Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-01-15
OUR NEIGHBORS.

ne average marble prayer Ill ia
gerstown is about 20 years of age
with dirty knees and hands.
The Wildman troupe are announc-
ed for two performances at Charles
town the 21st and 22nd inst.
The Neaos has commenced the pub
LEGATION of a series of papers, by an
old citizen, entitled, "What kno w
about Winchester.
Mr.. Benjamin Reigle, "a well known
and esteemed citizen of Hagerstown,
died on Tuesday at his residence in
that place.
I. G. Green, Esq. of Charlestown,
has dissolved his law partnership
preparatory to taking his seat upon
the Supreme Court bench.
An attempt to commit suicide by
cutting his own throat with razor,
was made by Andrew Swaggart, an
old man living with Mr.. N. w.
Manning, near Charlestown on
Thursday last.
The small pox is gradually becom-
ing extinct in Cumberland and bust
ness in the city is beginning to re-
cover from the effects of the disease
being in the place.
The Neacs says Hagerstown has a
man that never drank glass of milk
of any kind, never ate an ounce of
butter, nor drank cup of coffee; but
he is death on ''inguns and garlic"
At the recent municipal election
in Parkersburg the Republicans
elected their Mayor and the entire
council with the exception of one
member from the Fifth Ward.
Last week some of the urchins in
Wheeling were running bare-footed.
If the polar wave which seems to
have reached usnow, struck Wheel
ing, we guess they will draw on their
shoes-if they have any.
1t is rumored that the passenger
depot for Berkeley Springs is to be
from Sir Johns to Alpine,
which would throw the Spring some
miles from the station. 1t is but two
and half from Sir Johns.
The Hagerstown Toice-o.aceek don't
know anything about the eighty
three Illinois farmers who, according
to the Harrisburg Patriot, have set
tied in the vicinity of Chambers
burg and Hagerstown.
The Hagerstown Twice-a-week
suggests the erection of monument
to the memory of Gen. 0. III. Will
liams, revolutionary hero whose re-
mains rest at Williamsport, in the
public square at Hagerstswn during
the centennial year.
An effort is being made to revive
the order of Good Templars.in Shep-
herdstown. This ought to be pro-
pritious time for the move, as we pre-
sumo all the young men, as usual
''swore off" on New. ears day.
The Spirit of Jefferson says at a
of Justices of the coun-
ty on Tuesday last, for the purpose
of re-districting the county, was de-
termined to reduce the number of
districts from seven to five. The
of justices will therefore be
correspondingly reduced from four
teen to ten.
The Hagerstown Ne,os says the
are that there will be
''more changes among the farmers
CT that county this spring than for
many years past. The Neacs bases it's
opinion on the fact that already
a large number of sale bills are being
printed.
The Shepherdstown Register, not
TO be out of fashion proposes the fol-
ticket for Jefferson to repre-
sent the county in next legislature
For State Senator-JOhn Hess, Esq.
For the House of Delegates-C. L.
Butler, Esq, and Col. Robert w.
Baylor.
Maj. f. B. Ferguson, of Baltimore,
fish commissioner for Maryland, on
Monday week forwarded to Point
Of Rocks 1880 young salmon from
the clearinghouse in Druid Hill
Park, Baltimore. They were about
ten weeks old, from three fourths to
one and half inches in length, and
we've received in good condition and
safely transferred to the waters of
Ihe Potomac.
The pews of the new Presbyterian
church in Hagerstown says the Nel0s
were rented on Thursday lat from Sl5
to sec, thirty of them realizing$ 81 900.
Two plans for disposing of the pews
were suggested one, that the value
If each pew De estimated, and the
pew rented 10 The bidder of the high
est bonus; the other the old plan of
renting at a stipulated price. After
some discussion the latter was adopt
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