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THE SHEPHERDSTOWN REGISTER.
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ESTABLISHED 1848. ,,,4> SHEPHERDSTOWN, JEFFERSON C0Um7WEST~ VIRGINIA, SATURDAY. OCT. W, 1 W. ? NEW V0L.'il~N0"T>
BALTIMORE
LOCK HOSPITAL
DR. JOHNSTON,
rll YSICIAX ol' this celebrated Institu
tion, has discovered t lie most certain,
speedy, pleasant, and effectual remedy in
the world tor all
DISEASES OF IMPJtUDKXCE,
Weakness in the Back or Limbs, Affections
of the Kidneys find Bladder, Involuntary
Discharges, lmpotency, General Debilitv,
Nervousness, Dyspepsia, Languor, Low
?Spirits, Contusion of Ideas, Palpitation of
the 1 It-art, Titpidity, Trembling, Dimness
of Sfirlil or Giddiness, Di*? Mfces oT the
Head, Throat, Nost1 or Skin, Atfcetiorr* "f
the Liver, Lungs, Stomach, or Bowels,
those terrible disorders arising from Soli
tary habits of Youth ? those secret and
Military practices more fatal to their vic
tims than the soug of the Svreus to t|ie
mariners of l*h >ses, blighting their uioit
brilliant hopes or anticipation^, render
ing marriage, etc., impossible.
\(H \(. .M K.N ESPECIALLY,
who have become the \i(.'tim?yt Syli^ry
Vice that dreadful and destructive habit
which annually sweeps to an untimely
grave thousands of Young Men of the
most exalted talents and brilliant intellect
>vb? might otherwise have entranced list
ening Senates with the thunders of elo
quence, or waked to ecstaev the living
jvre, may call with full confidence.
M ABKIAGE.
l,hai,lKrr^proo"'utiv, piW ;r wiu,,H.
i ?" weakucss. Nervous Debility, or
"Vif,Vh.? Places 1, int8.lt nuderthe can- of
i,J J ma ? religiously eoniidein his 10. -
lr ;, a " . and .couajcnlly .Civ
uVi;iW^kUlu.a|?l,y-.v.a..:
? ) 11(1 A NIC W E AkN E>S,
i -s of l'ovver, immediately
ImpoWnry. l.o ? restore I.
all&tion-vv hiel. ren
1 HVmi-. ral.lfa.ul marriage
t-i. ..?? I-'"1 Z ?
'eweMtJ r'"!"
are t?M> apt 1 ,ireulful coiisequemo
M"**?;"' '' x.' vT who that under
,|,at may deny
stands tilt '? :s ],,<t#?K?lH'r
thai the I".'"'.'.'1' habits than
?v those 'a ??'" deprived
?>t the pica Ui , tj\e symptoms to
?,o*t serious ami de>U u tiv > i ^ ^ ^
lK)th body ami au<iHien
l peonies ' ,!l,| \o*s ot prooreative
1;l\v,"rUtN>rv??"4 Irritability- Dyspepsia,
1" ? . Heart, Indigestion,! mi
I'aliatat o . tl? It; J . Waslill!t
??>>
? *>??* vr**.-*.* *?
r Vl.TlMt > K K , M AK\ I- AN I .
left ham* -Wj - ,n^^!!n^r!UKaii'mt to
? i>u doors iroin the loriiir.
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reply. . . , -state aire, and
s.roptwns. 1|H j0?n-ST,)X,
?- .ill ! ?? ?V %I. < Ol.l.WiK Of M K
M KM Ul'K ?>. I ill. *
UKONS, LoM'ON,
, . r.f til.' lllO^t ?MHHH'llt
?rv1
V" i ' t ; mil ears when a>leep gi?. at
iu ,U? h! ' lei i- alarmed at sudden
U'rX7 rM n"s.and frequent blu>h
"T wu WA sometimes w ith derange
^ t
ot *hame . t tl se who. trum ed
hhntrom I li nectabi lit V , ran alone be
neation am* I i?|o the hands ot
i.'norint aiul deigning pretenders, who,
incapable of curing,
ru.en ii is PKdMAin si hm anc k
a"l.l,Ui?,! d tivel,in, With ruined
?'M l.li t? i-'li over hl? galling di-appo.nt
t- nr Cello- use that deadly pois.,n,
"lent. or; > . 4.ouStitutional syinp
"'??"''filil , V M Illiaw ? ?iak* ?Wr
touisol tin ule> rated sore throat.
# 7. I the palate of the mouth, or tlu
lL^ the noso full iu. and the y.rt.m ot
1)011* s of IIM I .0Ull,s ;i horrid <i>.)ect,
S^gnaMsitt
Tj&#s?iiv?as
remedy in the world.
t\kk rAK'i'irrLAR noih k.
i) i addresses all those w ho have m
:U1,1 mind, un tilting theui lot eilliti hua
,u -. ntudy, society, or iu:vrrai-c.
