Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-09
THE NEWS.

a 0enblSJ s son at sherman, Texas,
was born with a full set of teeth.
The Erie Railroad is going to in
troduce female clerks in its Offices.
The ". NJ. c. A. of Indiana has
doubled its members within a year.
In the end the Government will
control the railroads and telegraphs.
Orestes Brownson, being in bad
health, has suspended his Quarterly
Review.
Bessie Turner's novel is called
After Thoughts" 1t never catches
them.
Two hundred and seventy live Nor
mons from England have just reach
ed Utah.
France has $4,000 industrial es-
adjustments, giving work to about
1900, 900 men.
A cat at Belchertown, Massachu-
sets, killed black snake the other
day that measured nine feet in
length.
The stamp duty on patent medi-
cines manufactured in Great Britain
last year amounted to over $571 $40.
Already $4,000 have been collect
ed for the families of the French
scientists who were lost during
balloon voyage.
Hazing has broken out again in
Harvard, and many of this years
freshmen have been most cruelty and
disgracefully maltreated.
There is an American aloe in
flower in the Oxford Botanical Gar
Aens the stalk of which is twenty
feet high, and the diameter of the
flower eleven feet six inches.
Governor Skunk, of Pennsylvania,
vetoed the first bill that came before
him for the incorporation OF a tele-
graph company, on the ground that
" it would interfere with the business
of the United States mailsl"
"A Friend in need is a friend in
deed" Such a friend is DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup, which should be used
in every family. 1t only costs 25
cents bottle, and may save many
doctor bill.
Every Monday morning number
of negreSSes may be seen on the
wharf at New Orleans, near the
French market, throwing pennies
into the river, to purchase of some
Voudon spirit good luck for the
week.
Whenever bank, firm, or an in
dividual fails, and an estimate of the
assets made, it is always safe to cut
the estimate in two, and make up
your mind that that will be about
what the creditors will realize.
The Khedive has recently paid the
last installment for the 900 cast-steel
cannon ordered of Krapp, and made
a contract for quantity of ammuni-
tiOn for them. The guns cost $4,000
each, and the shells 800.
For recent concessions made by
Brigham Young to the Union and
Pacific railroad companies, they have
agreed to lobby bill through the
next Congress for the admission into
the Union of the State of Deseret.>
Edward Zuyderhoff, late an at
tache of the Dutch Legation at
Washington, after losing his fortune
at the gambling table, has been SEN
fenced to an Imprisonment of six
months for obtaining money under
false pretences at Nice.
THE latest achievements of the
Chicago spectators was an attempt
to get up a corner Oh oats, which
signally failed. as it deserved to do.
There isn't anything in the market
that those fellows do not attempt to
control. Happily, the country is big,
and thus far their efforts have proven
futile.
WHAT is Ben Butler after, that
he so studiously avoids direct partic-
ipation in the stirring political
movements of the hour? During
the whole summer he has done moth
ing more than write "A single infla-
ton letter, and failed to defend its
sentiments when vigorously attack
ed by the hard money papers. Evil
IDENTIFY Benjamin has something on
uand that will one of these days
startle politicians generally, as much
asthe Presidents Des NJ Dimes speech.
Political conjectures are all the
rage now, First there are conjec-
lures as to how Ohio will go, then
whether Hartranft or Pershing will
be elected, and now comes Massa-
chusetts, the conjectures in regard
10 the Bay State being which of the
two candidates. CASTOR or Rice, will
win the day. The general impress
sion in regard 10 the latter State is
that it will be a tight lit, with the
odds slightly in favor of CASTOR, as
he has been ali excellent governor.
THERE is "a speck of war " in the
East, Mr.. Wade, the British Minis
ter to China, has intimated to the
Chinese government that if his de-
mands are not complied with he will
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