Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-04-17


for their young.
Watterson calls sam Ward class
ic Jim Fisk.
Maryland has a species Of small
yellow perch not found elsewhere.
Light clay Is the best soil for a
peach orchard.
Mrs. Walworth is bowed with grief
at her sons wasting health.
A new Indiana law gives railroad
conductors police powers.
Mary Clemmer calls Beck, of Ken
lucky, !" the Ajax Of the House. /"
Portugal sends word that she viii
be represented at the Centennial.
Bismarck is going to England for
the benefit of his health.
Francis Clary, aged 1913 years, died
in New York ON Saturday.
The Democratic city convention of
Baltimore assemblies about the 9th of
May.
Graduation speeches have been yot-
ed a nuisance by the seniors of Mich
igan University.
A Madison wis. girl has offered
to marry whichever of her four lovers
yanquishes the rest in a spelling
match.
To the point: "Quills are things
that are sometimes taken from the
pinions of one goose to spread the
opinions of another.
The Milford (Del.) NeaoS says the
peach buds in that vicinity are unin-
jtred and crop prospects are good.
Betsey Williams, one of the last
slaves held in Pennsylvania, died in
Lewisburg, recently, aged IS years.
This is the way Pennsylvania pa
per tells the story: William Boyer,of
Amity Township, Berks county step
ed on q piece of ice and slid into eter-
nifty.
The New Hampshire Patriot quotes
the Bible, William Penn Socrates and
the Detroit Free Press in the same
column. This is profane.
When Brigham Young was in Jail,
the other day, for contempt of court,
there were five of his wives weeping
at each window of that institution,
and twelve at the door.
A man in Maine has presented to
the Maine Historical Society the gun
which his grandfather used at the
battle of Lexington. 1t is claimed to
have been the first gun fired there.
We shall miss that bunch of cells
engraved in the corner of our green
backs, says an exchange.
They have forty-four Church and
state holidays year in Russia, and
yet they call the Emperor despot.
The learned German historian, Won
Banke, has written history of Eng
land in the seventeenth century in
seven volumes.
The wheat crop in Southwestern
Virginia has greatly improved with
in the last few days, and an average
yield is now confidently expected.
Phineas T. Barnum, Mayor of
Bridgeport, Conn. Admission to
Bridgeport, hereafter, 50 cents, chill
dren half price.
Japan would be a literary desert to
Brownlow The worst epithet that
can be applied to man in Japan is
hungry devil"
Most courts have but one "crier."
The Brooklyn Court is an exception.
1t has several criers. And it is mot
very large courtroom, either.
A llttle Sabbath school girl in
Kentucky has committed to memory
fbree thousand verses of the Bible
since the LIST of Janusry' she won {
read the Bible when she s1FoWs up.
Winnie Ream was Kansas glrl.
"A correspondent OF the Chicago -ln-
teT-Oce0n asserts that the parental
Ream was for many years a resident
Of Kansas, and followed bookkeeping
for some time.
Cincinnati has a ghost which
haunts a tan yard. A bold drover,
with beer in his stomach and twenty
five hundred dollars in his pockets,
attempted to interview the spirit
lately and has not yet been seen or
heard of since. Now the police are
hunting both drover and hobgoblin.
Thomas White, of Petersburg, Vir-
ginia, has presented to the Virginia
State Library a curious and valuable
Autograph. 1t consists OF small
portrait of a venerable negro, under
which is, in fac simiIe, q note from
Lafayette, bearing Gate of September
%. 1854, certifying that the bearer
al ,sone essential service as a spy
: fhe British camp, and exorting
= 4; :,a Of the State to see that he