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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-11-27

Says one of our neignbors, "lsst
Monday was the coolest morning
in Berkeley county,"
The second snow OF the season
fell on last Saturday, which gave
US a foretaste Of the approaching
winter.
The Epiz)otic has been raging
among the horses in this neigh
borhood for the last month I;
though we know of no fatal result
from its effect.
Andrew Lands, a little son of
Samuel, while wrestling with one
OF his school-mates (last week at
Mr.. Curtis school) was thrown by
his antagonist into a gutter. which
resulted In breaking his leg below
the knee-both bones being bro
ken. DR.. +. M. Davis was called
to set his leg. He reports that the
little fellow Is doing as well as
could be expected under the pres
ent circumstances. Teachers
should not tolerate wrestling, as il
is dangerous and injurious to the
growth of their pupils. besides 1t
has tendency to create bad tenn
pers. a,a
There was a grand torchlight
procession in Williamsport, Md,
Saturday night a week, which was
headed by four white associates,
who were followed by fifty color
ed gentlemen. How is that for
high ?
Rev. ]. Negly has a protracted
meeting at the chapel which will
continue during the week.
The young folks propose to re-
organize the singing class tonight.
We want all the members to be
present.
Our friend Thos. Drake has re-
turned from long stay in Penn.
sylvania. ARCTURUs.
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GerardstOwn.

We take the following items
from the Gerardstown Times:
Mr.. John j. Hollis has had his
dwelling house much improved
by coat OF paint.
While he was In town recently
painting the dwelling house OF
Mrs. e. Gron, the artistic B. o.
Bushnell took time to grain the
pulpit of the Methodist church,
causing II to present q very at
tractive appearance.
Mrs. Ellen M. Silvcrs and her
two little daughters, Mabel and
Ada, who have been visiting rela-
tives here this summer, left for
their Kansas home on Tuesday of
last week, arriving safely on the
following Thursday night Come
again. sf
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Vanclevesville.
Just say Garfield to the Demo

Just say Garfield to the Demo-
Gratis.
There Is no place like home
thought Mrs. -, when the COW
kicked her.
What young man Is waiting for
his dnlcina to observe leap year
rules?
The community is highly pleas
ed with the election of Mr.. James
Bilmyer as justice of the peace.
Mr.. B is highly respected by our
citizens.
An extraordinary lot of turkey
eating was done here on Thanks
giving.
The clear nights of this month
affords us an unusual advantage
for star-gazing. Our young folks
who are minus of talk when they
are out driving should study the
different considerations.
The scientists say chat shutting
the eyes improves the hearing.
There, by jove! The man who
says we ought not to shut our
eyes in church will please put that
in his mouth and chew it.
The skating season is coming
on. Be careful bows that you do
not get bumps for the phrenoIo-
gists TO feel.
The other afternoon two farmers
met, and after conyersing some
time, one said to the other, "What
in the deuce makes the village so
quiet p "Well, just think" said
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For Secretary Of the Inter-
Ter.


UNDER THE NEW ADMINIsTRA.
TIoN. HON. STEPHEN b. Ell
KINS
Hon. Stephen B. Elkins, of New
Mexico, the son-in-law of Senator
Davis, of West Virginia, 10 being
prominently mentioned for Secre-
tary of the Interior. He is a ma
tive of Missouri, and of an Ohio
and Virginia family, has been very
successful In business, and Is q
man of fine reading and education.
-"Gath,' in the Enquirer.
Stephen b. Elkins is native of
Fairfield county, Ohio. He went
to Missouri when a youth, and
subsequently emigrated to New
Mexico. He was member of the
Territorial Legislature two terms,
has been United States Dirtrict
Attorney and Attorney Genera
of the Territory, and has served
three terms in Congress as Terri
torial Delegate. He Is man of
excellent parts, well educated as
regards both books and men, and
is withal one of the wealthiest
men in the West.-Ohio State
Journal.
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Little Georgetown.

