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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-17

sSTERN PENNSYL-
vania, strange as it
may seem,'' said q
prominent musician
tho other day in the
presence or q Chi
cago Times repre-
sentative. furnishes
about all the writer's
OF sacred music and
also the prominent
gospel singers"
Who are prominent
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-17

a FRENCH journal has just discov,
cred the name of the Frenchman who
shot Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar,
but as the brave Admiral would hard
ly be alive now had he not been shot,
no Investigation is likely to take place.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-17

"Well, should say Sankey as O singer
is by no means the equal Of p. +. Bliss;
then comes f. o. Excell, Sam Jones'
singer; James McGranahan, who is With
Major Whitney i'll England; d. b. Towner,
now travelling with Moo dy, and George c.
Stebbins, associated with the Rev. Pente.
cost in gospel work in tho East. As music
writers McGrannhun is entitled to first
place, with Snnkey good second, then
Stebbins, next Townor, with Excel bring
ing up the rear.
'But towering far above them all, both
as O singer md cOmposer. stnnds Z. z.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-17

York. Miss Crosby has been blind from
birth and has very peculiarly shaped
head. Perhaps her best-known work is tho
words of Sweet Hour OF Prayer ."
''E o. Excall, who comes next to San
key MS n singer came to Chicago about
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-17

the new class of gos-
pei music. Bradbury
was poor mn sic-teach-
or who tl'amped about
Connecticut on foot
teaching sin gius-
school wherever lie
could get the chance.
At that time all
church music was of
the slow, severe, dig
nii,ed order, such as
the tunes of Dennis
Duke Street, 'Ariel,'
etc. About 1S35
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-17

4
Bliss, who persisted
in the Asitabula dis
aster in 1876. Bliss
was full of music
from boyhood. He
began writing oven
before he knew any
thing about tho the
DRY of music OF har-
mony. Ho published
quantities of sheet
music, class and Sun
day school books, hut
lie first gained prom
inence through Cos =
pei Hymns and Sa-
cred Song - This
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-17

THE man who reaches the top of the
ladder must get there in q roundabout
way.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-17
FUN WITH PEANUTS.

Cheap ard Simple Way of Amusing :hs
Littlc FOlks.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-17
a NEyER-FAILING SIGN.

Mr.. McFlynn to Mrs. McFlynn-
"Begorra, Bridget, Oh niver knew it to
fail yit. There is yer white-headed
gurrul an yer red horse. Chicago
Ledger
The Opelousas courier., 1890-05-24

ground, hallowing the very soil by the
severity and heroism Of their sufferings.
There is an order sent at that trying
time to j. Lacey Darlington, ST., OF West
Chester, great grandfather of General J.
Lacey Darlington, .sby His Excellency
George Washington, General and Com
mander-in-C Chief of the forces of the
United States of America"
BY virtue of the power to me specially
given, 4 hereby. enJoin and require al PER-
sons residing within ten miles OF my head.
quarters to thrash one-half of their grain by
February ! and the other half by the 1st
dayof March next ensuing, on pain, IN case
of failure, of all that shall remain in sheaves
> = = being seized by the commissioner
and q-uartermastars Of the army and paid
for as straw.
Given under my hand at Headquarters,
near che Valley 70 rye. this Goth day OF De.
cember, 1777. GEORGE WASHINGTON.
By His Ex~cellency's command, Robert FL.
Hickory, Secretary
It was because of such ~privations as
few soldiers are called upon to 90
through that such orders were given out,
and out OF their bitterness of want and
famine grew the savage byword, aNo
bread, no soldier, 7 that wal forced from
the lips of the famished, struggling
patriots who suffered for their conntry's
Independence.
The site of the camp is but d few
yards south of The schuylkill River, and
commands an extensive view OF the
lovely scenery along the courss Of that
The Opelousas courier., 1890-05-24

INFRINGEMENT HILLS.

