Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-09-25

STATE NEWS.

bearssare killing sheep in Grant
county.
There were forty-eight deaths in
Wheeling last week.
They are filling coal houses at
Wellsburg at six cents a bushel.
The Principal of Washington
School in Parkersburg, gets 81, 800
per year
The tobacco crop of Writ county
Is reported not to be more than
one-half of that of last year.
Point Pleasant has Benjamin
f. Butler, and she amt bit proud
OF him in these days of currency.
Ralston, the late President of the
California bank, has a cousin of the
same name in Weston of West
Virginia.
Henry Fry, of Point Pleasant,
has contract to saw 1000, 900 logs
which floated down the river In
the recent rise.
ii is said that there are only six
papers in West Virginia, that have
q circulation of 1000 copies or
more, and none over 5000.
George Scott, of Roane county
did not celebrate the centennial of
his birth. The hundredth ami
versary occurred five years since.
The Post says that nearly 100
applications have been filed at
Morgantown for the vacant Uni
versity Professorships.
The Board of Commissioners,
who control Ohio county, are agi-
tating the expediency of establish
ing a House Of Correction tor the
city of Wheeling.
Rev. Henry G. Blayney, late Of
Writ G. H., West Virginia. has
received and accepted call from
the Presbyterian Church at King
wood Preston county.
Hon. A. r. Humphreys, OF
Monroe, is recommended as the
choice of Clay county for the Re-
publican candidate for Represen-
tative in the Third District.
Says the Warrington Ventila-
tor : From what we can under
stand of the affairs of the Univer-
sity at Morgantown we are inclin-
ed to the belief that politics has
killed it.
The Huntington Ensign Manufac-
turing Company turned ont two
pieces of iron castings for the New
river Car Company at Quinnimont
which weighed II ,240 pounds.
The Wheeling Intelligencer says
that Col. Joseph HI. Pendleton has
in his possession, a cane which has
been in existence 102 years. He
intends forwarding it to the Cen
tennial exhibition at Philadelphia
next year.
Henry j. Souther, of Ritchie
county, some years ago was found
guilty of grand larceny, and serv-
ed his term in the penitentiary Of
this State. He was recently shot
in New Albany, Indiana, by de-
graded paramour named Nancy
Mckee.
The Ironton Journal says: DIR.
j. M. White has perfect articu-
lated SIX eleton of woman, and
has fine upright case for it's en-
closure. He proposes to know
all about the human body. The
skeleton came from West Vir-
ginia. Who of our citizens has
lost the skeleton of his household.
We learn says the Wheeling
Register, from parties who have
been at White Sulphur Springs,
that Henry s. Walker, Esq, has
closed negotiations with a New
York company, for the sale of the
coal lands owned by him in West
Virginia. The price paid for the
property was $250,O0 That's
better than running newspaper.
The Elizabeth Mentor, of Writ
county says: A disgrace, the re-
moval Of President Alex. Martin,
and Professor Stevens, and other
Republicans from the position fill
ed by them so long and ably in the
West Virginia University, yet we
are told that politics had nothing
to do with 1t. 1t was only move
to get hold of the Golfers Of the In
stitution.
The Weston Democrat calls the
West Virginia Federal Court the
"Saints Rest" and adds as one OF
its features, 1.-The swarm of hun
cry politicians which this court
calls together. The office-seeker,
of both high and low degree,
comes out, SO to speak, ION dress
PARADE" at Federal Court. He il
on his dignity, and by a becoming
show ofgravity, good clothes, and
gerat Kindness. insinuates him