Martinsburg Independent

Darkesville Items.
A cloud of gloom hangs over the village, and also over the camp-meeting ground.
On Sunday quite a crowd of people assembled on the camp-ground, but were soon compelled to seek their homes on account of rain.
Samuel Roberts, of Pentown, who is visiting his relatives here, made a prayer in the M. E. Church South on Sunday night that reflected credit in his praying qualities.
There is some dissatisfaction in regard to the colored school; some of the patrons want a male teacher, which calls forth the threat from the trustee to close the school for the winter.
Business is beginning to look up, and we hope the time is close when, as has been the case in the past, money will be plenty. We would say to the villagers to live in hopes of the better time approaching.
C. U. Thornburg will open his school on Monday, and under his tutorship we are looking forward to the time when there may issue from the walls of the school house ripe scholars.
People are beginning to cut up their corn and make preparations for the bleak winter days. A corn-cutter after the fashion of a reaper would be in order, and suit a great many farmers.
Having the pleasure of sitting under the melodious sound of the piano forte recently, we interrogated the accomplished performer as to whom credit is due for the discovery of music? Dropping her brilliant robes to the floor she remarked, "I do not know." We were happy to inform her that it was a member of her sex, viz: Jubal Cain.
R. P. Barr is knocking along in his line, (shoemaking) and don't seem to care whether it rains or not, just so the work comes in. The approaching season will no doubt call forth extra muscular exertion. We wish our operators in the healing and sooling art abundant success.
A. B. Bain, esq., has been quite ill for several weeks; but is now recovering. He regrets that he could not attend camp-meeting, and that no doubt had a tendency to make his convalescence slow.
We passed the residence of E. M. Walker's, esqr., last week, and from the tidy appearance of the homestead we are not surprised at his being an industrious and efficient free school superintendent. He is a genial and clever gentleman. Long life to him.
The correspondent of Arden who perhaps properly appellates himself "Sitting Bull" remarks, "we are already as high in the estimation for office as we can get."
If we are to be governed by the height to which they attained in that direction we will not object to the gentlemans proposition to Mill Creek. Probably the adage—
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
And waste its fragrance on the desert air,
Holds good in this community.

STANDING BULL.