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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-09-12
We were strolling alone
On the sands.


She must surely have known
From my look and tone
What l wanted to say, when | took in
my own
Both her hands.
She seemed gracious and kind
AS could be.
And encouraged TO find
She was gently inclined,
| plead for the soft-whispered ''Yes''
that should bind
Her to me.
Thus we stood side by side
BY the sea.
Ane to you Ill confide
A cold chill seemed TO glide
Down the length of my spine as the
sweet girl replied,
No-sir-e-e-eln
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-09-12

A Texas gentleman discovered his
servant helping himself to the for.
mer's cigars. "Sam, / am surprised.1
$50 is |, boss. lowed you had dun
gone out inter de kentry."
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-09-12

Say, ma, at death do all Pres
idents lie in state ~ "All except
Washington, my boys. He never lied
at alp
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-09-12
Ayers Cherry PectoraI,
FRUIT TREES FOR SALE

One-half mile east of Gerardstown, al
the Round House Peach Trees, Varieties
from June to November. Trees well
rooted and well branched. Price. 10 to
$14 per hundred, according to selection.
Apple Trees, we'll headed and we'll root.
ed, best winter varieties, $14 per hun.
dred, Is cents single. These are the
rates at the nursery. Trees will be de-
livered within twelve miles of the nusery
at 24 cents extra tree. Terms cash.
JOHN T. McKOWN, Proprietor.
p. o. Gerardstown, Berkeley Co., w.
Va
After the 10th of November is the prop
Ell time to remove the trees.
P. S. No business communication on
the Sabbath.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-09-12
Notice to the Public.

nv wife, Clara Virginia Emerson, hav-
ing left my home against my Wishes |
hereby notify the public that will not
be responsible for any debts contracted
bv her. w. w. EMERSON.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-09-12
OLD FAMILY GROCERY,
STILL AHEAD!-

Having enlarged my storeroom, have
concluded to keep in addition to groceries,
stock of
DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS,
such as Muslins, Ginghams, Flannels, &c.
FAMILY GROCERIES of all kinds, Sugar,
Coffee, Tea, Flour, Hams, Molasses, Coal
Oil, Tobacco, Cigars, at lowest prices. /
call especial attention to my "Wine Bit
tiers and Elderberry Tonics," both
homemade and used as appetizers in sick
ness. Keep also large stock of
OLD HOMEMADE WINES,
Grape, Blackberry, Currant, Wild Cher.
ry, &c. Also Coal and Wood.
"a Pure Grape Juice for Communion
purposes. With thanks for past patron.
age, / solicit share in the future.
JOHN SNODEAL.
Winchester Pike, Martinsburg
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02

his personal convictions may be. The sym
patty of the editorial fraternity has often
been extended to their brethren Of the pulpit
on account of the unfortunate predicament
of the latter in having to advo-
cate doctrines they do not believe, and
they have felicitated themselves at the
same time on their own liberty of conscience
and unhampered speech. Mr.. Savage's con-
dolences, though misplaced, since the editor
of real life has pre-eminently the privilege OF
speaking his mind" will not be resented,
since he speaks as one who has suffered from
repression. In return for his kind wishes to
the press, the hope is advanced that he may
extend his acquaintance with newspapers and
their work, and subscribe for better style of
journal than that to which he seems to have
been accustomed. Having done this, he will
be better qualified to write upon the subject
which he has treated so enormously.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02
GRANT AND WOLFE,

History repeats itself even in the matter
Of anecdotes. It is well known that during
ths period between Shiloh and the fall of
Vicksburg Grants enemies were busy trying
to destroy the Presidents confidence in him.
Among other groundless complaints, the
charge Of drunkenness was urged against
Grant. It was false charge, but some good
people were misled into believing it, at that
time, and naturally were shocked. A COM
mittee was urging this very charge when the
President received the first news of the fall
OF Vicksburg. He listened patiently to all
the committee had to say, and then he asked
with seeming interest "Do you know what
brand of whisky he drinks7' The committee
did not know, but in turn wanted to know the
meaning Of such an inquiry. Lincoln re-
piled, that he really would like to know, so
that he might order his Quartermasters De-
pnrtment to get big supply of it for the use
of his other generals. He then told them Of
Grants success, and his utter disbelief in the
stories about his drinking After that no
further efforts were made to undermine Grant,
and he went on winning victories, which cul
minated in Appomattox.
Parkman, in his ''Montcalm and Wolfe
tells somewhat similar story about Wolfe.
Pitt selected him to command the expedition
against Quebec. He was made a major-gen-
eTal over many older officers. He was chosen
upon his merits and not according to routine
and patronage This offended many officers
and men of influence. Complaints and crit
ciSzns, however, did not alter Pitts purpose.
The Duke Of Newcastle complained to King
George He said that Pitts new general was
mad. "Mad, is he?" replied the old King,
''mad; then I hope he will bite some others of
my generals" Wofe's success more than
justified Pitts choice. Wolfes campaign and
the peace that followed were regarded as the
most glorious war and triumphant peace that
England ever knew. Wolfe died soldiers
death, in battle and in victory upon the
heights of Abraham, and Grant died hero's
dssth upon the top Of Mt. McGregor. Peace
be with them
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02
AN OLD AND NEW CUSTOM.

