Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-09-09
BUNKER HILL.

Inc camp meeting which has been
in progress in this neighbOrhood
closed Monday morning. The
weather proved to be inauspicious
for the services. yet with determi-
nation to achieve the desired end
they were not to be thwarted by rain
or mud. Last Sabbath gave promise
Of good day for camp, and large
number Of people from the four
corners of the globe congragated
there. 4 friend Of mine suggested
that | should take census of the
camp, as it might be An item Of in.
terest 10 some Of your readers. |
should have done so-it would have
given me untold pleasure to have
given the exact number-but | deem
it better to give a good guess rather
than no report at also | will say,
that / suppose there were between
10 and 90 millions, all told. | mag
be slightly mistaken as to numbers
my eye sight is beginning TO fail
me, and you know that the glasses
we look through at campmeetings
are sometimes deceptive, so that il
my estimate should seem little eX-
trayagant or not quite up to the
mark, let some one else make
guess.
Prom...ent among the common
people I could see the inevitable and
irrepresible candidate spreading
himself in competition to the oder
iferous sun-foWer. 1t was at one
time a little doubtful which would
gain the ascendency, but owing to
the proximity to the State line and
the adjacent counties the candi-
dates finally succeeded in gaining
the attention Of the crowd. In fact
l am told that several of them spent
a great deal of their ammunition in
trying to influnce votes from Yir-
ginia and the neighboring counties.
It is not at all improbable, for /
heard one Of them say myself that
he didn't care a id where they
came from SO they voted for him.
Rohrbaugh had the whole field to
himself. / think you will find my
words of prediction true. He is al
ready making preparations to emil
CRATE, or at least | think so, from the
way he was electioneering those
Frederick county people last Sun
day. Poor fellow he is stranger
in a strang land but he is not with
out friends, which will be proven in
October, when more than one will
take up the pen of sympathy to write
UP his epitaph. Aside from his
greed for office he is a genial gentle
man and a good fellow. l don't
think it prudent for strangers to
place themselves before the public in
such position as to draw from us
our political spleen before we can
can learn to love him and show our
magnimity in the social world.
/ suppose the matter will soon be
settled between Messrs. U0ge and
Lucas. Mr.. l., is politically dead,
and the only thing left for his friends
to do is TO get q get good embalmer
and preserve his immortal remains,
as a something to remind them Of
the fatal results of a distempered
political sore. They have sacrificed
good man to gratidy their ayarici-
Gus desires, aud consigned him to a
premature political grave. Poor Lu
cas- how l do pity him. Judge Hoge
must submit TO the action OF his
friends. If they deem it eNpedient
to withdraw him from the canvass
he will acQuiesce in the same gentle
manly manner that he would have
succumbed to his defeat before the
nominating Keyser Convention. |
hope they will do the next best thing,
and that is to bring out Judge G. j.
Faulkner Not simply TO CRAFTY
the friends OF either faction, Uo2e
or Lucas, but upon his own merits
and real worth. He is good man
and will make an able representa-
tive. My time is somewhat limited
this week and / must be brief
Our village is alive TO day, Mon
dav). 4 stranger WOuldalmOstth think
it was an infant city, judging from
the sound Of the hammer of The car
pentcr and other evidences Of thrift,
To add to the excitement Of toll,
there is an organ grinder on the OPP
posite corner, who is entertaining
the urchins. Your neighbOr and our
former citizen, Jno. e. Boyd, Jr., ar
rived soon after the grinder, but
whether he has any interest in it or
not ! am unable to say. They both
were travelling in the same direction
when last seen.
Our ueighborhood has been illumi-
mated by Miss Ella SWartZ of your
city, and Miss Wade Of Clarke
County, visiting Miss Lilly Lamon.
Miss Lands, from Ohio, visiting
Mrs. Ju0. Gardner, and Miss Kate
Barnett at Robt. Lannon's
MI Champ Shepherd, the enter
prising agent for the Singer Sewing
Machine Company, has been doing a
good business in his line. lie is
good agent-handles a good machine
and renders himself popular by fair
and square dealing.
Our new school-h0use is approach