Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-05-23
GENERAL NOTES.

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1t is said that Syracuse, N. Y,
turned out $4,000 600 pounds ofsalt
last year.
Two hundred acres Of land were
recently sold in Florida at five
cents an acre.
Out of 10 furnaces in the vicini-
ty Of Birmingham, usually en-
ployed in making pig iron, not fifty
are now in blast.
A London merchant, who was re-
Gently created u baronet, gave a
"thank offering" of $4,000 to the
public charities of his country.
The question of the purchase of
Irish railroads by the State, recent
Iy came up i'm the British Parlia-
ment, and was negatived by avote
of al to 56.
A tombstone at Columbus, Ten
nessee, has this inscription Es-
capped the bullets of the enemy to
be assassinated by a 7cowardly pup
"a kind husband and an affection
ate father.
The sum of one thousand pounds
sterling has just been given to the
Swedenborg Society in Londen,b by
a person who withholds his name,
for the purpose of printing and
publishing the writings of Eman-
uel Swedenborg.
For playing the jewsharp in
church during divine service in
New Britain, Conn.,, VIM. Rath-,
burn has been fined, $40 notwith-
standing he defended his solos
with quotations from the Bible.
Andy johnson is dead. He was
one of the Wisconsin regimental
war eagles.
Dom Piatt says he has enjoyed
a good reputation. We have no
doubt he did if he ever had one.
Mr.. Beecher thinks if by crema-
ton the ostentation and extrava-
gance OF funerals could be abated
it would constitute a strong mo-
tive for the introduction of the GUS
tom.
No Norwegian girl is allowed to |
have beau until she can bake
bread and knit stockings and as a |
consequence every girl can bake
and knit long before she can read |
or write, and she doesn't have to |
be courted into her industry either
1t is thought that the ex-Em-
press Eugene will gradually be-
gin to emerge from her selfimposed
retrdtte at Chislehurst, where as
yet she seldom stirs out, except to
cross the common to the chapel
that hold her husbands remains |,
Prince Bismarck tiles aa;,v
walks in the ga...1en attached to |
the the. Foreign Office at Berlin. He
-s.ii requires to support himself |
with cane.
The democrats propose to nom-
mate General Mcclellan for the
governship of New Jersey.
A London dispatch says the Du-
chess of Edinburgh is enciente.-
The Duchess starts out well to ri
val her royal mother-in-law.
Lord Thurlow, who was an at
tache of various British legations,
including that at Washington, re-
Gently died at London.
1t costs a Lewiston man $50 80
to have his dog bite another man,
but what's that TO the satisfaction
of being able to keep your neigh
bors awake o'nights.
On Sunday last son of William
Irwin, of Hagerstown, Md, aged
seven years, died from the effects
Of lockjaw, caused by his treading
upon and running into one of his
feet an iron prong of a hoe,
The democratic state executive
committee of New Jersey met at
Trenton to fix upon a time to hold
the gubernatorial convention, but
decided to hold another meeting
ON June l6 to fix upon the time
Judge Woodruff, in the Circuit
Court at New York, has sustained
the decision of Judge Blatchford
in favor of the Government against
Jay Cooke & Co. for the amount
and interest of eighteen $1,000
counterfeit bonds redeemed by the
Treasury.
Mrs. Mahaley Murphy, aged fif-
ty, while picking up coal Thurs
day on the track of the Baltimore
IL Ohio railroad, near Marriotts-
vile, about twenty-eight miles
from Baltimore, was run over by |
a passenger train and killed.
A lot of rats were found, the