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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-06-06
KESECKERS.
The custom of annually strew

The custom of annually strewing
with flowers the graves of the sol
diers who fell in the civil war was
observed by the friends of the Union
dead throughout the country on Sat-
urday. At Antietam National Gem
etery the interest of the proceedings
was greatly enhanced by the pres
ence of Gen. Mcclellan, who COM
manded the Northern army in the
memorable battle Of Antietam. In
an admirable address, he paid the
following eloquent tribute to the men
with whom he strove Gin all honor
and earnestness" on the bloody field
of Antietam.
~ am glad that | have been per,
mitted to live until the fame and ex
plOits Of those magnanimous rivals,
until the ability and virtue of Robert
E. Lee, and the achievements of the
Army of Northern Virginia, as well
as the heroism and renown of the
grand Army of the Potomac, have
already become part of a common
heritage of glory of all our people.
Would | could meet here to-day the
living presence of that splendid man
and soldier, Robert E. Lee. in this
very field, where, in all honor and
earnestness, we strove as enemies,
and even take him by the hand, as
in the long-past days when we SER
we'd together in the land of the Mon
tezumas. | know that his nature
bore no malice, and that he would be
the first to respond to the greeting
and unite with us in paying to the
gallant dead of this Army of the
Potomac the same tribute offer to
his Army of Northern Virginia"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-06-06


But was going to speak more in particu-
lar about Mr. Sweeney's cat Mr.. Sweeney
had large cat named Dr. Mary Walker, Of
which he was very fond. Dr. Mary Walker
renained at the drug store all the time, and
was known all over st. Paul as a quiet and
reserved cat. Ii DR.. Mary Walker took in
the town after office hours nobody seemed
to know anything about it. She would be
around bright and cheerful the next morn
ing and attend to her duties at the store
just as though nothing whatever had ever
happened.
One day last summer Mr.. Sweeney left a
large plate of fy-paper with water on it in
the window, hoping to gather in a few
quarts OF flies in a deceased state. DR.. Mary
Walker used to go to this window during the
afternoon and look out on the busy street
while she called up pleasant memories of her
past life That afternoon she thought she
would call up some more memories, so she
Went over ON the counter and from there
jumped down on the window sill, landing
with all four feet in the plate Of dy-paper.
At first she regarded it as a Joke and
treated the matter very lightly, but later on
she observed that the fy-paper stuck to her
feet with great tenaeity of purpose. She
controlled herself and acted in the coolest
manner, though you could have seen that
mentally she suffered intensely. She sat
down a moment to more fully outline plan
for the future. In doing so she made great
mistake. The gesture resulted in gluing the
hy-papef to her person in such a way that the
edge tarnAd up be. i.ld IN the most al,rupt
malli.ef ;lilit cal ell her great ineen venence.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-06-06
STATE NEWS.

Joseph Blankinsop, proprietor of
stove foundry at Wellsburg, w.
Va, was killed by the bursting of an
emery wheel in his works.
PIEDMONT, w. VA, May o.
Evan Jones, miner, working in
Armstrong mine, on the West Vir-
ginia Central and Piedmont Rail-
road, was badly crushed about the
back and hips last evening by fall
of breast coal.
A panther has been committing
depreciation on Backbone mountain
in Tucker county. 1t has been kill
ing deer and coons and lately has
been attacking sheep. It's cries and
yells can be heard at night by the
farmers, living about nine miles from
st. George, and they are living in
terror of it.
PIEDMONT, w. VA, May 28.-
John Jacobs, an aged miner, CON-
mitted suicide this afternoon. He
locked himself up in room, and cut
his throat with a razor, severing the
jugular vein. Jacobs had been sick
for ID year, and had also been derang-
ed for some time past. He had been
working in the Phoenix Mines for the
last fifteen years.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-06-06
aSwine trough p Wen, a grnnt.

"Swine tronghp' Well, a grnnt-
ing hog instinctively hunts the
trough aud the one who don't get
there does the most squeaking. Pig,
pig; come along, little piggy Mar
tiRsbayy Magscaanp.
Thanks. Though you may have
grown big on still slop, We prefer to
remain alittle" but decent. What
a massive intellect to originate such
great thoughts! What power OF
language to clothe them in such
christian perfection! What model
of training is shown by such words
and actions. What sublime associa-
tions must cluster around your life
What consolation in after years to
look back and review such a lofty
and generous career! Alas that
some have to struggle SO lowly and
so honestly, while others mount so
swiftly to the pinnacle of fame and
grandeur!
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-06-06
From the Reverend clerav.

