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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-01-31

The extent and character of the
distress in Ireland is strikingly iE-
dicated by the appeal of the Dub
lin Mansion House Committee to
the people of the United States, of
which we give the following
SIT Is now admitted that the
distress is of an acute and excep-
tional character, certain 10 involve
actual starvation if extraneous aid
be not promptly and literally
forthcoming. 1t exists over wide
districts of Ireland. This distress
daily increases in area and in in
tensity-so much so that it seems
almost impossible to avert until
the next harvest an absolute fam
inc in very many places. Every
effort is being made in Ireland it.
self, as well by local as by central
committees, to mitigate the calam-
ity, but owing to the general COM
mercial and agricultural depres-
zion and to the widespread char
acter of the distress, those efforts
have proved totally inadequate to
meet the crisis. We, therefore,
appeal with confidence to all Irish
men and all friends of Ireland for
aid in our efforts to save the peo-
pie from destruction. Already
munificent donations or promises
of assistance have reached us from
several parts of the United States,
from Australia and elsewhere.
We feel that we have only to make
known the sad condition of the
Irish people to insure everywhere
generous response.
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COUNTY NEWS.
GerardsfOwn

There has been organic I'd here A
joint stock company with capital
stock of twenty thousand dollars
to run taRnery in its full capaci-
ty. Shares are open to all from
$25 up. The hearts of many will
be made glad by the rrvivai Of
business within our midst, as it
will be a great centre for trade.
AS we have been promised the
shrili notes of the steam whistle
and the soul stirring tones of the
church bell so soon TO be put in its
final position, Gerardstown will be
herself again.
Since our last notes two more
souls have winged their fight
Heavenward5. Mrs. Elizabeth
Shrode, wife of William Shrode,
aged eighty years, and the spirit
of Mrs. Shade, wife of Faulkner
Shade, took its departure to the
realms above last week. One by
one they are called beyond the
river.
AS there. is considerable travel
on the dirt road to Arden and
Martinsburg, there are several
gentlemen who would take stock
in building turnpike, and make
it good road. A move in that
direction is what is needed, and
give Sitting Bull the contract and
all can rest assured the work will
be well done.
We have been working at Shang-
hal for the last two weeks, grind
ing sumac for Horner, Kitchen &
Hiett. They shipped on last Thurs
day week, car load, nine tons,
2200 lbs. per ton. They are doing a
thriving business, and manufac-
turing No. | article of sumac,
and will soon go into the manu-
cure of gentian bark.
One of Shanghai's noble sons on
January 18th invaded the town of
Hedgesville and captured one of
its fair damsels, and escorted her
to the residence of the Rev. DIR. ID.
IL. Riddle, and there they were
pronounced man and wife. Mr..
HeZekiah It. Kitchen and Miss
Anna Bodine were the contracting
parties, and more beautiful bride
and handsome groom we never
heheld. We enjoyed the pleasure
of congratulating them on their
return. They were serenaded by
Che Shanghai Cornet Band, (he be-
ing memb9r,) they playing the
Grand Christmas March on enter
ing the yard. They know how to
do such things. PLUTO.
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Want Of life seems just now to
pervade this community and YOUR
correspondent is not exempt from
its influence; for with little TO re-
cord there is as little disposition to
make an effort to weave that little
into the form of a communication
that will be acceptable to your
readers.
Spring chickens fit for the table,
VIII be in the market early. /
nave seen several brOods of young
chicks something unusual at this
season OF the year.
The roads continue in a deplor-
able condition, and there is very
little travelling or hauling done
off of the pike.
The growing wheat never look
ed better in January than it does
now.
There will be few public sales of
personal property in this neigh
borhood this spring
FARMER,
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KearneysVilie.

Our friend, Blair Miller, is still
enjoying his enforced holiday, but
complains of being tired of doing
nothing.
Rev. A. E. Rodgers, of your
city, preached here on Wednesday
evening last, and we hope that he
will again favor us with sermon,
as his sermons are appreciated by
many persons here.
Business is rather better here
this week than it has been at any
time during the present year.
1t was noticed in this CORES
pondence some three months ago,
that several colored persons had
been arrested for attempting to
forcibly eject the teacher of the
colored school from his school
house. The parties were tr5ed be-
fore the County Court last Satur-
day, and John Fox, Ben Carter,
Douglas Roper, Massine Hart and
George Mason, were each fined
ten dollars. Jack Mason is lame,
and on the morning of the eject
ment was late getting upon the
scene of action; consequently he
didn't get to play a very active
part in the business of closing
the school-house against the teach
er. Taking these points into con-
sideration, the Court fined Jack
five dollars. The costs of the bus
mess foot up about fifty dollars,
and the offenders have fee of
twenty-five dollars to pay to their
legal counsel. Some of the disaf-
fecIed parties are now patronizing
the school, and will probably not
offend in this way soon again,
though this is the second trouble
of the kind for John Fox.
CLAY.
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Hedgesville.

