Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-08-21
(From The Shepherdstoscn Registe,.

Mr.. G. Campbell Janney, formerly
of Martinsburg, has moved to Spring.
field, Ohio, where he has purchased
an interest in the company that makes
the Evans corn-planter.
/ One day last week 1902 lambs were
shipped from Wytheville, Va, to be
| forwarded via the Shenandoah Val.
ley Railroad for the New York mar
ket. The shipment was the largest Of
| the kind ever made from Southwest
ern Virginia.
The Harvest Home at Jones Spring
last Thursday was great success,
Revs. John w. Hedges and A. S.
Hank delivered addresses and Miss
Edith Hedges recited several pieces
very effectively. A very large crowd
was present, and all seemed to enjoy
the day.
Items that should be published are
often left out of local papers from nc
other cause than the editor fails to
hear of them until they are old and
moss covered. Quite often some one
! regrets that certain new items were
not in the paper. So does the editor.
A minister wanted to get some
church news in, but he did not want
| it bad enough to come around and
say so. Some one had been away on
a visit or has made some new i'm
provement, but does not think ii
worth while to notify the editor. A
gentleman not long ago remarked
that he might come and go forever,
but the paper would never mention
it. His own fault. Hand in the local
news if you want local paper.
A meeting of the board of directors
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Company was held last Friday in Bal.
timore. Hon. Henry G. Davis was
before the board and made an expla.
nation of the proposed route tor the
Cumberland and Piedmont railroad
over the property of the canal com.
pany. The canal directors were Of
the opinion that the railroad ought te
| acquire such rights Of way as it might
need by condemnation. The canal
managers say that in view of the low
| freights made by the railroads it is
almost impossible to compete with
them. The coal companies are doing
but little to keep it from ending its
days by a want of sufficient trade
The canal company will be Obliged
to make a further sale of bonds in
order to meet heavy expenditures
The obligation for the repairs of Dam
No. 6 will be met, and the indebted
ness for 1886 will soon be settled.
The July interest on the repair
bonds of 1878 has not been paid. The
present administration have deter
mined on the policy of providing fol
the payment of the workingmen in
preference to the bondholders, and
until the Indebtedness to the laboreri
is discharged there will be no pay
ment to the bondholders.
While old John Brown was organ
izing his memorable Harper's Ferry
raid he gave out that he had come tt
settle in the South Mountain as {
prospector for ores of the preciou!
metals. He affirmed his convictions
that the rocks through which thu
Potomac had forced its way at The
Ferry contained the raw material O.
untold wealth. After the raid haC
been consummated his story was re
garded as an idle tale, corrected fol
the occasion but from time to time
small quantities of auriferous quart;
have been found in the rocks, just a,
he predicted. Now comes the an
nouncement that near Weverton, il
Washington county, and Berlin an(
Knoxville in Frederick county, al
located on the same group of rocks
quantities of silver ore have been dis
covered on the Virginia side of tn,
Potomac. T" Ossawatomie" Brown
proved true prophet in his last hour
when he foretold the doom of slavery
and the troubles that were to light OF
Harper's Ferry. If the operation
now in progress prove successful, hi
reputation for another sort of pre-
science would be fully established.