The river st this point Is bridg-
ed over with ice three inches
thick.
A party from Hsgerstown were
here this week on wild turkey
hunt. They went home without
a feather. One of the number shot
jay bird and supposed 1t was a
small duck until informed better.
Hog killing is now the order of
the day. Mr.. s. p. Harrison kill
ed two. one of which weiged $50
pounds and the other 3S2. These
are the boss hogs thus far.
Our wagon maker was badly
scared the other night. He woke
up and thought there was man
in bed with him. On examination
he found five large cats wrapped up
in his blanket and they had pressed
him to the wall He kicked them
out and went to sleep.
Those farmers who have not yet
finished getting in their corn crop,
now wish they had worked a lit
tie harder while the weather was
warm.
The Sur day School Is already
discussing Christmas, and the ju-
while population are seriously en-
curing about Santa Claus and
Christmas trees. YAHoo.
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one of the most important to be con-
sidered by Congress this winter.
President elect Garfield arrived in
in the city Tuesday evening, and
went quietly to his residence with
out any demonstration whatever
The reception and serenade propos-
ed by the various Republican organ
ications here was declined. The WIS.,
it is ope of business and perhaps by
the time this is i'll print the object
of so much solicitude will have re-
turned to Ohio.
The weather has been exceedingly
cold here for some days-about the
coolest l have known during a five
years residence at the capital. 1t is
regular freeze-out, without the re-
deeming feature of snow and sleigh
ing. Dom PEDRO.
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the other. A few moments elapsed
and the old fellow whom we
suppose had reached the point in
which he could not think, and his
head being an ant hill OF corn and
wheat, gave 1t up. "Well," re-
torted the other, "you see yester-
day was Thanksgiving. aud that
day generally taxes away our
turkeys"
The young folks soliloquizing on
the 10th: Just the very thing to
make us happy. We win have
several sleighing parties. o. my!
The snow has abated aud not
enough TO go coasting on"
M. RoSENCRANTZ.
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1t is said by the Cincinnati Com
naercial that the story that Gov
ernor Foster paid a bill at Chicago
incurred by the friends of Secre-
tary Sherman, has this extent, viz:
that the bill was for $500, and
was for "extras" at the Grand Pa
cific Hotel, ordered by Mr.. Bate
man. That Governor Foster paid
bill there can be no doubt, and
that he did 1t in business-like
style would be characteristic of
him. We may be sure, however,
that he never made any fuss about
it, and that Sherman never heard
of it until he saw it in the papers
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NEWS JOTTINGS.

In the State of Georgia there are
1,1SO convicts leased out to labor,
the oldest being so and the youngest
10 years old. This number includes
/ white and 80 colored females. The
white males number ia, and the col
ored ,041.
A fine granite monument has been
shipped to Brownsville, Pa, to be
erected over the remains of the par
ents of the Hon. James G. Blaine.
The work was ordered by the Sena-
tor last spring when making his an
nual visit to the old homestead.
The widow of Engineer Gilbert,
who sued the Michigan Central Rail-
road for ST. 400, has been awarded
SIT 900 by the jury. The company
previously offered her 800 in full
settlement. 1t is supposed that the
company will appeal from the YER
dict.
While Gen. Garfield was waiting
to take the train at Cleveland on
Monday, he was approached by a
cheeky individual who asked for an
office in advance. 81 have no offices
to give" replied the Mentor states
man as he passed on.
The family of Mr.. George Peter
man, of Lancaster, Pa, has been
terribly afflicted within few months.
Mr.. Peterman died first, and since
then seven children have been car
ried off by diphtheria. The widow
is left with only two survivors out of
ten children.
The annual report of the FIST aud
itor of the treasury was submitted to
Secretary Sherman Tuesday, show
ing that during the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1880, the number of receipt
accounts adjusted by the Office was
7,035, involving 81 ,206 ,29S, 429. The
number of disbursement accounts
adjusted number 20,0i6, involving in
the aggregate 81 500, 4l3,9Il 53.-
Colonel James M. Pugh, whom
the Alabama Democrats have elected
United States Senator, said in his
speech in the legislative caucus:
eve will plant ourselves on local
self-government, crystalize the solid
South, and never go back on the
Northern Democracy. Everybody
in the solid South is satisfied"
A new Democratic organization
was formed in Brooklyn on Monday
night to oppose Boss Mclaughlin,
who is accused of selling out the
Hancock electoral ticket for the To-
cal offices. This action is similar to
that taken by the young Democracy
in New York city in opposition to
Boss Kelly. The great trouble about
the whole business is that it does not
seem to promise favorably for Dem
ocratic harmony in the future.
Speculation is rampant in New
York once more and the prices of all
kinds of stocks and bonds have adj
vanced with amazing rapidity. The
"craze" is very similar to that of one
year ago and may precipitate SINH
lar crash. 1t is doubtful, however,
whether the general BUSINESS Of the
country can any longer be Seriously
affected by a disaster of this kind;
for it seems to be established on too
solid a basis now to be disturbed by
the manipulation of stock specula-
tors, as was the case in the feverish
and uncertain period which preceded
the revival of prosperity. AT the
same time, over.speculation must
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Dreadful End ola Wedding
Reception.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, November
% At a reception rendered Joel
Hembree, and wife at the res
idence Of the brides father Cole.
Dali, near Kingston, Roane
county, arsenic was used in mis-
take for soda and six persons have
died from the effects. About thirty
others are dangerously ill.
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T'is sweet to hear a maiden sigh.
T'is sweet 10 wipe the sparkling tear
drop from her eye,
Tis sweet when agony convulse her
frame,
A bottle of Spring Blossom to obtain.
Price, so; trial bottles 10c. For
sale by K. G. Williams & Bro,
druggists.
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OUR NEIGHBORS