Among the many ministers Of the Cos
pei, who have been helped by Brown q
Iron Bitters, the Rev. E. A. Spring, Cory
don, Iowa, says, . used it for general
ill-health and found it great help. -
Rey. Jas. McCarty, Fort Stevenson, Da-
kota, says, " 1t cured me of severe dys-
pepsia and increased my weight twenty
i've pounds" The Rev. Mr.. Offey, New
Bern, N. c., says he has taken it, and
considers it one of the best medicines
known. The Rev. Mr.. Whitney. Hing
ham, Wis.,, says, AFTER long sickness
from lung fever, l used Browns Iron
Bitters and gained strength So
throughout the States with hundreds and
hundreds of other clergymen.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-06-06

During the Campaign last year it
was proclaimed by every Democratic
speaker and repeated by the Dem.
ocratic rank and file that the election
OF Cleveiend, would bring prosperity,
revive all branches of industry, give
labor to the working man with in.
creased pay, decrease taxes and re-
duce prices of merchandise; in a
word the Millennium wonld dawn.
Cleveland has been in Office near
three months, yet the country has
never experienced greater depres-
sion or harder times, and the masses
are disappointed in every thing
promised. - Grafton Eagle.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-06-06

There is a ray of hope in the re-
volt Of sensible people in all our com
munities against the skating rink,
round-dances, masquerades, and the
like, that seem to have been claiming
the best part of the vitality of Young
America during the past season. In
certain prosperous town, the
teachers in the public schools CON-
plain that the attendance has almost
been demoralized by the fast and
furious life that has ragged around
the skating rink. Away down on
the edge of the everglades, in Flcri-
da, this new form of national insani-
ty has swallowed up church, school,
and rational society, and put every
sober family on the anxious-seat for
the moral safety gifts young daugh-
tiers and sons. Possibly the past
generations of our people, in some
portions of the land. have dwelt too
much in the earnest and even SOM
bre side of life. But nothing so sure
ly portends the disintegration even
of gifted manhood or womanhood.
as the restless craze for violent
amusement and perpetual excite
Inent that drives many Of our youth
like leaf before the wind. A gen
Grafton reared on the stimulant of
such indulgences will be poor bnl-
wark for republican institutions in
the perilous days to come.-Journal
of Education.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-06-06
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
Council met in regular sessio
Thursday night.

Council met in regular session
Thursday night.
Finance Committee reported, fnd-
ing officers reports all correct and
satisfactory. Received and adopted.
Chairman Whitson reported finch
pipe laid in Schelky's alley, and q
inch pipe being laid as ordered.
DIR. McSherry reported nuisances.
ST. Committee to fix bridge on John
Street over sewer. Authorized to
have all privies cleaned out and put
in sanitary condition.
Property holders from Peoples
bank to Continental Hotel ordered
to have cutters laid. Gutter from
Groves corner to bank placed in
hands of Street Com.
Cover over sewer in front of Snod,
grass Store, N. Queen ST., to be re-
paired. Garbage and filth in Stew
arts alley to be hauled out at cor
poration expense, and parties living
there be notified not to throw any
more out.
Chairman Market House Commit
tee reported changes made in stalls.
Mr.. R0hrbaugh, in behalf Of ladies
of M. E. Church, asked privilege to
use Market House for festival. Re-
fered to Market House Com. to act.
Petition of Joseph Long and others
for water mains to be extended near
their premises. Referred to Water
Board. Bills read and ordered paid.
Officers reports placed in hands of
Printing Committee to have printed
by lowest bidder.
Old Council adjourned sine die.
Messrs. Williams, Tobin, DeGrange,
Wellinger and Linthicum sworn In
by Mayor. Mayor called new coun-
Gil to order. All present. New Coun-
cilmen appointed on same Commit
tees as retiring members occupied, ac-
cording to ward.
Ordered that no more corporation
work be done, unless ordered by a
majority of the committee.
Remedying of bad sewerage on s..
John ST., referred to st. Com. with
power to act. Also to have bridge on
Hannis Street repaired.
Ordered that Lutheran Church au-
thOrities be notified to have nuisance
removed on Martin st.
Sewer nuisance from st. Clair to
culvert on John st. referred to Nuis-
ance Com. to act.
Ordered that Council visit Hannis
Distillery premises and Fitz's dam, in
a body, Saturday afternoon at 4
O'Clock.
Sergeant instructed to rent stalls
and stands of Market House, on the
4th Saturday in June, and to give due
notice of such rental.
Mayor appointed w. w. House
worth Mayor pro tenn.
Ordered that one half of rent of all
Market House stalls and stands be
paid cash, the balance in six months
after rental. Adjourned.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-06-06
SHANGHAI NEWS.