Th? n> are some ol the sad and tm la i
eholv elTeets produced hy early o
youth, viz: Weakness ot the haek a.
iiinhs. pains in the head, diuine>* ot
loss of iii?M'idar power, juilpitat 1011 ot tlie
.huitrt. tlysi*i?6ia, ner*ou- uritapility,
,4oi iu 'e.uei t of, the disgewive tunonon-,
.'eiicral debility, remptoms of 'colteufnp
tioU' MENTALLY.
The fearful effects on the miiul are mueh
. I Iro'ldfd* Loss of Memory .1 onfu-ion
I * lot Soliiu.lr, ?rinu.lny, otc., are so,,,.,
u'f t he evils
YOl NCJ MEN .
i tiipiiisclvos bv cci tain
Who have injure. U'^ CJ Vlont a liabit
practice indulgrtt n .^a'panions.
'"whlua uitv lhat a young man, .he hope
of his country, the darling ot hi> pari nt .
slutubl besnaU bed troni all pJ o.?p < i > ? *
enjoyments of life, by the ^sequence of
deviating from the path ot natur-, ainl in
dulging in a certain secret habit. . ?
iirifOiis mu-t. before coiitemplatinjj ni.W
yjago. lvtlect that /
"a'SoTN D "MIN'D AND RODY
nre the mu-t Wcsmry r^b'i*?t<f to pro
mote connubial Tiappiness. Indeed, with
out those, the journey through lite he
comes aweary pilgrimage; the prospect
? darkens to the view : the mind
rome^hadowed with despair, and fllhMl
m ith melancholy retlcetion that the iuippi
\\ ,%f mother is blighted with our own.
" IN 1KJRSKM ENT OF THE l'KKSS.
Tlie nianv thousand* cured at this es
tablishment year after year, and the nu
merous important surgical operatunw \?r
Sirred asain ami ap?i.? helore the |>nl
li.-, besides hit standing as a gentlenuii of
character and respoiisihility, isasuini nnt
guarantee to the iittlieted.
1 N DISEASES SPEEDIIA CLE ED.
K. Frfd'ck St., ?allo. ^Id.
?Sept. 11, 1875. ' ' * ly
Helping Pupa and Uumiuu.
Planting tfoe corn and potatoes.
, Helping to scatter the seeds,
.Feeding the-hens and the chickens.
Freeing the garden froih weeds,
Drjvfng the cows to pasture,
Feeding the horse in the stall?
We little children are busy ;
Sure there is work for us all.
Helping papa.
Spreading the hay iti the sunshine,
flaking it up when 'its dry ;
f Plucking the apples and peaches,
Down in thr> orchard hard b}',
Picking the grapes in the vineyard
Gathering tiie nuts In tiie tall?'
, We little children are busy ; . >
Yes, there Is work for us all,
Helping papa.
Sweeping, and washing the dishes,
Bringing the wood from the shed,
i Ironing, sewing, and knitting,
Helping to make tip the bed,
Taking good care of the baby,
Watching her lest she should fall ?
| We little children are bu.iy .
Oh, there is work for us all,
Helping mamma,
? Work mnkpo us cheerful and happy,
->fakes us both active and strong ;
Play we enjoy fill the better
* When <Ve have labored so long
Gladly we help our kind parents,
Quickly welcomed to their call ? j
Children should love to be busy,
There is work enough for u< all,
Helping papa and mamma.
A School C?irl Murdered .
Two weeks ago, a young gill about
1 8* years old, the daughter of a farmer,
living near Concord, New Hampshire,
started on her way to school, distant a
-little over a mile." When within hail
ing distance of the school-house, she
' was brutally murdered. The circum
stances are thus related by a reporter
ot' the iV. Y. Sun who visited the scene
ot the murder:
i Josie and Waldo Langniaid, both at
tended Pembroke Academy, a mile and
halt* from their home! The giil was a
member ot the class which graduates
j next June. The principal of the acade
my speaks highly of her scholarship;
her sunny, unassuming nature made her
tlie friend ot every one of her school
mates. In short, the youth of Josio
Lansmaid gave promise of admirable
} womanhood.
Last Monday morning Waldo started
for school at S o'clock, carrying his own
and his sister s luncheon. They were
not in the habit of returning home until
after the afternoon session. Twenty
minutes later Josio, with her algebra
under her arm and a large apple in her
hand, said good-b'y to her mother kiss
el h*r two baby s*t<rs, and sjarjed
forth in the bright sunshine tu begin
the studies of the week.
For half a mile or more .her course
la\ along the open road, bv the farm
houses of Mr. Langmaid's neighbors.
The girl stopped a moment at one of
tlusc bouses ami was Been by the in
mates of others as she passd. The last
house on the road is t hat of Nicholas
Hartford, within half a mile of the
Acadetnv. Mr. Hartford looked up
from his work as the girl walked brisk
ly by and saw her tossing her apple in
to the air and catching it as she went.
Josie then turned into a stretch of the
road lying through woods so thick that
they would be gloomy were it not for
autumnal colors. She passed almost
through these and arrived at the foot of
a steep hill. Had she surmounted this
hill she would have been in full sight
of the Academy building, and within a
thousand feet of its doors,
j THK MU1?.!>KR.