Inc ShepherdStown Register says,
that Mr.. b. s. Pendleton had
80 sheep killed and wounded,
and Mr.. t. Homsher Is killed and
wounded, near Kearneysville, by
dogs, on Friday night of last week.
Mr.. p. shot one of the dogs before
making its escape.
1t is rumored that Rev. J. =. Hub
bard, of the Episcopal church, Shep-
herdstown, has accepted a call from
church in Hagerstown.
The recent freeze has virtually
closed navigation on the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal.
Mr.. Watkins James, prominent
citizen Of Washington county, Nd,
died of cancer, at his residence, near
Bakersville, on Thursday last. He
was aged seventy years.
A large number of Marylanders
who recently went west have return
ed, and appear to be altogether salts
fed that there's no place like Mary
land.
The Hagerstown Herald says, lar
ger ears and brighter corn have new
er been grown than this season /,
throughout Maryland, and the crop
is said to be enormous.
The opossum crop in our neigh
boring county of Maryland must be
immense. The Hagerstown Herald
says, Mr.. Daniel Lewis, residing at
Wolfsville, lately caught ten opos-
sums in one night, and boy who
resides at the same place has caught
thirty this fall already.
Williamsport, Nd, is to have a
Chair Factory. A stock company
has also been organized for manu-
featuring purposes, and its officers
are now collecting the stock prepar-
atory to starting some kind of man.
ufacturing in the spring. Martins
burg, we are sorry to record, is still,
Micawber like. waiting for como
thing to turn up. Will she never
shake off her Rip Vanwinkle leth.
ergy.
An clipping couple were married
on the bridge over the Potomac at
Harper's Ferry on Thursday last
The stern PARENT had brought his
daughter from Newmarket, Va,
thus far on his way west to take her
out of the reach of a poor but
deserving admirer. The p. but d.
A. had, however, stolen march on
the old man and got train ahead
of him. Procuring license at Fred
erick and the services of a clergy
man, he kept the latter awaiting
him on the Maryland side of State
line, and stole the girl away while
her father was busy writing a letter
home telling of their escape from the
lover. After the ceremony all hands
returned to Newmarket.
Mr.. John Moler, a widely-known
citizen Of Hagerstown, died on Sat-
urday morning, in the seventy-fifth
year of his age. For the last forty
years, since the death of his wife,
Miss Eliza Hoffman, he occupied the
same suite of rooms at the Antietam
House, never on a single occasion
eating at the public table. He was
very wealthy, and on one occasion
distributed $4,000 among number
of relatives. His eccentricities led
to his being reported miser, but he
has assisted many young men to start
in business, none being aware of his
charities except the recipients. He
leaves number of nephews and
nieces living in the neighborhood of
Shepherdstown, w. Va, where his
remains are to be interried in the
burial ground of the Moler family,
which with his death becomes ex-
tinct.
nrnnGkx Wvnsu mn WWAA.Hs.,o.
The daily gazette., 1880-04-08
General News.

The Star Route Deficiency bill was
signed by the President yesterday.
The President yesterday nominated
William A. Newell, of New Jersey, to
be Governor of Washington Territory.
The Republican Convention of Con-
necticut met yesterday in New Haven
and chose delegates to the Chicago
Convention. The delegates are unin-
structed. They are supposed to stand
for Blaine 8, Edmunds A, Washburne,
8.
The Democratic State Convention OF
Iowa met yesterday in Burlington,
adopted resolution in favor of the
two-thirds rule for balloting for a
Presidential nominee, and elected dele.
gates to the Cincinnati Convention.
No instructions were given, but the
delegation is understood to be mainly
for Tilden.
The caucuses to slect delegates to
the Republican State Convention OF
Massachusetts,, held in Boston last
evening, indicate that the delegates
will stand Is for Sherman, 10 for Grant
and 8 for Edmunds. Caucuses were
also held in several interior towns,
which gave a majority for Edmunds.
The iron trade manifests considera-
BILE interest in the possible result of the
announced reduction by the Glendon
Iron Company, of Easton, from "the
nominal rate of $40 to solid basis of
$50 per ton" in the price pig iron.
The daily gazette., 1880-04-08
CITY HALL, Wilmington, DEL, !
March a. Is8D
DRoPOsAIS FOR BUILDING AN OF
fce building for the Water and Su r


