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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-02-11
Doings at Washington.

The House committee on the law
relating to the election of President
and Vice President has invited Da-
vid Dudley Field to give his views
upon the matter under consideration.
The rule which has excluded Wis
itors from the White House on Sat
urday has been abolished, and the
President will hereafter devote Mon
day instead of Saturday to the con-
sideration of executive business.
Secretary Hunt Monday received
by express handsome polar bear
skin made Into rug, a gift from the
officers of the United States steam
ship Alliance, the original of which
was shot on Davis Island, Spleen
bergen, during recent cruise in the
Artic in search of the Jeanette.
In the United States Senate Mon
day, a bill was passed to purchase
for the government the Freedman's
Bank in Washington for sum not to
exceed $250,000. A concurrent reso-
luton was offered by Mr.. Morgan for
reciprocity treaty between the Uni
tied States and Mexico. The remain
der of the session was spent in debate
on Mr.. Ingalls, resolution declaring
that the penson arrear laws ought
not to be repealed. In the House a
large number of bills and resolutions
were presented, among them a bill
to establish farmers market in the
District of Columbia; for the ap.
pointment of an inter-oceanic com
mission; a subsidy bill for the es-
tablishment of steamship mail ser
vice between the United States and
Great Britain. The rules were sus-
pended and a bill passed providing
that no person who is guilty of big
amy OF polygamy shall be eligible to
seat in Congress as Delegate
from any Territory.
On Wednesday, in the Z. S. Senate
bill was introduced directing the
Secretary of the Treasury to exam
inc and settle the accounts of certain
States and tho city of Baltimore,
arising out of the war of 1912. The
resolution declaring that the pension
arrears law ought not to be repealed
was called up, and warmly advocated
by Senators Vest and Maxey, ex Con
federates, who INDUCED in expression
of national and patriotic sentiment.
In the House, the tariff commission
bill WAS reported from the committee
on ways and means, and Mr.. Ran
dali gave notice Of an amendment.
A bill was reported to admit free of
duty monument to Gen. Washing
ton; bill was also reported from the
judiciary committee to re-establish
the Geneva awards commission, and
another from the committee on pub
lie buildings for the erection of a pub
JIG building at Lynchburg, Va. The
remainder of the session was spent
in considering the reapportionment
bill.
The new fiye,eent postage stamp,
on which is engraved a portrait Oh
President Garfield, will be ready for
issue March 1.
| A delegation OF Texas Republicans
have had an interview with the Pres
ident, informing him that, with the
assistance efthe administration, they
would be able to carry three Of the
congressional districts of that State
next fall. The President said he
would be glad to aid them in any
proper manner in his power.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-02-11

Benwood, w. Va, has been incor-
porated as a city.
Passenger engine No. 81, Cumber-
land Valley Railroad, was badly
damaged Saturday, at Hagerstown,
by jumping the track.
A bill passed the Mississippi Sen
ate Monday appropriating $4,000
to encourage immigration.
Mr.. Arthur's son and Mr.. Hunts
son are going to see if the purple and
gold latch-strings of Europe are out.
Young Hunt has sailed and young
Arthur will follow in April.
The interest in the mineral lands
of Virginia and West Virginia has
never been greater than at present.
Maj. Hotchkiss, Of Staunton, Va,
has orders for twenty extensive re-
ports, and that the number is being
added to by almost every mail.
An explosion took place in the
Midlothian mines, in Chesterfield
County, Va, OH Friday last and thir-
ty-two men were buried in the mine.
Efforts were made to recover the
bodies, but only few could be re-
covered, as the mine took fire and
had to be closed. The scene of the
disaster was pitiful- men, women and
children bewailing the loss of the ir
fathers and husbands.
One of the most touching incidents
in connection with the present dis
aster is that of poor woman who
tramped through the binding snow
from her home near Richmond to
learn things other affianced, who was
one of the 80 men who met their death
at the bottom of the shaft. Friday,
anxious to learn the fate of her lover,
and being without money to obtain
a conveyance, she walked - miles
on day when no one yentured to
leave their comfortable fire sides I'M
less from sheer necessity. This cour-
ageous girl pressed on in her labor
of love. The roads are almost i'm
passable, and she had not reached
her journeys end up to a late hour
Saturday evening. Whether she fell
by the wayside and was unable to
reach the pits is not known. The
task was one which few would have
undertaken, although impelled by
such strong motive as that which
filed her breast.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-02-11