Il is diverting often to refer to the laws and
customs Of former generations, and in no
other direction more than to our own fore
fathers, who conferred the boon of imperish
able fame upon Plymouth Rock by kindly
landing there instead of further down the
shore. These sturdy old fellows and their
staid old wives were possessed of some very
sxacting ideas relative to social propriety,
md as a consequence embodied in their
erude enactments many of those
views which we now charitably laugh
Mt as old fashioned and absurd. Turning to
the law records of the New Haven colony of
1869, we find the following interdiction:
whoever shall inveige or draw the affections
Of any Made or maide-servant, either to him.
selfe or others, without first gaining the con-
sente Of her parents, shall pay to the plantation
for the first offence 40s; the second "a; for
ths third shall be imprisoned or corporeously
punished"
Il would seem from this that clandestine
days. A fine of forty shillings, about $40, at
that time, when money was more valuable
than now, must have worked wholesome fear
OF consequences and when the fear of fine
for a second offense presented itself, he was
daring and desperate wooer who gave way to his
feelings and INDUCED in the pleasing pastime
Of winning susceptible daughters of implaca-
bic parents. Think of it. we dudes and senti-
mentalsts-$20 fine for a second offense, and
then the possibility of imprisonment and cor
poral punishment if the lover be importunate.
The fellow who had a pretty sweetheart with
obdurate father in those days was on the high
way to the gallows, with little hope of refor-
nation, and no chance at all apprehended. 1t
was well indeed that the souls of men were con-
tent for the most part todwell in strait jackets
then, else the courts would have had little
else to attend to but to fine too ardent lovers,
while the prisons would have proved all too
small to accommodate the reckless victims of
philogynY.
It is reassuring to know that even then,
among the strait -laced pilgrims, there were
men and maidens endowed with many of the
came loves and passions that move mankind
now, and that, despite legislative enactment,
they managed to enjoy some of the alleged
sweets incident to courtship. 1t is of record
that during the self-same year 1869, hapless
pair We're brought to book under its provisions.
1t appears that "Jacobeth Murtine and Sarah
Tuttle We're prosecuted for sitting down on a
ehestle together, his arme around her Waste,
md her arme upon his shoulder about his
neck, and continuing in that sinful posture
about halle an hour, in which time he kvssed
her and she kyssed him, or thew kissed ono
another, as We witnesses testified" The soul
Of sinful humanity all over the world will go
out toward Jacobeth and Sarah, at thought
that they were legally harassed because of
actions which have since become, if not gen,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02
The Inevitable Clock Story.
Washington Special.

" hSUlngtpn SptClaI.
Captain Ross, in conversation with your cor
respondent, spoke of the incident the night before
General Grant died, when the clock struck
wrong. General Grant asked what time it was,
and some one told him it was ! o'clock, but in o
few minutes the clock struck II, and the General
told his attendants that they had better set the
clock right. my mother and General Grants
mother said Captain Ross, "were sisters. Both
are now dead. When my mother died, at La
Crosse, Wis few years ago, a circumstance
very much like that one occurred. When the
clock should have struck II it struck l. and wher
l o'clock came it struck II When 2 o'clock
arrived the clock corrected itself and struck 2
1t strange an occurrence that we all
noticed it, and was reminded of it forcibly by
the publication of the same kind of story in
connection with General Grant
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02

orally approved, at least well-nigh universally
popular. The advent of Sarah Tuttle marks
an era in the worlds progress.
Her seat on the "chestle" by the
side of Jacobeth gives her greater glory,
in the eyes of susceptible young people, than
if she had sat on throne by the side of
earth's mightiest monarch. From the earliest
days to the days of Cassandra and Helen, and
from them to the days of Rowena, and from
simple minded Rowena, the victim of the
fathers ambition, to the advent of warm
hearted Sarah Tuttle. the star of woman 9
freedom had been climbing the heavens
kissing will not bear analysis. One might as
we'll try to dissect bubble-the moment the
attempt is made it fades, dissolves, explodes
blows up-there is absolutely nothing
of it. But the blowing of bubbles will
continue as long as the world shall stand and
the crop of boys is not run out. 1t is even
SO with kissing. Legslate and illuminate
against it as you will, it cannot be circum-
vented nor stamped out. From Sarah and
Jaccbeth the contagion has spread, until the
virus has found its way into the veins of nine
tenths of womankind and "twice as many" of
the men. If lovers were empowered to can
onize anybody, Saint Sarah would undoubted-
ly stand at the head of the calendar. Heloise
was good enough in her way, but
here in our own land scion
of pious pilgrims made for herself record that
will shine down the corridors of dim centur
leg. The light is spreading, the glow increas-
ing as the years fly by. Kissers and kissed
arise and pass out of the world like blades of
grass; but the custom still grows in public
favor Dear Sarah! Could she once more
visit the scenes of her long passed daring, she
would doubtless be mildly amazed at the
spread of the crop which she so innocently
planted. If the old "chestle" is still in exist
ence there must be halo about it foot
thick.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02

