Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-04-03
Facts and Fancies.


Rhode Island politics aren't big enough
to squeal much.
Santa Anna SEQ saddle adorns
Washington pawn shop.
The late cy clone blew all the kindling
wood out of Iredell county, N G.
At a recent mission in Hoboken. ~ j.,
! 600 people took the pledge
Smallpox prevails to a great extent
among the negroes near Mobile.
George Sand calls theBrooklyn trial ia
profound spiritual tragedy"
A Pittsburg Sunday school announces
spelling bee with sandwich trimmings.
The New Orleans Bulletin claims for
that city n population of 240, 600.
One half Of Texas is Disguised with the
other hall, and wan 5 a divorce.
Allentown Pa, has had 81 days of
sleigh NC the past" winter
Bessie Turner ought to study law--.or
Climb the lecture platform.
Me phisio fees IS The way Chicago so
cie,y girl pro' ounces that character.
Flocks of partridges have been found
frozen to death in Bucks county fields.
A wild cat weighing forty pounds has
jus tbeen captured in the vicinity ofTroy,
Kun.
The largest farmer in California has
just sold his wheat crop for $500, 900, His
name is DR.. Gle
There are 40 baptist associations, 995
churches, Goa ordained ministers, and 54,.
900 members in Texas.
The Cincinnati Commercial wants Til
tons mig ht-gown marked for Identification,
may it please your Honor.
Covington, Ga, has a negro man over
100 years Cd but he Is gradually killing
himself by chewing tobacco.
Smiley Collax has made $4,000 lecturing
this season. That's better than dabbling
in Credit Mobilier stock
When Grandma" takes the witness
stand, the public may look out for some
choice Mosrels oftestimony.
The ram -ifications of that Brooklyn bus
mess will be better understood when they
come to the re-butting testimony.
A couple, short OF money, gave clergy
man in Cedar Springs q dog and an ac-
cordeon for marrying them
Total number Of hogs pack ed in the West
from November to March |, 5,057,0 600,
against 5, 44o, 900 last season.
The Senate is gone Now chop off that
Beccher trial and everybody will be so
happy
That's honest When a Calmuck has
manageable daughter he flies flag from
the top of the house.
Don't go to pranciug around in spring
overcoat just because the mercury ranges
q little higher.
At Grand Rapids, Mich. man sudden
~ fell dead at burial service just as the
coffin was lowered in the grave
There are more buffaloes on tho Texas
prairies than for many years past, in spite
Of the theory that these animals are fast
becoming extinct.
From present appearances, it certainly
looks as if Tilton would be brought in
guilty But stop he's only the plaintiff,
ISM. he F?
tits stated that a western editor drives
Oft beggaTs by Offering them so cents an
hour to read original poetical contribu-
tons.
AutIC arc tASllty @ANo ll rests SlS NJ -lifc
churches, one hundred and sixty-fve cha
pels, and Catholic population estimated
at two hundred thousand in three doceses
Of Texas.
An entire family in Harrison, Ohio,
has been made insane by stroke Of
lightning which hit their house.
In Nelson county, Ky, recently in
quarrel Sam Hahn cut Morris lie Fier
with q knife, and lie Fier then split
Hahn's head open with q spade, killing
him instantly,
The inactivity in the Lehigh, Pa,
coal region continues, miners refus-
ing firmly to return to work. Coal at
Mauch Chunk is growing scarcer in
consequence.
The Lehigh Valley, Pa, railroad
company have made arrangements to
run a special engine ahead of the next
food in that region to warn farmers and
others on the route.
Intelligence from Melbourne, Aus
tralia, states that twenty French COM
munist prisoners have escaped from
New Caledonia in boats made by thvm-
selves.
An attendant at a spiritua seance in
Fairhaven, VT, seized the materialized
form ofhis grandmother, and she turn
ed out to be a medium in disguise.
Bishop Hunting defines Ritualist as
a modern Anglican sentimentalist
making postures in the grave clothes of
a dead deluslon.'
Tho blanket. of snow which has COW
cred the northwest this winter has been
the salvation of the winter wheat, ac-
counts ofwhich are highly satisfactory.
Mark Twain says: ITO the poor
whites along the Mississippi river chills
are M erciful provision of Providence,
enabling Thea to take exercise without
exerton.n
Wealth, and Insanity.