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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-04-16

WE, the undersigned, having been
w appointed Executors in the will of
John A. WEAVING, decd and having
qualified as the same, we will proceed to
sell on
FRIDAY, MAY 9Th, 1881,
Commencing at o'clock NJ, on the
premises, in the town of Martinsburg, w.
Va, the real estate Of the said John A .
WEAVING, decd. described as follows:
FOUR LOTS,
containing lin all about II ACRES OF
GROUND, more or less, with improve.
ments thereon, consisting of one good
2-Story Brick Dwelling House,
containing six rooms and cellar, together
with stable. smokehouse and other out
buildings. One of the above lots is a
good meadow for pasture. There is a good
spring of never-failing water 20 feet from
back door. This property is situated east
of and about 400 yards distant from B.
and o. Shops.
TERMS OF SALE.-One.third to be
paid in cash on day of sale, the balance to
be paid in two equal pay ments of six and
twelve months from day of sale, with in
terest, the purchaser to give his notes to
be secured by lien on said property either
by deed OF trust or upon the face Of the
deed.
JOHN o. WEAVING,
FRANKLIN w. WEAVING,
apr9. Executors.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
DR. D. II. WELSH,
RESIDENT DENTIST

Offers his professional services to the
citizens of Martinsburg and vicinity Po-
sessng the advantage of being a graduate
OF the Baltimore Dental College, and an
experience Of number OF years in the
profession, he feels we'll assured he can
render satisfaction in all the branches OF
his profession. Prices extremely moder-
ate. Calls solicited.
OFFICE on corner Of Burke and College
Streets aprl6-ly
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On Tuesday, May 3rd, 1881,
Mansion House,

LARGE BR OK BARN, good Frame
Tenant House and Stabling, out houses,
good fences, two orchards, excellent dairy,
neysr-failipg water and many other ad :.
vantages which must be seen TO be appre.
ciated. Also,
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DIED..

RS- Hdlf ratesfre cents per iiae-fof Obituary No
tees beyond the usual announcement
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Administrators Notice.

YbE undersigned, having duly quail
Il fed as administrator Of the estate OF
w. A. Henshaw, deceased, hereby
notifies all persons knowing them
selves to be Indebted to said estate TO come
forward and settle said Indebtedness on
or before the first day of June, 1881, and
all persons having claims against said
estate will present the same properly au-
Lhenticated to Commissioner w. B. Coils
ton for adjudication.
JOHN p. KEARF0TT,
aprl6 At Administrator
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'e6s beyond the usual announcement.
Near Little Georgetown on the 25th
of March, Downs Y. ROCKWELL,
son of William and Mary L. Rock
well, aged 4 years months and
IA days.
Farewell Downs, thou has left us,
Angels claimed thee as their own;
We will meet thee and greet thee,
When LIES weary day is flown,
We will meet thee dearest Downs,
In thy happy home above;
Where you with angels sweet are
singing,
Ever singing God is love.
At the residence of her son, Gen.
eral Jas. III. Williams, in Winches-
ter, Va, on Friday the 1st inst, OF
congestive chills, Mrs. RoXANNA
PRITCHARTT, reject of the late
Lewis Pritchartt, of Fairfax coun-
ty, Va, in the 10th year of her age.
Mrs. P.was native of Fairfax coun-
ty, and a sister of Hon. A. s. Grigs-
by, of Lynchburg, and Mrs. r. d.
Richardson, of Fairfax Court
1AVuSC.
In Washington d. c., on the 31st
inst, HELEN BoTELER, in the 10th
year of her age, only child of Char
lotte b. and George NJ. Johnson and
granddaughter of Hon. A. II. Bote-
Ter of West Virginia.
At his residence in Shepherds
town, on the 18th inst, after a short
illness of Pneumonia, Mr.. CoRNE-
LTUS YoNTz, aged about 20 years.
MRS. KATIE d. ROBINSON, wife
of Robert V. Robinson, formerly of
berkeley County, w. Va, died on
Monday, March 2S, 1881, at the home
of her father Mr.. Z. Burdick, of
Montague Sussex county, n. j. She
leaves family of four children, the
youngest being four weeks old. Her
age was "a years and 8 months.
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Cruel.