The locusts begin to make them.
selves noisy.
The wheat in this as well as in other
sections of county, is poor, except in
the bottom land.
Mrs. Linnie Hix,. husband. and
child, who are visiting Mr.. Henry
Kitchen, have returned to their home
in Rockingham County.
Bark-pealing don't seem to illicit
the same amount of Interest that it did
last year.
Mr.. E. e. Erie, and Edgar Mitchell,
M. D., are visitors to this section OF
county, seeking health-the former
suffering with asthma, the other (quo-
ting his own wordsl with a stubborn
spell of impecuniosity. They are both
from distance, and seem to be well
educated.
Our mutual friend, j. A. Chapman,
is engagedin selling fruit trees, shrub
berry, &C., since his school closed. He
is making success of the enterprise,
because he knows how to use the
tongue. He represented a good firm
and sells first class goods. His estima-
BILE lady has been quite i'll for over a
week. She is now convalescing.
Mr.. Richard Gano and wife, of
Shenandoah Valley, are the guests OF
Mr.. Joseph Gano, his father, living
adjacent.
Life is what we make it. We can
have tborns growing in our pathway,
or the beautiful violet about which
the song speaks,
"Sweet violets-sweeter than all
The roses, is the beautiful violet.n
But unfortunately for us, we are
too apt to cultivate the thistle, or al
low it to find root, spring up and rem
der us unhappy and unqualified to
revel in the Elysian Bowers beyond
the rugged tide, in the fields of imag-
ination beautifully colored, whose
tints vie with each other in splendor.
wrought only by patience, persever-
ance and true courage.
Mr.. Rice, of Indiana, to Miss Laura
Crawford, daughter of Oscar J. Craw-
ford, this county. Rev. Thomas per-
formed the ceremony, and the two
have been one, for one blissful week.
Population is decidedly on the in
crease. More boys than girls.
Mr.. James Powell has in his posses
sion large rattle snake, so tame that
any one can pick it up and fondle with
1t. He talks of sending it to the Zoo
logical garden at Philadelphia.
Hoping the blessing of Heaven may
rest upon the Press, and the readers Of
The HERALD, l am, sincerely, A.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-06-06

The look of pain that DR.. Mary Ualker
gaze him.
Some one at that time laughed in a coarse
and heartless way, and wish you could have
seen the look of pain that Dr. Mary Walker
gave him.
then she went away She did not 90
around the prescription case as the rest of us
did, but strolled through the middle of IT and
so on out through the glass door at the rear
OF the store. We did not see her go throueb
the glass door, but we found pieces of fiy IA.
per and fur on the ragged edges of a large
aperture in the glass, and we kind of iumned
at the conclusion that DIR. Mary Walker had
taken that direction in retiring from the
room
DR.. Mary Walker never returned to a.
Paul, and her exact whereabouts are mot
known, though every effort was made to find
her. Fragments of fly paper and brindle hair
were found as far west as the Yellowstone
National park and as far north as the British
line, but the doctor herself was not found
My own theory is that if she turned her how
to the west so as to catch the strong easterlv
gale ON her quarter, with the sail she had sat
and her tail pointing toward the zenith. tia
chances for DR.. Mary Walkers immediate
return are extremely slim.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-06-06
CHOICE OF OCCUPATION.

