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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-01-15
On Saturday, February 5, 1881,

On Saturday, February D, 1881,
in the public square in Hedgesville, at
2 o'clock in the afternoon, the following
TRACTS OF LAND, or as much thereof
as will pay the aforesaid claim aud costs.
FIRST TRACT OF LAND.
This tract of land, lying on the west side
of the AcCoy's Ferry road, and between
the lands of Robbins and Mason Newkirk.
containing about 80 ACRES, much the
larger portion good tillable land, we'll set
in grass and well enclosed; this land lays
well and is calculated to make conven-
lent and neat farm.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-01-15
Commissioners Sale
OF VALUABLE
Berkeley County
LAND.
A DWELLING HOUSE !

Barn and other outbuildings; together
with GOOD ORCHARD, and Never
Failing Spring of Water near the house.
This is the same tract of land that was
purchased by Greenbury Bishop from the
former Special Commissioner in this cause.
1t lies in Back Creek Valley, about ten
miles West of kartinsburg, and ten rules
south of North Mountain Depot, on the
B. and o. railroad, and being the home or
"Savely" farm of which James Wilson,
Sr., died seized.
TERMS. -One-third cash, and the bal
ance in two equal payments, payable in
one and two years respectively, with in
terest from the day of sale.
J. MCCARTHY DUCKWALL.
jan 10 Special Commissioner.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-01-15
TWO-sTORY HOUSE.

more or less. The impr ovements consi!
of well built
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-01-15
CALL at w. l.. Jones Jewellery Store.
and see the patent table forks. as cheap
as the otd style.
NEW ADVERTISEMENT
REPORT OF THE CONDITION

IAF THE NATIONAL BANK at Mar.
" tinsburg, in the State Of West vir-
ginia at the close of business, December
81, 1880:
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-05-20
Gossip About Queen TictOria.

But she is inveterately stingy. She
never would pay penny of the Prince
of Wales debts-many of them in.
Cured in dispensing the hospitalities
which the Queen shirks. London is
never tired joking about the presents
made by the Sovereign. 1t is a ira
dition of the East India Company
that the monarch is ex officio MEM
Der of it's governing board and
receives as emo.ument 100 India
shawls a year. The Queen has for
years utilized these costly fabrics for
presents at royal weddings. When
ever the list of presents at royal or
ariStOcratic marriage is printed, this
item is always sure to come in {:
"From her Majesty the Queen, an
India shawl" That the shawl doesn't
come amiss may be judged when it is
borne in mind that the donor has on
an average, a dozen or more mar
riages a year in her own family, to
say nothing of scores of the nobility
her cousins" who come in for a
token.
Whatever of thrift the Queen
didn't inherit was carefully cultiva.
ted in her by her husband, Prince
Albert. He had lived all his life on
the beggarly pittance of German
Prince, and when he became the
husband of the Queen he thought the
splendors of Arabia were his OH an
allowance Of $l50,000. He thriftily
set to work to make his pearls bloom
and bear seed. He invented the
great exhibition of 1852 and bought
up all the land in KensingtOn, which
he foresaw would he indispensable to
the city. His investments all turned
bonanzas and when he died his riches
were so enormous that the will was
never entrusted to Doctors Commons,
where by law all testaments must be
registered. Queen Victoria is the
richest woman in Europe as well as
the best paid monarch.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-05-20

THE STRANGER ON THE SILL.

Between broad fields of wheat and corn
Is the lowly home where was born;
The peach-tree leans against the wall,
And the wOodbinc wanders over all
There is the shaded doorway still,
But strangers foot has crOss'd the SILL
There is the barn-and, rs of yorc,
can smell the hay from the open door,
And see the busy swallows thrOng,
And hear the pccwccs mOtirnful song;
But the stranger comcs-oh painful proof
His shcavcs are piled To the heated roof.
There Is the orchari-the very trees
Where my childhood knew long hours OF case
And watchd the shadOwy moments run
Till my life imbibcd more shade than sun
The swing from the bOugh still sweeps the air
Rut the strangers childrcna are swinging there
There bubbles the shady spring below,
With its bulrIish brook where the huZels grow
Twas there found the calaIn,ls-root,
And watch'd the minnows poise and shoot,
And heard the robin lave his wing,
But the strangers bucket is ut the spring.
Oh, ye who daily cross the sill,
Step lightly, for ! love IL still
And when you crowd the old barn caves,
Then think what countless harvest shcaveS
Have pass'd within that scented door
To gladden. eyes that are no more
Deal kindly with these Ochard trees;
And when your children crowd their knees,
Their sweetest fruit they shall impart,
As il old memories stirr'd their heart
To youthful sport still leave the swing,
And In sweet reverence hold the spring.
l'he barn, the trees, the brook. the birds,
I'hc meadows with their lowing herds,
The woodbine on the cottage wall l.
Ny heart still fingers with them all.
! e. strangers on my native sill,
step lightly, for love il still
Thomas buchanan Reed.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-05-20
An O5Tice Hunters Diary.