Why ought the children of a thief
to be burnt Because their Pa
steals tpastiles.) Burns, scalds, cuts
and bruises cured by DR.. Thomas
Electric Oil. For sale by +. G..
Williams, Jr., u Bro. Druggists.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENT
IMPORTED CARPETS,

ngrain Carpets from % cents upward
Ill wool carpets, extra, super Stair Car.
1nfa alsn
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JOhnsOnIOwn.

We are beginning to have some
thing like Spring.
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Good New Frame House /,

Stablng, &C., excellent young apple and
peach orchards, good fences and good
water, near to churches, schools and
stores, and is very desirable for a home
Also, about 7 ACRES, RoODS and
20 POLES, of first class TIMBERED
LIMESTONE LAND, situate in Berkeley
county, known as LOT 10 in the division
of the ''Leymaster Lands Purchasers
of these farms will re ceive two-ffths, (2.5l
the landlords share of the growing crops
and permission to enter upon the farms 10
pat in fall crops and do such work as
may be necessary, the present occupants
having permission to retain the dwellings
with tenants privileges until the first of
April, 1882.
TERMS O7 SALE.-LOT l3 one-half
cash in hand, remainder in one year.
The Two Large Farms-One.fourt al
cash in hand, remainder in three (3) eqnal
annual payments, deferred payments to
be secured by purchasers bonds, with per-
sonal security, or the bonds without per-
sonal security, withholding the title until
the second payment is made, and lien
reserved on the premises sold, and all de-
ferred payments to bear interest from day
OF sale.
J. S. HALDEMAN,
4. BOYD FAULKNER,
iebl2-ts Special Commissioners.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-30
A Sage Journalists Advice to n
FIrery Untamed Editor.
Afbans POST

Our old friend Tom w. Neal, OF
the State Gazette, is awfully exer-
cised over the passage of the 1908
bill, and quotes from Byron's MA
zeppa" with much JUNCTION. Your
attention for a moment, Thomas.
There is no man connected with
the Tennessee press for whom we
have a warmer personal regard than
yourself; but you are wrong, and
like the writer of this goOd-natured
paragraph, too old, too far advanc-
ed along life's rugged pathway, to
look at things, particularly the in
evitable, in other than a calm con-
siderate manner, Somebody has
said, or might have said, that as
the hot suns of Africa instil into her
reptiles a still more deadly venom,
so may the natural milk and water
of mans disposition be turned to
gall and worm-woOd by the infus-
sion of splenetic bile. Eschew such
feverish ebullitions. They are bad
for the digestion, and when the
season for sober, second thought
comes 'round, as it is certain to do
sooner or later, make one feel good
deal like Uucle Bill Stokes bare
footed boy at a country frolic. The
1908 proposition was not exactly
what any of us wanted, but it was
"the best attainable," and we,
therefore, rejoice at its adoption by
the legislature. Read the law care
fully, investigate its provisions,
study them well, and IN due time
you will be forced to the conclus-
ion that it was the wisest thing
that could be done under the cir
cumstances that it will not de-
stroy the state or the democracy, but
save both from the worst fate that
could fall upon a people or party.
As to the sickly sentimentalism
and gush about posterity-if our
pOsterity should happep to be the
sons of their daddies, which IS not
altogether improbable, we guess they
will prove amply able to take care
of themselves.
These, old friend, are the sugges-
tions of truth and soberness, and in
spired by a motive, which, if you
do not appreciate it now, you will
after awhile.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-30
WHOLE NO. 1880.
Ice and the stomach.

