Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-04-10

And now Broollyahas duelon the
tapis,
A Western poet makes . smile :"
rhyme with April"
Budd Doble Travelled through Cali
fornia in Il harouche drawn ~ six
horses.
Cincinnati is shaken up by 4 relig-
i0us revival.
Tilton is flooded with circulars from
soft-mattresS makers.
As a Sierra valley farm boy Bret
Uarte was utterly worthless.
Talmage SAYS some editor are worse
than some actors. So are some
preachers.
Lancaster county Pa, has twenty
taree candidates for sheriff III the
field.
Tie Western wheat promises to be
remarkably good.
Pontius Pilates palace is supposed
to be found in Jerusalem.
Florida has the most timber of any
state in the Union-30, 900 900 acres.
yermont's breed of fine wooled
sheep has almost disappeared from
the State.
Mexican funeral party" is what
the indianapolis Sentinel calls the
senatorial excursion.
The Michigan legislature has abol-
shed compulsory dog-collars.
New York fosters pauperism with
$4,000, 900 year, given III charity.
1t is believed that the new Louisi-
INA compromise will prove failure.
The Czarina princess Imperial of
8lissia) has given birth to daughter.
A fire in Shelbyyille, Ind, Tuesday,
destroyed several mercantile houses.
The ship Daca, which went ashore
on the isle of Wight, has gone to pie
ees.
The report that the Emperor of Bra
I'll proposed to abdicate has no foun-
edition.
Congressman House of Tenn. lost
the prize in Il Nashville spelling
natch on :. k-a-r-p-e-t."
Mr.. Moody ON Tuesdaypreached to
5000 orphans and children of the In
dustrial Schools of London.
Another conflict has arisen between
the mule-driyers and the proprietorS
Of the Lowell (Mass.) mills.
Reyivalist Hammond is praying for
the conviction of the San Francisco
sinner who stole his oYercoGt.
A mass meeting of citizens at HaZ-
elton Tuesday night endorsed the ac-
ton of the Governor and the Sheriff.
Some precocious spring robins have
already hatched out at Johnstown,
Penn.
Seventeen spelling matches are to
take place in Boston and its suburbs
this week.
A Paducah, Ky, negro catches an
empty barrel in his teeth and swings
it III mid air.
The bearers of the Cardinal capfor
Archbishop McCloskey arrived in
New York Tuesday.
The President says the Administra-
ton is not nursing any Mexican an
ueKation schemes.
The result of the Connecticut cleo
ton is Il great surprise to the mem
bers of the Cabinet.
Owing to a late severe storm Or
ange City. Iowa, was ten days with
er catch up in reading the proceed
ings of Judge Nelson's Court.
A letter from Port Byron, Western
Arkansas, to the st. Louis Globe,
states that the people of that section
are on the verge of starvation, and
appeals for aid to the charitable.
The question of the ownership of
the Arkansas Hot Springs has been
in litigation over thirty years, and
the Court of Claims has just decided
that they belong to the Government.
While Francis Joseph hobnobs
with Victor Emmanuel at Venice,
how jealousy Kaiser Billy and Bis
and Aleck and the rest of the boys
win be watching them.
1t is estimated by the Boston Ifan-
script that Daniel Webster, during
his public life, received over 81 90 900
Il gifts from his friends and admir-
erS.
A few days ago a Kentucky colored
man bought catfish and in dressing
it found growing in the flesh of the
fish separate tissue in the form of a
human hand, about as large as thrt of
an infant year old.
And now California is exulting
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