Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-03-28
GENERAL NOTES.

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Michigan ought to be happy. A
resolutloa has been offered in the
Senate that in view of the large
balance in the State treasury no
tax be levied for 1874.
Minnesota has appropriated $685.
900 TO be expended in the purchase
of seed wheat for settlers in the
southwestern counties whose crops
were destroyed last year by grass
hoppers.
Milford, Pa, with "A population
Of about six hundred, has seven
large first-class hotels. The rooms
in most of these have all been en-
gagged for the coming summer sea-
son by guests fsom the cities. The
summer boarder business is worth
to Milford hotels and boarding
places about $4,000 week from
the middle oil June to the middle
of August
A child was lately born in North
Carolina which has bat one eye,
one ear and one nostril, twelve fin
gers and twelve toes, and is Meth
err male nor female. 1t is from all
appearance a healthy child, al
though it eats but very little. The
greatest excitement prevails in
the neighborhood. People are
coming loug distance to see the
living curiosity.
Cinnamon are destroying the
fish in Carson river, Nevada, with
lime. They select dead water, land
cast the powdered lime by hand
fnls over the surface. The lime
absorbs the atmospheric air, the
fish are suffOcated and rise to the
surface for breath. If not taken
out they float out to pure water
and recover. Giant powder is also
used.
The Illinois Legislature has
adopted an amendment to the
criminal code providing that the
sentence of death, when passed up
on a criminal, shall be inflicted
within ten days next succeeding
the opening day of the following
session ofthe Supreme Court. This
will give an opportunity for the
review of errors without the ne
cessity of stay of proceedings.
A Wilmington man has an acre
of peat meadow which his prede-
cessor, ten or twelve years ago, set
out with cranberry vines. Three
years ago he sold the crop of ber-
ries for 81 900; next year the crop
realized him 81 200 and lasl year
ST. 500. This land on which they
were grown, without the cranberry
vines, is worth about twenty dol
lars an acre with the vines it hasa
productive value of $4,000.
The influence of forests in draw
ing moisture from the heavens
may be judged from the expert
ence of San Diego, California.
Previous to 1868 there was yearly
a rainy season, which made the
soil nodrishing and productive.
In 1868 q destructive fire swept
over the greater part of the coun-
try. cutting. down the luxuriant
chapparel, and blackening the
hills Since then there has been
no rainy season at San Diego.
From a small postoffice in Tiogaf
county the department could get
no returns. A Wellsboro gentle
man was requested by the depart
ment to find whether there was
such an office, and inquire whyno
report was made quarterly. He
did so, and the postmaster replied
that he did not owe the Govern
ment anything, as he bought his
stamps at Wellsboro; neither did
it owe him, and therefore there
was no need in making quarter
ly report.
The thirty young ladies who are
to carry the temperance war to the
Pacific coast will leave Washing
ton, Indiana, this week for Omaha.
After singing to the whiskey sell
ers there they will visit Reno, Vir-
ginia City, Sacramento, San Fran
cisco, and lesser places. AS they
are all young, land probably pretty,
the bachelors of the Pacific are
awaiting the raid with eager anx-
iety. One California editor fears
that they will all be absorbed be-
fore they reach Grass Valley.
The study of geography has at
tanned great prominence within
the past forty years, having be-
come so connected with geology
and botany as really to become a