Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-12-04
OUR NEIGHBORS.


The Shippensburg girls will wear
their hair cut bias this winter.
The Cumberland postofice is open.
during certain hours on Sunday.
There were three deaths from small
pox in Cumberland on Wednesday.
The Chambersburg young men
have organized a minstrel troupe.
Winchester stove dealers ship
stoves to customers in South Caro-
lima.
The Sh!ppensburg band is getting
ready to hold fair in their town
during the holidays.
The Shippensburg Democrat says
the Hagerstown Neacs is printed with
apple-butter.
Hagerstown has been enlivened by
a bird-show and ventriloquist, all
in one week.
4Adams, of the Hagerstown Ne,vs,
drew his Thanksgiving turkey from
a mackerel.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bragunier, of Ha-
gerstown, aged 50 years and ii mos.
died on the 22nd.
The net proceeds of the Oyster
Supper given last week by the Cath
olic ladies of Harper's Ferry amount
ed to $500.
Mr.. Joseph Cooley, for many years
a resident of Winchester, died near
Middletown, Frederick county, last
week, at the advanced age of eighty
six years.
A benevolent gentleman of Hagers-
town ordered a baker to distribute
one hundred lOaveS of bread to the
poor of that town on Thanksgiving
day.
One hundred and fifty children at
tend the public schools in Keyses
city, and as many more do not.
The Choir of the Reformed Church
of Winchester will give a Musical
Concert in the Reformed Church of
Shepherdstown, on New Years Eve.
The Lutheran congregation at
Winchester are building a new
church, and when completed will be
the finest edifce of the kind in the
town.
Miss Sue Ridenour, blind lady of
Winchester who supported herself
by teaching music, has been so for
tunate as to receive a legacy of So
90 from Cyrus Holt, of Kentucky.
Mr.. D. S. Hartle, of Leitersburg,.
near Hagerstown, has in his pen
shoat only fourteen months old,
which weighs $50 pounds. This is.
the largest one that has been heard
of in the county this fall.
Revivals are in progress in the
Lutheran Church in Sharpsburg, the
new M. E. Church, near the Antie--
tam Iron works, and at Hagerman's
School House, near townsville. The
services at the M. E. Church here
were also continued throughout last
week.
Miss Damie Taylor, from the Eas-
tern Shore of Maryland, died sud-
denly while on a visit to w. G. Van
metres in Hardy county, recently.
She was an only daughter. Her body
was taken to her home in Maryland.
The Cumberland Times man is al
most ready for Christmas. His close
fitting socks, ON which several fast
knitting machines have been at work
for month past, are almost finish
ed. They will make Santa Claus
weep.
A Morgan county man rode $500
nag to q husking party, and when
81 - x.atrr,, fo,nI h;e h0,-co rro~o
1t was found several days afterwards
in a secluded spot in the forest, sew
eral miles from the place where ia
ken, hitched to tree. The horse
was found and returned to the own
er by man who was out looking up
a lost COW.
Mr.. James Burkhart,a young man
about 10 years of age, met with
sad accident, causing death, week
before last, on what is known as the
Levels" in Hampshire county. In
company with three of his uncles he
started in persuit of deer. Young
Burkhart was placed on certain
'tcrossing' to watch for game.
Shortly thereafter his gun was dis
charged, and his uncle not being far
distant, Immediately ran to him, and
when he arrived found he had shot
himself in the side. He lived but q
moment after his uncle reached him.
1t is supposed he was leaning upon
his rifle, which was ready for firing,
when it was accidentally discharged,
the ball making fearful hole in it's
course through the right side and
breast.