Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-06
MlTCHELLSVILLE ITEMS.

DOUBTLESS those VINO see this mead
ing will inquire where is this place :?
/ will only say it is very old town
and has always kept abreast the time.
/ feel quite certain the majority of
your many readers have at some time
or other passed through this ancient
place and always unmolested if they
didn't modest others. I will not
mention any of its modern improve
ments. The merry 'clink, clink, clink-
erty clink" is still heard as was when
! you and l were boys, but many
changes have taken place since then.
March has made its appearance with
a life-like countenance.
The wheat fields have been looking
well until recently, but now begin to
show the effects of exposure to cold
weather.
Public sales are unusually numer-
Gus. We noticed twenty-One bills
posted in a little country store the
other day. Property is bringing fair
prices considering the times.
The literary society, little west of
this place, organized shortly after the
holiday, is in a fourishing condition.
1t continues to attract large crowds of
people every evening from the sur
rounding districts, and even some
from your. city. The ladies takes an
active part, and this accounts for its
success. All the questions that have
been discussed, have been of that
character calculated to elevate and
improve. Literaries have taken the
place Of dancing we think at profit
able exchange; Bedington has a lit
erary also, which vies with the above.
Mr.. Jno. Pearrell of Little George
town has sold his farm in Maryland
opposite the above place to Mr.. Adri-
ance johnson of Johnsons' Mills, for
$4,000, one half cash.
Mrs. Catherine Ropp, relict of the
late Jacob Ropp of Little Georgetown,
has been ill for some time, but Is a
little better at this writing, March Sd.
The rain of last week raised the Po-
tomac, and backed water on the wheels
at Falling Waters mills, and the sud-
den change of weather to extreme
colds, froze them pin this condition.
They have them running now.
Water is more plentiful in streams
and wells than ever knew it to be
before at this season. The well at Mr..
S. o. Cunningham's, which frequently
overflows and runs out at the top in the
spring of the year, has been running
with a two-folds volume all winter.
The house of Mr.. John Merchant
was a scene of much sadness last Sum
day morn, 2Sth ult. A large assem-
blage of friends and relatives had
gathered there to pay the last tribute
of respect to his diseased son, Charles
Albert. Albert was dutiful son and
kind-hearted boy, just in the bloom
of youth, only seventeen years old,
and much beloved by all. He was a
member of Bedington Sunday-school,
and told the pastor of that church he
was not afraid to meet death. We ex-
tend our sympathy to the bereaved
family in this their sad affection, and
especially to the heart-rent mother,
who alone knows the depth of her
agony and grief. After service at the
house, the remains were taken to
Martinsburg and inferred in Greenhill
Cemetery.
Weep not, my friends, for Albert dear
God doeth all things wise;
The angel came and summoned him
10 mansions in the skies.
He's gone to sing Gods boundless love;
To dwell with him on high;
And there to praised through endless days
The Lord whose thrones the sky.
Then weep not, father, mother, true,
Your loss is Albert's gain;
Inc Lord IN love. who dwells above,
Hath freed him from all pain;
Hath called him from this world of woe,
From brother, sisters true.
But this is right In Jesus sight
Who loves and pities too. FINS