Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-03
NEWS JOTTINGS.

The three furnaces at Catoctin,
Md, are in full blast. Several hun
dred hands are employed.
Alstock company with capital
of $4,000, has been formed at Eas-
ton, Md, to erect paper mill.
twenty-five thousand quails are
being imported from England to be
set at liberty in Pennsylvania.
The Boston Post knows of one
man who thinks Roscoe Conkling
the greatest statesman in the world.
That man is Roscoe Conkling.
The sash factory of Mcknight &
Co., in charlestown, was purchased at
public sale on Tuesday last by John
H. Mcknight, at 5000.
4 An ice manufacturing machine is
to be introduced in Charleston to
supply the demands of the citizens
during the incoming hot weather.
We should like to hear word said
in behalf of Mr.. VIM. A. Wheeler as
Presidential candidate. The old
man is left very lonely. 81
There is a chance for Mr.. Hayes
yet. The National Convention of
his party may make some sort of re-
ference to him in little resolution.
The convicted Riot bill bribers at
Harrisburg failed to appear for SEN
tence and their bail was for
feited. Detectives are after the
fugitives.
The outlook for the wheat harvest
in California is reported to. be very ia
vorable. Copious rains have fallen
lately, and the farmers are feeling
great confidence at the prospect.
1t is feared that heavy decrease of
our exports and increase of imports
during the last six weeks will turn
the balance of trade against the
United States for the first time in
five years.
Upsher Johnston, a prominent Bal
timore merchant, committed suicide
in that city on Sunday last by shoot
ing himself with pistol. No cause
assigned for the act. The deceased
was 35 years of age, and unmarried.
The fuss the papers make about
oleomargerine seems ridiculous. If
the stuff cannot be told from butter
either by appearance, or taste, or in
any other way, what imposition can
It be to sell it for butter 1t is, to
all intents and purposes, butter. And
f it can be distinguished there can
)e no imposition.
The New York San says there is
no law against marrying your wild
I pw's sister, to which the World re-
plies that these marriages are called
Mezentian marriages and seldom
urn out well. Another correspon-
lent says it can't be done because
nan must die first before his wife
ian be widow. lie claims the SUI
gar.
A plan Of militia organization has
inally been agreed upon by the sub
Committee of the House committee
laving this matter in charge. 1t
Ices not contemplate any interior
nee with the independent control
f the several States over their own
rganizations, but recommends the
to-oeeration of the General Govern
nent by annual appropriations for
Equipments and subsistence.
\ The entire white population of
Alaska does not reach three hundred
ouls. 1t is proposed now to organ
re for it a territorial government.
This is right. Those three hundred
people ought to have chance. Any.
hing like a good territorial organi-
Eatlon would provide profitable
places for all of them. No genuine
American citizen will plead youth
pr feebleness when he or she has du-
y imposed of drawing salary.
The rapid advance in firearms and
munitions of war is attracting atten-
ion in and out of the market. Lead
las gone up from "a to 81 cents per
bound, copper from Is to % cents,