The Good Templars have organ
ized a Lodge here-they have q
members. There is an other or
ganiZation started here, called the
Moral Reform Association. 1t
has membership of 80 members.
The object of this association is, to
keep from making use of any pro-
fame or vulgar language, and any
member making use of any thing
of the kind is to report himself
and receive black mark. The
officers of this association are DIR.
M. S. Butler President; Edward
Beall, V. p; Samuel Pitzer, Secre-
tary ; Ellsworth Naylor. Treas
urer.
Mr.. Samuel Harrison, a resident
of this place, was called to Jeffer-
son Co, w. Va, last week to see
a sick son, and while there he was
takeu Suddenly ill, and died in
two days. He leaves a wife and
one child residing in this place.
Mr.. John w. Quinn, who was so
unfortunate about two years ago
to loose his left leg by the cars, has
gone to Philadelphia to get an ar
tificial leg. John will step so high
and feel so tall that he will hardly
know his old ncighbors.
Mr.. Jacob V. Poisal has been
poorly for sometime. He had not
been GU, of his house since the 1st
of January until Yesterday when
he walked up as far as his moth
ers. The damp weather has been
against him.
There was a Temperance adj
dress delivered at the M. +.
Church South, on last Friday night
by Mr.. West. one ofthe grand Of
ficers of the Good Templars.
Edwin Mussetter, son of p: j.
Mussetter, of the Mansion House,
has returned home after an absence
of nineteen months in Maryland.
Mr.. J. d. CLANCY and lady have
returned from their wedding tour
East. A long and pleasant life to
them both.
The weather is still mild and
open, and the ice dealers are afraid
they will get no ice this winter.
Mr.. George A Chrisman,at North
Mountain, has been quite sick. He
is now convalescent.
Mrs. DIR. Mitchell is on visit to
the DOCTORS parants in Baltimore
Co., Maryland.
Miss Mary Harrison left here
on Monday to visit friends at Cum
berland Md.
Mrs. Quinn, widow of John
Quinn, Of Ohio, is visiting friends
in this place.
REPORTER.
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offices to them. The Office Of mag
istrate is Of far more importance 10
the people than that of sheriff
They lay the taxes on the people
and the Sheriff collects them; they
appropriate money, the Sheriff
disburses it, and whilst we need a
good man for Sheriff we need
equally as good for magistrates.
We want no old men in their
dotage or young men who part
their hair in the middle, for it is
doubtful whether the Coustitu-
tional Amendment will carry. anu
it Is poor thing at best. The
House ought to have been put OIL
the chain gang for moi passing
Senate Bill No. rs, Introduced by
our Senator, E. Boyd Faulkner,
and passed by the Senate. But
the House knew more than the
Senate and fixed up a Constitu-
tlonal amendment which is more
Objectionable than the County
Court.
The scholars of Oak Hill and
Stokes school held a concert at The
Ridge school house last Saturday
evening. We were not present
but learn that very unfortunate
affair occurred there by which the
leading singer got sore head.
We are tired of the Maine mud
die, and if it is not soon settled we
will apply to Governor Mathews
10 send down Delaplain. Don't
you think he would soon settle the
Green Bay State.
We notice in the INDEPENDENT
that the Grant boom is on the de-
cline. We thought we could settle
Grant for a third term.
We learn that Mr.. John w.
Pitzer has sold his farm near here
to his brother, E. M. Pitzer, for
the sum of 1880; one-third cash,
balance in two equal annual pay
mentS.
The firm of E. S. Troxell & Son
have sold the farm of Thomas l..
Throckmorton, on MiddIecreek,
to Mr.. Anderson, ofsMartinsburg
We did not learn the price or
terms SITTING BULL.
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The newspapers are busy just
now commenting upon the Cox
Horn contest for the funny-man S
belt in the House. The burden
of this comment amounts to very
severe structures upon those two
gentlemen, and they are widely
denounced for having abused and
deprecated the gravity or dignity
of exalted official position. 1t is
fair to presume that these critics
are not ignorant ofthe fact that the
House itself is in part response
BILE for the testers antics complain
ed of. AS rule, the members OF
that body are never SO attentive
to debates as when fun is expect
ed from them.
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SUFFERING IRELAND.


