Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-04-29
OUR NEiGHBORS.

Potatoes are drug in the market
in Harper's Ferry, at rs cents per
bushel.
There is still a hitch in the COM
mencement of boating operations on
the canal.
The meat-house of Mr.. James III.
Moore, near Zoar Church, Jefferson
County, was broken into few nights
ago, and robbed of large quantity
of bacon-about half the meat Mr..
M. had ON hand.
Jas. M. Mason, Esq, writes to the
Shepherdstown Register recommend
ing the advertisement of the Har-
per's Ferry property at the Centen-
NAL. by the exhibition of picture
of Che locality in the West Virginia
building.
The Neacs says Freddy Beachley, a
child about years old, while playing
with a sewing machine, had his fin
ger badly crushed by the shaft: The
machine had to be taken apart before
he could be released.
The citizens of Hagerstown have
contributed to the Agricultural and
Mechanical Association of the coun-
ty the $500 required to secure the
State appropriation of the same
amount. and the directors of the AS
ISOLATION have determined to have a
fair as usual this fall.
The Ne,os says, little girl named
Mamie Wolff, aged s years, residing
in Clearspring, was visiting the fam
ily of Mr.. Joseph III. Fiery last week
and left for home on Saturday, in the
full enjoyment of health. Mr.. Fiery
received intelligence that she died
on Monday morning.
Mr.. Albert Small, of Hagerstown,
on Monday received from Major T..
B. Ferguson, one of the State fish
commission, A ,000young salmon trout
Matched at Druid Hill Park, and pla-
ced them in the Conococheague creek.
There were also 1000 young Califor-
MIA salmon put into the Potomac riv-
er at Williamsport.
Hon. Lewis G. Smith and Major
I'll. Kyd Douglas, are named In con-
nection with the Democratic noml-
nation for Congress, from the Ha-
gerstown district. On the Republl-
can side F. M. Darby and l.. d. Nc
Comas are named for the position.
Hon. Jacob Tome haspurchased an
interest in the Hagerstown Agrlcul-
tural Manufacturing Company, pay
ing for the same $4,000. A. Il. APP
pleman, ESQ.,, Vice President OF the
Citizens National Bank of WASH
ington, D. c., is also a stakeholder.
Miss Kate Desher living on farm
near Clear Spring, Washington coun-
ty, went for a bucket OF water to a
spring near by and while engaged in
getting the water had an epileptic fit,
and fell into the spring and strangled
to death.
Mrs. Dahigren, widow of Adj
miral Dahigren, has purchased OF
Mr.. George Smith the Mountain
House," located in Washington
county, on the famous South Noun
tain battle field. 1t has been the re-
sort of Henry Clay, Thomas H. Ben
ton, John j. Crittenden, Gen. An
drew Jackson and others. Mrs. Dahl
gren intends fitting up the place
for her summer residence.
A bold robbery was committed at
the residence of Mr.. John Champion,
in Pleasant Valley, some ten miles
from Hagerstown, few nights ago.
Two men, one of them masked, and
the other not entered the house dur
ing the night, and proceeding to Mr..
Champions room, and finding him
in bed, the robber without a mask
presented a pistol at his head. After
searching his clothes they demanded
that he should either get for them or
tell them where they could get a large
sum of money ($S0O) which had been
paid to him a few days before. He
complied with their demand to get
the money, and after receiving it
they left. The robbers have not yet
been captured.