Much is said in writings for
youth" as to the importance of
choosing such an occupation for life
as natures inclinations appear to
favor; and in some instances resort
has been made to professional head
and face readers to indicate the line
to which the Uniformed mind should
De directed. But it is often the fact
that even a thinking and sensible
boy is unaware of any decisive acalln
to particular pursuit. Much of
this indecision probably comes from
the fact that the call for choice
occurs at about the time in years and
development when the subject is I'M
fitted to make choice-"not a man,
nor a boy, but a hobbledehoy,n as
an old saw has it.
1t is foolish to strike out" I" map
out" or arrange" for a boys future
calling by means of his expressed
desire at the callow age; the boy
will naturally gravitate to his prop
er line-if the circumstances do not
hinder-if those who have to deal
with him do not Interfere. 1t is not
difficult to ascertain if there is a
bent" in the boys inclination. II
1t is decided, then the influences and
circumstances should be brought to
bear in that direction. But it is best
tGstart. Many make mistakes be-
cause they did not understand, and
sometimes these early mistakes ex.
tend through the lifetime; but Bur.
rift was fair blacksmith, Collyer
was good one, Lincoln was a good
rall splitter, and Johnson was a good
tailor. 1t would be assumptive to
say that the course of these men
wouid have been better if at the be-
ginning they had become linguists,
preachers, statesmen, and presidents
Perhaps it was better that they
were what they were at the begin.
ming.
A friend OF ours was to be an ar
tist-lf he could have governed cir
eamstances; he became machinist
and mechanical engineer because il
Was 10 his way. Certainly he has
done more useful work as a mechan
ic than he ever could have done as
an artist,
Ii there is any moral to facts, as
to fables, it might be that the best
thing an ambitious young man can
do is to do the first thing that comes
to him, the first thing he can reach
by going for it, and watch and wait
opportunities for better things
Sci. Amer.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-06-06

CUMBERLAND, Nd, June 3.-This
morning German named Notzel,
aged about fifty, while walking on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad be.
tween Paw Paw and No. IL water
station stepped from one track to an
other to avoid a train, and was hit
by the engine Of the train on the Sec
ond track, which he did not see ap-
preaching His right leg and arm
were badly mangled and both we're
amputated, and he was sent to
Washington. He has no relatives in
this country, but $3.50 was found up.
on him. He may recover.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-06-06
NORTH MOUNTAIN.

Mr.. Eli Fleming of Little George
town cut his foot severely, last week !;
but is now able to get about a little
with the help of crutches. He was
driving a wedge into an ak handle
with small hand ak the ak slipped
and the blade entered his foot sever
ing large sinew. Under the treat
ment of DIR. Ross the patient is recov-
ering.
Several persons of this vicinage
visited the Decoration ceremonies in
your city, Saturday, and announce
themselves well pleased with them
and the flower strewing success.
Currant worms are still devastating
the currant and gooseberry bushes.
Little Georgetown Sabbath school
is to organize next Sunday if the Supt.,
Mr.. Eli Fleming is able to attend.
This school should have organized
long ere this.
Mr.. Ellis Ellis took head of cattle
to the mountain in quest of "ipastures
new" last Monday.
Mrs. Catherine Seibert of l.. George
town is very i'll again-so ill that her
life was despaired of.
Ah DPAoS VA viz SoONA-f,Aa oS tlldt Ilidly
of our fields are clothed with several
farmers have from 100 to 800 sheep
turned out and minded" along the
thoroughfares.
Mr.. Thomas Morrow received a
shipment of agricultural implements,
this week.
Rev. Ross preached at North Noun
tain school house, last Sabbath. Ow-
ing to the notice Of the meeting not
being circulated, there was but small
attendance. No future announcement
was made.
While enroute frem Hagerstown to
l.. Georgetown, recently, Mrs. Hers
lewis buggy broke down. BY the as
sistance of Mr.. Adam Tabler she was
soon on her way. Mrs. H., daughter,
and son visited her nieces Mrs. Lizzie
Newkirk and Mrs. Luther Ropp of T..
Georgetown.
Mr.. Drury, of Penn, is visiting the
Messrs. Morrow.
Wheat has improved much since
the recent rains. Corn is progressing
very well at present. ALPHA,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-06-06
THE CONFEDERATE CABINET.