IT is beyond doubt that Ireland
is on the eve of a great famine, and
large numbers are already suffer
ing for want OF food. The starv-
ing poor of that once happy and
prosperous, but now -trod-
den country stretch forth their
hunger wasted hands and ask for
bread. The appeal will not be
made to America in vain. There
is and always has been a deep
sympathy in the American heart
for the oppressed people of Ire
land, and a call for food to save
her perishing children will find a
quick and hearty response.
Mrs. General Sherman, good
woman and good Catholic, has
published an appeal asking for CON
tributions, which she will forward
to Kenmare, through an 'Irish
Relief Committee" of New York,
which co-operates with Society
in Dublin for the relief of destitu-
ton. The distress and suffering
at Kenmare is represented to be
very severe. It is estimated that
$4,000 people in Ireland will be
thrown upon the charity of the
public. While the immediate
cause of the suffering is the re-
suit of the failure of crops, the in
direct cause of so much suffering
by reason of a crop failure, can be
traced to the rernicious system of
landlordism which grinds the in.
dustrious poor to the earth, and
makes it impossible for them to
lay up anything or make provision
against such catastrophe as a
failure of crops Ireland ought
to be freed. She deserves to be
Tree, and we hope the day is not
far distant when the sun of free
dom shall once more shed it's
bright rays over the Green Isle
of the Sea, disenthralled from
British oppression.
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The Cumberland Neacs says pc
titions are being circulated for
presentation to the Maryland leg
islature to have fsh-ladders placed
on the dams in the Potomac river.
This is a good move, as far as it
goes, but it does not reach the fall
extent of the case. The first thing
to do is to petition the govern
ment to open up fish way over
the big and little Falls near George
town. After that is accomplished,
the legislatures of West Virginia,
Maryland and Virginia ought to
see that fish ladders are placed at
the dams in the river. In order
to facilitate the matter, it would
probably be well for the States
named to ask an appropriation
from the general government to
assist in making fish-ways at the
falls and dams of the Potomac.
Get as much as possible from the
government, and let the States in
terested furnish the balance. In
this way the work will be well
done, and done speedily.
Some action ought to be at once
taken in the matter. As the mat
ter now stands, fish drift down
stream and are not able to
get up to the shallow waters to
spawn. The effect of this is to
have the young fish spawned I'M
der unfavorable conditions and to
overstock with large fish the mouth
waters of the Potomac and strip
the head waters.
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Arden.

Mr.. Robert G.. Horner has pur-
chased of Mr.. John Fitz one of his
portable sawmirls and located it
on Middlecreek, one mile west of
Arden. We also have one mile
north, and all the farmers have to
do is to pay their money and take
their choice. We have noticed
that sawmills are 10 advantage to
a mud road.
The Rev. NJ. l.. Caller paid a
visit to Arden last week, and was
the guest of our wagon maker. He
is a very sociable divine, and went
through the wagon making an d
smith shop examining the latest
improved tools, and worked at an
invention of our wagon maker for
lifting heavy tire in and out of the
forge fire. He has promised to
come out when the weather gets
warm and help to bend some
broad tire. By the way, we have
one of the best tire benders we
have ever seen. 1t was invented
and patented by a Martinsburg
man, Mr.. Samuel Zigler. The
rollers work on an inclined plane,
and has set screws. You can bend
tire from one to five inches on the
tread, and it works like charm.
IL our last items we told you
that there was a grave yard at
Arden, and this week we want to
tell some other people the same
thing. There are number of our
old citizens buried there, amongst
whom we can name William Mas
lin, Robert Mcdonald, Job
Throckmorton, and several of the
Lee family. The fence is in a
dilapidated condition and the
grave yard overgrown with I'M
derbrush. We hold that it is the
duty of the relatives and descend
ants of those men to appoint a day
to clear off the ground and repair
the fence. We will volunteer our
services for one day, provided,
however, that it is done before
the humhlebees take possession,
for we have known them to move
a funeral out of there in double
quick time. When the time comes
for us to mingle our mortal clay
with the dust we would as soon
have it there as to be crema:ed,
and we will maze a child's bar
gain with the body snatchers; il
they let us alone we will let them
alone.
A correspondent from Arden in
last week 3 Statesman claims that
Arden is entitled to our next Sher-
if. We think it is time enough
to choose a candidate for
sheriff three months from now,
and we hope the people will not
allow themselves to be worked up
TO such a degree of excitement as
to lose sight of more important
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The Maine muddle has ended
as most everybody supposed it
would. 1t is now clearly appar-
ent that Charles O'Conor, the
great New York lawyer, was right
when he said the Democrats in
Maine had made o disastrous
blunder; that the course pursued
by them was wrong in principle
and erroneous in policy.
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The new Governor of Louisi-
ana starts out we'll in his admins
tration Of the affairs of that State
by insisting that the State debt
shall be paid in it's entirety. 1t
remains to bee seen, however,
whether he will adhere to this pol
lev until the end of his term.
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NEWS JOTTINGS.