The Washington National Republi-
can gives the following extract from
an office seekers diary;
March 4.-Might be induced to take
an assistant secretaryship.
March Willing to take head Of
q bureau.
March II. Eager to be chief of
division.
March 24.-Anxious to be third or
fourth class clerk.
March 3l.-"Just honing" for a
first class clerkship.
April 7.-Willing to take anything.
April 20.-Would like to borrow
$40 to "get out Of the Internal town"
May l.-Grand exit amid firma.
ment of wrath and birthstone.
Reports when he gets home
Wouldn't accept the best place un-
der the government administration
bound to be a failure.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-05-20

and we at once proceeded to arrange
1t as best we could. We had hardly
gotten fairly under way when in
walked Mr.. Lincoln.
/ "IIellO, sumner said he, "making
your bed This Is the first time ]
knew that corps commanders acted
as their own chambermaids."
The General replied in the same
vein, telling him that the cot was for
him, and explaining the circumstances
under which we had felt obliged to
do the work of the derelict Stone
wall.
"All right" said the President,
good humOredly, as he took his seat
on camp-stool in the corner, ego
ahead, don't mind me; I'll merely
watch you and take the lesson, 50
/ that if you ever come to the White
! House ! shall be able to reciprOcate,
should it prove necessary
! We were getting along nicely and
q. had nearly finished when suddenlya an
idea seemed to strike the General.
He glanced furtively out of the cor
ner of his eye at the President and
then at the cot. After repeating the
operation several times ] perceived
his meaning.
The awful fact had dawned upon
him that there was marked dis
crepancy in the length of the cot and
the person who was to occupy it.
In vain did we rearrange the blan-
kets and fiddle-faddle with the pill.
lows the result remained the same.
The man was Enthusiastically longer
than the bed.
Mr.. Lincoln had been watching us
closely and enjoying the scene in.
tensely. At length he seemed to take
pity on the Generals perplexity and
spoke.
What's the matter? 2" said he, as
a quizzical smile played over his fea.
lures, anything wrong with the
bed!"
"I'm afraid" said the General. as
he wiped the perspiration from his
brow, I'm afraid it's little short"
"Or I'm little long" chuckled
the President f.; "but can't you fix it
no way 2"
/" l really don't see how" returned
the General, despondingly, ats very
annoying"
"Well, I'll show you," said Mr..
Lincoln, good humoredly, as spring.
ing mp he seized two camp stools and
placed them at the foot of the cot.
" There, that will give the necessary
six or eight inches. Just spread the |
blankets over them and everything
will be all right"
We did so, and the General, radiant |
with delight, congratulated Mr.. Lin
coin upon his ingenuity"
"Oh," said the President, modest. |
ly, "it's an old trick of mine. When |
i was a country lawyer, travelling OH
the circuit in Illinois twenty years |
ago or more, the beds were uncom.
monty short. and had to be pieced out |
with whatever was handiest. When |
Douglas and l stumped the State to-
gether | had to do the same thing at |
least half dozen times. He Doug.
las) was never tired of making fun of |
it. and told me that whenever | left |
home ought to take my bed along
with me, and" continued the Presi.
dent, musingly, - rather think he
was right -
On the following night Mr.. Lincoln
was not Obliged to use the camp.
stools, as we managed to procure a
longer cot for him and doubtless the
whole affair soon passed out of his
memory, but for my own part | shall
always retain the livliest recollection
of my little experience in Presidential
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-05-20
s LaWgcE's RecOrerU.