members of Congress and to Mr.. Cleve-
land when he was President and to Mr..
HARRISON, urging them to take some
steps toward the preservation of Valley
Forge, but beyond the bill introduced by
Senator Daniel voorhees,, of Indiana, to
have an appropriation of half a million
set aside to purchase the grounds, the
bill, by the way, being lost in committee,
nothing has been done in the matter. ]
would like to have the historical s~anctity
of the grounds preserved, and only the
Government can do So"
That the grounds are well worth pres
ervation there can be no doubt. Mr.. Car
ter's tract embraces the famous forge,
after which the valley is named, and the
tract nov before the public for sale has
the famous spring from which Washing
ton drew his morning draught of the
pure sparkling fluid.
Near the spring is the spot where the
headquarters of the t'greatest American
stood. In that camp, as every well in,
formed American schoolboy knows, o.
ought to know, was passed the gloomies'
and saddest period Of the war for indie
pendence. There it was that the patrio
army, ragged, half starved, disheart
ened, without shoes or blankets or prope
clothing, slept at night during the who'll
of that dreadful winter on the bare earth
and in the daytime, while providing fire
wood for their rude, comfortless huts
left foot tracks Of blood on the frozel
The Opelousas courier., 1890-05-24
Turned Into a Pin Cushion.

There is in Georgia 8 Confederate
General who was literally shot full of
pins during the late war. He was an ex-
temporized pin cushion, but the pins
saved his life. On one occasion the
General was lying in his tent at night.
The Federals were near enough to shoot
into the camp.
It is said he had just finished a letter
home and had thrown himself down for
a few hours rest before the hot work that
would begin in the early morning, when
pingl q mimic bullet from q sharpshoot-
er's rifle sped through the tent and struck
the General in his left side. The blow
stunned him, and he lay as dead for q
few moments.
When he recovered consciousness he
felt d singing pain in his breast, and,
tearing open his shirt, found that the ball
had struck a package of pins his wife
had given him, thinking they would be
needful in those days when there was no
one to sew and patch, and had driven
every one OF them into his flesh. They
had saved his life, but he was a walking
rushiorl, hrfstling with pin-hesds.-
atlanta Larael.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-05-24
ROOM.

Residents in the neighborhood still
I point out to visitors the place under an
old oak tree on the left bank OF valley
] Creek, where Washington was discovered
| by Isaac Potts on his knees in prayer, his
| cheeks wet with tears, beseeching the
| Almighty for guidance and victory for
the army intrusted to his command.
The Potts's residence, adjoining Wash
ington's headquarters, was recently pur.
| chased by the Patriotic Order, Sons OF
| America, and it has been converted into
a national museum. The old mansion
was restored to its original style of archi-
lecture and some of the old furniture OF
the Washington residence at Mount Yer
non placed within it. The museum also
contains a small arsenal OF armorlal
relics of the Revolutionary War. The
village of Valley Forge covered the sight
of the artiticers' headquarters and gun
shops. The encumbrance upon TINS
property was entirely obliterated by vol
untary contributions of the Patriotic
Sons of America, a~ggregating $3370.99,
during the Pennsylvania State camp term
of 1856, and not one cent was taken
from the State camp treasury for this pur-
pose, although due authority had been
given bv the State Convention of 1886
to make up a balance then due, but
which was Immediately thereafter made
up by the camps. A free title was there
upon acquired by the Centennial and
| Memorial Association, the male members
The Opelousas courier., 1890-05-24
A Peculiar Defect in the Voice.

The late Edwin A. Cowles, Of Cleve-
land, had a peculiar impeachment in his
speech. There has probably never been
a case like it. The cause of this impedi-
ment was a mystery until he was about
twenty-five years old, when Professor
Kennedy discovered that it was caused
by defect in his hearing. He never heard
the Kissing sounds of the human voice,
and consequently did not make them
himself. He never heard the notes OF
a piano or IN organ of the seventh
o~ctaves, never heard the upper notes OF
a violin, the fife or other high music.
He never heard the song of birds and
always supposed, until his peculiarly was
discovered, that the music of the birds
was poetical fiction. When Professor
Kennedy was experimenting upon him,
Mr.. Cowles was put into a room with
twenty canary birds, but, although he
placed his ear close to the cage when
they wers singing henever herd q note.
-New KegE TsaaSy.
AlZ
The Opelousas courier., 1890-05-24
Prescribed While Asleep.

