Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-05-09
Europe will have good harvest.

Backward season for Easter bon
notes.
The last Of the Bare Adam
and Eve.
Several flower beds were "laid
OUT this week.
The Hub can claim the cham
pion boy fienl.
Boston vandals want to destroy
It's Old churches.
"a real love niatcho is announced
at Washington
san Francisco has a frst-class
murder every Sunday.
Agitation has begun in Boston
for park Of go acres.
Vermont viii place $50 600 young
salmon III her rivers.
New York is turning up its nose
ut counterfeit butter.
Air Pill, of Milwaukee. bit his
girls lip so hat she is In danger
OF locsjaW. Nice Pill!
The Delaware peach crop it Is
said will be the largest ever
dreamed Of. Who ever dreamed Of
peaches.
A perfectly tame zebra, which
will allow persons to ride on its
back, is among the attractions OF
the Paris Geological Society.
1t is said that if castor oil is
mixed with giycerine, and few
drops OF cinnamon added, the taste
of the castor oil can scarcely be
recognized.
The indictment against ex-Gov-
James, of Nebraska, for embez-
zling public mony has been quash-
ed.
A woman in Indiana claims a
divorce of the ground that her
husbands mother beats her, and
her husband is afraid to interfere.
A citizen of Washington has
commenced suit against clergy
man for expelling him from the
membership of the church. Dam
ages are laid at $4,000.
Bobbs complains that his wife
is an inflationist. She blows him
UP every day, and makes him cir
culate until he actually feels that
he is beyond redemption.
fla lady in a red cloak were to
cross red field in which was a
goat, what wonderful transforma-
ton would probably take place ?
The goat would turn to butter and
the lady into scarlet runner.
When Bismarck receivers his
health his physicians say he must
wear a wig. The photographers
OF Berlin are in raptures, for they
expect unprecedented demand for
photographs of he great Cham
cellor as he will appear when rig
ged out with a new suit of hair.
A consumptive man in Rhode
Island had an idea that if ne could
drink fresh blood from goat it
would cure him, and he killed
seven or eight goats belonging to
neighbors and got himself in Jail
The Massachusetts Anglers AS
ISOLATION having become convinc-
ed, from the result of their inves-
tigatiOn, that smelt during tho
spawning season are not healthy
food, since they then are full of
PARASITES, have procured the pas
sage of a law to prevent taking
them at that time,
A Plattsburg paper speaks OF a
gentleman of that vicinity who
recently sold his wife and chill
dren to one of his neighbors for
II coat, pair of secondhand
pants, and five dollars in cash.
The Grand Lodge of Pennsyl-
vania, Independent Order of Good
Templars, will hold its twenty
first annual session in the hall of
the House of Representatives, at
Harrisburg, on the 9th of June.
A sacred drama, entitled "Ma.
rie Magdelaine," is being perform
ed at one of the Paris theaters.
1t is described as being a kind of
dramatic Oratorio, the choruses
and some ofthe characters appear
ing in appropriate costumes,
while several of the solo singers
appear in evening dress, as at or
binary concerts.
A new bill has been introduced
in the British Parliament which
proposes to establish courts of reg
istry, in which any one showing
a title without flaw may have it
registered as absolutely good, so
that in subsequent transfers inqui-
ry beyond this record will be
needless, and the tedious work
examining separately every link
in long chain of title may be