We once heard story of an emf.
uent legal advocate, which is by far
too good to be forgotten. Once in u
great while our friend might, on a
brilliant social occasion, take little
more wine than he could comfort
ably carry: and such Il thing had
happened on Il certain day, when, on
entering court, he was requested to
dctcud Il man who had been accused
OF forgery. The case was explained
to him, and he declared himself thor.
oughly conversant with it.
But, when it came time for him to
address the court and the jury, he
had 80 far forgotten, or got things
mixed. that he utterly mistook his
side of the cause, and opened with a
powerful, scathing and searching
plea against the very man he was to
Defend
The lawyer who had engaged him
was thundcrstruck the poor client
himself sat like one with the ague-
in torture while the counsel on the
other side laughed in their sleeves,
whispering to one another that their
opponent had beaten himself.
At length, however, but not until
the advocate had literally annihilated
his own client, his friend managed to
reach his side, and whisper into his
ear what he had done. I" You have
been pleading against your own
CLIENT"
For single instant the advocate
was taken aback; but quickly his
wits came to him, and, pushing his
associate away, he turned again to
the court, and to the jury, and said
Your HonOr-and Gentlemen of
the Jury-such is the case which L
lm very sure my brother on the other
side will present to you! have
been careful to look ut this matter
from his standpoint and have
shown you with what sophistry and
raisehood lie might regale you. But,
gentlemen-What are the facts? All!
Now we come to the truth, and you
shall see how different it is ~
And then he went on, taking up,
piece by peace, the speech which he
had just made, and utterly demolish-
ing it. And, as he had, in the out
set, presented the case almost word
/ for word as the counsel for the plain.
tiff had planned to present it, he ha-'
| left them without a whole rag upon
their spars. His presentation 2"
what no was pleased to call t's~cruth
/ was simply mastery /. say, Y5g0- .5 -,
only add that the oa"e "aS his run.
that moment, beyond the power OF
the opposition even to attract serious
attention from the jury.--Ns'o iorN
! Ledger.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-05-20
=~=a
second Life.

Men may inquire sOlemnly and with
many Il doubt whether any other
world than this awaits the human
race: but, once admitting Il second
me-. The dark cloud of punishment
n't~' be seen on that remote horizon.
There can be 10 second life without
= memory of the events of this
career. 1t is the chain of memory
which makes resurrection from the
dead possible. If person should
drtse from the grave and have no
consciousness Of ever having lived
before, that would he no second life
only III II most triliing and, unjust
s"n,". Dr.. Edward Beeeher once
Published quite u volume TO --
,." man is now in his second world
ana at death will pass to his third
and last. But if WE have most utter
y forgotten any such first life this is
ns,Gc oar first existence by the very
iart Of such forgetfulness. If we
dlt ali live once before in this planet
"l ~ some other planet, that fact has
been forgotten with IN amazing uni
lorUity and thoroughneSs. Memory
u.akcS this our first life. A thous-
and volumes from all the wise men of
nj! nations could not intervene. with
their learning and cloquence, and op-
pose ihr simple evidence of memory
m this strange case. 1t is your first
UuriI. Your memory can pick up
lis twenty or thirty or forty or its sixty
wears, and can hold them all in our
grasp and say | once lived one of
those summers and winters. We can
all look ut that bunch of faded flow
rIa and say | saw them when they
W"r" fresh and beautiful. This recol-
lection is, therefore, that mental at
TInute. which alone will make posi-.
hlr u resurrection from the dead.
only Immortality that can be thought
of is, therefore, one which can look
back upon this first experience of be-
inc. Unless friends shall know each
other, there will he no meeting of
friends, fog take away the recOgni-
zion and all else is empty. Thus the
future world awaits wholly upon
mrmory-tho creator of immortality.
Prst. DdCtd Seeing.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-05-20
4 WAR REMINISCENCE.

