Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-04-17
NOTES AND NEWS.

week.
Altoona, Pa, has a colored jus
tice Of the peace.
Erie has only three divorce cases
under way row.
Beecher hasn't made his defence
entirely clear get.
The Dallas county, Iowa, Jail
has but two inmates.
About this time engage your
Decoration Day orators.
A four-roomed cottage in Flori-
da rents for $50 per month.
1t takes q tons OF ore, and ditto
OF coal to make a ton of pig iron.
Men in their thirst for happiness
make themselves most unhappy.
The squihs of the press thinned
Out The Senatorial excursion party.
They are actually harvesting
barley now in Southern California.
Tiltnn has been invited 10 adj
dress the Lamoille county, VT,
fair.
Sweet. New Orleans estimates
her coming sugar crop at 100000
hogsheads.
1t il predicted that three cabinet
officers will resign before Congress
reasseInbes.
Minister Schenk presented u S.
Grant, Jr., at the Queens last
drawing-room.
A couple of fellows have been
arrested in London for burlesquing
Moody and Sankey.
A Troy scamp soft soaped his
laundress and slid off with her
lifelong earnings.
Long Branch, Saratoga, New
port, Cape May--you pays your
money and you takes your choice.
Gen. Spinner wouldn't be a bad
man TO have around Chinese
laundry @ mark packages.
When the spelling mania dies
out, can't we get up a national rip
pie in mental arithmetic or geog-
raphy.
They keep shooting away at
editors. Aud yet there are fond
parents who encourage their sons
to so and be shot at.
1.-THE oldest inhabitant of st.
Paul, Mimi, predicts that the Mis-
sissippi will be open at that point
on the 18th.
A watering place correspondent
writes that Every few bathers
battle at the West End;n where
upon Mrs. Darlington says she
"had an idea they bathed all ever"
"Are we men, or are we jack
asses ?" shrieked a member Of the
North Caralina Legislature. We
answer emphaticaily, You Gre.'
sour whole land has backslid-
den, - said preacher yesterday.
Greet. Land-slides are the order
Of the day everywhere just now.
Germany's military forces, in
Guiding those of Bavaria, comprise
at this moment31 $3.50 officers $780,
600 men, 3l4,970 horses, 2,700 field
and 800 siege pieces of cannon.
1t don't make any difference
whether poems on "Spring" are
written on one side of the paper
or on two sides They stand the
same chance of publication either
way.
A colored congregation In Day.
ton have decided to forgive their
clergyman for betting on three
card monte and losing 500 of fes-
tival money. One of the deacons
remarked, 1--WE is all human, an
de game is very exciting"
Comfort Smith, of Maine, wani-
ed to marry man who had In
many ways tried to injure her
father. The old man finally con-
scented to give Comfort to the en-
envy.
The cost of the Centennial will be
81, 900 600. This amount PennSyl
vania pays 81, 500, 900, leaving $4,-
OuU,Uuu W DC maui uutoitc thV
State. 1t Ii expected that ten mil
lion people will visit the grounds,
paying fifty cents each.
Said Missouri preacher
"There's a powerful sight Ct gig
Cling back thar in the corne., and
It's got to be stopped, or the Lord
will delegate me TO open the door
and throw some one out !" 1t was
stopped.
Napoleon always carried with
him an emerald OF great valde
which belonged to the crown Jew
els. He lost 1t at Waterloo. 1t was
found by u Prussian soldier, and
has since boon numbered among
fHe. % Is,