Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-02-21
PERSONAL.

! General Nathaniel p. Banks il
on a lecturing tour. d9I .48ot
Joel Cook is said to be an effec-
tive political speaker. al aadi 19a
Mrs. Glenn, of Indiana, is under.
going her fifth trial for the murder
of Mr.. and Mrs. Young.
If Booth had been burlesque
actor he wouldn't be bankrupt.
DIR. Helen w. Webster has de.
cided to acceptga professorship in
Vassar College. She win assume
the duties of the position in few
| weeks. a.H tataf ~
Old John Harper, "Longfel-
lows" owner, is very i'll, and it is
said cannot recover. He is nearly
80 years of age and his vital ener-
gies are much exhausted.
The Kennebec Journal, Augusta
Maine, says kate Stanton
is graceful pretty speaker" but
forgets the inevitable hereafter
when it adds, land a tremendous
scold."
Laird Robertson has printed a
pamphlet in England making
scandalous charges against Queen
Victoria. The pamphlet has
fallen stillborn from the press.
Acknowledgement Train of Mas
sachusetts advocates the abolition
ofthe death penalty. He says that
as the law now stands secret muir
der may have become one of the
safest of crimes, and in his opin-
ion the certainty of conviction of
a crime punishable by imprison-
ment for life will be far more eff
fectual in lettering men from the
commission OF murder than the
threatened severity of punish
ment by death.
Thurlow Weed has recovered
the watch stolen from him last
week. The veteran editor says:
at was a New Year present
from my friend, the late James
Savage, of Albany, in 1882. After
the decease ola son and daughter
the watch was sent by my wife
without my knowledge, TO Gen
eva, in Switzerland, where a
protrait of Mary was beautifully.
enameled on the outer and appro-
pirate memorable of James en-
graved on the inner case. II
came back with these endearlng
associations as surprise on New
Years day. Subsequently after the
death of my wife, her photograph
was added. The chain was a pres
ent from Governor Fish, on the
occasion of his leaving the Execu-
tive chair"
A correspondent of a Georgia
paper writes that in Athens, in
that State, in a beautiful residence
set in a snug grove, live Mr.. Y. L.
G.. Harris and his wife. For five
years a pair of red birds have
built their nest in tree very neal
their parlor window; and each sue
cessive year the old birds bring
back their young of the year be
fore, to live upon the bounty o
their benefactors. The mos
peculiar thing, though, is the pas
sion which the patriarch bird has
for music. AS soon as any one
commences playing on the piano
in the parlOr, this remarkable
bird flies to the window-sill, and
there by grotesque motion, show,
how completely his soul is aroused
by the harmony. When the
window is down he will dash
himself against the pane of glas:
with the utmost fury, as if to get
inside, but when the window is
raised never ventures farther thar
the sill.
The man who is always finding
hairs in the butter, and who is fire.
quently made unhappy by each
discovery, might learn a lessor
of patience and humility by con
sidering the case of MIR. Robert
Barden, of Iowa. By a singular
freak OF nature, crop of hair ha.
begun to grow on Mr.. Barden's
tongue, and other little crops Of i
are sprouting from his gums. The
hair is said to be plentiful, and i
must be very unpleasant to him
He would scarcely be worse of
I If he had glued his clothes brusl
to the inside OF his mouth ant
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