Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-04-24

| Upholsters are busy.
4 Dead-The Third Term.
| Texas wants a new constitution.
| The market for lumber is buoyant.
I, Tweed's real estate materializeS
we'll.
! As rule, school directors spell
fairly.
i Very convenient--Mr. Beecher's
memory.
| New Orleans is calling for street
| sprinklers.
| Jonesboro, Tenn. has q woman 10
years old.
| In New York the news girls are Az
active as the boys.
The down East churches are hold
ing maple sugar bees.
Both ofTilton' chief lawyers seem
likely to kill themselves by nervous
tension.
An opening for doctorsA hole in
| the sidewalk.
In California the girls ride horses
" hair-pin Style" How's that.
Even Londoners are disguised with
the Brooklyn show.
Dan Rice has started another cir
Gus. He may live to be Mayor yet.
| The Indians want 81 100000 for
their interest in the Black Hills coun-
| try.
Charles Ross father is confident
that his child still lives and will be
returned to him.
Three hundred thousand immi-
grants have moved into Texas since
last October.
Fullerton, when aroused, roars like
the bull of Bashan.
A sill that Washington sat on il
being made into tooth-picks at Read
ing.
AT Jersey City's aldermanic cleo
ton, one man voted for Bessie Tur-
ner.
David Craig, of Sterling, Ky.,a
So, advertises for wife.
The most enlivening game ,croquet.
will shortly distract the attention Of
many turtle-doves.
Long Island has g Fever-and-
Ague Club" Despite its name,it il
no "great shakes of q club to be-
long to.
The moral people Of Brooklyn want
six Saturdays in a week. Saturday In
always a holiday in the Beecher scan
dial.
Down in old Kentuck the peach,
plum, cherry, apple and pear trees are
in full bloom.
The new constitution Of Tennessee !
provides for meetings Of the Legisla-
ture only once in four years.
The mayor Of Houston has issued
an edict expelling all the fortune-tell-
ers from that place.
Queen Victoria should at oncemake
Paul Boyton a Knight of the Bath as
he can't become Prince Of Whales
Two Kentucky girls have been SEN
fenced to six months Imprisonment
for helping their lovers to escape
from prison.
Maine folks complain Of having to
pay RDsVOO III % iiluidNi VI tAt NiAiA
rope is ten cents a yard.
The foolish virgins of modern times
are those who try to hurry mp the fire
with Kerosene.
The two hundred and fifty-fourth
church edifice for Brooklyn was ded-
icated Sunday, and yet, look at that
ERE Beecher trial.
Kiss shots in billiards are now call
ed " Brooklyn caroms." Some men
who indulge In them, are, however,
beaten at their own game.
There is a very painful apprehen-
sion abroad that Fullerton is des-
troying Beecher's memory altogether
At present there are fifteen States
of Europe which recognize horses.
donkeys and mules as legal food.
"Thrice welcome, Spring. thou
bright-eyed, fair-haired maid. Oh.
give her pair Of rubber-boots and
say nothing about it.
A fine field for a newspaper. The
Alaska Bulletin is published at Sitka,
in that Territory, and the population
Of the place is 500.
We need more business and less
politics in the city government. IN
annapolis Ne,us. Wonder If that il
not the need in all governments?
Professor Taylor, of the agricultu-
raj bureau, advises the Western far
mers to get rid Of the grasshoppers
by eating them. They are largely
consumed in the East, and the Indi-
ans of our plains find them excellent
eating. General Sherman has tried
them, and says they are by no means
to be despised. There is a Scripture
precedent for putting the pests TO this