At this point a man must have step
ped out ot t lie thicket and confronted
her. What words passed between the
two may never be known; of his deeds
the sad evidence is only too plain.
The man carried a stout club of red
oak. It was a yard long, square cor
nered, an inch and a half thick, and
had been recently cut and broken from
some piece intended for tho rung of a
hay rack or of a manger. At one end
the corners had been freshly whittled
away to form a rude handle. With this
weapon the murderer aimed a cruel
blow at the girl's head. She threw up
one hand and caught the weight of the
stroke, which broke her thumb and
three ot the small bones of the palm.
Twice more he struck, first on one side
of the head and then upon the other.
The last blow broke the thick club, and |
must have felled her to the ground. If
she gave then any sign ofconsciousness
it was but for a moment, for he jump
ed heavily upon her head, leaving the
print of a snnll boot heel upon her
cheek.
After tossing the poor girl's apple,
her blood-stained school book, and his
broken club over a stone wall at his
left, the man carried or dragged the in
sensible body of his victim into the
woods to the right of the road. The
tangled bushes and the growth of small
birch and white maple trees are here
so thick that only with extreme diffi
culty can an unencumbered person pen
etrate them. When this muiderer flung
tho girl s body ou the ground, he was
as secluded as it he had been ten miles
instead ot ten rods from the road. After
a further hideous crime, he appears to
have begun quite deliberately u work of
mutilation that ended in incomprehensi- !
ble fury. With a knife or some other
sharp instrument he slit her cheek, ear,
and lip. Tneu? aud physicians say when
the girl was stilt alive ? he proccedod
to sever the liead from the body, cut
ting cleanly dose to the shoulders, and
carefully and even skilfully dissecting
the vertebra?, separating the first aud
second. Then his coldblooded deliber
ations turned into freniv. He savagely
tore the clothes from the headless tmnk,
and ferociously gashed away at his vie- j
tiiu's person. This is revolting enough,
but the remainder of his work is too
horrible to be told. A fiend could have
gone no further.
The only booty gained by the murder
consisted of a plain gold ring, a bre^st
l>in, a poi temonnaie containing five
cents, and a few other trinkets of little
value. Having secured these, the man
wrapped thr head in a shawl which the
girl had worn, took it a hundred rotls
deeper into the woods and deposited it
there. Beyond this point there is no
trace of him.
THE SEARCH ASP THE DISCOVERY.
When Waldo returned from school at
6 o'clock that eveuing, the family first
learned that Josie had not been at her
desk dining the day, and he knew that
ghe had not remained at home, lhe
news of her disappearance spread rap
idly. A call was made for help, and
several hundred of Mr. Langmaid s
Suncook neighbors rallied to join in
the search. ' .
Josie was easily traced to the point
where she was last seen in the road.
It was dark by this time. A line of
men was formed, lanterns were lit, and
by their uncertain light the searcheis,
taking a broad sweep, struck into the
dismal woods. Progress was difficult
and slow, it was not till nearly 9 o clock
that the spot was reached.
A Mr. Copp, familiar with the woods
and a little in advance of the line,
! stumbled over a straw hat, caught iu
the twisted root a tree. Inside the hat
i were great spots of blood. Tton feet
; further ou he found the mutilated body
I of the girl. The limbs were crossed
1 and partially covered with torn rem
| nauts of apparel.
Mr. Langmaid was not ten teet ue
' hind Mr. Copp. Almost at the same
instant the father caught sight ot the
. body, and with a piteous cry flung
himself upon the ground beside it.
The men gathered round with then
lanterns and learned the full extent ot
this most horrible of crimes, lhe
father and the brother, both frantic
with grief, were led away. Some one
threw a cloak over the poor, mangled
body, aud it was borne from the place.
The search was resumed m the
morning. when the head was found a
quarter of a mile or more fuithei into
the wood. Josie Langmaid was buried
on Wednesday in Chichester, where
she had formerly lived. More tliau a
thousand people attended t ie 1 1 e .?
services.
'the arrest ok Avn.T.tAM DftEW.
Almost every community has its
scapegoat. Tn Suncook this position is
1 held by an illvisaged young man known
as Bill" Drew. lie is a drunken neer
do-well about twenty-two years ot age
?his father a thief, mother a l?ng, home
a hovel, and connections and record ex- |
ceedincly disreputable.
The farmers of Suncook wore not
Tftfw in gathering up tlfrir' abstract in
dignation and concentrating it upon
the head of the ugly ropgh who had
stolen their chickens, insulted then
daughters and quarrelled and fought
about their streets. There was lea i )
no positive ground for suspecting tlr
Bill Drew did this deed; but his bad
i name alone was enough to convince
I worthy people who had, indistinct
I notions of evidence. There, was .a uui- ,
versal cry for his arrest. Tlie Boston
detectives who were working up the
cafe could find no circumstances point
ing to Drew's guilt "No ,nattel!'
cried the usually quiet and ordeilv
citizens, now become a lrenzied nnjb,
"lie is iust the critter to do it, and we
have him dead or alive. The man that
murdered Josie Langmaid knew them
woods and nobody knows em bettei
than Bill Drew.' , , ,
A rumor that Drew, who had once
worked tor Mr. Langmaid, was known
to have male insulting proposals to Josie,
who had promptly rejected them and
threatened .to inform her father ot the
insult, followed by another rumor that
the heel ot a gaiter boot belonging to
Drew's wife and some time worn by
him corresponded to the print upon
the murdered girl's cheek, was e"Oug >
to convince the few that still .< ou > et .