Eleven Pennsylvania counties have
SO far sent Blaine delegates to the
State convention.
A Sherman club has been formed
in Cincinnati, and the friends of
Grant and Blaine are stirring around
to get up organizations in their be-
half.
The Connecticut river is now free
from ice from Hartford to Long Is
land Sound. This is said to be an
unprecedented event in midwinter.
The Albany Journal announces
that Senator Conkling is not and
will not be candidate for President,
but forgets to state whether its ut
terance is ex cathedra.
The Rev. Mr.. Hayden roundly
abuses the juror who voted for his
conviction. The public would be
pleased to have Mr.. Hayden retire to
his original obscurity.
Demar's stables in Wheeling were
totally destroyed by fire Saturday
night including four horses. The
work of the ''fire bugs" with which
the city has been infested.
The collections in the Catholic
churches for Ireland's sufferers. in
Worcester, Mass, Sunday amounted
to 81 1882. A Toronto dispatch says:
Subscriptions are being made to the
Irish relief fund daily throughout
the dominion.
The Cincinnati Commercialnotices
that Hon. Arthur p. German will be
the second of his name to sit in the
United States Senate. General Willis
A. German was one of the first sena-
tors from Minnesota.
After all, there is nothing remark
able in the fact that General Grant
and an earthquake visited Havana
simultaneously, for it turns out that
the General took his boom with him.
Fred Hassaurek has been in Wash
ington for several days past, and it
is said there is complete reconcile
alton between him and Secretary
Schurz. Mr.. Hassaurek is reported
to belong to the Sherman boom.
1t has been ascertained by careful
analysis that rain which falls in
towns often becomes heavily charg-
ed with injurious properties, and can
only in rural districts be regarded as
thoroughly safe drinking water.
The biggest boom of them all is
yet to come-the peoples boom. 1t
will come along about the time the
spring crops are safely under ground
along with the many frost-bitten in
dividual booms that now occupy the
the field.
Sherman is the choice of more
than half the several thousand Ohio
Republicans who have been inter-
viewed by representatives of the
Cincinnati Gazette. Blaine is second
choice and Grant third, while Hayes
stands far ahead the balance of the
field.
A very active Sherman boom, par
ticularly in the South, is pointed out
in the New York Times of Saturday,
while the Tribune sets down the
New York delegation to the Nation
al Convention as probably standing
50 for Grant and for Sherman or
the field.
SiXty-seven convicts were discharg-
ed from the Kentucky penitentiary
Friday by Governor Blackburn, the
reason assigned being that the prison
was over-crowded and the sanitary
condition of the building such as to
demand it.
Martinsburg Market Report
MARrINsBURG, Jan. 80.
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Major A. E. Burke, of the New
Orleans Democrat, and Major Ell.
J. Hersey of the States, fought a
duel near that city on Tuesday.
After firing two ronnds each,
friends lnterposed and the diff
Guilty was amicably settled.
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The confusion party in Maine
have been thrown into confusion
worse COMPOUNDED by the last de-
cision of the Supreme Court of
that State, on questions submit
ted by themselves.
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The Herald and the Sun are
greatly moved in their Washing
ton bureaus by the relations of
Senator Conkling TO the Third
Term and to General Grant.
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Governor Hendricks declares
his opposition to the proposed con.
stitutional amendments in Indi-
ana, SO far as they look to the reg
istration of voters.
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A "Solid Unionr club has been
organized in Newberry county,
South Carolina, with Grant and
Bayard as its candidates for Presi-
dent and Vice President.
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ADVERTISING RATES
SATURDAY, JANUARY 81, 1880.

