Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-29
THE NEWS.

mold too much idle money.
The summer conflagration season
opens with alarming yigor.
The grasshopper business is as seri-
GUS for the East as for the West.
The Spring meeting of the Mary
land Jockey Club begins to-day at
Pimlico Park, near Baltimore.
The potato bug has put in an APP
pearance in Anne Arundle CO., Md,
and is committing great ravages.
A German, named Jacob Young,
living at East New York, suburb
of Brooklyn, murdered his wife on
Friday night, and then proceeded to
Evergreen Cemetery, where he COM
mitted suicide.
1t is stated that several revenue
officials in Wisconsin, Illinois and
Minnesota will be removed during
the week in consequence of develop
ments growing out of the recently
discovered whisky frauds.
Vice President Wilson arrived at
Denver, Colorado on Friday even
ing, and on Saturday paid a visit to
Central City, in company with the
Governor Of the Territory. He will
be rendered the inequalities of Den
yer.
Statistics of the Connecticut Lee
gislature show that that body is COM
posed of 107 farmers, 33 manufacture
ers, 2S merchants, IL lawyers, 7 ply
sicians, 4 bankers, and 2 clergymen,
besides those whose callings can in
no two cases be classified under a
single head.
Poor Mrs. Lincoln. There was a
time when, as the wife of an honored
President, she was the centre of a
brilliant and distinguished circle
Then came the mournful widowhood,
the newspaper comments on her ac-
lions, the loss of popular respect, and
at last this blighted career ends in an
insane asylum, to which the poor
woman has been consigned on the
petition of her son, fortified with me-
dical and other testimony.
The money column OF the Phila-
delphia Ledger which is the valuable
feature of the without con-
veying any reflection upon the merits
of the obituary department-has this
to say about business . There is a
willing disposition all round to con-
slider the worst of the crisis past, and
that henceforth business will bear a
cheerful aspect. Trade, now and for
several months, has been conducted
on safe and sound basis. Business
men have confined their capital and
the liabilities more entirely to their
legitimate pursuits, hence the great
er confidence manifested in the flu
ture of trade"
The details of the fires now raging
in Pennsylvania convey some idea of
the immense destruction of property
and the sufferings of the people rem
dered homeless and penniless by this
terrible calamity. The latest ac-
counts from Osceola represent that
town as completely leveled, the only
buildings left standing being the Ca
tholic and Methodist churches. AT
one time on Friday night the town
of Phillipsburg was threatened, but
owing to the efforts Of the citizens it
was saved from destruction. All the
brush about the place was set on fire,
which, after burning out, left wide
area between town and the flames. -
From Houtzdale it is stated that but
la houses were burned at that place,
but owing to the high wind the fire
was raging fiercely in the vicinity.
1t is estimated that the los : in Car
bon county alone will be over
a half million dollars. The latest ac-
counts report the fires raging fierce
~ at Weissport and Parrysville, but
no loss Of life has thus far been re-
ported, though rumors to that effect