Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-01-17
NEWS J0TIYNGS.

the smallpox is said to think of leav-
ing the city.
Politics are SO warm up in Maine
that ice cannot form ON the rivers
thick enough to cut.
The West Virginia bird law pro-
hibits the killing of any quail or
Virginia partridge, between the first
day of January and the fifteenth day
of October.
Epizootic has attacked the horses
in the vicinity of GAINESVILLE, How
ard county, Md, and several valua-
bic ones have died from the effect.
james Smith, colored, died near
Princess Anne, Maryland, a few days
ago at the age of 100 years. 1t is
claimed there is indisputable evil
dence that he was born within q
year of 1870.
The cause of the outbreak of the
miners in Kanawha, West Virginia,
it is stated, arises from the fact that
one of the companies bad been pay
ing So cents while the others were
paying so cents a ton.
At Frostburg, Nd. Sunday night,
Mrs. II. r. Scheller fell down stairs
with coal oil lamp in her hand and
was burned to death. She leaves a
husband and infant.
A young negro named George
Peck was lynched on Saturday night
at Poolseville, Montgomery county,
Md, for an attempted outrage on
the person of Ada Hays, white
girl twelve years old.
The persistence with which Fer
nando Wood advocates his 81 per
cent. bond scheme suggests the ques-
ton, why pay more than 3 per cent,
or 2 per cent, or per cent? In
fact, why pay any per cent, at all ?
The Philadelphia Times finds out
that out of siXty-six Pennsylvania
Republican papers outside of Phila-
delphia, twenty-six are for Blaine,
twenty-five for Grant, three for
Sherman, fifteen scattering.
1t is probable that the South Caro-
lima legislature will have to be reas-
sembled, as in the haste with which
they passed three hundred bills in
thirty days it is found they left an
important appropriation bill in fa-
tally defective from.
The Republican Executive Com
mittee of Bergen county, N. j., has
appointed a committee of three to
call upon Representative G. III. Voor-
his for an explanation of his course
in not meeting the indictment found
against him, and the charges under
which he rests.
The Vicksburg Herald says the
Mississippi system of dealing with
criminals sis totally, ruinously inef-
ficent," and that "the attempts to
punish violence in the state are cost
ly, miserable farces." Itthinks that
''the trouble lies in the juries. In
many cases the petit juries utterly
fail to preform their duty"
At Liberty Frederick county, Md,
there lives a colored woman, who
may be said to have one hand and
three feet. Her right hand is a per-
fectly natural one, but the left has
all the appearance of a foot, the
thumb and fingers being as short as
toes and having the appearance of
toes.
The New York Tribune, which is
the most stalwart Republican anti
Grant paper in the country just now
except the Cincinnati Commercial,
says: "The disposition to think
twice before making the next Repub-
lican nomination for the presidency
becomes more apparent every day."
Joseph d. Ward, a clerk in the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad depot
at Harrisonburg, Virginia, recently
absconded with $1,000 embezzled
from the company. 1t is thought he
has gone to England, where he FORM
erly resided. He left wife and two
small children.
The wheat trade of Baltimore in
creased AZ per cent. during 1879,
while New York during the same
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