AN effort is being made in London to Sc
cure the publication of an autotype reproduc-
ton of Harvey's manuscript lectures before
the Royal College of Physicians in 1916, in
Guiding his earliest observations on the heart
and circulation. The manuscripts were lost,
and rediscovered in the British Museum in
1877. The writing is so cramped archaic
and abbreviated that only an expert can make
a transcript. Such transcript is to accom-
pany the autotype, made under the care of
Mr.. Bond, the chief librarian, and subscrip-
tons will be taken for. the book,
which is not to exceed GO in cost.
Harvey discovered the circulation at Folk
stone, in 1878, but not till after careful and
laborious investigation did he formally pub
lish his treatise. His reputation at once be-.
came national and continental; he was made
physician to James l. and afterward to
Charles I. He wrote other works, the MANI
scripts Of which were burned in the civil
war, two only being preserved in the British
Museum, of which the contemplated autotype
reproduction is one. The views of Harvey's
predecessors were vague; the word arteries.
meaning air tubes, primarily, indicates their
view that these vessels contained emily air.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02
Thrilling Discovery.

Mlnntapols IflDuhe
1t is announced that Mr.. Edward Eggleston,
in ransacking some private Libraries in England,
has found important documents which clear
away the mystery surrounding Nathaniel Bacons
rebellion in Virginia 1t is difficult to estimate
the force of the wave Of enthusiasm which will
sweep over the country when this great news is
confirmed,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02
Langtry's Hard Cheek.
Pittshurg Dispatch.

The general mourning allows a very wide lati-
tude in the sending of condolences to General
Grants family; but when Mrs. Langtry adds to
other advertisements of herself by telegraphing
her sympathy, it is necessary TO remark that
her cheek is attractive not less for its adaman-
tine qualities than for its beauty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02
Yankee Ignorance.
ROstOu .Tourna


The Standard AYERS that last Saturday lady
entered an embroidery store in New Bedford and
inquired what all the decorations on the build
ings were for. Being told that they were in
honor of Gen. Grant she waited moment and
then said: When do they expect Mr.. Grant, to-
day. or next week?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02

This was based on the fact that the arteries
are found empty in death. AS figure of
speech, at the present time one would hardly
say the blood in our arteries but, rather, in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02
The Time for Small Things.

chicago Tribune
The July number of the New York Advertiser
Reporter has article on What indiana
Editors Think" This. with the discussion Of
the cholera microbe. leads US to believe that the
time for paying due attention to small things has
arrived.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02
The Man To BE Grants panesyrist.

BOSLOn EtCOtu.
Roscoe Conkling is the orator of national rep
utation who would treat all the phases and incl
dents of Grants career with the completest sym
pathy and greatest admiration. What Blaine
did for Garfield, Corklng could DO for Grant,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02

A Boston proof reader has disappeared from
home, leaving note behind saying that his
friends would never see him again. He probably
grew discouraged with trying to arrange what
the editors did say according to his ideas of
what they should have said.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02
The Fact of the Matter.


TIIIbDWIR OHTUHIVIts
There are some Indians who till farms and
build houses and send their children to school;
but they are the exception and not the rule. The
great majority of them can neither be coaxed
nor compelled to adopt any of the rules Of ciyili
uation
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02

AN unposted exchange remarks that South
Carolina is the only State which allows no di
vorce. This mistake AS long as couple
remain in state OF matrimony there can be no
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02

A MONUMENT was unveiled, last week, at
Danvers, Mass, to the memory of Mrs. Rebecca
Nourse, who was hanged for witchcraft two
hundred years ago. If Rebecca was the bad
woman her old-tme enemies maintained,
her disemboded spirit probably executes
a broomstick jig around that monument
each night calculated to make the very
dust of the Puritan worthless quiverwit horror.
If she was the martyred saint her descendants
describe her to have been, then she, perhaps,
attunes her harp to new song of rejoicing
whenever her gaze rests upon the marble shaft
commemorative of her virtues. In any case
Rebecca may now be regarded as having rather
the best of it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02