The use Of ice as a luxury, in the
form of ice cream or of iced water
1 is becoming more prevalent in this
country Used in these ways they
are generally taken, especially by
the young, recklessly, without a
| thought ofanything serious, possibly
fatal, results that may follow.
An average stomach has an in-
mense deal to do TO digest three full
meals day; especially when, as is
frequently the case, il is indigesti-
bic because Of its quality or its guam
ity. Let it be remembered that
there is nothing in the body blood,
muscle, membrane, bone, tendon,
nerve, brain, or secretions-which
has not come Of the contents of the
stomach. Neither is there a
thought, feeling, an emotion, a
vOlition, or an act, which has not
derived the material iorce back of il
from the stomach.
Such an organ must, therefore, be
highly organized. 1t has countless
arteries, veins, nerves and glands.
1t is lined with a delicate mucous
membrane. as much so as the air
tubes.
1t is studded all over with glands
which elaborate and pour into it
that wonderful fluid, gastric juice.
Its coats consist of different thin
layers of muscles arranged cross
wise, and these are constantly at
work giving it that peculiar rolling
motion by which the food is thor
Oughly mixed with the saliva. Ev-
cry organ and muscle when in ac-
tiOn must have special supply of
blood. This is especially true Of
the stomach.
Food, therefore, fails to digest if
the blood is Withdrawn from the
stomach, as, for instance, to the
brain by study, or close thought, or
by anxiety, immediately after cat
ing.
Now, it is the nature of cold to
contract all blood vessels and drive
back the blood, and to paralyze,
more or less, all nerves. OF course,
the flow of gastric juice is checked,
and digestion is arrested, and the
proper motion of the stomach
interfered with, by an ice-cOld fluid
introduced into it.
Further, when the reaction sets
in, the blood-vessels become over
procuring often dan
gerOus congestion, and an increased !
thirst, with demand for more ice |
water, thus inducing u "Vicious cir
cle."
From what we have said, any
reader can see that iced water, or
ice cream, should not be taken into |
the stomach at the same time with
food. Serious consequences often /
follow a disregard of this physical
law.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-30
Repatriation OF voters.

The law passed by the legisla-
ture providing for the enumeration
Of the voters Of Tennessee, requires
the governor to appoint one or
more suitable persons for each coun-
ty Of the state, upon the recon-
mendatiOn Of the senators and
representative Of the respective
counties as eomsioners, who shall
make out a complete lists of all
male inhabitants,2 years Of age,
and over, in the state, on the lst day
Of July, 1881, and shall return such
lists to the clerks of the county
courts of the respective counties
within 20 days after the 1st OF July.
The county court clerks shall
make out duplicate lists and for
ward the same to the secretary Of
state, and the secretary shall COM
pile the lists and make a report 10
the next general assembly. The
compensation of the commissioners
shall be three cents for each iuhab-
liant enumerated and they shall
have access to the u. s. Census re-
ports on file in the offices OF the
county court clerks of the states.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-30
six.een oniIaren a. ono nlrtn.

A man in Illinois having sent to
a Washington journal a photograph
of five of his children who were
born on the same day, asserting
that "no other man can show a
picture of five," the newspaper
quiets him with the following sta
tistics:
"Instances have been found where
children to the number of six,
seven, eight, nine and sometimes
sixteen have been brought forty at
one birth. The wife Of Emanuel
Gago, a laborer near ValladolId,
was delivered the 14th of June, ~
90, of five girls. The celebrated
Tarsin was brought to bed in the
seventeenth month, at Argenteuil,
near Paris, 18th of July, 1873, of
three boys, each fourteen and half
inches long, and girl 13 inches.
They were all babtized, but did not
live over twenty four hours. In
June, 1893, one Maria Ruiz, of Lu-
cena, in Andalusi, was successively
delivered of sixteen boys, without
any girls. Seven of them were
alive on the 16 of August follow
ing.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-30
in the discharge Of his duty as a
revenue officer.

in the discharge 0t Ills duty as ;
| revenue officer.
Worse than all, in fragrant def
anee of the constitution, and against
the veto Of the president, congress
! i'm March, 1877, placed the states o
Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama
/ Louisiana, Florida. Texas, and ar
kansas, under military rule, reduc-
ing them to the condition of subject
provinces, opening the way to mis-
government by aliens and thieves
| beyond the dreams of Roman pro-
| consuls, and then, with a refine
ment of irony in politics known on
ly to those shameful days, declared
that when the people of those states
should have adopted new constitu-
! tions, and the same should have
been approved by congress, and
the legislatures elected under them
should have ratified the fourteenth
amendment, and that amendment
should have been ratified by three
fourths of all the states, then these
defranchiSed states should be en-
titled to representation in congress!
That is to say, Virginia, for exam
pie, should be treated as a state and
not a state at the same time; a state
good enough to vote for an amend
ment of the constitution, and to
bind other states by the vote, but
not good enough to vote in the SEN
ate or to be represented in either
house.
The President, in some instances,
has outstripped congress in en-
croaching upon the rights of the
states. Under color of what was
called war power, he seized and i'm
prisoned citizens of states not in re-
bellion, their courts being all the
while open, and inone instance was
about to put three of them to death,
which he was prevented from do
ing only by the supreme court of
the United States. Under color of
his office alone, without any treaty,
or any act of congress, or any judi
cial process, he seized and delivered
up to Spain Spanish subject who
had sought shelter on our shores
and under color of protecting a
state against domestic violence, he
turned out one legislature and put in
another in three of the states.
Let us pause here to cOncider
whittier the legislation thus briefly
described would lead us if it were
presisted in. Two observations are
to be made: one, that the acts are
in themselves a displacement of
state power far beyond anything
written in the early days of the
constitution, and probably far be-
beyond anything then thought to be
possible; and the other, that the
theory on which they rest would, if
carried out to its logical results,
lead to the practical absorption in
the central government of all the
chief functions of sovereignty. In
deed, it has become fashionable of
late to call the power Of the states
''police power" as if these great |!
which, according
to the theory, divide the attributes
of sovereignty with the United |
States, and which make most of the |
rules of property and of conduct I'M
der which we live, had been reduc-
ed to the condition of a body of po-
lice officers "Police power" as if /
the making of a will were a func-
ton of police! Police power, indeed,
of states which are not even permit |
ted to guarde their own polls by |
their own policemen!
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-30
TennesSee's Debt settlement.
Baltimore Sum-