Constable llildreth, constrained by the
overwhelming public sentiment, started
out to arrest the only man whom tin
people of Suncook deemed* wicked
enough to have committed the murde .
Mr llildreth found Drew on the
road walking toward Ilooksett, a few
miles out Of town. The officer captur
ed him and brought him back to hnn
cook handkuffed. The excitement of
the village people had meanwl lnle in
creased to violence. A mob filled tin
streets around the lobby, as t ic nic'
jail with two cells is called, waiting the
arrival of the prisoner and prepared to ,
take the law into its own hands.
A NAJICOW ESCAPE.
The oflicer drove his horse at a gallop
through the crowd and up to the lock
up. The people sliouted, "Lynch him! j
lynch hiiu!" "Tear his heart out, "
"Let us get hold of him once," and j
made a rush for the frightened prisoner, 1
Had he fallen into their bands at that
moment lie would have been torn liter
ally to pieces. lie jumped from the
buggy with an alacrity upon which his |
life depended, and put the jail door be
tween himself and hi? fellow townsmen.
Officer Hildreth stood on the doorstep
with a revolver in his hand.
"Give the nnn a chance," he said,
"and if he turns out to be the murderer,
I'll be one of you."
From the time that the key was turn
ed upon William Drew and an otticer
placed with him, more to protect his
life than to prevent his escape, the lob
by has been guarded day and night by
a vigilant committee of citizens, less
noisy but even more determined than
the mob of Tuesday. Any attempt to |
remove the prisoner to Concord would
have been attended with violence.
The Suncook people do not mean that
this man shall be taken beyond the
reach of summary vengence for the 1
crime which they assume to be his.
Consecration of a Bell ? On Sun
day morning last, the new bell lately
placed upon the Reformed Church was
solemnly consecrated to the service of
the Triune God. The novelty of the I
occasion attacted a very large audience,
who were amply repaid by the exceed- '
ingly able sermon delivered by lie v. J.
O. Miller of York, Pa. I>r. Miller was
pastor cf this church twenty-five years
ago, and is consequently conversant
with its history, ot which he gave an
interesting account. He did not hesi- :
tate to denounce the action of the Fed
eral troops who desecrated the church
building during the war as "vandalism"
of the meanest kind.- iuchester Times.
1 Pay np your does at this office.
A TRRBIVLG STOKY.
t,,k Folly and Fate of Three
Beaitiful Sisteks? Our reauers may
oossibly recollect the circumstances ot
a fatal" duel, widely published at the
time, which occurred on the 3rd of
Anril 1ST4, on the old dueling ground
on the sandy stretch of shore frouting
Day St. Louis. The participants were
? Ariel le Bien venue, a broker, and An
droa Philips, a lawyer of New
It was on the same spot where the lata
bullet of Rhett, of the Picayune sped
to flight the gallant spirit oi the wtrep
id Cooler; the ground on which the
Shots of Badger and ^Carter ^wereex
changed; where Scott and Campbell
met; "where many a previous episode ;
had expiated a real or imaginary fault
Aside from the fatal termination of
the meeting, the contest between 1 hil- I
ips and Bienvenue would not have been j
unusually remarkable but f..r 'be fa
that it was the final scene in the tiagic
i wedded lives ot three women-sisters
i whose husbands fell by the hand ot vio
! See, incited by the evil courses ot
; lheBornVof reputable creole parents
these sisters were inheritors ot vast
wealth and a stainless name, and distin
guished to personal beauty in a land
Sre the loveliness of women ^ pro
verbial. Tenderly reared aud bnl. ant
, ly educated, with possessions that ma
ed iu extent and excelled in value a
German principality, it is not sm Pri*
that they became the flattered belles ot
I society, " and were the boast and pride
of the merchant and Plant?lbea"^
all the wide coast country. 1 hat the
brilliant proteges ot the hanghtie
istocracv of the old regime should be .
destine J to exercise the faln\u'??
they exerted on the men who loved
them, and made them their wives, is in
deed surprising. But they were flirts
from their cradles. Born to admiration,
their lives were spent trom youth to
maturity in an atmosphere ot tict.t.ous
sentiment and unreal passion. il )
looked upon men as merely the min ^
of pleasures, and as the mediums
through which their flattered mty
mi "lit grow and expand, as the flowei
blooms in the warmth of the sunshiny
All the aims and duties ot lite weie
! bounded by the ambitious ot society.
Admiration to tbem was apprecia ou.
