Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-16
OUR NEiGHBoRS.

| oiioii ohiii III IdBcIStOWn.
The Shippensburg Ne,os has enter
ed upon its thirty-third year.
| Mr.. G. c. shriver, of Cumberland
Register of Wills of Allegheny coun-
ty, died on Tuesday, of brain fever.
The potato crop is very abundant
in the Cumberland Valley, and a
good article sells for thirty cents per
bushel.
A young lady of Cumberland has
challenged the champion walker of
the world to contest of endurance,
for from 81 600 to $4,000
Mr.. Peter S. Storm for MANY years
cashier of the Central National Bank
| of Frederick died on Wednesday last
after long and painful illness.
Politics is warming up i'm Cumber-
land. There are now four candidates
in the field for the Sheriffalty of AL
leghany county, and more expected.
Douglas Percy has positively de-
clined the nomination for Judge of
the Orphans Court of Allegheny
county Md, rendered him by the re-
publican convention.
The business of the Winchester
factories is reported as better than at
any time since the panic of 1873
and the orders from abroad indicate
the meritorious character of the
work executed.
Rev. J. p. Hubbard, who has been
residing in Alexandria for some
months, has accepted call from the
Episcopal church of Shepherdstown,
to succeed the Rev. DR.. Andrews de
ceased. Mr.. Hubbard, with his fam
lily arrived at that place on Wednes-
day.
We learn from the Spirit of Jefer-
son that on Sunday afternoon Mr..
Charles Bishop was riding out in
buggy, in company with Miss Ella
Blessing, when the vehicle in which
they were seated was upset, and boil
of them thrown out, causing the d :
location of Miss Blessings r - -
shoulder. Ash
The opening address of A n H.
dleton, Esq, before the ,g !; n.i te
Lyceum, last week, is .,' " lnonsSt :,
the papers. The Tin . en,o ai,,,1oa i .,
notice by saying: ~. TIoon a,,;nuo ~,
of the address, which ne r ea'o b;nbl,
wrought and ,osished. WAS was a restIlS
fnl deliver Mr.. Pendleton'S grace
s scr ',t' ), /and the absence of man
COW Hagerstown Tlcice-a- Week
b. s that Mrs. Col. Schnebley, who
AS, ia consequence of her extreme
Iage, attained considerable notoriety
is at present lying very i'll at her resi-
dence a few miles north of that town
Mrs. 5. is in her l03rd year, and wher
| in town a few weeks ago, looked ex
cedingly we'll for a centennarian.
| The Spirit Of jefferson says: Or
Friday night last the stable in which
Mr.. Michael Mcmahon keeps hi
horses was entered, and a mare be
| longing to him severely eut in tht
stomach cash about six inches o.
more in length being observed on he
next morning, and bloody finger
prints left on the inside of the stable
Fortunately, it is hoped, the cut wa'
not deep enough toprove serious, but
the party who would seek to vent hi
| spite ON an individual, by attemptin:
to cripple or take the life of am inof
fensive dumb animal, has certainly
reached low grade of villany.
| The Cumberland Times says :
| Mrs. Nancy Valentine, who makes
| her home with o. p. Hendrixon
near this city, attained her one hun
| dredth year in August last, ant
through all that long life never hat
occasion for the use of spectacles
can thread u needle with as mucl
ease and precision as when sixteen
years of age, does her own cooking
land occupies all her spare time il
| knitting stockings for sale first spin
ming the wool herself. This hard,
and robust specimen of aged Amer
can womanhood ought to be ut the
centennial of American indepen
dence.