Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-03-06
COUNTY NEWS.
Arden.

to pass personal liberty bill or do
away with her motto of mon
tani Semper Liberi"
Notwithstanding the great cry
last fall against the fly. the wheat
is making very fine appearance
in this locality. They may show
that they have been at work by
our next harvest, but the prospect
now looks very encouraging.
We have a new hand at the bell
lows. Mr.. James Noll has leased
his smith shop to Mr.. James Lam
bert, of Hardscrabble. Mr.. Lam
bert has taken possession and is
now working, with the hope of
being able to accommodate all our
farmers who may call upon him.
Mr.. Joseph Faye and Miss Ida
Ramsburg were merried in Fred
erick. Nd, last week, and arrived
here Wednesday on their wedding
tour. They spent the remainder
of the week in viewing the sights
around our city, and visiting the
families of some of the +. F. V's.
They returned to Maryland last
Monday well pleased with their
visit to Arden.
Our school was started about
three months ago and we have
had three teachers already. AT
that rate we may expect at least
eight or ten before the session is
over. This is something that few
schools can boast Of, and our chill
dren will have an opportunity of
studying human nature if they
don't learn anything else.
Our friend, John w. Lamon,
has the most prolific breed of
sheep that we have ever heard Of
about the first of February he had
eve to wean lamb, and about
three weeks afterward she brought
forth another. We call attention
of the wool growers association to
this fact, and they had better see
Mr.. Lamon and purchase his
flock, for such sheep as these will
soon overstock the market. when
the price of wool, sheep and lambs
must all go down.
When we visit Martinsburg we
always stop at the Grand Central
Hotel. Some people may think
this strange, but we have two
reasons for doing so. First, we like
to encourage the men who gave to
Martinsburg hotel worthy of the
name; second the proprietor is no
respecter Of persons, and all who
stop at this house receive the same
treatment as if he was General
Grant. The more the people learn
of those connected with this house
the better they will like them.
Mr.. johnson N. Camden, so far
as we are concerned, can have his
choice. either for Governor or
United States Senator, but we are
not willing that he should have
both. Ifhe is to be Governor we
want Hon. G. j. Faulkner for Sen
ator, and If he ia to be Senator
then we want Mr.. Faulkner for
Governor. We want man who
will add dignity to the Office and
bring our little mountain State
out of the wilderness.
We learn that there will be a
proposition submitted to the Dem
ocratic Executive Committee by
G. j. Faulkner, Jr., a member of
the committee, to establish voting
precincts in each district of the
county, for the purpose Of the
Democratic voters making their
own nominations for the different
offices to be filed this fall. We
think the idea q good one, al.
though "Ring" was killed two
years ago. We are afraid of his
ghost, but if il is like Hamlet's,
and will rise up, it can't do much
harm, for if every Democrat casts
his vote for the man of his own
choosing he ought 10 be satisfied
with the result, whether the man
received the nomination or not.
That is the kind of a hair-pin
we are.
We notice that the Timber-ridge
Greenbacker is yelling with pain
in last Teeks's INDEPENDENT.
His turkey letter was bad enough,
hut his last caps the climax. II is
Dennis Kearney all over and over
again-iust such a production as
we might expect from one of his
followers. Good-by, Major; you
have abandoned the old Demo-
cratic party df you were ever a
member of iU and the Republic
cans having failed to open their
arms to receive you. there is a
poor chance Of gratifying your
ambition of being elected county
judge or member Of the legisla-
ture from Morgan county. Our
opinion is that the Timber-ridge
Greenbacker my be successful
turkey raiser, but he will never
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