As the spring election for city Off
GERS approaches, the citizens of
Martinsburg should consider their
own interests IN the matter, and not
let things take their own course-not
even knowing anything of the cleo
ton until it is oyer-as was the
case previous years. The columns of
THE HERALD are open to any
discussion in regard to the matter,
and we will give our views Oh the
subject after mature deliberation.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-02-11

This pugilism is a relic of the bar
barism and brutality of the Anglo
Saxon race, which now and then will
crop out-Neso Orleans Times.
Talk about the disgrace of Nor
monism, when as great evidences of
barbarism are to be found nearer at
home. Extensive preparations were
made in New Orleans for the
celebrated prize-fight between Sulli-
van and Ryan on Tuesday last.
Excursion rates were given from all
the larger cities, pools had been
opened, and the fight was discussed
by the press as if it were dogs instead
Of human creatures that were pre-
pairing to tear each other up.
Ryan failed to respond in the
ninth round, and was taken to his
quarters terribly bruised. He suf
tered much from hernia previous to
the fight, and his physician advised
him to abandon the prize ring. Over
two thousand persons were present,
and much money changed hands.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-02-11

There are doubts expressed as to
the sherman bill passing the House
of Representatives. Even if it does,
it will not be very acceptable to the
people, as it is not certain how soon
the new loan may be redeemed. The
bonds will be issued in sums of fifty
dollars at all money order post offices,
the entire loan-two hundred million
dollars-being redeemable at the
will Ct the government after the
present fves and SKIES continued at
three and half have been paid off,
which it is calculated can be done
within three years, when the re-
demptiop Of the proposed new loan
will be commenced.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-02-11

Son. Walter Gwynn, the oldest
graduate Of West Point, died in Bal
timore on Monday. He was born in
Jefferson County, this State, in 1902,
and after receiving common school
education, graduated at West Point
in 1922, and became civil engineer
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,
and afterwards chief engineer of the
James River and Kanawha Canal.
He served as brigadier general and
chief OF the engineer corps of the
Confederate army during the late
war.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-02-11

The Charlestown Leader thinks
" if there is any State in the Union
that needs to be Mahoneized it is
West Virginia. The Democrats
have borrowed from the School Fund
until the bottom has dropped out,
and yet the Governor in his message
says, we owe no State debt, ask for
no credit &c. But the Auditor says
we owe $4,000, and not a dollar of
it has been paid. We leave it to
you if something ought not to be
done"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-02-11

1t is stated, with much positive
ness, that President Davis, of the
Senate, favors the admission of Da-
kota into the Union, and will vote
for the bill. He holds, so it is said,
that the southern portion of Dakota
is entitled by reason Of population
aud other considerations to admis-
sioH, and that it is not question for
partisan consideration. Judge Da-
Wis vote, combined with that of the
Republicans, would give the bill a
majority in the Senate, and as the
Republicans control the House it
would appear that the measure has a
good prospect of becoming law at
the present session.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-02-11

An exhibition of swift punishment
was given in Nashville, Tenn, last
week. A farmer was robbed of sew
eral hundred dollars in the morning
the thief was apprehended at noon,
indicted by the grand jury, and at
3 O'Clock in the afternoon had been
tried and convicted III the Grimm al
Court and sentenced to five years in
the penitentiary. Such summary
punishment more frequently inflicted
would exercise a beneficial effect on
the .crimipally inclined.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-02-11

The Baltimore Sen supplement of
Monday gives full description of
the proposed Chesapeake and Della
ware ShipCanal, with an additional
supplementary map of the routes
proposed and surveyed. This is in
keeping with the Suns reputation
for enterprise.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-02-11

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Some Democrats are just wicked
enough to hope that the tug of-war
between General Arthur and Private
Blaine may continue to be a case of
pull Sam pub Satan until something
big crack.-Erchange.
This is exactly one of the motives
that governs some Of our Demo
cratic contemporaries in the Eastern
Panhandle, yet they are defeating
their own aims, for the more unjust
reflections they cast the more Repub-
leans they make. Instead of hon.
orable and powerful combinations,
there is general disintegration in the
Democratic ranks-hence their envy.
A party whose leaders have no adj
herents is always at the mercy of an
opposition that can at the proper
moment unite all their strength for
the combat, and as long as they re-
main such are invincible. The hon
est, conservative policy of President
Arthur has inspired the people with
confidence, and its effects will be
manifest to all as the presidential
election approaches.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-02-11
STATE NEWS.