Making a Bet for President lin
cOin-ImDeHuifU Of "OId Ace -
in LPHHfheHinO IL.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-05-20

Lord Beaconsfield's kindness to
young men was remarkable. He
never lost an opportunity Of giving
what assistance he could to rising
merit wherever he found it. 1t is
said of him that he never heard a
happy remark made by any of his
young lieutenants in the house OF
commons, or afterwards in the house
Of lords, without drawing attention
to It amongst his friends, and taking
care that 1t was fully appreciated.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-05-20

A Jewel in swine's snout would
be no more preposterous than 81 500
diamond in a horses hoof. The lat
ter absurdity recently came to pass
in Tennessee. In the possession of a
blacksmith's wife was found the ring,
which a young lady lost while riding
several years before. The black.
smith dislodged it in pairing down the
horses hoof, and handed 1t to his
wife, who returned it to the owners
father while he was visiting her sick
child.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-11
An Evidence of PrOsperity.

An inspection of the establishment of
Messrs. Dauchy & Co. cannot fail to
impress one with the vastness of the re-
quirements necessary to meet the de-
mands of business men of all classes
who have learned the value of newspa-
per advertising. This firm, having out.
grown the limits of the office they have
occupied many years at the corner of
Fulton and Church streets, have recent
ly removed to ~ Park Place, corner of
Church street, where they occupy an en-
tire floor, extending through the block
to Nos. "a and 26 Murray street, space
of about 80 by 200 feet. Their offices are
complete in every detail. About
so feet of the Park Place
front is partitioned off for
the counting room and private office,
which are handsomely and substantially
fitted up. Beyond the counting room
the walls on both sides are covered from
floor to ceiling with pigeon.holes
for flies of newspapers, and on one side
OF the room are number of alcoves, ex-
tending 10 or IL feet, covered on both
sides with pigeon holes, furnishing places
for about s, 900 files The intermediate
space is filed with desks and tables use
by the examining and recording clerks.
The Murray street front is given up to the
shipping department, Messrs. Dauchy s.
Co. being also manufacturers and dealers
in printers supplies of every kind. --Neso
York Daily Tribune.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-11
The People,s Problem.

Mr.. Albert Stickney, discussing the
peoples problem" in Scri6ner's Maya
zine, says the people have seen themselves
practically ousted by the developments
of a political system which they had
supposed to be mastery continuance of
wisdom, designed to make them all pow
erful in government. They have seen a
system conceived in profound distrust of
public servants operating to organize, so
to speak, infidelity, responsibility, cor
ruption and impurity in public places.
Yet, strange to say, they, for
the most part, continue to re-
pose blind confidence in
the system. They are angry with
certain men. They delight to listen 10
phillipics against party bosses, machine
politicians, professional traffickers in
spoils and patronage, rings and lob
bies, for plying the business of venal
legislation. But what does all this anger
and denunciation amount tor For fifty
years we have had spells of popular
anger like this. and nevertheless things
have been getting worse instead of bet
ter. Mr.. -Shckney thinks it is the
system which has made the conditions
and furnished the implements of the
craft that needs looking into and radi-
callY changing or reforming. He con-
cludes as follows:
Under this system the principles of
elective and representative government
have been gradually absorbed in vast
and complicated machinery, as efficient
in the service of rapacity and venality
as it is Indifferent to the will and the
welfare of the people. Reform, to be
effective, must go to the root of the evil.
To secure an honest and faithful admin
istration of public affairs, the
people must change the organ
ism of government so far as to
make themselves masters, where now
an irresponsible machine is master, in
6IeClIOnsJ III inc civil SOLNlCO1 III CAOCu-
tive councils, and in legislative business.
What is wanted above all is to define
power and responsibility in such way
that no administration of the goverAment,.
IF rrI1~s@.--ss~ ,ISsts - M nSa -'.
- - liatever party complexion, could in
dulge in corruption, mismanage affairs
and misrepresent the country without
being called to instant account and dis
missed in disgrace from power. This is
the final expression and vital point of
the peoples problem"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-11
The Florida Mails.

