Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-09-04
OUR NEIGHBORS.

Lie ldGIlleTS Oh tHe 1uHlDtlldilu
Valley have ''rousing'' corn.
The streets of Shepherdstown are
| beautiful and OrdorOuS with bloom
ing gympsum weed.
The Potomac Synod of the Re-
formed church will meet in Win
chester on the Goth of October.
The Cumberland Times man is en-
curing about the sea serpent. He
ought to look in his boots.
The Shepherdstown Register has
gone back to first principles, and dis
carded the patent outside.
The Hagerstown market master is
still confscating short weight butter.
He ''gobbled y ten or fifteen pounds
again on Friday.
The season at Berkeley Springs is
drawing to Il close, and soon the
usual dullness will reign in that now
lively little town.
Mr.. j. w. Gibson, of Jefferson
county, had his collar bone broken
and was otherwise injured by his
horse falling upon him last week.
Robert Cole, aged 10 years, son of
Mrs. Mary j. Cole, of Cumberland,
was drowned in the Canal Locks at
Harper's Ferry on Saturday. His re-
mains were taken to Cumberland.
Shepherdstown is infested with
clothes-line thieves. little won't
have his extra neither garment chung
OUT until camp meetings and pic
MICS are over.
The Williamsport Pilot man was
presented with, as he thought, a big
watermelon weighing twenty-eight
pounds, and invited number of
| friends to help eat it. 1t 'panned
out" p,o,kin.
The Shippensburg Ne,cs says, the
corn fields in that locality, in point
of yield, will be simply immense.
The height of the stalk and the size
of the ear amounts to almost an agri-
cultural monstrosity.
Cumberland is not happy. No
boat race, no stub race" no circus,
no nothing. And to cap the climax,
the Ners man in fit of abstraction,
went off with an organ grinder.
A pleasant and more than sociable
party in Williamsport on Saturday
night eat slippery cheese in mistake
| for ice-cream, and played shuttle
board for billiards. They must have
been laboring under powerful hal
lucination.
A horrible outrage was committed
Saturday night by three men on the
person of Ann Olive, aged So years,
who was a cook for Capt. Reed, on
board the canal-boat T.. =. Manning,
while lying at the Cumberland port.
John Fright and Harry Davis were
arrested and identified by the woman
as the guilty parties. The affair has
created considerable excitement and
officers are in pursuit of the other
party.
On Saturday last, at the Printers
picnic at Blue Ridge Summit, John
Heyworth, who lives near Beaver
Creek, in Washington county, Md,
got noisy and quarrelsome in the sa-
loon. Persons tried to quiet him,
when he drew pocket-knife with a
long blade. Chas. Lindsey, young
man residing at Mechanicstown, en-
deavored to induce him to put it up,
but failed, and turned to leave him,
when Heyworth stabbed him in the
back. Then they had scuffie, dur
ing which Mr.. Lindsey was cut five
times, once in the face and throat,
twice in the back, and twice in the
| head. They were separated and
Lindsay carried to the depot, where
his companions did what they could
to check the flow of blood until the
arrival of doctors, when his wounds
were dressed, and he was sent home
on the afternoon train. His wounds
though severe, were not mortal.
: HeywOrth escaped.