Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-03-27
General News.

EdulZtu n DtdlS MGuiCdI A-SOcld-
ton, with DR.. j. NJ Jamison as
President.
AT Madrid, Spain, sentries ex-
posed to the death BREATH" blow
ing from the Guaderama Noun
tains, are changed every half hour.
John Power and Frank Lob, of
Philadelphia, have been held to
bail TO answer to the charge of
selling oleomargarine butter.
The Princess Louise has written
playa version of "Enoch Ar
den'-which will soon be put on
the Canadian stage.
A woman in New Haven. Conn,
recently found a smoothly. worn
nickel five-cent-piece in the crop
of chicken.
Edward jenkins, the author of
"Ginx's Baby" Is to be the editor
of new illustrated daily paper in
London.
The Mansion House Relief Com :
mittee estimates that $726,825 is
yet required to complete their
work.
The net profits Of the last Gin
clnnati Exposition were $40, 042 26.
1t was visited by 100000 persons.
A Mormon colony, composed of
about fifty persons, has been dis
covered on the Big Sandy, Ky.
The California senate has decil-
ed, by a vote of thirty-three to
five, not to have chaplain.
Governor Cornell of New York
has signed the bill permitting wo-
men to vote for school officers.
Every theatre in Cincinnati is
now open Sunday night Pixies
having at last succumbed.
The widow of the late VIM. M.
Tweed, of New York city, died in
Paris, France, February 16.
The Duke of Genoa is about to
marry Princess Beatrice, dangh-
ter of the Queen of England.
From 1860 to 1868, inclusive, Z
233 divorces were granted ia Mass
achusetts.
A bill to establish a Court of
Pensions has been introduced into
Congress.
From eight to ten persons are
dying In Rio Janerio from yellow
fever.
Queen Victoria is about paying
a three weeks visit to Germany.
A band of twenty-seven road
agents are raiding the Black Hills.
Taxable property in Texas
amounts to 1907 ,5S4 $50.
Peach trees in Chattanooga, are
in full bloom.
Hungary has a revenue deficit
of ST., 100000.
Texas hangs three murderers in
April.
Typhoid fever prevails in Troy,
Great Britain sports 1000 yachts.
Victor Hugo is 10.
Diphtheria is raging in Central
Russia since November over 40
900 persons have died from the
disease in two provinces.
Frank Brownell, who avenged
Ellsworth's death at Alexandria.
in the beginning of the war, is
about to lecture.
The seven leading Bible societies
of the world have circulated more
than 125, 900, 900 copies of the BIZ
BILE.
The debt of the Dominion of
Canada is $l47, 48l ,070, the annual
interest of which is over $1,000
900.
A young lady in Vicksburg
cowhided young man who sent
her comic valentine.
Hawkeye Burdette has been
compelled to give up lecturing on
account of i'll health.
A favorite lace pin represents
rose .geranium leaves in green
tinted gold.
Florida strawberries are retail
ing at seventy cents quart in
New York.
1t is reported that the Car will
retire to the Austrian Tyrol in the
spring.
The women convicts In the Ken
lucky penitentiary wear mems
clothes.
Atlanta has one Chinaman. He
is, of cocrse, in the laundry bust
ness.
1t is reported that Persia is
gathering troops to march on
Herat.
Bazaine is cultivating large
farm in the environs of Madrid.
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