Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-07-31
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Mrs. Tilton is a sufferer from d
sore eye, caused by a hot cinder. How
are those Brooklyn people that have
beams in their eyes getting along?
Bishop Lee, Of Salt Lake, tells d
straight story, don he /? But then
it's dreadfully bloody one, and is
apt to be red with suspicion.
An Ohio man recently choked him.
self to death with an old hoop skirt.
1t was never known before to what
use old hoop skirts could be put.
With bountiful wheat crop, q
large surplus, a brisk foreign demand
and large advance in price, why
should not trade revive 2
The American boys are beating the
English at rifle shooting. And near
~ one hundred years ago the Ameri-
can boys beat them at musket shoot
ing. Another instance of history re-
peating itself.
Advices received at the Medical
Bureau of the Navy Department
yesterday from the South Atlantic
fleet, report that the United States
naval vessels there are free from
yellow fever.
Messrs. Fletcher, Faulkner and
Harris, members of the special In
dian commission, left New York,
Thursday evening for ked Cloud
Agency, to commence their investi-
cation into Indian frauds.
The July returns of the condition
Of the tobacco, crop, just received at
the Department of Agriculture,
shows an immense increase in the
acreage and yield in all the tobacco
growing States except New Hamp-
shire, Massachusetts, Connecticut.
Alabama, Georgia, Wisconsin,, Lou
isiana and Kansas.
Some fifteen or twenty persons
were seriously, and some fatally,
burned Thursday ut Newark, Ohio.
by the premature explosion Of coal
oil, which took fire from q wooden
building which had been erected in
the town for the purpose Of testing q
new fire extinguisher, and which had
been saturated with the explosive
material. Among those burned was
the mayor of the town.
The Bankers Convention. which
has been in session at Saratoga,
Thursday adjourned sine after adopt
ing a resolution opposed to usury
laws, and appointing committees to
examine the question of usury laws
and free trade in money, and to col
lect specimens of coin for the Cen
tennial. The time and place Of the
next convention was left to the judg-
ment Of the Executive Committee.
In the swimming match at Ches-
ter, Pennsylvania, Thursday, be-
tween Coyle and johnson for the
championship Of the world, the latter
won, swimming ten and Il half miles
IN three hours and ten minutes
Johnson was quite fresh when he left
the water, while Coyle was taken on
board the boat in an apparently life
less condition, and that night grave
fears were entertained for his life.
The English commission to the
Centennial Exhibition at Philadel-
phia, have broken ground for the
erection of their buildings, four in
number, in Paramount Park. Eng
land is the first foreign nation to
commence building operations. The
Japanese commission, now in Phila-
delphia, are preparing to build, and
structures will shortly be commenced
for Sweden and Morocco. Austria IS
official requirement for exhibiting
space has been received by cable. and
calls for nearly thirty-four thousand
square feet In the main building and
oyer twenty-one thousand in the art
gallery. This is an increase of one
third over the original reservation.
THE Roman Catholic Archbishop
Purcell, Of Cincinnati, recently said
in a public speech, 81 am sorry that
the common schools have been ar
raigned tonight as the public enc
mics Of education. In the public
schools children do not acquire a
Goddess education. Nothing is taught
there that is against God. | find
that some of the best scholars, the
best men and the best women receive
their incipient education in the conf
mon schools. They can't be called
Goddess" That don't look much
like the opposition we hear 50 much
about.
Reports from the entire length Of
the Ohio Valley Thursday night
show that one of the heaviest rain
falls of the season, has occurred in
the past twenty-four hours. AT
Evansville three inches of rain fell
yesterday. AT Vincennes the rain
fell in torrents, beating down grain
and grass. 1t is estimated that
10000 acres of corn in the Wabash
bottom are under water. The Wa
bash river is rising rapidly, threaten
ing an overflowof the entire bottom.
Through southern Ohio and Ken
lucky all the streams are reportpd