Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-08
OUR NEEGsERflRS.

! Chanbersburg has had athunder-
/ storm.
Judge Allen, Of Hardy county, is
seriously III.
The Grafton people propose to give
q Grand May Ball Oh the 18th.
All the Bands aud Fire Companies
nj the Cumberland Valley win pa
rade at Carlisle on the 10Th
Morgantown Ii excited over spell
ing matches, and the girls wear bus
ties made Of McGnffey's Spoilers.
From the Gerardstown Thurs we
learn that Mr.. James Butler, of that
place, was partially paralvzed ON the
left side, one day last week.
DR.. Starry, the agent Of the b. 80.
r.. r., ut Charlestown for number
of years past, has resigned that place
to resume the practice of his profess
ion
Cumberland county, Pa. boasts Of
thirteen Oranges patrons of Indus
try with a membership Of over sew
en- thousand.
The Town Council of Hagerstown
have been to Chanbersburg to look
at their new Market House. Ha-
gerstown is going to build one.
The Atlantic Base Ball Club of
Chambersburg are hot. They want
to play any nine on the line of the
Cumberland Valley Railroad, and
issue bold challenge to that effect
On Saturday night Lambrecht's
jewelry store, at Clarksburg, w. Va,
was broken into and robbed of Il
a quantity Of watches, jewelry, &c.
Jas. b. Shoemaker was arrested in
Hampshire county, w. Va, on Tues
day last on u charge of rape commit
ted in Logan county, Ohio, last fall.
Shoemaker was taken back ON Il re-
QUESTION from the Gov'r of Ohio.
On Sunday a child, aged one year,
OF Mr.. G.. w. Miers, living in Mary
land, opposite Keyser, pulled over up
on itself a vessel of boiling water,
and was so badly scalded that it is
feared that death will result.
The Hagerstown Neers says: The
grangers around Beaver creek have
commenced to ship their produce
through their appointed agent, re-
fusing all bids from outside parties.
The temperance men intend hold
ing a county convention on the 18th
of May, and are endeayoring to ex-
cite an interest III their cause.
Sunday Right Rev. Bishop Pink
ney preached in st. Johns p. Il.
Church, and confirmed a class of six
teen-nine ladies, five gentlemen and
two boys.
On Sunday night Michael Gabrill
died at the almshonse. He was about
93 years old. At one time he was a
prominent distiller. and made what
was known as the Gabrill whiskey.
According to the Moorefeld Id
rertiser, Miss Mary E. Baker, of
Wardensville, in Hardy county, can
''driye the centre" with rifle every
time at from twenty to forty yards.
Reports say that Upshur is almost
unanimous for change in our pres
ent county court system-EX.
And SO with every other county,
where the people are civilized, and
not cursed with fogyism.
A bald eagle was killed 10y Mr.. JAS
per Buzzard, on the farm of Mr.. |. p.
Parker, on Little Capon, on the Goth
inst. 1t measured from tip to tip
feet 81 inches and weighed 15pounds:
its claws measured more than two
inches.
Allie Hunt" the thoroughbred
stallion which ran at our two last
fairs, belonging to Il. b. 81 w. r.
Davis, has been sold to Mr.. Cules, of
Greene county, Penn. who will place
him in the stud at his stock farm.
That Mr.. Benjamin Parkinson,
living near Shanghai, was dri-
wing a loose colt out of the barnyard
recently, and as he stopped to pick up
stick, the colt kicked with both
hind feet, striking him in the face and
inhicting several severe cuts.