Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-12-25
LOCAL SPLiNTERS.
Remember the poor.


PEEsoNAL-Tom and Jerry have
arrived.
The Potomac river is frozen over
in the dams.
The boys can try their skates this
morning.
The coal trade has revived with
the cold snap.
The weather softened down
little yesterday.
Is it true that ''eggs is eggs" or
are they money now.
The measles are prevalent among
the children in Winchester.
Adams Of the Hagerstown Neus is
still skirmishing around after Christ
mas turkey.
Almost every person seems to be
troubled with a bad cold. How is
yours getting.
The children of the Southern Meth
odist Sunday School will have a
Christmas tree.
Business men are now recognizing
the fact that the INDEPENDENT is
the paper in which to advertise.
Never ask an editor whether GER
tain article is intended to be perso-
nal, unless you are twice as big as
he is.
Ladies who don't like frozen ears
wear over their bonnets pretty little
bits OF white worsted crochet, which
look comfortable enough.
Brother Haines, of the Spirit of
Jefferson, is in luck. His better half
has presented him with twin boys.
He no longer opposes imitation.
The ladies Fair and Festival in
the basement room of the Catholic
Church is nightly crowded with Wis
itors, and all are highly pleased with
the entertainment.
The Boonsboro Odd Felloao says
the M. E. parsonage of that place
was sold at Sheriff's sale the other
day and knocked down at 5000. The
building alone cost near $4,000.
We can't all be President of the
United States, but anyone Of us can
throw ashes on the icy spots and
help human nature along unruflled
by sudden sit down.
A man in Strinesville has pur-
chased for his wife a number of India
rubber fiat irons. They will be much
lighter for the old lady to handle land
will not raise bumps on his head.
"Spivins" heard that the Temper
ance Convention was in session,
and he left here Immediately for
Wheeling. The attraction was SO
great that he could not stay away.
The Festival and Supper at the
Catholic Church is now going on.
Everything in the way of eatables is
furnished in fine style. If you wish
to spend a pleasant evening and en-
JOY a good supper don t fail to attend.
The Charlestown Free Press says
Mr.. Thomas L. Vanmetre has sold
his farm located a mile and a half
southwest of Leetown, to Mr.. VIM.
Stewart, of this county, for the sum
of $10,76l, being $5S~qer acre.
To irritate a womann whose mind
is of strong sort, read to her that if
she were in Japan her three principal
duties would be 4: l. Obedience to
parents when q child. 2. Obedience
so husband when wife. 3. Obedi-
ence to her Oldest son when widow.
The concert of the Lutheran
Sabbath School children, to come
off in King st. Hall Christmas night,
promises to be a splendid entertain
ment. Secure your tickets. They
can be had at the independent Book
Store.
The Winchester Ne1cS says revivals
of religion have been in progress for
several weeks past in the Baptist and
United Brethren churches of that
town, and attended with much sue
cess, many new members having
been added to the churches. There
seems to be strong revival feeling
permeating all the churches of the
country.
Old fashioned people who regard
liberal use of the birch as an impor-
tant adjunct in the educution of
youth, will be interested in the an
Rouncement that the Supreme Court
of Wisconsin has pronounced flogg-
ing unlawful. 1t has decided that
the whipping of a child by public
school teacher is an assault and bat
battery, and that an offending teach
er may be mulcted in damages as
well as held answerable for violat-
ing the dignity of the law.
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DEFALCATIONs,o official and other
wise, are again the order of the day,
the number constantly occurring be-
ing so great as to suggest the famil-