Believing that there is a con-
science of notions and communities
as well as individuals, this evil
dence of her awakened sense of
what is due to honesty public faith
on the part of the Legislature of
Tennessee has been received every
where with qualification. Doubt
less the generally prosperous c0ndi-
ton of the state and country, and
the prevailing low rate of interest
for money, which makes 8 per
cent per annum appear much larger
than it would have done ten or fif-
teen years ago, have greatly con-
tributed to and favored the settle
ment. The present decision of the
Supreme court of the United States
in regard to the Virginia State cou-
pons being receivable for taxes has
also helped the cause by strength
ening the security which the new
arrangement affords the bondhoId-
ers. 1t is sincerely to be hoped
that, having refused to scale the
principal of her debt, and having
taken place once more in the ranks
of debt-paying states, the great and
prosperous state of Tennessee will
take no step backward in this mat
ter, but will remain an example
and encouragement to Others which
are still wrestling with the ternpta-
ton of reputation, readjustment
and diShOnOr.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-30
what Angels Ain't la the Habit of
Doing.

"Mrs. Topnoody," sadly remark
ed Mr.. t., after an agitated scene,
"you are not what | thought you
were in the happy days OF youth" )"
"Oh, L amt, ain't ~"
"No, you are not. / thought you
were an angel, and now-and now
~
"And now" broke I'm Mrs. r.,
'tand now you find that you're a
fool, and that angels ain't i'm the
habit of Singing pots and dish-rags
around, and spanking babies, and
sewing on buttons, and wrestling
kitchen stoves, and making mustard
plasters for husbands with the collie,
and bossing hired girls, and doing
the cooking for big family, beside
going to church and being married
to Topnoody, all the time. No,
Topnoody, angels amt i'm the habit
Of doing such things, and II is a
mighty good thing they ain't or the
angel business wouldn't last till the
middle Of next week"
Topnoody did not pursue the sub
ject further, but pat on his hat and
went down the street to wonder
how many women were angels.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-30
PiFatical Publications tO be De-
cIared UnmaiIabIe Matter.

An order will be issued by the
Postmaster General within a day
or two declaring all publications is
sued in violation of copyrights
granted by the United States un-
mailable matter. The question
was brought to the attention of the
Department several weeks ago by
Mr.. Clemens Mark Twain), who
complained that several publishers
in Canada were reprinting one OF
his works there, and disposing of it
in the United States at a price
much below that charged by the
publishers in this country. In con-
ducting their business, these Cana
dian publishers used the United
States mail to deliver the books TO
publishers in this country. Mr..
Clemens wrote to the Department,
asking for protection. The matter
was then refereds to Judge Free
man, the Attorney General for the
Postoffice Department, who render
ed decision, holding that, under a
recent act of Congress affecting post
al regulations, such matter was un-
mailable. 1t is the intention of the
Postmaster General, in issuing this
order, to endeavor to protect, as far
as practicable, American authors
and publishers from unfair foreign
competition by excluding foreign
reprints of American books from
the mail,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-30

