Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-05-09

| Postpone popping till The cop
per sun OF July burns the earth.
Then will your charmef lie III II
melting mood
Gracious me!' exclaimed la
dy in the witness box, show
should | know anything abonr
anything about?n
A female couture builder IN
New York advertises herself as
Hair dresser to Miss Nellie
Grant,
/ THos. MAsLTN, Esq, of Moor
field was elected President of the
Board of Regents of the w. Va.
ID, ID. & b. Asylum.
The latest invention Is rail-
way carriage with patent sus-
| pension, which prevents the pas
sengers from feeling any incon-
venience from oscillation.
A Philadelphia gentleman was
married the other day to girl
who had refused him eighteen
times. Compromise wasn't in
his dictionary"
| He was from Ireland, and had
had Ibis first encounter with gas,
in Hartford. He blew IL out and
ii was almost his last breath, for
they found him next morDing half
dead.
~ want to know whether we
are going to keep house or board,
before going into this thing,v said
a young lady al the altar III San
Francisco. Commendahle fore
sight.
Thirteen hundred Cinnamon
have been set to work ona narrow
guage railroad in California Their
Josses say that they do more work
and less fighting in 4 given period
than the average railroad labOrer.
A "lively'' milwaukee '.beer
pedlerv married a young girl run
beknownv TO her mamma When
miss was missed madame started
after her, dragged her of bed and
home again.
You can get a neck lace ,ear-dr0ps
aud pendant, OF new design In pale
veined Neapolitan coral, minutely
carved with cameo bachante and
Cupid's heads suspended at regular
distances, for only 300.
At the Memphis cotton exchange,
on Saturday, seventy three esfi-
mates on the cotton crop .
opened. The highest was IL
0S6 bales, and the lowest $780, QUO
average 4, $4,000.
A Providence c0lored man
wants a divorce because his wife
"won't let him contradict her, land
"jerkcd a chair from under him
while he was saying his prayers.n
Why didn't he go down on his
knees !
The Government Of Guatemala
has issued decree prohibiting
priests and cIergymen from wear
Ing the.usual distinctive dresses Of
long robes, &C., except when they
are engaged in the performance
of their sacred duties, under fine
of from $40 to $50.
SAD ACCIDENT On Wedncs-
day, the 22nd inst, q six year old
daughter Of Mr.. Redhouse. OF
SLuth Grafton, fell back ward into
q boiler of hot water and was so
seriously scalded as to leave no
hopes for her recovery from the
terrible burns.
A clergyman at CIarinda was
away from home when the crusade
began. Flo returned in the even
Ing. and saw his wife standing at
the bar of a saloon singing as loud
ss she could yell. lie supposed
she was drurk, and entering the
saloon; he said, Come home. wife
you have ruined me- drunk
drunk drunk ~
| 1t has recently been discovered
! that the vanilla flavor may he OBJ
tanned from fir trees There ~, IL
appears, la the juice OF fir trees,
between the wood aud tie b1 X, a
crystalline substance called coni-
FERN q gleuoside, as chemists call
it, which, when acted upon by
oxydizing agencies, is easily con
verted to- Vanilla, ll.s< tllen'ical
principle Of vanilla.
For the past four wiz rs a. Ne-
vada stage routes iriegularity ~
been the rule and not the fxr..s
ton. The winter before the ose
just past the residents of Cornu.o
pia, Nevada, were at one iIsit't7
without mail for three week~,
and sent memorial representing
the facts to Washington. Chpr-
peuning CressWells the memo