Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-07-17
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| There were -four attempts at bur
glary III Cumberland Monday night.
Putting on city airs, you know.
The counties Of Hampshire. Min
cral. Grant. Penslleton and Hardy
have organized III agricultural seci-
ETY..
! Ina few days the Jacob XoUayes,a
military Company Of Piedmont, will
be presented with 4 stand Or colors
by COY, Jacob III person.
secretary Bristow, Attorney-Gen-
eish PielTepomt, Gov Dennison and
senator Thurman, Of OHIO, are allat
Deer Park.
Mr.. j II. Reed has been appointed
postmaster mt Black Rock. Grant
county, vice Miss Yoletta l.. Jones,
resigned.
4 little daughter Of Mr. Bruce
Twigs. OF Hampshire county, was
bitten l3y copperhead snake recent
~. and died Il ON the effects.
The Register says there are nine
hundred applicants for positions as
teachers in the public schools Of
Wheeling during the next scholastic
year.
The Cumberland 1inaes says there
has been an unusual fatality among
horses in that city for some days past,
dozen having died within a few
days.
The Clarksburg Telegram says the
farmers of Harrison county are pes
tceaG nit.l glasshoppers, potato bugs,
chincheS. worms, and an unknown
variety Of insects in all part OF the
county.
The corner stone Of the new
church to be built in Nippon, Jeffer-
son county, will be laid on the 28th
of July, by Jefferson Lodge \. L.
and A. NJ, of Charlestown. Hon.
G.. j. Faulkner, will deliver an adj
dress. Masons and the public gen.
orally, are invited.
The Morgan Mercury cautions the
public against man calling himself
Hugh Dolan, and purporting to come
from Morgan county, who has been
imposing upon some of the citizens
of Berkeley by representing that he
had been burned out at his residence
in Morgan, and that his helpless
family was dependent upon the char
ity of the neighbor for a bare subsis-
tence. and thus securing eontribu-
tions of money, &c. The Mercury
says he is a fraud and ought to be
arrested.
Mrs. Grove, wife of Hon. James
III. Grove, Of Leetown, Jefferson
county, committed suicide on Tues
day morning last, by hanging. The
Shepherdstown Register gives the
following particulars;
Mrs. Grove and one of her child
rem, a son, had for some time been
sleeping together. On Monday night
they retired as usual. On Tuesday
morning, about five O'Clock, the
child awakened and found his moth
er gone, which was something un-
usual. He Immediately searched
through the house and then went to
the yard where he found his mother
suspended to a tree, and her body
! still warm. 1t seems that Mrs.
Grove had cotton upon a stool, fast
ened surcingle to the limb of the
tree and to that attached a silk scarf
and placed it around her,neck which
did the execution. The stool was
living near her, which she no doubt
removed by her feet, after adjusting
the scarf around her neck. Mrs.
Groves mind, it is said, had been
impaired for some time past, but it
was thought not of serious char
acter. She was highly educated
intelligent and accomplished lady
and her sad misfortune is much to
be regretted. Previous to her mar
riage she was a Miss Berry, OF
Hagerstown, and of wealthy and
highly respected parentage. We be
lieve both her parents have been
dead for some years. Mr.. Grove was
prominent lawyer of Hagerstown
and removed from that town some
4 three or four years ago, upon the
plantation upon which he now re-
sides,s and which he purchased OF
DR.. Gibson. Mr.. Grove was also one
of the most prominent men III Mary
land politics, having been elected
State Senator upon one occasion, as
well as having filled other import
ant and responsible positions. His
numerous friends sympathize will
him in his sad and melancholy be
reavement. Mrs. Grove leaves foul
interesting children to. mourn then
loss. Her remains were inferred at
Hagerstown, on Wednesday, by the
Episcopal church services, amidst q
large concourse Of sorrowing rela-
tives and friends.
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