Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-15
NOTES AND NEWS.

burned out last October, are still
red hot. Places In the famous yell
row Jacket mine remained hot for
near three years after fire
The Cincinnati Inquirer say: A
reporter Of The Cleveland Herald
stood on the Courthouse steps the
other day AMI counted eighty-four
who want to be Governor of Ohio;
and, it being a cloudy day, it is
supposed that he missed about two
hundred.
The Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle is responsible for the fol-
lowing: Winnie Ream says she is
flooded with letters from Indian
apolis; bat she can only reply that
no Democratic Editor can occupy
the first place in her heart, ard all
the other places are tenanted.
A mania for mining has taken
possession of the staid old New
England town OF Peterborough,
New Hampshire. Fifty pounds
of ore taken at random from near
that place have yielded at the rate
of $40 81 worth of gold to the ton,
and the people are all going wild
about it.
The embryo grasshopper is hav-
ing hard time in Minnesota. The
severe winter has frozen up the
myriads of eggs laid last summer
and the power to terminate has
been lost. As Mrs. Stowe makes
one of her negro characters say,
sits an i'll wind that blows no.
wharf,
The following remedy is given
for blight in pear trees TIC half
bushel of lime add 4 pounds ofsul
phur, -slake to the consistency of
" hitewash-and, when it is APP
piled, add to each gallon of the
wash half an onnce carbolic acid.
Apply this to the diseased part
| Where the bark is diseased, re-
move the outer portion before ma
king the application.
The Chicago Journal says: The
prospect is that the national re-
union of the soldiers and sailors Of
the late war, which is TO be held
May 10, IA and Is, will be grand
| affair. The attendance promises
to be very large, and the local
committees are making their ar
rangements accordingly. The rail
roads centering here will reduce
their faes, to those attending, t@9
one and one-fifth of the usual
rates.
This is what a truthful Ken
lucky man who threw his Ratchet
(G. Washington's) ~ after rabbit
saw down the hole into which
he went to get it: Arriving at the
bottom he observed a room like a
cave, about 10 feet square, dimly
ligh ted by the sunlight without.
Casting his eyes about him he dis
covered a pile of Indian toma-
hawks. Towards these he advanc-
ed for the purpose of examination.
While doing so he discovered two
earthern vessels almost within
reach, which he saw were filled,
one with silver and one with gold
coin. Paralyzed with for the mo-
ment at the discovery of such vast
riches, he stood and stared in blank
establishment. For a moment on
ly did he stand thus, but advanc-
ing with pantner-like leap he
was about to seize his prey, when
there arose a succession of such
shrieks. yells and noises that he
paused, and glancing up saw gaz-
ing upon him eight or ten things
resembling men who had once
lived, but now nothing remained
but their bones. 1t is useless to
say the stave-cutter lost no time
in getting out of the cave, without
even obtaining one piece of the
precious metal to bear him out in
his story. 1t appears that he is a
truthful man, and his story is be-
lieved by quite a number, who are
organizing themselves for the pur-
pose of making an examination
and testing the truth OF the story.
The Overdressed School Girl is
attracting attention all arouud.
! The Washington Star responds as
| follows:
"There seems to be need for the
censure by some of the papers of
| the growing tendency to extrava-
gance of dress in school children
by which spirit of caste in
clothes has been introduced into
the school rooms. The thing has
gone on until children whose par
ents can at hes. afford them but
very plain dressing, which is al
ways most proper, are made to
feel an inferiority altogether out
of place in our public school system
which is professedly based on
equality