Taught to regard their individual picas ,
iires?as superiors to all considerations ot ,
convenience to others," it is not I
incr that selfishness, indifference, and .
i folly, became the mainspring to their ae- .
i ''"Nor is it astonishing that they cxer
' cised the fatal influence they did upon
i men. Their beauty was glorious. J he |
youngest was the living t) Pc. ? . V
other two. As the writer saw lie. but
a little over a year agoj she rises betore
his vision now, a tall, gracetid, slendei
woman, a lithe, willowv form ot sp leu- ;
did contour and ex<piisite 8>mmeti).
The oval, tinted face glows with health,
and is radiant with intelligence. >eep,
slumberous black eyes, unfavorable in ,
their depths, which a word can kindle
with excitement or make aglow v\ ith
passion; a queenly woman, regnant in
youth, grace, and the empire ot men s
hearts. The rich coils ot hair, black
and intense, were wound above the l<>",
broad forehead, and tormed a raven-like
crown to the dusky splendor ot the dark
Egyptian lace. Men paused to look at
her, and women sighed with envy when
she passed. What she was m her
youthful bride-hood has been imperfect
ly described; what her sisters were iu
their matured and splendid womanhood
the enthusiast's imagination alone can (
pictme.
And now for the story of their lives.
The oldest sister was married to Dr.
Sharp, of Tuscaloosa, Ala-, a polished,
<rraceful gentleman, whose love ami tie
<"5 O '
votioh might have contented any wo
man less prone to (he allurements of so
ciety and the admiration of man. It
was in the first year of the war, and the
most brilliant society of the South was
gathered at Mobile and New Orleans.
With an appetite whetted to fever heat
by a few month's abstinence from social
pleasures, she plunged recklessly into a
whirlpool of gaity. The married flirt
wears r.o armor of innocence. Her
love of admiration is pitted against
man's duplicity and cunning. She stak
ed and lost. From folly there is but
one step to imprudence, and that step
was taken, despite a husband's jealousy
and sense ol honor. The end was in
evitable, a challenge and a duel, and
her husband fell pierced to the heart by
the bullet of her seducer. Theie was
uo pity for the woman like this; society
repelled her, her lriends discarded her,
and she fled to New Orleans to lead
the life of an adventuress.
The second sister shortly afterward
married the son of a distinguished jour
nalist in Mobile. The fate of her elder
sister was no bar to a career of similar
folly. Society received her with open
arms. "Wealth, influential connections
and alliances with a distinguishen fami
ly obscured for a time the recollections
of a sister's imprudence. l>ut gossip
soon grew busy with her name. From
one folly to another she passed with fa
tal haste and seeming indifference, until
in a fatal hour her husband learned that
the woman he loved, the wife that he
idolized, was a thing to be scosned. It
broke his heart. With the downfall of
his idol, his reason wavered, aud he
perished by his own hand. For all his
brilliant talents, and the promise of a
splendid woman, he died the victim of
a woman's perfidity.
The youngest sister become the wife
of Bienvenue, a yotiug broker of New
Orleans. Kich, beautiful and accom
plished, she was at once a leader in so
ciety. Courted, flattered aud caressed,
sh? plunged headlong into the vortex.
Men lavished praises upon her ? women
hated aud smiled upon her. What
cared she? Beautiful, reckless, heart
less, and indifferent to all alike, she
cared only tor that social admiration
whieh was the snnshine of her life.
Her large fortune gave her an income
iu her- individual right This gave
wiugs to her extravagence and enabled
her to contract bills in her own name.
One of them ? a milliner's bill ? was
overdie, suit was brought and execu
tion issued which Mr. Phillips, the
lawyer, had levied for satisfaction upon
her carriage and horses. In an inter
view suW?{nently had with the lady.
regarding the settlement of the bill,
words which she construed into an in
sult were charged upon the attorney.
Her husband resented it ? a challenge
ensued ? and then the fatal duel on
that sad April morning, when a hus
band's life ebbed away its purple tide
upon the lonely beach, the last unhappy
victim of the fatal sisters' folly and ex
travdgeuce.->S7. Loui * Times.
The New Jersey Horror. ? The
Double Child Murder. ? A coroner's in
Juest was held at Hackettstown, New
ersey, on Monday, on the bodies of
the two children who were murdered
by their father, John Hitter, a painter,
on Saturday last. The testimony devel
oped the fact that Hitter had been out
of 'employment tor sometime past, ow
ing to the dull times, and had been
drinking so heavily of late that his
brain become crazed. For years past,
it seems, he and his wife have not lived
happily together, in consequence of his
vidious disposition, rendered worse by
excessive drink. Until recently they
had been living separate, but not long
since they come to an understanding,
and once more joined iheir fortunes.
They had scarcely well settled down,
however, when Hitter took to his old
ways, and led a most dissipated life.
The family lived in a house or. theout
skiits of the town. On Saturday
morning, while still oppressed with the
effects of a violent spree, Hitter had a
tierce quarrel with his wife, which end
ed in her abruptly leaving the Wise.