81 had an unusual experience q few
nights ago." said a celebrated woman
physician, (which illustrates how &C.
curately the brain may sometimes carry
on the activities of the day during the
interval of sleep, although such uncon-
scious cerebration would not do to swear
by. A few nights since ! watched all
night at the bedside of a very sick pa.
tient. Early in the morning I lay down,
telling the nurse to call me if such and
such changes occurred. The changes
came, and she did call NE. I rose, went
to the bedside, examined the patient
carefully, changed the medicine and Or
dered a different treatment. Then I went
back to bed. When / awoke again, and
the nurse referred to the change in the
night, I did not know what she meant.
I mad not the falntest recollection of hav-
ing been called or of having prescribed
anything else. / examined the patient
she was better. Then I turned to the
remedies; they were just what the case
required. I had carried on the proper
course of reasoning, and / had met every
emergency of the case. and yet I was
sound asleep all the while."-Nes0 Yorl
Sun.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-05-24
A Queen q Voluntary Slave.

Hester Cora Mitchell, as she was
known here after becoming the slave Of
ex-Governor Mitchell, is buried in the
cemetery in this city. She was Queen OF
some African tribe, and came to this
country voluntarily, bringing with he,
all the insignia of her royalty-crown
and robes, and jewels, etc. She wal
pleased with this country, and resolved
to lay down her robes of royalty and be.
come q slave, as above stated. Every
Christmas, until her death, she would
appear in all the gorgeousness of her
qneenly paraphernalia. After this exhi-
bition, she would retire, lay aside her
quesnly attire, and go into the kitchen
as humbly as any of the other servants Of
Governor Mitchell. When Hester Cora
died, Governor Mitchell had her buried
in her regalia.-MHedgseiM (Ga.)
Chronicle.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-05-24

stream. The old stone mansion occu-
pied by Washington and his personal
staff fronts the station of the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad, and southwark a
quarter of a mile is the spot where Wash
ington's original headquarters stood,
the building now removed, occupied
es him in December, 177y. Less
than a stones throw away is the bub-
bling spring, named after the famous
| General, whose waters, unless Congress
sional action intervenes, will be turned
into the plebeian beer. Tt is on the right
bank of Valley Creek, and on the other
side of that, a step below, is the site Of
the old Valley Forge, built in 1757, snd
probably the Oldest rolling mill in the
United States. A few hundred yards
southeast, extending in a zigzag line ap-
proximately north and south for a quarter
Of a mile, are the remains of the old en-
trencnments and ~breastworks, still easily
distinguishable by the irregular and scat
tered heaps of stones and the uneven ele-
vations of the green sward. On the right
Of these remains are the foundations,
stones and decayed timbers of Fort Wash
ington, which served as the eastern bull
wark of the camp, while southwest of
this, a quarter of a mile further, is the
headquarters of General Knox and the
officers of his command. A short dis
lance below, on the other side of the val
lev creek, is the site of L~afayette's head
quarters. The railroad station near
Washington's stone house, which was
then owned by Isaac Potts, is four miles
east of Phenixville, thirty-tive miles from
Philadelnhia.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-05-24

of which association are all earnest mem
bers of the Order of Pennsylvania. An
appropriation from Pennsylvania State
was received in 1887, and the interior
and exterior of the headquarters was at
once completely repaired and restored to
their original condition, and nearly $4,000
was expended in this work of restoration
and Improvement. The building at that
time began to show evidences of decay;
it had also been used as a tenant house.
This has been discontinued, and the as
ISOLATION has made it its aim to furnish it
thoroughly with furniture and relics of
the Revolutionary period, much of which
has been gathered and put in place. 4
%janitor has charge of the headquarters
and occupies q lodge adjoining with his
family.
Congress will be m~emorialized by the
Women's Christian Temperance Union Of
Philadelphia to preserve the historic
grounds and %heirlooms, and that associa-
ton is taking active steps to interest
members in the purchase and preserya-
ton of the ground from the hands of the
land grabber and boomer, and to judge
from the active interest taken in the mat
ter, the indications are that no brewery
will watt the odor Of hops over the
famous ground stained with the blood of
the nations martyrs.
Valley Forge may yet be a national
park, and one of greater historic and ma
tional interest than ever the Yellowstone
Park. It lies entirely with Congress
whether the next generation will go to
Valley Forge to drink beer or view the
spot where Independence bled and suf-
fered.-New York Herald.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-05-24
The fow OF British capital into Mexico