DROPOsAIS FOR BUILDING AN OF
Il flee building for the Water and sur
vey Departments.
Sealed proposals will be received in the
box In the City Council chamber, until
1.5O p. m. Thursday, April q, 1881, for the
erection and completion of an office
building for the Water and Survey De-
partments, at the s. W. corner OF Sixth
ard King streets, In accordance with
certain drawings and specifications
an. which Il, nave ,, been prePs by Frank R.
said work and the performance OF the
contract shall be under the direction and
supervision OF the Architect and Building
Committee. All the work and materiais
must be OF the best quality, and approved
by the architect before II will be accepte ed.
bond with security in the sum OF two
hundred dollars must accompany each
proposal for the good faith OF the bidder,
ana the person or persons to whom the
contract may be awarded, shall give a
bond with security, for such sum as the
committee may decide, for the faithful
performance OF the contract. The City
Council reserve the right to reject any or
all bids. All bids must be properly signed.
sealed and endorsed:
Proposals Tor building an ofiice build
ing for the Water and Survey Depart
ments." The drawings and specIficaiions
can be seen at the office of the architect.
second story, Maris Building, Sixth and
Shipley streets, from Monday morning
March 20, 1850, between the hours of SO
a m. and IL m. and p. m. and $50 %. m.
until Thursday, April 3, 1880.
Blank proposals can be obtained at the
ONCE OF the Clerk OF Council.
mar20-2W
The daily gazette., 1880-04-08

The GAZETTE thinks a DenCu,}
editor has no business to erurs
choice OF preference for q Presit,tdl
candidate-at least this is what iuI
TO the Middletown Trdnscript. INl
II their duty to accept anybody put u
like II once did Horace GIeeley OtI
--smyrhay Times. XIII
The Times is certainly mist,kslI9
GAZETTE never said or lnimsed d
thing Of the kind. The GAZETTE
remark that unfavorabIe critican 4
abuse Of Democratic statesmen Dan.
for the Presidency should be avoided
Democratic newspapers. But weMi
proposed TO dictate to any one thaA
bad "no business TO express chon
preference" 1t is an old rule d !
Democratic party that those WhOg
TO q nominating convention must ib
by its decision. If we "eat crow VI
freely was put on US we only dldId
our esteemed contemporary q
Times has often done,and will dCprh4
again this fall, when The Republic
nominations are made.
The daily gazette., 1880-04-08
LOCAL TIME TABLE.
TRAINS LEAVE WIIMINaToI

ThAlNb LEA ~ sWiLMlN0lON w
Fon PHI1ADEIrHIA;sT2;a K % !;%, SO eSSSS, g,
e. e. 49, aSs & s nj On a1ss sSndss: days ss IL L. s
FoI %; HHI In ~; Tosx.Pa.a s;s al 700, iooa. a. m.
I2ls, le.ss. 5.4s. p. M On Sundays. 2.2
For BALrmoRx AND wAsHINcror.-
1851, 2.O8, SIS, a. m. l252, l.0A, 5.18, 7.06,
p. m. On Sundays, lasl al0 O. m.
FoR BALTIMORE, Bay Line connectionl
7.9s P. m: No y sunday q trains; = 4 I'm
800, $50, p. m, No sunday trains.
FoR DELAWARE X. R.-9.l5 O. m; lilo,
$50. p. m. No sunday trains.
FoR WILMINGTON d North ERIN II. r.
$40, a. M; 800, $50 p, m. No Sunday
FoR DELAWARE WESTERN r. R.-y.l6
1880 a. M: $50 p. m. No Sunday trains.
TRAINS ARRIVE IN WILMINGTON
FROM PHILADELPBIA.-l2.4 203, $50;
9.l0'a. M; l2.0s. l242, I.02. $50, 4.2o. BIB.
6.25, 100. $40. lilo P. m: On sundays, l2.4S
FROM NEW YoRK.-a08, $50, o. m. 1912
1.O2. 6.l3, w p. m. ON Sundays, 2.tSa. m.
FROM BALTIMoRE.-2l5, $50, 9.67, a. M;
l2@. 1887. 6.S6. s.36. p. m. On Sundays,
FROM WAsHINGroN.-2.l5.a a. M: 12oa.
l2.37, 638, $50 p. m.
FROM NEw CzsTLK---s.50, s.52, 10. M:
S.2S; saS 2: m. No Sunday trains;
hOh DELA W AXE ". h.-o.oU, ll.OO U. N. |,
8.t6 p. m. No Sunday trains.
FROM WILMINGTON q NoRTHERN r. II.
6.OO, llS6 q. m; as p. m. No Sunday
trains.
q. M; l5, p. m. No Sunday trains.
TRAINS FOR WILMINGTON LEAVE
PHILADELPHIA.
FROM BROAD STREET AND WAsHIN6ToN
AvENUE--7.50, S0O, 1880, ll.45 q. m; l.80
800, 100, 6.l6. 800. 100. g.46, ll90 p. m. On
sundays, 80 q. m; 800, 9.4b, il.D m.
STREETs. ll.35 q. m. II 10, 4.Ce, j..
M; l.V a. m. On Sundays, l.O0, 1850 q. m.
NorE.-The black figures represent the
I'm ted Express" on which an extra
hhre In charged.
The daily gazette., 1880-04-08
THIRD EDITION
1hreass of The third Termers.
AN OPEN DEcLARATIoN OF WAR
AGAINST BLAINE AND SHERMAN.