Our subscribers and the press of Flor
ida are complaining of the delay in the
Northern mails from points west of
Jacksonville and on the line of the
Florida Central, and Jacksonville. Pen
sacola and Mobile Railroad. Mails from
Savannah, which before the institution
of the fast mails reached Tallahassee the
next morning, are not delivered under
the present system until the second day.
The section of Florida thus
deprived of an efficient mail service is
very important one, including number
of important cities and towns and the
capital of the State. This trouble can
be remedied by having the train on the
Florida Central leave Jacksonville at
9 p. m, enabling it to take the
mails arriving by the Savannah, Florida
and Western Railway at $40 p. m. This
plan would deliver TIE mails in Middle
and West FLORIDA twelve hours
earlier than at present. A combined
effort on the part of the business men
along the line of these roads will proba-
bly, remedy the delay so justly complain
ed of. The trouble is with the railroad
schedules and not with the Post Office
Department.
We cannot doubt that when the sub
ject is properly presented to the railroad
management efforts will be made to &C
commodate the various lines to SEIZED
ule of close connections, which will
facilitate the transmission and distribu-
ton of the mails, and thus remove all
reasonable grounds of complaint on the
part of the business public.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-11
National Educational Association

The twentieth annual meeting of this
body will take place in Atlanta, Ga,
July 18th, Goth, 21st and 22d instant.
The general association will meet in
the Opera House, and the departments
in places hereafter to be designated.
Governor COlquitt will deliver an ad-
dress of welcome, and the inaugural
address will be delivered by the President,
Hon J. H. Smart. of indianapolis. Indi-
ana Many valuable papers and addresses
are on the programme, from learned and
distinguished gentlemeppro +, ,d -, r.,
. sC-IC.: "a Inc Union, bearing, of course,
directly on the important questions
which lead to the organization of the
association.
Suitable arrangements have been en-
tered into with the railway lines leading
to Atlanta, securing reduced rates of
travel for visitors from all parts of the
country, and also with the hotels and
boarding houses for accommodation and
proper entertainment in the city.
A committee of reception will be found
in the parloTs of the Markham House, at
the east end of the depot, to afford all
needed assistance in finding suitable
boarding places. 1t is believed that the
session will be very largely attended,
and present an array of scholars and
learned educators rarely assembled in
this or any other country.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-11

The DELTA THETA REUNION
The first Georgia State reunion and
the decennial celebration of the Phi
Delta Theta will be held at Athens July
14th and 18th. On the evening of July
18th banquet in honor of all attending
Phis will be given by the Georgia
Alpha. An entertaining programme
has been prepared, and all Phis are cor
daily invited. An effort is to be made
to awaken interest in the fraternity
throughout the State, and it is hoped
that the reunion and celebration will be
largely attended. All information will
be cheerfully furnished on application
to w. w. Hardy, President, Athens,
90
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-11
Bismarck is making . Determined EFF.

Bismarck is making determined eff
fort to stop emigration to this country.
Under an old law which he has I'M
eartted, he now forbids emigration
agents from posting their bills aud pla-
cards in public places advising the pub
lie Of the price Of tickets to America and
the time when the steamers will leave.
Not satisfied with this, however, he is
endeavoring to frame bill to submit to
the Reichstag Obstructing and prevent
ing emigration altogether. That body
is not likely to pass law of this kind,
which would undoubtedly arouse the
strongest popular feeling against it. The
people of Germany would be slaves,
indeed. if they were not allowed TO go
where they pleased.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-11

At the time Plat was elected United
States Senator, Senator Woodin cast his
vote for him, and in an extraordinary
speech, intended to exalt Platt, and, by
comparison, depreciate Conkling, said
cit is extremely gratifying to know
that, if any body shall have occasion to
call on him, it will not be necessary to
approach him through presentation
attended with all the technicalities and
ceremonies attendant on a court ETH
quette, with chance of being frozen to
death in the operation. No stepladder
will have to be called for to reach the
theatre of his presence. He is simple
Republican.
In the light of Woodin's steplsASer
performance at the Delavan House this
speech may be deemed remarkable.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-11

The recent movements of France in
relation to her army are alittle puzzling.
With standing army Of nearly halt a
million It is not necessary for her to
mobilize one hundred and twenty thou
sand more in order to protect her North
African possessions and interests There
is no excuse for her if she attempts to
pick a war with anyone. yet 1t must be
said that the tone Of NJ. St. Hilaire's cir
cular is belligeTent, and, as 1t were,
offers a chip to be knocked off her shout
der 10y any power which may object to
French mobilization. Surely France
cannot mean 20 dare Germany, yet under
the circumstances the proposed measure
and the circular look that way.