Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-07-31
THE NEWS.


A New York paper asked g what
will the Centennial mi lions of Phila-
delphia do for water 2" The majority
OF the Centennial millions don't care
rap whether there is any water or
not if the other fluids hold out.
A lucrative opening for young la
dies has been made by the decision
Of an Indiana court that the fact of
q girl being engaged to several gen
tlemen at once is no bar to suing
each of them for breach of promise.
Some scholars in the Normal
School at Westfield, Massachusetts,
turned yiolets green by dipping them
III ammonia, and tricked the botani-
cal teacher into lecture about the
apparent discovery Of a new flower.
The Philadelphia Eceni1aq Star
says: There are here and there
among our business houses some
healthful signs of improvement in
trade. These indications are not, to
be sure, very strongly marked, but
they are sufficiently definite for a
foundation on which to base hope
That the good time coming is not far
off.
No tidings from Donaldson yet,
and the probabilities now are that
none will be received. He and his
comrade either sleep in the bottom of
Lake Michigan, or among the Michi-
gan pines, that, swaying over them,
chant their requiem. Donaldson was
a brave and generous fellow; his
bravery amounting to rashness, which
possibly in his last ascension led to
his untimely death.
The trial of John Doyle Lee, for
participation in the Mountain Mea-
dow massacre of twenty years ago, is
still in progress at Beaver, Utah. A
considerable amount of important
testimony is being elected, all going
to prove the deliberate attack upon
the emigrants by the Mormons. and
Lees participation in the dreadful
crime.
Owing to the failure of the Ohio
fruit crop, the Baltimore and Ohio
and Pennsylvania railroads will,
about the 10Th proximo, put on fast
fruit trains to carry Delaware and
Maryland peaches to Cincinnati.
No Congressman of the present
time is more generally liked than Mr..
Lamar of Missouri. Journals of all
parties rejoice at his denomination
and pronounce him one of the ablest
and most useful men in Congress.
The best of it is that he deserves all
the popularity he enjoys.
Senator Schurz writes to friends in
Washington that he will return to
this country in October. He has
spent most of his time abroad in Ber-
lin, at the Foreign Office, studying
the correspondence between Prussia
and our Government century ago,
intending to use the data obtained in
the political history of America
which he designs writing.
A man named Johnson, with his
wife and five children in a wagon,
drove into Coosawattee river, in Cor
don county, Georgia, Sunday, and
getting into deep water, the wagon
bed fioated off. All the children
drowned. The man and wife escaped.
The bodies of four Of the children
have been recovered.
More trouble seems impending in
Louisiana. The negroes are reported
as collecting and arming in the par
ish of East Feliciana for the purpose
of capturing the town of Clarion.
The white people are organizing for
the defense of the town.
Professor Janney's dispatch to the
Interior Department respecting the
new discoveries in the Black Hills
confirms the previous statement, and
shows that not only is gold found
there in paying quantities, but the
country itself is a garden spot, and
that its chief value, in fact, lies in
the fertility of its soil.
A gambler in Iowa, to escape ar
rest, attempted to cross a river with
a pocket-book between his teeth. His
strength or skill not proving ade-
quate, he was obliged to open his
mouth in order to call for help, and
his pocket-book, containing 1000
went to the bottom.
We understand (says the Hagers-
town Mail that a system has been
invented by which canal boats con-
structed in sections can be floated
into dry dock, loisted, and placed
ON railroad trucks, without breaking
cargo, and thence run to ultimate
destination. We further learn that
such dry dock is likely to be con-
structed at Williamsport, and that
coal in bulk will thus be shippedfrom
Cumberland to Baltimore over the
w. NJ. Railroad.
Daring Daylight RObbe~y.