Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-06-19
NEWS JOTIINGS.


the truth will cause to be revived.
Seven suicides were recorded in
Saturday mornings New York pa
pers.
Don. Cameron has discovered that
strategy is game two can play at.
Affairs are becoming such that a
cyclone is much more liable to strike
man than lightning.
The Norfork Landmark thinks it
best in the coming struggle to put
two soldiers in the field.
The army worm has made its APP
pearance at Burlington county New
Jersey, and is reported to be making
great havoc in the wheat, corn and
timothy crops. fEF E -
All the employees. on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio canal will be paid
this week for work done until jan
nary 1, and next month they will be
paid to the LIST of July.
A heavy wind and hail storm pass
ed over Pittston, Pa, on Saturday.
A building occupied by Mrs. Ram
age was struck by lightning and her
son, James Ramage, Is years of age,
was instantly killed.
A hurricane passed over Middle
town, Delaware, Saturday, unroof-
ing several houses, interrupting tel
egraphic communication and delay
ing trains. 1t is thought the peach
trees were seriously damaged.
The Cincinnati Commercial thinks
the third-termers ought to have
their ears pierced. This would be
too bad after they have alre' had
their hopes blasted.
Conkling has achieved the salts
faction of receiving the best adver-
tising of any of the men who pulled
the wires at Chicago. His electric
presence" has become household
word with the party organs.
The Augusta Chronicle has found
where Mr.. Conkling got his QUOTA
ton, the .'Shallows murmur but the
deeps are dumb" It is the second
line of Raleigh's "Silent Loyer.p
The poem opens:
passions likened but to floods and
streams, 1f
The shadows murmur but the deeps
are dumb"
One of party of tramps encamp-
ed on the outskirts of the town of
Peru, Ind, attempted to outrage a
young girl on Saturday afternoon,
and later, when City Marshal Pierce
and four others went to arrest the
offender, one Of the tramps present.
ed pistol, threatening to shoot If
they were disturbed. Pierce drew a
revolver and shot one of the tramps
dead, after which running fire was
kept up between the officers and the
tramps until four of them were cap
tured.
Full of years and honors Ex-Sena.
tor James A. Bayard died at his
home in Wilmington, DEL, on Sun
day. The career of Mr.. Bayard and
that Of his distinguished son, furn-
ish the strongest evidence of the
theory that conspicuous abilities in
a certain direction are hereditary in
some families. His father and grand
fathers, on both the paternal and
maternal side, were distinguished
men and his own conspicuous abili-
ties have evidently been transmitted
in full measures to his son.
On the 9th inst, duel took place
near Richmond, Va, between Col.
Thomas Smith, of Fauquier county,
and Mr.. w. g. Elan, editor of the
Richmond Wing. The distance was
twelve PAGES, and at the first fire
Mr.. Elan fell, his adversary's bullet
having struck him In the middle of
of the chin, passing through the
bone, breaking out four teeth and
lodging under his tongue, and also
breaking the jawb0ne on the right
side of his face. The cause of the
duel was bitter editorial article in
the Wing of the 1st, denouncing the
secessionists of the South generally,
and especially ex-Gov. Smith, the
father of Col. Smith, and charging
him with disgraceful conduct at the