Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1875-01-09

MI Junh Adfslake, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
al OF England. has become blind through
overwork.
A four-year-old Missouri boy shot
and killed a fnll-grown man named
Anderson.
The proprietor Of a Boston eating
saloon advertises "sacred clam chow
der every Sunday evening"
| They relieved" poor man and fam
;ly in New London, Conn. ard he bought
dog with the money.
Ohio proposes to melt her score of
weaker colleges into single one, strong
enough to so alone.
The next time that "katie King goes
into the ghost business she will probably
chew cloves.
Muhammedanism has been defined as
''that blessed religion which makes peo-
pie wash Themselves
| A paper has this advertisement
1.-TWO sisters want washing" Millions
Of brothers are in the same predica-
ment.
The libel suit against the Philadelphia
Evening Starhns resulted in a verdict
against the plaintiff and for the Com
pany.
The Northwestern university Of Ill =
is in feIment because the faculty for
bid female students to join the secret So
cieties,
Mr.. Lilligreen, OF Kansas, grieved only
six weeks before marrying bis second
wife.
"Bury Me in the Gardenn is much
sung in Boston, where lot in the GEM
etery costs 5000.
The number Of emigrants landed at
Castle Garden from January to Dec
l,of the present year, was 145 ,492
showing heavy decrease.
Natural, enough, there is some diff
Getty in getting the will of Tom Collins
admitted to probate in San Francisco.
The Tichbourne claimant is to be en-
ployed as a tailor, and is to finish his
sentence at Dartmoor.
The man who is kind AID polite to his
mother-in-law has reached Vicksburg
apd is al object of general curiosity to
the people there.
1t is stated that Brigham Young is
about TO call mass meeting of all his
children, 50 that they may be introduced
to each other.
The Arizona Miner says: But for
Crook, bis officers, soldiers and scouts,
Arizona would still be clark and bloc
dy land" under the viilainous sway of
red and white scamps.
1t is proposed erect, at convenient
intervals, in the streets of St. Petersburg,
tablets inscribed with points Of local
information. as station, doctor, &c.
A Texas lawyer was fined $50 for
telling the jury to go down to the gro
Gerry and help themselves, after having
given verdict in favor Of his client.
A policeman HIS to DC detailed at the
Boston library to prevent loafers from
frequenting those cheerful apartments
for the purpose Of warming up" during
the cold season.
"When / asked" said Emerson, can
iron master about the Stag and cinder in
railroad iron, Oh he said there is al
ways good iron to be had; if there is
cnder in the iron, stis because there's
cnder in the pay"
The matrimonial market has been
picking up so fast since September that
one New Hampshire clergyman has laid
in three barrels Of beans, a barrel OF cider |
and three dried calf-skins.
a rich but psrsimonious old man, on
being taken to task for his uncharita-
bleness, said: True. don't give much,
but you only knew how it hurts when
| give anything; you woulden't wonder.
According to the report of the Grand |
Master Of Virginia Masons, presented to
the Grand Lodge on Monday night, the
order numbers $50 Lodges ia the Old
Dominion, with membership Of about
10000.
AT Sackville, Canada, few days ago,
an eagle measuring seven feet between
the tips of his wings, attempted to fly
off with little girl, and was only pre-
vented from so doing by the timely ar
rival of servant.
Two hundred and forty-three persons
persisted on the lakes this year, against
two hundred and twenty-one in 1878,
and two hundred and nineteen in 1872. |
The estimated damage to property foots
up $3,031,600 against $3,976,0 900 in
1878,