The Sheriff of Barbour County has
made an assignment, with his sure
| ties as preferred creditors.
The engineers Of the Wheeling
Fire Department have been made
happy by an advance ofS120 per an
mum in their salaries.
| Mr.. E. D. McClenahan, of Balti-
more, the early part of this week,
sold six thousand acres of land in
Grant County to Joseph Spriggs,
Esq, of Moorfield, Hardy County.
The price paid was $4,000.
Miss S. Helen Lewis, daughter of
Lieut. Gov. John F. Lewis, was mar
ried on Wednesday last at the resi-
dence of her father, "Lynwood," in
Rockingham County, to Lewis S.
Davis, of Greenbrier County, w. Va.
Point Pleasant, w. Va. is enthusi-
astic over the belief that it is soon to
become the great railroad centre of
the State. s'Four lines of railroads
are now projected to this point, name
ly: The Wheeling, Parkersburg and
Charlestown, Richmond and Allie
CLANCY, the Central Ohio and the
Cincinnati and western. The finest
railroad bridge OH the Ohio river
will span the river at this point, and
will be built of steel instead of iron.
Several bills have been introduced
in the legislature proposing to make
alterations in the manner ofconduct-
ing the business of the Berkeley
Springs, Morgan County. There is
a dispute as to whether the title to
the Springs is legally vested in the
State, in the town Of Bath, or in the
board of trustees. These last claim
that they are legal descendants of
Lord Fairfax, who originally held the
property on which the spring is To-
Gated by royal grant. The bills have
been referred to the Committee on
the Judiciary.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-02-11
CREDITORS NOTICE.
TO the Creditors Of Joseph Chapman
Deceased.

TO the Creditors Of Joseph Chapman,
Deceased.
In pursuance of decree of the Circuit
Court of the County of Berkeley, made
in cause therein pending, to subject
the real estate of the said Joseph Chap
man to the payment of his debts, you are
hereby required to present your claims
against the said Joseph Chapman for ad-
Indication to John 7. Picking, Commits
sioner, at his Office in the said county, on
or before the 4th day of March, 1882
Witness, S. FL. Martin, Clerk of said
Court, this 4th day of February, 1882.
S. H. MARTIN. Clerk.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-02-11

The bilI amending and re-enacting
the first section Of the charter of
Martinsburg passed in the House on
Monday, and by a two-third vote of
that body it was declared that the
bill take effect from its passage.
Mr.. Evans communicated the pas
sage of the bill to the Senate, and
asked concurrence therein.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-02-11

There is suit pending in the Cir
cult Court of Rockingham County to
recover some of the most valuable
property in the town of Harrisonburg.
The residence of Gen. Roller, Judge
Harris, j. S. Hernsberger ESQ.,, and
others are situated upon the property
in dispute. There are about % acres
of land embraced in the suit, within
the corporate limits of Harrisonburg
and 100 acres without the corpora
ton. The property formerly belonged
to Col. James Hall, who dying child
less, bequeathed it to his widow dur
ing her life, and at her death to go
to certain neices and nephews of
Col. Hall. The widow of Col. Hall
died some twelve months ago, and
the relations of Col. Hall have in
stituted suit to recover the property.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-02-11
SATURDAY, FEB. nth, 1882.

Guiteau has ordered new suit for
the purpose, as he says, of looking
decent when he is released. Deluded
soul!
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-02-11

The Riddleberger Bill passed the
Virginia House Of Delegates on
Tuesday. An amendment to sub
NIT the bill to the people for ratifi-
cation, was defeated. The bill
now awaits the governors signature.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-05
Mn. EREENlNS LECTERE.