IT used to be common thing for
sailors to refuse to go to sea ON a
Friday. We hear nothing of this
in these steamboat days. Steam has
made every day alike. Whenever
steamboats, and steam engines APP
pear, superstitions disappear.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-30
SPRING AND SUMNER i!
LADIES, DON'T FAIL TO CALL AT
.Nrs. ROSenYietdS s

and see the most elegant Bon
nets and Hats we ever brought
on. We can suit the most faS-
tidiOUs taste, and our variety
is endless i'm Tuscan Lace,
Straw, Steel and Mixed BOnnetS
and Hats. We also have ON
hand rGaGy-trimmGd Hats at
from SIPS to S2.5O, in the very
latest style. Come and see for
Yourself. AS for Flowers and
Feathers, words can't express
the variety, In our Notion
and Novelty Department, We
have q full line Of Serge, Sat-
In, Pasamenty Buttons, Cords
and TaSSeIS, @. p. COrSetS, FiGX-
ibIe COFSetS and other brands,
Null and Fancy Ties in great
variety, Fans, ParaSOlS, Ladies
Underwear. Our old standby,
Lupin's Kid Gloves. Foster and
other makes, Silk MittS OF the
Latest Shades. We are also
agent for ChildFen'S DR.. Gray's
Shoulder Brace. Call and eX-
anime for yourself.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-30

Never count on the favor Of the
rich by flattering either their vani-
ties or their vices.
Never leave home with unkind
words.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-30

As ravenous birds are the quick
est-sighted, so are the worst people
the greatest fault-finders.
Very few in the world have their
passions adequately occupied; al
most everybody has it in them to
be better than they are.
The best penance we can do for
envying another's merit is to en-
deavor to surpass it.
Politics is a science which no one
believes those who differ with him
to understand.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-30
Ladies' Shoes

in the most fashionable styles and of the
finest material, to which he invites the
attention of the fair sex. Customers desir-
ing goods made to order viii find him sup
piled with the finest article of IMPORTED
FRENCH CALF, which they can have made
up in any style desired by SKILLED
stantial workmanship.
Oct. IL IS79-tt
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-30
BOOTS, Shoes,

ETC., of every class. He viii make to order,
or sell ready-made goods of his own make,
or supply good custom made article from
the best Eastern manufacturers. All these
he offers at a small margin of profit and
defieS competition II QUALITY AND
PRICE are considered
He has purchased this time very superior
acG of
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-30
knights of Honor.

At the annual meeting of the
Grand Lodge of Tennessee, Knights
of Honor, held at Nashville, the fol-
lowing officers were elected for the
ensuing year:
Grand dictator, J. P. Young,
Memphis: grand vice dictator, w.
E. Baskette, Murfreesboro grand
assistant dictator, C, F. Bates,
Cleveland I; grand chaplain, Rev.
Warner Moore, Memphis grand
reporter, B. X. Pullen, Memphis /;
grand treasurer, r. L. G. White,
Lebanon; grand guide, Clay Stack
er, Clarksville ; grand guardian, M.
d. l.. Jordan, Milan grand senti-
mel, w. t, Auten, Nashville.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-30

A TRULY good man had rather be
deceived than be suspicious, and
rather forego his own right than
run the venture of doing even a
hard thing. This is the temper of
that charity of which the apostle
SAYS that it shall never fail.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-30
A HAPPY NEW YEAR?'
NO STEPS TO CLIMB!
NO STEPS, NO STEPS,
NO STEPS TO CLIMB y
Gallery Removed % Tifst Floor!
April 16, 18S1-tf.

Wishing to inform my friends and the
public generally, that l will open my new
Photograph Gallery on the LIST of January
1881, when / will be prepared to make all
the latest styles of Photographs, Pearls,
Porcelain and Water-cOiOred work, from
the smallest miniature to full life-siZe, Oil or
PaStill. Thanking you for your liberal pat
ronage, / still solicit a continuance of the
same. Pictures made in cloudy weather the
same as clear. Special attention paid in
making Pictures of Children. Come where
YOU have no steps to climb. Entrance on
Franklin street, opposite Fox q Smiths
hardware store. -
H. DIBBLE'S ART TERRACE,
janS-tf ClarxSville, Tenn.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-30
Boots! Boots,
John Rick,

u Court House Block, Franklin ST.,
having iust returned from the Eastern cities,
where he has selected firSt-claSs stock of
material and manufactured goods, is now
prepared to furnish
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-30

To encourage talent is to create
If