Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-12-16
~ ATE NEWS

baa,, &. N5lu dNJhCtHt parts nave
oeeIi .enred with good sleighing
onr Consequent enjoyment.
1fbe Point Pleasant Library and
leading room is anxiously inquired
for by the Register.
On Thursday Of last week. Oak.
land, Md, and the high places Of
this State, enjoyed 70 below ger
a number Of United States troops
Ia Il over sunday At Grafton on their
way west. The Sentinel calls i:
"ursur.v
The fiscal term of the Brooke
county court begins on Monday. and
the Wei sburg Herald is uuging the
question Of a reduction of salaries
Rev. G.. II. Weaver of Grafton
Lutheran Church, has taken unto
himself Fraulein Kate Schneider of
! Washington.
The "littest candidates" for the
u. ;. Scholarships are being vigor-
ously bolstered up by disinterested
letters to the county papers.
Two West Graften Nimrods re-
| Gently shot five branch antler
bnck, one doe and large black bear,
just over the Maryland line
ID. A. Blanton, tobacco prizer and
storekeeper nd5 coated ut Hinton,
much to the qualification OF pro-
ducers there.
The largest reservoir on the line
of the b u q road has been com
pleted OF Grafton. 1t is made up OF
10000 bricks and has a, capacity of
400, 900 gallof $. IS
Mr.. B. t. Furguson, Fish Com.
missioner, has sent another INSTALL
ment of twenty five thousand "small
fry'' of the Maine Salmon for the
head waters of North Branch.
| Moses Jennings, formerly Il resi-
dent of West Union, was crushed to
death, last Tuesday between two
cars, at the Moberly, Mo-, station.
He WAS d prominent and wealthy
citizen in his new home.
Some over-enthusiastie Grafton
youths fired a jolification cannon
| Thursday night, and at length over
charging the piece, burst it into
fIagments. One piece was driven
into bed room of an adjoining
house, but fortunately no one was
hurt.
Mr.. W. Fl. fancy, one of the
proprietors of the Wheeling REGISTER
died last week.
| Mr.. Allison, former law partner
of Hon, y. +. Stanton. deceased,
died suddenly in Wheeling last
week.
| The contract for the public print-
ing has been let to Mr.. III. JOHN
ston, of the Register office, for the
next two years.
A curling club bas been organ
lied in Piedmont.
AT the mouth of Seneca, in PEN
dleton county, is perpendicular
rock 700 feet high.
The people about Union, Monroe
county, are fighting shy of panther
which followed "A farmer on the road
home recently.
Zadoc RICHTER, of Adamsvile,
, Harrison county, had his leg broken
in terrible manner 10y Il piece of
l
him. The limb was ampatated.
Three explosions OF carbon oil
lamps occurred within few days III
Faiimont. by one, Timoleon Smith
and his daughter We're, severely burn
ed.
William G.. Clayton. state Sena-
tor from Hampshire aud Hardy dis
l N t h1S
counsel of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company for the county of
Mineral, i'll when he resides.
The Parkersburg Sentinel says:
IF the river freezes up, how are the
Legislators from the Third district
to reach Wheeling? If the Capital
were located at Parkersbuag, where
it ought to be, trouble of this kind
could be avoided"
In the meeting of Charleston
! Councilmen it was reported that the
estimated receipts for the ear would
fall short of the necessary expendi-
ture, $l2,366. To meet this and sat
| isfy o,her creditors it was voted to
assess q poll tax of 81 and property
levy of 81 rs. The city capitation is
$50, aud the property valuation ST.
825, l42.
On last Tuesday night Mr.. John
son living on Cabin creek ,Kanawha'
started home from a hog killing and
stopped in "a saw mill. He was drunk
and laid down by the furnace to
sleep. The fire communicated to
some powder in a horn about his
! person, and in the morning Johnson
was found burned black. He leaves
a wife and eight children.
Not So Very Pheasant.