She had not gone far when she heard
two pistol sliotf. Losing all fear for
herself she returned toward the house,
and then a terrible bight met her eyse.
ller two sons, bright boys, aged re
spectively four aud seven years, lay
weltering in their blood. The brutal
father had deliberately shot both.
While the distracted mother gazed on
the prostrate foimsof her darlings Hit
ter leveled his revolver at her, and fired,
but luckily missed his aim and then the
woman fled. Hitter next shot himself
in the head, but his attempt proved un
successful. I lis wound is serious, but
not dangerous. One of the boys died
instantly, and the other lingered till
evening, in great pain. The tragedy
created the wildest excitcment in the
country around, and but for the fact
that the murderer had been arrested
and was in the custody of the authori
ties he would possibly have been lynch
ed. After hearing the evidence the
jury, being out for deliberation only a
short time, returned with a verdict
charging Hitter with being guilty of
willful murder. He has been lodged
in jail.
Breaking Down. ? Men often have
their hands full, are overcrowded with
business aud drive hurriedly along at it,
but they may not be overworked. We
cannot always tell when we are over
worked. A man does not always know
it himself, no more than he knows the
strain on the main spring of his watch
that will break it But there comes a
time when it breaks ? a click, a snap,
and the watch stops. Men break down
in this way. They go on, day after
.day, the pressure bearing harder each
successive day, until the vital force
gives out, and the machine stops. It is
a great pity that the indications of this
state of things cannot be seen before
hand, and if seen, regarded. It is one
of the last things that men will admit
to themselves, much less to others.
They flatter themselves that it is only
a little weariness of the flesh, which
will pass off with a few hours rest, when,
in fact, every nerve, power and resource
are exhausted, and the system is driven
by sheer force of the will. When the
oil on the shaft or in the oil-box is ex
hausted, every revolution of the wheel
wears 011 the revolving part, and will
soon ruin it. The same is true of the
human body, for when it is overtaxed,
every effort wears to destroy it.
So MKT] 1 1 NG TO SKT Ls THINKING. ?
Ninety years liencc not a single man or
woman, now twenty years of age, will
lie alive. Ninety years! Ala?! how
many of the lively actors at present on
the stage of lite will mako their exit
long ere ninety years shall have rolled
away! And could we be sure of ninety
years, what are they? 'A tale that is
told;' a dream; an empty sound, that
passe th on the wings ot the wind away,
and is forgotten. Years shorten as
man advances in age. Like the degrees
in longitude, man's life declines as he
travels toward the frozen pole, until it
dwindles to a point and vanishes forev
er. Is it possible that life is of so short
duration? Will ninety years erase all
the golden names over the doors in
j town and country, and substitute others
in their stead? Will all the new,
blooming beauties fade and disappear,
all the pride and passion, the love, hoj>e 1
and joy pass away in ninety years and
! be forgotten? 'Ninety years.' says
Death; 'do you think I shall wait nine
ty years? Behold, today and to-morrow,
and every day are mine. When ninety
years are past, this generation will
have mingled with the dust and be re
membered not!'
Govki:nm;;xt Clerks as Husbands. ?
Well, he has stopped buying 15 ceut ci
gars and only pays 10 cent* each, and
instead of champagne, drinks whiskey
or beer, and practicing strict economy
in various ways, considers himself "a
good fellow and a pattern husband. lie
wonders why he doesn't live as well on
the same money as before marriage, and
concludes it must be Angelina's fault ?
she "don't manage right." The baby
cries, as babies have a chronic habit ot
doing, and, like most men he don't like
it; so he gets into the habit of dropping
in to see Miss Smith, who was "sweet*
on him before he married Angelina.
She still rejoices in flounces, sashes,
false hair and powder, and he finds it '
pleasanter ihan spending the evening
home with the pale wife who hasu't had !
time, or thinks she hasn't to change her I
rather soiled wrapper for a more festive
dress. Angelina objects, and is foolish
enough to tell hir.i so; mutual recrimi
nations follow, and ? but I wont say
morp, my dear; as you read this, you
know vou have seen dozens ot such cas
es. ? li'athiogtoo Capital.
? Ilenry M Brent, Esq., cashier of the j
Bank ot Winchester, died Friday last,
aged 70 years. 1
A Pica |?r 1>?p<TIIBfPi - I
Ed Register We have heard since
the Leetown Lucampment a pretty free
discussion of the question "Do Secret
organizations advance the cause of
i ei.iperance. And we have heard
with surprise some intelligent men, men
who call themselves christian*, take the
negative side of the question. They
bring some such plea as tbe following
to defend tlieir side. We like to see
everything done openly. Why don't
\ ou come out and let the world see
what you are doing? Why have any
secret about it any way? Others say,
ou profess to found your Temperance
Orders on the Bible, where can vou find
foundation enough for any secret socie
ty ? Again others say, "Whit good
have your Temperance Orders done?"
\\ e propose to answer these objections
| in <i feeble way, and will try to show to
) our readers some of the grounds upon
which we base our belief. In the first
place we would reply to the first ques
j tion (\ankee like) by asking another.
