Huntington independent. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1871-1874, 1873-08-28

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IN.
j. Mack Smith has taken con-
tract of furnishing a million feet of
lumber to parties 10 Huntington and
is at work.
DR.. MCGovNEY and others, of the
Etna Iron Works, sailed from Liver
pool on Thursday, in the steamer
CRY of Chester, and are expected to
set foot upon their native heath IN
Ironton, Oh the 9th instant.
For the want Of something else to
talk about, some people are discuss
lug an avenue fir IN Hanging Rock to
Petersburg with fine shade trees and
classic elms on either side. This
may all be very fine thing for this
community, since we have so much
money to speed in that line that we
know not what to do with it. We
need such a enc avenue to cores
pond with our elegant streets and
the prodigious suspension bridge
over Ice Greek which has been re-
Gently built
1t was Hanging Rocker, until
late a widower, who secured his own
village in vain for a help-mate and
then sadly bu, firmly avowed his in
teution of searching Irunton, Ash
land and Cincinnati till he found q
mate. He hadn't got half way
through Ironton till he found an
affinity and is now happy.
1t was horny handed son of toll
who replied to the representation of
doctors bill: Well, Doc, you see
| buried my old wonan while ago
an it took heap o money, an now
I'm married gin, an. liant got 10
money! Aud ne heaved heartfelt
sigh aud calmly tackled another plug
of "dog-leg.'
The party of gentlemen who went
into " est Virginia last week sti-red
up hornets nest out in the forest.
\ conference under an old oak tree,
was broken up aud scattered in 8
twinklias. The hornets did not
want their rights invaded by the
white mans ak, nor the ore-digger's
pick. One big he-fellow stepped up
on a gcntlemau's wrist, another had
his ear trod upon, and third was
tramPled upon as to his upper lip.
Whereupon the conference was dis
persed, leaving the field in posses
sion of the enemy. One gentleman
left his cane, which he made no eff
fort to regain, not even under flag
of truce. Nothing like hornets
nest to spoil mans calculations.
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We have had case of murder in
our township (Symmes). The affair
occurred ut the house of John Nc
Daniels, on what is known IS Yates
fork. From what we can gather, the
iacts seems to be about this: Two
men, Bony Smith and Dave Powers,
were shooting at a mark in the coal
ing for a treat of oysters. Powers
being slow about shooting, Smith
hurried him, when row occurred.
Powers struck Smith with his gun
Smith caught the gun by the muzzle
when tbe gun was discharged, the
ball taking effect in Smiths sb'!omen,
Just below the breast bone, and ran
ged downward, coming nearly through
the body; the physicians extracted
The ball from the back. The ARRAY
occurred last Saturday evening
about 3 P. NJ. Smith lived till l p. NJ.
the next dag. Powers was taken be-
fore Esquire Hurdley, and released
on $500 bull. The course Of Hand
ley is generally censured. G
Prom the Register
Engineer Charlton extracted the
, remslus of about hundred pound
fish from the water works pump, last
week.
\ What is needed in Ironton society
s is about twenty first class weddings.
; There is plenty of counting going on,
: but it doesn't pan out well.
We have friend in disguise
He left boz offne hickory nuts al
Y our Office door, when there wasn't q
t soul about. 4 doleful description
5 accompanies the box-"take three
5 times a day just before going to bed
+ We expect an observation of that
c prescription is what has enlarged oul
friends generosity.
S BURLINGTON CIRCUIT CAMP MEET
!. ING RULEs.-We are asked to pub
: fish the following regulations for tn