The course OF lectures winch Mr.. Edward ~.
Freeman delivers in this city, under the aus
pices of the New-York Free Circulating Ii
brary, was opened last night under most an
favorable conditions of weather, and COnSe-
duently before a small audience. The lecturers
position as a learned historian, and as con-
troversial critic who has made himself con-
spicuous from his opposition to Mr.. Froude,
and also from his ardent sympathes with the
struggling natonaties and races in South
eastern Europe, is so fully appreciated by the
intelligent classes in the community that he
will undoubtedly be greeted by a much larger
audience on his second appearance. For the
benefit of those classes we publish this morn
ing a full report of his opening lecture. De-
livered az it was under serious embaIrass-
ments, the breadth of its views, the catholicity
of the treatment and the earnestness of the
man made marked impression upon those
who were so courageous as to hazard the dis
comforts of the night in order to see and hear
one of the greatest historians of the century.
Mr.. Freeman's course has the comprehensive
title of 1.-THE English People i'll their Three
Homes those " Homes" being America,
England and the birthplace of the race on
the COntlnent. UtSt l1ltt EuSidllus lcTUlh
D." New middle" and "Old," with many
apologies for applying to the American people
a designation which has come to have special
geographical relations" New England" These
divisions of his theme afford scope for that
comprehensive treatment which is characteris-
tic of the man. He is never more felicitOus in
his style than when he istraversing broad areas
of historical knowledge and dealing with great
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-05

masses of the worlds population Ills
sense of perspective is so absolutely correct
that his readers or listeners are neither ue-
ceived nor confused by the magnitude oil lis
subject or the breadth of the treatment
There are portions of the lecture when pre-
sent rather tame levels for a popular pat
form. but these are traversed bravciy nat
he calls "tho rock where the race was hewn'
"the hole in the pit where it was dlgged'
cannot be made as interesting as the two
main centres where the English-speaklng fam
ily now dwels. Yet Mr.. Freeman cannot
he dull if he tries.
1t seems to be the lecturers purpose to re-
mind Americans of that common historian
heritage which they have together with Eng
ishmen in the annals, language and free III
situations of the AnglO-SaXOn race. lie hopes
TO draw the two countries closer together III
what he calls ga higher brotherhood born OF
our stock" This is a noble purpose ana
should commend him to general favor
especially when he is so generous aS to speak
of America as "the greater child u to the
elder DaTent'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-05

ever. not interfering with any rg1t ol u"'o"
stakes out a plot OF ice on public waters Is CON
sidered entitled To- be protected against lnter-
ference of rivals later on the spot, IN his labor
Of cutting and gathering IT when u" proper
time comes. On Western rivers cases nave oc-
currcd IN which icemen have set booms to re-
tain the wafer so that it might freeze, or nave
naked ont q field IN some sheltered spot along
shore but q steamer, passing along tho open
channel in wanton disregard Of the iceinth :
yyorl, has broken the ice 10y The swell Of her
raddIes. And such steamers have been
rulclcd in damages, provided, CT course i"el
could have steercd further away ard Made
tJeir trips without doing the mischief. WIN
respect 10 waters not navigdble-the petty
streams and little lakes and p0nds-tAe general
o,inion is that rs with the water 50 with the
lee. the right to appropriate 1t Is III the owner
Of the land underneath, subject. IN the case OF
a stream to the right Of landowners below 10
have the use OF the stream in Their turn.
Hence the first conner has not the sam, rght 10
stake ont ice foI future gathering on waters OF
this description rs he might have o. the luu-
son. A pcrplcXing form of the question mas
arisen once or twice between the owner OF the
Land uu,icr pond and some one owning por-
tiou Of the bank, so that he had a clear right Ct
WAY to the ice. In 1916 when ice was scarce,
mich as il j. now, there was mll-pond at
Saugortics. the owner Of which made a sale to
one ice company of all the ice to lie formed n
rival firm bargained with proprietors of a snail
strjp If land running to the waters edge for
leave to drive their carts back and forth over
fins srl.p. AID on this tile began cutting Ice
The Court said that aS the mlll-owner o"hec
the land under the water le was to be consid-
eled the q, ncr of the water whether solid or
duiI. while II remained over his soil the right
of going to the waters edge did not justify tax
iug ana carrying away che ice.
These principles, which prevail throughout
l,c coUntr,. are slightly modified IL thiN state
r., a few statutes. THcsc allow the inrorpora-
ION of companies for collecting ice; they re-
qrirc al PERSONS making lee cuttings IN the
ratcls OF thc Hudson to surround their open
,ues With guards, and 10 furnish BRIDGES across
them when necessary for accommodation al
travel; thoy give the proprietor Of aay ice
outline. establishment along the Hudson hlYcr
81 uIrfcrcniial ri.ht Of cutting Ire opposite liz
Ground. a tar as to the centre ot tIe stream ;
a9d they punish dciiug the ponds, etc., 40
Nr.trLc.. Of. HocIaud aud pGtuan countics
,purnpi.itnd i0r harvesting ice; also malicious
,rr, done 10 iuiurc ice %, to prevent gathering
and .nl,ireii. but these relies dO not m8icral.r
affect thc general question of DE night. We
.,lyi., ir,ucu WHO may be- working upon nav
liza. /, water, to respect the Iaror>. the stakes
o.c.. o.. tl.ot, who in good faith have taken mp "a
,,ot in a!rlpce--ilietI by late item, Judge
ngli.. h,> decided that owners of land on the
q Ia. isas viz
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-05

