Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-11-06


making an aggregate OF So 100000
year.
Boston strcet-car conductors
hsve been detected in using little
bells concealed in their hands, in
stead of the tell-tale punches.
Mr.. Thomas Hughes says: Il
cannot help feeling that in the
future the chief education lies in
the joint education Of the sexes. y
Madame de Girardin Gays that
the only reason she despairs OF
France is that it Is the only nation
she knew in which the men are
better than the woman,
Paris would he benefited by an
importation of American cattle or
beef for their mar ct. Sir.oin
steaks are selling at 3S cents per
pound, and rents are raising
at the base of the highest .oint
in the RockylMountains where, in
1848, Gen. Fremont planted the
American flag, is Canyon City,
with pretty streets, and gardens of
fruit trees.
Jones Shaffer, AN old bear hunter
of Pennsylvania, died in Blooming
Grove, Pike county, on Sunday
aged 20, His death was caused by
being tossed by a vicious bull
while passing through field.
A very old man carried away by
his excitement, voted three times
at Washington, Indiana, at the
last election. On his trial it was
proved that, although perfectly
sober, he was unconscious of hay
ing committed any offence
A small boy. carrying in his
pocket copy of Jack Sheppard
was recently cut short in an adj
venturous career, in Milwaukee,
by the police capturing him. He
wore black mask, carried a dark
lantern, and was armed with two
pistols.
A syndicate has offered to lease
the Quebec, Montreal. Ottowa and
Ontario Railroad for twenty years
at $3.50 900 per annum. The road
is three hundred miles long, and
cost $12,000,000 to build. 1t is
supposed that the syndicate re-
presents the Southeastern Railroad
of Vermont, which runs to Boston.
Thomas hurry and Thomas
Foley, walters at the Windsor
Hotel, New York, have had a
bloody quarrel about their relative
positions. One of the Toms carries
dishes into the dining-room, and
the other takes them out TO the
dish washers. The quarrel ended
in Foley receiving a severe ash
in his neck, and hurry being
consigned to the lookup, with the
question of precedence unsettled.
Captain Bates and his wife,
giants in Barnum's show, recently
made the overland journey from
San Francisco. AS the sleeping
berth were only six feet long, and
there were eight feet of humanity
to accommodate, they took two
upper sections on opposite sides
and connected them together by a
"bridge of signs" The other pass
engers, with coed humor, consen-
ted to the partial obstruction of
the passage at night,
Mrs. Mary Highland Garnet
Barboss, daughter of the Rev
Henry Highland Garnet, pastor
of Old Shilon Church, New York
city, received cordial God-speed
on Sunday evening from her
fathers congregation, in anticipa-
ton of her departure as mission
airy to Liberia. Her husband and
four children accompany her to her
home, where they will establish a
school for girls.
The Sheffield papers boast thai
America. with it's protective tariff,
has not succeeded in ousting Eng
lish steel from the field. A heavy
order, they state has been received
from the New York Central Rail-
road for fifteen thousand tons of
steel rails at a price higher than
the same order can be filled in
America-a clear proof that the
American steel is inferior in quail
ity. The export of iron ore from
Spain for the first half of this year
is 100 per cent. greater than the
correspondent period last year.
Morally every engine in Spain halls
from Sheffield and Birmingham