in turn
reviving the next lower order of the
universe, and may it not well be that
we in turn may receive from the higher
orders something of their waste energy
SO that instead Of death we may rather
undergo Q continual interchange by va
rious orders Of the universe. which
shall be carried on through all time
N. T. Tribune.
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