Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-08
THE NEWS.

Five millions Of dollars hi gold are
to be sold in New FORK during this
month ON the Government account.
No real st. Louis man leaves less
than two widows when they die. and
they generally live in the city, too.
Unless a Milwaukee girl can take
a brick in each hand and make eight
feet and four inches at Jump. she
rarely gets admitted into the best So
ciety.
New Orleans failed to pay up ON
the interest and bonds which matur-
ed ON Saturday, and the Louisiana
Levee Company also went to protest.
The postmaster at vicksburg, Mis-
sissippi, filled some of the positions
in his office with colored men, and
his white assistant and clerks there
upon promptly resigned.
The miners in the SchuylkiIl re-
gion stick to the strike with the ut
most persistency. How that comes
in is illustrated by the statement
that hundred thousand dollars will
be sent from Scranton and Wilkes
barre to the strikers during this
week.
A tornado swept over Western
South Carolina and Georgia OH Sat
urday evening. A large amount OF
damage was done, the chief destruc-
ton being in theneighborhood Of the
town of Columbia, s. G.
There was a special meeting Of the
Board Of Directors of the Pennsylva-
mia Railroad Company held in Phila-
delphia on Saturday last, at which Il
semi-ahnual dividend Of four per
cent. was declared.
Mr.. Barnum issaid to contemplate
buying Rhode Island as good site
for Hippodrome. He will roof the
inhabitants In and allow them to be-
come perpetual dead-heads.
An Atchison, Kansas, girl ate four
pounds of wedding cake III order that
she might dream of her future hus-
band. And now she says that money
wouldn't hire her to marry the man
she saw in that dream.
There was once q Pennsylvania
legislator who laidby thirty thousand
dollars in one session. When asked
how he managed this with a salary
of one thousand dollars, he said that
he saved it by doing without hired
girl.
A Doniphan, Kansas, Sheriff whose
unpleasant duty it was to put a Wild
ow and her children out of a house on
which she had failed to complete pay
ment hunted up another house for her
and paid months rent in advance.
Out West, when 4 young lady
spells her sweetheart down, the lat
ter calls her a blue-stocking, declares
he has been deceived in her, and
straightway goes off and marries an
other woman and it looks very much
to us as if the fashion was coming
East.
A sorrowful story comes from Mel
bourne about the wretched Commu-.
nists who made their escapes from
the French penal colony on the Is
land of New Caledonia. Fragments
of the boat in which they embarked
have come to shore, and it is support
ed that all have persisted.
James Baton, Of Princess Anne
county, Va, was murdered Saturday
morning by two negro men, who at
tackled him on. the road eight miles
from Norfolk. Baton was asleep
in his wagon, and his little son was
driving. The boy escaped and re-
turned when the negroes had left,
and his found his father dead.
A very important decision was rem
dered by Judge Brown, OH Saturday,
in the Supreme Court, Of Balti-
more, Maryland, on a case in
volving the payment Of uslirious in
terest on mortgage loan to build
ing association. The decision goes
to the full extent of declaring all
payments Of over six per cent. usur-
ious, when the borrower is not q
member of the association, and gives
to the plaintiff verdict for the full
amount paid over six per cent. inter-
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