AGAINST BLAINE AND SHERMAN.
The Washington correspondent Of the
New York Herald thus speaks of the
agita ion existing In the third-term
camp, and of their plans and purposes
The third-termers are in state oil full
blown irritation over Senator Blaine, and
here and in the West are threatening him
with the most savage punishment "when
the ex-president gets in again" IL was his
place, they say, to thankfully take the
second place on the thlrd-term ticket, in
which case they were ready to promise
him the succession, whatever that might
be worth. III course in setting up for
himself, they say, Is impudeht and dis
loyal In the highest degree, and they say
plainly that when the ex-President come
s'to his own again" poor Blaine shall 60
into obsculity as deep as that In which,
they add, Brislow rests. There are really
third-termers who are indignant that MIR.
Blame would no. volunteer to accept the
sice-P e-Presidency on the third-term ticket.
If be had done that they could have
nominated the ex-President easily. MIR.
Blaine, on the other hand, does not con-
ceal trem the third-term leaders his
opinion that the ex-President ought not
TO be renom.nated, and cannot be elected
II he is. He is entirely frank and out
spoken on this subject with them, and
tells them that the third-term project is
bad for the party and portentous Of evil
for the country, and that, in his judg-
ment, Il would be q grave calamity to
the country If the ex President could be
elected. Nor is Mr.. Sherman any less
outspoken in his opposition to the third
tarm business. He has always been an
open opponent of the third term, and
said contemptuously in 1874 that such
projects were nonsensical, "because the
people are not going to surrender their
rights to any man." He is of the same
opinion still. 1t is clear that il the ex-
President ever "comes to his own again"
''these who now oppose or even fail to
support him will feel the weight of his
resentment. The declaration of war is
made in bis name, and it is high time
I n timid people to "get out of the drift"
The third-termers, to judge from their
talk, are not going to be trlfed with.
They will show the country how to
"discriminate between virtue and vice"
In way which will make the the fool
ish opponents of the third-term howl.
Meantime the Blaine men. the Sherman
men, and the Edmunds men are not
threatening anybody, but they say they
would like TO see q candidate nominal
ed who can reasonably expect to carry
the whole of his party with him, aud
they do not believe the ex-President is
the man.
The daily gazette., 1880-04-08
a Pare Bargain.

Russell a Spencer Will on Wednaa
evening open one lot OF 1000 seaIrl'an
gloves. comprising all the leadngpn
shades, in three OF the most ppa1|
makes. Jouvin, Empress FugenA u
Josephine, at the unprecedented u
price of s2 cents per pair. A raseln]
tunity for ls sdies appreciatng ~
glove, every pair OF which ia NarraA'a1
purchase q supply for the season.
aDFf,.1t
The daily gazette., 1880-04-08
WALL SrRrKr YrsrrpnAy-Mons

WALL STREET YEsrERDAY.-Money
was again "squeezed" and call loans
upon stock were at a premium all day.
At times no less than I and even 4 per
day ''commi ssion" was exacted, the
ruling rate, however, being 1872 to 1-l0
per day. Under this pressure, combined
with heavy sales, stocks went down, the
decline ranging from to points.
Money at the close was easier, the quo.
tation being a to 8 per cent, and the
stock market closed firmer but still
unsettled.