IIow could we work in union, in con
cord all over the world unless we worked
under the same laws and rules ? Which
we really do. All over the globe, where
ever the English language is spoken
anil u hercver civilization rules, vou will
. find the same pass words, the same sig
nals, and the same rules, which the
Good Templars of West Virginia use.
1 he same password which will admit
you into the lodge 1 >om at Leetown
i will admit you to any lodge room in
. tbe world.
. Now, -I -isk it there were no secrct
i 2"<l signals, would there be any
successful organization 1 Were it not
lor this common lie that biuds these
men together in one great bond of
I>! othei hood, would they take the same
interest in it that they now do ? No.
In answer to the second objection,
| -we would refer those that bring that
plea, to the AXX\ chapter of Jere
j miah. Let them read the history of
that remarkable people, the Uechabites,
who swore that they wouM never more
diink wine, and that will be answer
enough. But even it we had no Bible
platform to stand upon, Oh, does not
the cry of oppressed nations who are
gioaniug under this great curse call
upon us to island firm 1 Temperance
men of the world ? Do you want a
foundation to stand upon, we reply,
Take the bleaching bones of those slain
in this awful contest, build up a pyra
mid that shall rear its head to the skies,
ami seal it with the blood of the thou
sands, yes tens of thousands, who have
bowed their heads in the dust, w ho have
been ciushed by the wheels of the jug
gernaut car, driven by the cursed ty
rant?ruin. Yea, cement it with the
tears that have for ages coursed down
the cheeks of mourning widows, of dy
ing thihlien, whose support, whose all
and in all have perished by the agency
of rum. Is not this a foundation broad
enough for all the Temperance Orders
in the world?
on ask what good have we accom
plished? In answer we point you to
the noble band of men and women all ovt r
our land steadily increasing, moving on
with a steady march that must carry all
before it. We point you to the thou
sands of reclaimed drunkards w ho have
been snatched as "brands from the
burning." Wo point you to homes
made to hearts made happy by
the information of some loved one who
was fast traveling the downward road
to a drunkard s grave and a drunkard's
hell. Who has done this great work?
We answer the Temperance Orders
throughout the land. Who can deny
it ? Oh, brothers in the Temperance
cause, we have done and are doing a
great work.
Let us not rest on our oars yet, but
press on to the glorious Future which
is before us when rum will have been
driven from our midst and druukeuness
out of the evils of the I'aet
"Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate,
Ever watching still pursuing
Learn to labor and to wait."
Respectfully,
NEMO.
A String of Pkahus ? Character is
the diamond which scratches every oth
er stone.
All flowers will droop in the absencc
of the sun that waked their sweats.
The imagination is so delicate a tex
ture that even words wound it.
A mail's own safety is a god that
sometimes makes very grim demands.
The mind wears the color of the soul
as the valet does those of his master.
Sin is the fruitlul parent of distemper;
and ill lives occasion good physicians.
Prosperity seems to be scarcely tfafe
unless it is mixed with a little adver?i
ljr- . ...
There is no vice so simple but assumes
some mark of virtue ou its outward
parts.
lie who surpasses or eubdues man
kind must look down upon the fact of
those below. J
Success has a great tendency to con- |
coal and throw a evil over the evil
deeds of men.
Weariness can snore upon the flint,
when restive sloth finds the downy pil
low hard
Truth is the shortest and nearest way
to our end, carrying us thither, in a
straight line.
Frank sincerity, though no inviud t
guest, is free to all, and brings his wel
come with him.
Cheerfulness makes the mind clearer, j
gives tone to the thought, and adds
grace and beauty to the countenance.
The human soul is Hospitable, and
will entertain conflicting sentiments
and contradictory opinions with much
impart iaiity.
Truth is the cornerstone or? which
rests our futuro wellfare. Speak the
truth, no lie thrives.
A man who had a spite against a
neighbor, took advantage of the latter's ;
death and burial to write on hi* tomb- J
stone, with red chalk the following epi
taph:
"Here lie* his body. For his soul,
YooH have to search a deeper hole!" j
When a man sets his whiskey down
on the table, takes you affectionately
by the button -hole and cleares his
throat, flee for your life; he is a candi
date going to explain his position.
LETTEB FRO.H LEETOm.
Oct 18, 1875.
Having recovered from the effect* ot
the recent visits of Jack Frost, | mill
acquaint you with one or two items ot*
interest, of recent occurrence in this vi
cinity, and I may also throw in an acci
dent or two by way of varic tv.for you are
aware Mr. Editor that "variety is the
Jpwe ot life,' and even apple batter is
better tor containing some spice.
Miss Bettie Wiltshire is couducting
? a .small private school in the Brick
Church, having commenced on the 4th
""t. - ' :s* w. has I, a.) some t-xpcrieni-o
i" teaching, ?0 believe l.ai I
? quite .ueee,,f,,|, ?nd wo h ?1!|t >||(,
may <n1<w,l this U,?u UyouJ her most
sanguine exjwetations.
| There > are : now ton .. hool, |? fu||
| ' " Slt<l'l!e*-t}- Jiairiot, Miik one
for every 6:' youths between six and
twenty-one years of age in the district,
but aa scarcely two of those of sefconi
? age attend any school, forty-five to eaoh
school may be considered a fair allow
ance.