The flow OF British capital into Mexico
is almost as extensive as its influx to this
country. Nearly 300, 900, 600 of Eng
lish gold was invested there last year
and railroads, lands, mines, manu-
features and banks have all participated
in this Pactoleant stream to such an ex.
tent that the maintenance Of order in the
Republic has become almost as important
to Great Britain as to Mexico herself.
The Mexican Railroad, the National, the
Interoceanlc, the Central, the Mexican
Southern and the ~Tehuantepec lines are
every one of them strictly English COM
panies. British capitalists have under.
taken the %stupendous work of draining
the Valley of Mexico; and, according to
a report recently issued by the London
Foreign Office, in two provinces alone
several millions Of acres of fine land ars
owned by English subjects engaged il
cattle raising.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-05-24
v7e 2 JUMBO REPAIRED.

.Jumbo's trunk must be cut of before
his friends arrive. 1t must be cut Oh be,
low the tusk, as shown in Fig. 2, and
then as many trunks as there are to be
guests are shaped by it and iald IN a
basket ready for the fun. JUMBO Is
pinned upon a sheet, which is hung
smoothly upon the wall. Every one
present is then blindfolded and given a
trunk to pin on. Fast grows the fun,
and how keenly the little folks enjoy 1t!
All, one of the gown up people has taken
the BOBBY prize by pinning the trunk
upon one of the elephants hind feet.
There poor Jumbo stands, with trunks
pinned all over his body-everywhere
but where the trunk grew.-S. A0saS
Post Dispatch.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-05-24
BEDROCK Philosophy

when worries and troubles surround you,
Don't fret. ~
Go to work!
You will always have trouble around You,
You beta
If Won shirk.
The naa who is busy his worry forgstas ~
,u,s mind isn't harrassed by thoughts OK his
debts,
the harder he works, the more p
he gets.
TIL he's gay as a Turk.
re Fortune won't smile, let ner HOW'LL
She will. ?
Never mind!
Don't sulk, and look wholly cast down. *
She still z
Seems unkind.
r. -, smile at her, soon she will smile back
at you.
Won ara certain to win her, IL you WILL
pursue
Her with cheerful persistence, and nope ever
new,
And then solace you'll find.
The world doesn't care for your woes,
Oh, no!
Not q bit!
The man who il wise never shoWs
His foe
That he's hit.
Every one of your neighbors has grlefs Ok
his own,
He greatly prefers to let your grleis alone'
And hs doesn't at all enjoy hearing you
- groan,
So take warning and quit!
-~Somsrpille Journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-05-24
VALLEY FORGE.
THE HISTORIC HEADQUARTERS
OF GENERAL WASHINGTON.
A HalIowed Spot in Danger of Desc.
cration-The Grounds and Head
quarters Described-An Old
Mansion Restored.

In patriotic circles the announcement
that a large tract of land in Valley Forge
is to be sold, with the probability thai a
brewery or distillery will be erected on
the spot, hallowed as few places in the
Union are, has excited much attention,
and strenuous efforts are being made to
save the famous old ground.
This tract comprises the entire site &C.
cupied by General George Washington
and the Continental Army during the
winter of 1777-S. Itcovers 100 acres of
beautiful land, broken up here and there
with abrupt wooded hills, and the whole
locality is rich in patriotic mementos.
The property belongs to Mr.. J. B. Car
The Opelousas courier., 1890-05-24
SELECT SIFTINGS.