WASHINGTON, May 29.-The re.
cent appointment of r. M. T. Hunter,
Of Virginia, to be collector Of customs
at the port of Tappahannock at a
painfully small salary, calls attention
to the whereabouts and condition of
the few remaining members Of the
Confederate Cabinet. There were
fourteen of them-Benjamin, Bragg,
Breckenridge, Mallory, Memminger,
Randolph, Sedden, Trenholm, Wal
ker, Davis, Reagan, Toombs, Watts,
and Hunter. Ofthese, only five now
remain-Davis, Reagan, Toombs,
Watts and Hunter. Of these five,
only two-Reagan and Toombs-
were members Of the original cabinet.
Hunter is not only an old man now,
but very much reduced in circum-
stances, as is shown by his willing
ness to accept a position which pays
but about 5000 a year. There are
few of the members of the Confed-
crate Cabinet who are wealthy. Bob
Toombs, who lives near Atlanta, is
wealthy. Reagan is worth some
thing, but not very much. Watts, of
Alabama, and Davis, of North Caro-
lima though pretty old men, continue
in the practice of law at their res
pective homes. Hunter, as indicated
above, is poor. OF those now dead,
none except Benjamin died wealthy.
He made magnificent fortune, as
is well known, in the practice Of law
abroad. OF those still living, each
resides now in the state from which
he was chosen for bis Cabinet posi-
tion-Reagan in Texas, Hunter in
Virginia, Watts in Alabama, Davis
in North Carolina, and Toombs in
Georgia. Only the civil branches of
the Confederate government are now
represented, all the secretaries of war
and navy having passed away, Hun.
ter and Toombs were secretaries of
state, Davis and Watts attorney
generals, and Reagan postmaster
general. Reagan is probably the
most active, physically and mentally,
of any Of those remaining. He is
strong and vigorous, though he was
at deaths door year ago, when an
operation by some skiltul physician
saved him. Mr.. r. M. Z. Hunters
address is Lloyds, Essex county, Vir,
ginia; Mr.. Reagan's, Palestine, Tex
as; Mr.. T. III. Watts, Montgomery,
Alabama; Mr.. George E. Davis,
Wilmington, N. c.; General Toombs',
Atlanta, Georgia.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-06-06

Governor Cameron has offered a
reward of 81, 900, for the discovery
of the lynchers of Hairston Terry, at
Liberty, Va, for the murder of j.
A. Jeter. Young Terry was taken
from the jail at Liberty on the 18th,
and hung until he was dead.
In an interview with the CORES.
pondent of the New York Herald,
Mrs. Terry said: 81 could not be-
lieve them. Was not this the com.
mnnity out of which my husband
marched the first company that left
that county to the late war, in which
he was wounded four times and had
two horses shot under him Was
not this the people for whom he
fought from Manassas to Appomat-
tox; the people whom after the war
he hac represented in the State Sem
ate for eight years; the people among
whom he was born and raised, and
among whom he bad reared his fam
ily honored members of society ?
And now, when he lay upon a sick
bed in Richmond, paralyzed and
helpless, were these people from
whom he and his deserved every con-
sideration, were they to rise up as
midnight murderers and take the
life of his eldest son without allow.
ing him the most common opportuni-
ties for a trial, which is granted to
the yilest criminal. / could not be-
lieye such a thing possible.u
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-06-06
GENERAL NEWS.

There are at present six hundred
persons down with fever at Ply
mouth, Pa.
A decided falling off of last years
yield is predicted for the wheat crop
all over Europe.
Professor Riley, entomologist of
the Agricultural Bureau, eats locusts
and grasshoppers.
But one firm outside of the Pitts
burg district has yielded to the strlk-
ing workmen, and the strike is gen.
eral.
The course of Cleveland's Admin
istration is estranging many Ger
man-Americans who supported him
last November.
Robert Hardy, a young American
was murdered at a public dancing
party in the City of Mexico early
Sunday morning. In jealous rage
a Mexican killed him.
The town council of Plymouth, Pa,
has been indicted by the grand jury
for criminal neglect of their official
duties IN not keeping the town in
good sanitary condition.
The President has appointed Col.
Charles DENLY, of Indiana, to be
minister to China, and James w.
Whelpley, of New York, to be assis-
tant treasurer of the United States.
The Cabinets action in refusing
to continue the Governments exhib.
it at the New Orleans Exposition
has created great dismay at New
Orleans, and the exposition was
closed.
The steamship City Of Rome, on
her voyage from Liverpool to New
York last week, ran down a French
fishing bark in a fog. The bark
sunk in minute, and twenty-five
lives we're lost.
A strange cattle disease has brok-
en- out in the vicinity of Saybrook,
Ill. Many apparently healthy cattle
have dropped dead in their track, as
if from heart disease. The disease
appears to be contagious.
WILMINGTON, N. c., June Mrs.
Jas. w. Winn widow, and three of
her children, and Mrs. Tony Stefano,
wife of an Italian musician, of this
city, were drowned off Zeke's island,
about twenty-five miles below here to-
day. The children were wading in
the water, and getting beyond their
depth Mrs. Vim and Mrs. Stefano
went to their rescue when all were
drowned.
Secretary Lamar, having asked the
Civil Service Commission to nomi-
nate a female clerk from Dakota to
fill q vacant $1,000 clerkship in the
Pension Bureau, the Commission
Monday answered, refusing to do so,
on the ground that the Commission,
and not the Secretary, is the proper
authority to decide from what states
and territories nominations under
the Civil Service law shall be made.