Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-02-21
OUR NEIGHBORS.

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at Hagerstown on Monday.
1t is the custom of the Grand ju-
ries at Hagerstown, before their dis
charge, to give dinner. An affair
eff this kind took place on Monday.
About $4,000 has been paid the
land ownersin Washington county
Nd, for the right of way for the Shen-
andoah Valley Railroad.
Mrs. Lizzie Neikirk, wife of Lew
is Neikirk, of Four Locks, Wash
ington County, Nc, died on the 20
ult. She had been married about a
year.
The Southern Memorial Associa-
tion of Shepherdstown have fixed
upon the first day of June next for
decorating the graves of the canfed-
crate dead at that place.
In Frederick Md, new and ex-
tensive leather tanning establish
ment is being built by Major B. III.
Schley and Mr.. Peter Brookey. This
makes the fifth enterprise of this
kind in Frederick.
The Leader, new Democratic pa
per has been started in Cumberland,
under the editorial control Of T. F.
McCardell. Mac is a journalist Of
fine ability and large experience,and
will make an interesting paper. We
wish him success.
Mr.. Bowly, a druggist and old cit
zen of Winchester, left his home on
Thursday Of last week, while labor
ing under an alteration of mind.
Diligent search was made by his
sons, but no trace of him was had,
until Monday last, when they re-
cend telegram from Lancaster, Pa,
that he had died at little village in
that county, where he had wandered.
The Cumberland Coal and Iron
company was fitting up the Bowery
blast furnace, near Midlothian, to
put in operation, but the work has
been suspended by a strike of the
workmen for nine hours as days
work. This ill-considered action
will probably put an end to an enter
prise that would have given perma-
nent employment to large number
of hands.
In Frederick Md, the other day a
man caught his foot in a railroad
frog when crossing track, and at
the same time heard train coming.
He struggled to get loose, but in
vain, and nearer came the train and
went past him. Then the Frederick
man thought what a fool he was not
to remember that he was on side
track that hadn't been used for six
years. He pulled his foot out of the
boot, removed that article from its
position, put it on the end of a club
and kicked himself all the way home.
The Shepherdstown Register calls
attention to proposition submitted
by Col. w. A. Morgan of jefferson
county, this State, to Congressman
Martin, that the government make
the Potomac navigable for steam
vessels by locks and dams from
Washington City to Cumberland.
Md. The Register truthfully and
POLITICALLY says that for more than a I
hundred years, ''the heaving bosom
OF the beautiful Potomac river here
at this point has been uudisturbed
by the plougning keel of the steam
boat" and the proposer of the plan
calls on the press to take hold Of the
plan proposed.
A largely attended meeting was
held at Winchester, Va, Satur-
day evening of last week, to consid-
or the best means to secure addition
al railroad facilities for that city and
Frederick county. A number of
speeches were made, the prevailing
sentiment seeming to favor the build
ing Of railroad from Winchester to
Martinsburg, little over twenty
miles, to connect with the Cum
berland Valley railroad. A resolu-
tioa was adopted requesting the
county court to authorize vote to be
taken upon the question OF a sub