A History of Lewis County, West VirginiaThe author, 1920 - 427 pages |
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A History of Lewis County, West Virginia (Classic Reprint) Edward Conrad Smith No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 83 - The county court was composed of all the justices of the peace in the county, who were appointed by the governor.
Page 109 - O, how glad should I be of a plain, clean plank to lie on, as preferable to most of the beds; and where the beds are in a bad state, the floors are worse.
Page 96 - ... seemed to be always empty, and tormented with a sense of hunger. I remember how narrowly the children watched the growth of the potato tops, pumpkin and squash vines, hoping from day to day to get something to answer in the place of bread. How delicious was the taste of the young potatoes when we got them ! What a jubilee when we were permitted to pull the young corn for roasting ears ! Still more so when it had acquired sufficient hardness to be made into johnny cakes by the aid of a tin grater....
Page 96 - The lean venison and the breast of the wild turkey we were taught to call bread. The flesh of the bear was denominated meat. This artifice did not succeed very well ; after living in this way for some time we became sickly, the stomach seemed to be always empty, and tormented with a sense of hunger. I remember how narrowly the children watched the growth...
Page 410 - ... of a mind, of no ordinary stamp. His early fall on this bloody field, was severely felt during the whole engagement; and to it has been attributed the partial advantages gained by the Indian army near the commencement of the action.
Page 154 - AM I a soldier of the cross, A follower of the Lamb? And shall I fear to own his cause, Or blush to speak his name?
Page 9 - This map shows the average number of days between the last killing frost in the spring and the first in the fall for twelve years, 1899 to 1910.
Page 121 - On the one hand savage warfare teaches them to be cruel; and on the other, the preaching of Antinomians poisons them with error in doctrine: good moralists they are not, and good Christians they cannot be, unless they are better taught.
Page 1 - P'ing-yang, T'ai-yiian, Chien, Tai, Yii2 and Ying, offering both funds and manual assistance for the building of the new temple. In forty days3 the work was finished. It would be impossible to mention here the names of all those who in one way and another assisted in the performance of this pious work. Those best qualified to judge maintained that although the actual work of construction was carried out by human hands, it could never have been completed so rapidly without the secret intervention...
Page 85 - ... that the sheriff immediately tie the person to the whipping post and give him thirtynine lashes well laid on & deliver him to David Hughes constable," who was to deliver him to the next constable, and so on, until he was conveyed out of the county. Charges were made of the undue use of rum in influencing jurors and courts, and sometimes indignant suitors damned courts and prosecutors as fools and scoundrels — a practice which entailed upon the accusers...