THERE issomething too much of this Grant Cos
sip. The public is interested in personal anec-
dotes of the dead hero, and all sorts of remi-
niscenes of his career are eagerly read This in
terest is natural, and can but be gratifying to
the near friends and relatives 1t
may be doubted, however, whether
any demand exists for the repuisive
description Of the undertaker's and embalmer' s
work, or for circumstantial account of the way
the family bear their grief. The wife and chill
dren have rights which the public should feel
bound to respect. The dead man was husband
and father, not General nor ex-President, to
them and their sorrow should be as safe from
prying eyes and gossiping tongues as
if he had been the humblest of private
citizens. The Jenkins who follows Mrs.
Grant to the very door when she goes to take a
look at the face of the beloved dead, and notes
that she remains ':just seven minutes" and that
her face, which was pale and composed on enter
ing, was flushed and tear-stained on her return,
caters to morbid and vulgar curiosity which
should not be encouraged by the publication
of such details. The reporter who
speculates on the probable contents of the letter
to his wife found in the Generals pocket after
his death, and indicates a sense of injury over
his inability to secure sight of the document,
shows the same inexcusable imp ertinence. The
evident disposition OF the Grants to remain in
close retirement and to avoid parade of their
grief should be respected. The spying and pry-
ing into their affairs and behavior is an offense
to good taste and decency which should be
frowned upon by every newspaper publisher.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02

Swayed by each love, and swaying to each love
Like some conjectured planet in md-heaven
Between two suns, and drawing down from both
The light and genial warmth of double day"
That is to say, it is pretty picture so far as
the Princess is concerned, but does not alter the
cold fact that the two who love her mother
in-law and son-in-law respectively, and that the
warmth" which the latter draws down upon
himself from the frst-named son may be too
intense to be agreeable. However. Tennyson's
lines addressed to Beatrice and no was not
bound to provide the husband with an ideal
position in life
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02

THAT is a pretty picture Lord Tennyson
draws of the Princess Beatrice moving through
her mothers home between the two that love
her, meaning the Queen and Battenberg, and
leading
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-07-22

tenance of such lines hardly needs to be
asserted. For some time we have been as
nation engaged in the consideration OF
the problem of how to extend our COM
merce with other nations, and find mar
kets for the surplus products of our man
ufactories, and one OF the most seri.
Gus obstacles in the way of such extension
of our commerce has been universally ad-
mitted to be the decline of American ship
ping, and the fact that our carrying trade
was being done in foreign bottoms. The
United States imports from Brazil pro-
ducts to the value of $2l, 654.S04. and ex-
ports to Brazil products to the value OF
50, 2O6. O56. Great Britain imports from
Brazil to the amount of S2.359, 16l, and
exports to Brazil to the amount of ST.
$50. 1876. The goods Brazil buys could be
furnished tor the most part by the United
States as cheaply as by Great Britain. but
the secret of this enormous disparity in
these figures lies in the simple fact that
Great Britain does the carrying trade, and
British ships subsidized by tree trade
England, carry British manufactures to
Brazil, and on their return stop at New
York to leave cargoes of Brazilian coffee
and spices
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-07-22
Rev. DIR. Prime.

The death of Samuel Irenacus Prime, the
noted clergyman and scholar, occurred in
Manchester, VT. last SATURDAY. from parav-
sis Dr. Prime was born at Ballston. n. Y,
Nov. 4. 1872 His ancestry were men of
note, whose names are found in the history
of the Presbyterian church in America. His
great-grandfather was a Presbyterian clergy
man of ante Revolutionary times. and was a
distinguished scholar and divine. His grand
father was DR.. Benjamin B. Prime, whose
patriotic songs form part of the preserved poe
try of the Revolution. and man of varied
learning. who wrote freely in several foreign
languages, both in poetry and prose. His
father, Rev. Nathaniel :. Prime. D. ID and
long deceased, was graduate of Princeton,
and was we'll known for his scholarly abili-
ties and pulpit eloquence and for his publish
ed works. Samuel graduated from Williams
in his 18th year. studied theology at Prince
ton, and entered the ministry before he was
2l. Constrained by feeble health to relin-
qush pulpit labor, he became connected with
the New York Observer in 1910, of which,
with slight interval, he was the editor until
his death, Through his powerful editorship
the Observer became spower in the Christian
world. and DIR. Prime became recognized as
the ablest theological writer in this country
He was also the author of several charming
books of travel. many of which enjoved wide
spread popularity. He was corresponding
secretary of the American Bible Society vice.
president and director of the American Tract
Society, corresponding secretary of the Amer
lean Evangelical Alliance, vice-president and
director of the American and Foreign Chris
tan Union, president of the New York Assoc
citation for the Advancement of Science and
Art. ex-president and trustee of Williams
College, honorary Fellow OF the Incorporated
Society of (English) Authors, and a member
of many other religious, benevolent and liter
ARG oruanizatious