handsome man and the dramatic critic Of FAINT,
fGr, OF London NY
Ge0eyieFe Ward. the actress, u rail 70 he an AZ.
coipished pedestrian Even ID, most upfavor bic
weather docs not discourage hcr from akne = con.
sti'utional oi three or tour mixes every morning
Mr. Blaine will be asked 20 G,lyrr the oraf.oo n
the dedication OF the soldiers monument AT Au-
bnr II he cannot accept tie inv t.tion. Gcy raj
o. .. Howard Will be invite 10 ns1c D. address.
Since Ter appearance in Chicago Ms, AYl.a T.
Dickinson has been suffering from a severe cold.and
IT takes ~! her pllck and pes rance ~ keep up 70
ler work. She declines 10 tJl1 10 newspaper re-
portefs
Since his retirement rom The Supreme Court
justice Strong has undertaken 70 deliver before tho
Law school Of the Columbian University. AZ Wash
IiR'oh series 81 Lectures on The History OF Tho
COnsttUi ION
President Garrett. of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, has established course of free lectures
for his employees On Friday night the first lecture
was delivered in Baltimore, Professor II. Y. Mar
M who told &" How skulls and b ,ckbones are
buIlt,' being introduced by Mr.. Garrett.
As any excitement is likely to be preiudical to
his health, General Garibaldi avoided all public
demonstration. when he went 10 Naples last month,
BY landing at the Cafe OF Posipoo. The yills
OF Egypt has been placed at his dlspOs ].
Professor Arthur Cavley, Sadlerian professor Of
pure mathematics at Cambridge University. Eng
land, was entertained OF dinner Friday evening by
The trustees Of Johns Hopkins University Baltimore
AT the request Of the officers of the latter insttu-
tl0n Professor Cayley is delivering course of
lee nre~ IN Baltimore. He il about Sixty years DID,
OF SlIght form and medium heigh and mas fine
and pleasant face
John ID. Defrees, who has been the Government
printer for long time, and whose resignation takes
effect on the first OF Aprilnex is about seventy-two
years of age, and has been a hard-wOTllng printer
and politician all his life. Many years ago h. pub
hshed The Indianapolis JouypdL Afterwsrd no
started another paper in Indianapolis in opposition
to The Journal lie was long one o the best
known and ablest political Organizers in tho
State of Indiana. Schuyler COliaX grew up under
him. Mr.. Deirees has for some years spent such
portion Of his time as he could spare from Wash.
ngtou IN th- retirement of pleasant country
home AT Berkeley Springs. WeS' Nrunla. lie ~
likely 10 reside there now permanently, and VIII
doubtless occupy his leisure with some quiet liter
AIRY work, preparing "reminiscences AID ia" IKE.
Few men now on the stage have had Vller per O AL
acqulin auce with Conspicuous politicians ot all
glasses and cti0ns. His resignation WAS entirely
on his own motion, amt has d Oh hl, belle tuat an
consequence of his hca. th and advanced axe 10 WA
time Tor lam to Ic,lre from 50 laJoriOus and rcspoA-
slyie a place