The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1867-04-25
MAR7INSBURG WEST VIRGINIA, THURSDAY APRIL 25 1861
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
There are more heroes in Washing
ton than in all New England.
Nine thousand rats were recently
killed at rat hunt. near DanVille. III.
General Seeum says he was never
defeated but once. and then by his own
Union friends.
A woman residing in Orero, Winnie
bago county, Wisconsin, on April 10
poisoned her infant child; and, when
assured Of the fatal effects of the drugs,
administered dose to herself with
similar result.
4 TitHsvi!la, Pa, letter says that
most of Che oil companies, whose capt.
tai array OF cyphers, have, by Il contn-
ued settling Of their under-pinnings, at
length reached the ground floor, and
their assets may be represented entire
" by cyphers.
When the Canadian authorities under
took 10 blow Hip Table Rock, at Niagara
Fails, some weeks ago, they neglected
to properly arrange the charge of pow
der and the explosion only had the
effect to throw down some pieces Of the
rock. The main mass Of itstiIl remains.
A Washington dispatch says: sEnor-
nous quantities of shad and herring are
l@ing caught in the Potomac. Over
hundred thousand herring sold on Tues
day for about six dollars per thousand,
and twenty thousand shad for about
ten dnllars per hundred
FRUIT. We have partaken of ripe
blaekberries. the first OF the season. We
also notice that the fruit stands about
the city have exposed, for sale, deici-
Gus looking plums.-Gulresto,a Ieras)
NeVs.
The people of Chicago are indignant
and excited over the capture of a gang
of resurrectionists, having in their pos
session five human bodies, together
with the tools by which they accom-
plshed their unholy work. These men
were offered ten dollars for "subjectsn
by professors of Surgical science, for
the prosecution Of their studies.
The General Assembly of the Old
School Presbyterian Church will hold
its next meeting III the Central Freshly
terrain Church in Cincinnati on Thurs
day, the 10th day OF May, and will be
opened with a sermon by Rev. Robert
Il. Stanton, d ID, Moderator of the last
Assembly The "Deelaration and Tes-
timony" will come up for action.
The Springfield Republican Radically
commenting on Schade's exposition Of
the Wirz murder, says: 'Hls was one
of those military trials that constitute
the darkest page in our recent political
history, which we would he glad to
blot out forever from human relnem-
brance." The horror of, and shrink
ing from, the acts and doings of these
military tribunals, is conlinge even soon
er than we expected.
Unless we have sharp frosts within
the next few days. we shall have a
great fruit crop this year. The pros
poets are fine for an abundant yield
from the strawberry up to the peach.
The apricOts have been killed where
they doomed early, but we are inform
ed that there is still a fine crop of them
left.-Petersd,ny Express.
According to the Washington letter
writer's Gen. Butler is following up his
invesi igatioils into the case of Mrs.
Sursatt and may have some other de-
velopments to AXE, besides bringing
to light Booths diary of which the
public knew not word, until he
'unearthed" it, few weeks ago.
Among the contributors to the South
ern Relief Fund in Charlestown, Jeffer-
son county, were two colored men, one
of whom gave twenty-five and the 9TH
er five bushels of corn.
A man was tried in Alexandria on
Saturday last, who had been passing
himself off in that city and Washing
ton as General Fitzhugh Lee, which
latter gentleman had him arrested.
It is so mountainous in the chill coun-
try'' of Colorado that many persons
have to look up through their chimney
neighdor's door.
A letter from New Orleans says: "On
Mardi Gras, one of the masqueraders
q nlilitarx, draSS tho lott