The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-04-28
BRIEFS AND PERSONALS.

Sui trembles rom her touch: the frail.
Tail lily, downward bending.
SIN keeps ker kiss; the stairway rail
Is warm yet, where, descending,
She laid he's warm while palm; and still
The fount her face is CHASING.
Twas here she passed. The cour,, aihrin,
Is frightened by her passing.
Twas here she passed. On, Cod the dread
Deep pi,g Of me- :oing,
Borne in her narrow co fin bed
Pale lilies DER her snowingl
The bearers feet upon The s.a'r
Were heavy when desceud'Dy;
Aod one be ore, WIN mu tered praye
his white head dow owaid be 'ding,
Went slowly! Oh, her sha..e.ed rose
The wayeless QUA is 81 owing.
Twas here she passed. The sunly close
Is dar.ened by her going
Next comes the strawberry festival.
When the cherry blooms, plant the
garden seeds.
Go to Ibe Opera House tonight and
help TIE ladies in their work for the
LPIeCOpdl Cuulcu.
Let every Democrat remember he
has sacred duty to perform on the
fourth Thursday in May.
Mr. Ben. May, former Farmville
boy, is now with the Cunningham
Drug Company as their registered
clerk.
Judge Mann has given notice that
the case against his client, Thomas w.
Price, will be appealed to the circuit
court.
The HERALD is only $l.00 a year and
every mao in Southside Virginia-or
at least ia all surrounding counties to
Falmville, should subscribe.
Fifteen hu1dred dollars a year for
the last twenty-five years would have
paved and kept paved more streets
than Farmvile now has.
Work of improving the Baptist
church has begun. We bear that some
eighteen hundred or two thousand dol
lars will be spent in repairs.
There is no earthly need for catching
and punishiog the dog. His owner is |
the Que to catch. Not the dogs fault. |
The Methodist services are held now
in the lecture room of the church,
while the upstairs is being repai, ed and
beautifed.
Robert Giles, colored, died at his
home on Israei/nill VAST Sunday. The
deceased wasoveJ ninety>yeSrs of age,
ald had been a,fesident Of this county
for many years.
The May meeting Of the Ladies
Cemetery Association will be held in
the council chamber Thursday after
noon, May 4th, at O'Clock.
Maud X. Taliaierro, Rec, Sec.
We do not cut from our subscription
book the name of a subscriber in a
hurry. Very few wish the paper stop
ped, and it often gives offence for US to
erase names of regular subscribers.
We furnish the HERALD and the
New York Void for Sl.6O per aunum;
the HERALD aud the Richmond Dis
patch for 81 go; the HERALD ami the
Tines for sl60. With eth
er OF these we give absolutely free for
)ne year, the Farm, Furnace and
Factory, an ideal monthly magazine.
Subscribe now.
The dog law as il now is in Farm
vile is as big a NUISANCE as the dogs
themselves. We would like to see an
amendment 20 it. The law ought not
% be repealed, but there should be
'ome provision made to spare the dog
md pu0ish his Ow Ger when the latter
'efJses or De2lecis to pay the prescribed
AK. About fif,eea dogs were ia the
)oUod yesterday, without water or
God. This is cruelty to animals such
Is the law of any civilized land pro-
libits.
A down East editor has drawn up
ome new game laws, which he wants
ldopted. The following is summary:
Book agents may be killed from Oc-
ober to September spring poets,
rom March to June LIST ; scandal-mon-
,ers, from April to February /; UNI
)rella-borrowers, from August / to
November l and February to May
While every man who accepts a news
PAPER two years. and, upon being pre-
ented with his bill, says, I never
'rdered it, may be killed on the spot,
Without reserve or relief"