Blaine seems to have the inside
track now.
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/ have now in store a full line of
black silks just received, from rs cts.
per yard up to $1.75. Ladies in want
Of nice silk dress should not fail to
see them. / am determined to sell
them at the very lowest prices.
deco G.. w. HOKE.
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Martinsburg Market Report
MARrINsBuRG, Jan. 80.
Baltimore Markets.
BY Telegraph to INDEPENDENT.

BALTIMORE, Jan. 80. - Market
closes firm but quiet. Mixed corn
spot 574; Feb. 564; Mich. and Apr.
SAL; May "a; str. SAL. No. 2 red
winter wheat spot 143; Feb. 1434;
Mch. 146; Apr. 147a; May 1881. Re-
ceipts, wheat $1,000; corn $4,000.
Shipments, wheat 10000; corn 6S,-
600.
, 1880-01-18

I .a.o ,,raodv ofven. is strong one, and
with the enterprise ;aea nnrGt IT to be
ager, J. IL. Hill 4s paee1 p,ee, e-sonf % 501 IT
ego" Mr.. Hill, ~ tne wy, ;pondi y ondya1tisine
the Boston papers a. nst fhen9v 3un ID tfat when
Den Thompson. rs t1,e theoay oooner he lets thf
public know it the better foI hlm 4 ala gy e
perfence he has tonna mo, u,nt n,,t h;s h thenry.
is the best means 70 carry ou' AA0
<,.n,a-,tro +1,a snsnensfon OF the Musical
ny nra1nnffc ~ TY1nss The Mirror says "one
Of the attaches OF 1he Of the New York
n}Et al,.s ~ thaf 1ohn G. Freund, the editor, by
Mt1IM 9tas IT,; eio;an 1Hnsi hnd left the city.last
Th,reav a. ~ fhat te ranors that he had mis-
r;ss+aJ dmulSuas+ III. ia fnnds nf the concern were
false. G1 Further, in our infarmant's own
" mo5us narnIaxinp Vim % Condition. The 9th Of last
II a Pflpltthhuf H. fe;nose ,vas incnrnorated into
oetealpe1 ta1N an,ranv u1 W Frennd owning nearly
., 1tG4h t}a eSeras r. was the Intention Of the
projectors pr c to put the stock on Tie market, but
atiag no.aing ~ ~ tat ha craditnTs has been held, and
meeung oi dnG na,.'mittae | to consider what
isfR - * hest action to take. It is doubtful
s Ing pe fhara xi he an issne this week, and
y WeaIe, M aertain + he nnblcaton viii not
u T. Is almost deFsas ettapnt etG was made Mon
9e c4niludeu. 49,. arar and continue the
Gay 20 p!lase nattols sr1 ,,nt;i n afFaira cnn1d
puollGatlon " Lue H"pead h,,t tf1a :aeton nf
ne sallshAesolhy {}asted' do}astedd' +b;a nian. j
pie efeol'ois ua' u'-'"'.N ~ -, - ,,p.
snan"er Gownar has made reduction in the
Ianta en or frjsh % eetates Under the Parnell
nrasenra n - nar cant. Rut few, perhaps,
vii rennpnize Under this title Miss Jessie
MnciaHn iareel darl4yed. Spanish, Broad
1vaV Sn Seantv IN fie Years wIich circled isC0.
1 4hno+r r 20 wns ,,ndar t1a mann ormpIt Of Stuart
and Ronnicanit and nfterwaTtls accompanied
, 1880-01-18

GREEN GOSSIP.
D. 81. Harkins has sailed for England.
where he appears to have found much favor.
It Is said that Chanfrau will lose nearly
$4,000 by the failure of the New York Grocers'
Bank.
WIN Stewart Is announced as member Of
the travelling French Flats" company.
hr. Stewart is aweitknown journalist and
dramatic writer,
Tomorrow evening ". D. Eaton's "Al1
the Rage" will receive its first Eastern pre-
sentation In williamsburg. The cast, which
, 1880-01-18
A Bold E8capes

Reuben Royce. a Texas stage. robber, was In
1an at austin His wife rode to the prison on q
racehorse, and asked IL she could take basket
oI provisions Into her husbands CELL Permis-
sion vas given: The jailer, when he thought her
VISIT had lasted long enough, opened the CELL
door ana ordered her out. Boyce came instead,
prandlstng a revolver TINT had been carried to
hfm In the basket, and made his way to the fast
horse, OH which he rode away.