Milledeeville, Ga, has a youthful
citizen who not only walks but eats IN
his sleep.
A plan for opening a hotel at the foot
of the Pyramid of Cheops, in Egypt, is
under consideration.
Honey Lake, Lassen County, Cal.' dry
| as a lime kiln for two years past, Is now
| filing up again with water.
Jane Simmons, a colored woman, OF
| Milledgeville. Ga, has followed the
butchering business for twenty years.
The largest single pension which mas
ever been awarded in this country mas
lust been drawn in Indiana by marie
| Flahertv, an engineer on the Vandalla
road. 1t amounts to 1900.
Forty-one years ago c. LongtelloW, a
druggist at Machias, Me-, inserted an
advertisement of his business in the trst
issue OF the local paper. 1t has appeared
in every issue since, and Longfellow has
been prosperous.
"There is a lady living on the east
side of the ~r1ver," says an Augusta,
Maine paper, "who is in her seventies
and is cutting new set of teeth. Sew
eral months ago the gums became painful,
and in q short time the teeth began te
appear"
A grocer at Lynchburg, Va, who had
been in business for thirteen years with
out making a cent, couldn't figure out
how it was until his head clerk was taken
sick, thought he was going to die, ano
owned up to having embezzled abou'
$4,000.
| Amerchant in Nebraska had only 81
to nut into his safe the other night. HI
put up a placard to that effect, but bur
glars blew it open, and were so mad a
the smallness of the sum that they went
to the merchants house and hauled hin
out of bed and thumped him almost t.
death.
A Maine soldier, who was a partici
pant in one of the battles of Sherman's
: March to the Sea, a fight lasting several
hours, AYERS that from the firing of the
first hostile gun until the battles close
his conscious existence was lost, and ne
was never able to recall a single incident
of the fight.
4 messenger, sent to bring a doctor to
dress the wounds Of a laborer injured in
a quarry at Upper Merton, Penn, and
being of the opinion that the man would
die, took it upon himself to notify the
coroner. When the latter visited the
scene he found the injured man on q fail
way to recovery.
The japanese never sleep with thu
head to the north. This is because thu
dead in that country are always purleo
with the head toward the north. In
| sleeping rooms of private houses, and o.
hotels even, a diagram of the points OF
the compass is pasted upon the ceiling fol
the beneft'of guests.
Henry Stratford, of Kingston, Onta'
rio, has received a letter from England
which went into the sea when the steam
ship Oregon was wrecked and sunk in
1886. The letter in question was found
buried in the sands of the beach neal
Cape Hatteras, N. c. The mail bag con
tanning the missive drifted 400 miles from
the scene of the wreck.
The birth of a popular expression is
ascribed to the first John Jacob Aston:
"Being q German by birth, Mr.. Aston
supposed that %. X was an abbrevia-
ton of sall correct which, in his own
mind, he spelled 'oll korrect.' The joke
upon Mr.. Astor found its a yinto print,
and was SO much appreciated that his 90
K soon passed into common use"
The Opelousas courier., 1890-05-24
THE HEADQUARTERS.

ter, or rather Mrs. Carter, the daughter
of Benjamin Mather, once President of
the Senate of Pennsylvania. 1t has been
in the family for close on to a century.
In a circular Mr.. Carter, who is a hard
ware merchant in Philadelphia, n
nounces the beauties of the land which
be is about to sell.
This circular Mr.. Carter has ad-
dressed to every member of Congress and
the Senate and to every Governor and
prominent man in the United States.
Accompanying it is a map of the tract to
be sold. Speaking OF the circular, Mr..
Carter, whose patriotism is unquestioned,
said:
'E:hate to part with the property, but
I am compelled to do SO, and the reason
why I got up these circulars was for the
purpose of quickening action on the part
Of Congress. I have received an offer
from a New York brewing concern which
is DESTROYS of utilizing the pure water and
The water power for their purposes. But
to think that a brewery should be erected
on the property is exceedingly repugnant
TO me. l would much rather that the
property were cut up into building lots,
Or that some magnificent hotel were built
there and the historic old ground keptas
a park in good repair for pleasure parties
and sightseers. It is a crying shame that
the famous grounds should be lost to the
country. I would rather, of course, 81
it to the Government than to any private
Individual or syndicate, not knowing to
what uses the latter would put it. My
wife and myself find the property too
costly to keep, and We are forced to part
with it. / have written personally to
The Opelousas courier., 1890-05-24

According to a correspondent Of the
London Times q strike in Russia is prac-
tically a revolt against all authority. He
sends an account of one, which occurred
about a month ago, to illustrate the stu
pidity of the men and the very ~eficacious
methods adopted by the authorities.
Owing to a falling off in trade, the pro-
nrietors Of some mills discharged a num-
Der of hands. Immediately all the work
men surrounded the managers, and de-
manded, with threats of violence, that
work should be found for the usual num-
Der of hands. The police were called in,
who removed fifty Of the most clamorous
men. The others were COMPOUNDED by
the disappearance of their leaders and
went back to work quietly. They never
knew what became of them, but as 6
matter Of fact they were taken to the salt
mines of Cracow, where they were
scourged and ill-treated till they sought
refuge in death. Thus the number of
hands wa reduced, and fifty men dan
gerous to the Government were re-
moved.