.Mr. Fowler has completed the s^iool
house lor colored folks in the Sddis
triet.
And with all of these primary sehools
about us in progress, we think it time
that we were moving in the matter of
making provision lor the higher edum
tiou of our young men by putting our
I shoulders to the wheels of the Jeffeisin
( County Agricultural College, and push
ing it forward to such a condition that
j it maj at an early day !?e opened for the
reception o f students, and this can l*?
at i omplialu>d by the exercise of a Mnnll
amount of energy on the part of the
j citizens ot Jefferson county, many of
whom are yearly sending their sous to
other States to be educated, when tfc?t
desirable end may be attained right
"(it' at home, it we will only goto
hoi k, petition the Legislature to give
"is the necessary legislation, (and wo
understand that a movement is ulieadv
on foot to do this.) and then when we
have accomplished this, let us lend what
aid each of us can afford by taking as
; much ot the capital stock of the iunUis
; Hon as can, and get the College stalled
by next summer, at the farthest. Onr
College purposes to give instruction In
all the different brunches of learning
usually taught in Colleges, with the a<!
?fit ion ot practical insi ruction in A??H
culture, something which many of our
young men will highly appreciate, and
I M many who have been sent else
where for their education, have often
( felt the need of in following the avoca
tion of farming in the days of their riti*r
manhood, after having* graduated at
I sot no classical school or colloge.
i lie \\ hooping Cough is tickling the
throats ol ?]uite a number of pei-mtus,
both large and small, in this vicinity; hi
tact the disease has interfered with* thvi
attendance of the scholars at ouo school
at least, in this district.
j Kev. J. \\ Smith begun a protracted
meeting at the upper school house lust
I night, and preached to a crowded honse
indeed the room is too small to bccomi
modate the crowds that gather in Hee
town, the school boose is located tdo
far from the village for the convenient,
o the larger pait of the congregation
j that may be gathered here, of those wbo
wish to attend the services of the Metli
odist Kpiscopul Church, when the ol.
port unity in afforded.
There was a severe accident in o?r
uJ-JP 3 coul.',e oi *<*** ago; ' (t^orgo
U ill, aged six yearn, sou of (ieori/e D.
Johnson, was badly scalded, while his
parents were "making apjJe butt**"
showing that even that time honored
pastime has its attendant dangers.
little fellow is nearly well again, al least
he is well enough to walk about.
"Nemo" charges me with the (heft
of hi# "thn rider." 1 protest that he is
mistaken, the aforesaid thunder diij no t
belong to him, but wan "lying around
loose when 1 appropriated it. The
only time that I came near stealing bis
literary electrical fluid was one night
last spring, when I walked to The
??Shadsburg" school house to attend ftrte
of .Nemos spelling bee, and found U?St
I neither the "bees nor Nemo were these
Yours, <tc.t
TKMPLAIt
A Warning to Otiikrm. ? A friend
of ours slopped his paper (or some
trifling matter, the first of the month,
but came up and sulMtcribfd again laal .
week. We have seen him since, ami
a.tked hia experience. lie said on going
home, aft<r discontinuing his Bulletin,
his horses ran away, upset and bunted
the wagon, bruised hifn up and injured
themselves. When lie got home he
found his wife scolding, the children
bawling and the baby with the colic.
The boys were on a ?4",ee and the cows
didn't eorne home. That night it rained
and played the deuce with his hay.
The next day the wind laid t hie ooro
flat. Things were going to the . dogs,
lie had (lone something wrong, fur
which he was being punished.. Tin*
thought struck him that hit sin existed
in slopping his Bulletin, and ere it tree
too late to save bin own soul he rushed
into town, came into our sanctum tery
excitedly, and subscribed for I wo copies
of the Bulletin. That a what's the mat
ter. He returned home, his horses
?noved along as gentle aa old cow*.
His wife greeted him with smile*, the
children clung to his coat tails, and the
baby took up ita bed (or rather cr%J!e)
and walked. The boya were sober as
judges, although a little the worse for
wear, and the cows eatoe home with a
bop, skip and jjump, and gave more milk
than ever. Ilia hay had gone through
a good sweat and he sold it for a first
class article. The corn was standing up
straight in rove, like soldiers. Every,
thing was doing better than ooukJ be
expected uuder the circumstances, and
the Bulletin is now welcomed into thai
house ? War taw Bui' fin.
An experienced farmer opince that
the man who can plow stumpy ground
with a (Mir of lively mules vitlkMtt
swearing ? prepared to go through
pnrgatory with an overcoat on.
A tailor was observed sitting aiom
legged on the Canada shore gn>?g in- .
teutly at the Horaefhcw Fa B, sriU lie
thick cloud of spray, kpU
up unobserved and liemrifcii Mill,
? What a place to sj*?gea coat *
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