Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-12-03
NEWS.
Hagerstown wants a creamery.

The proposition is suggested to
extend the corporate limits of Ha-
gerstown.
The ruling price of pork in Ha-
gerstown is 81 per hundred weight.
Good butter sells for 25 cents per
pound at Boonsboro', Md.
The wheat in Morgan county is
looking as well now as it ever did at
this season of the year.
MI. H. w. Chittenden, of Jeffer-
son county, recently shipped 1900
pounds of honey to Washington-the
product of his own apiary.
Mr.. r. o. Sherrer, of Cherry Run,
Morgan county, is erecting a hand
some residence on his farm at that
place.
Mr.. VIM. A. Sigafoose, Jr., for
merly Of Winchester, was killed on
the B. and 0. railroad, near the Re
lay House, while uncoupling a train
last week.
Miss Annie Garlinger, daughter
of Benjamin Garlinger, of Hagers-
town, died at the residence of her
father, in that place, on Saturday
last.
Mr.. j. d. Feidt, of Colorado, for
merly from the neighborhood of
Clearspring, Md, has "struck 1t
rich" in his mining operations near
Georgetown, Colorado.
The Chambersburg PA Deposit
Bank, says the Spirit, owing to a
large increase of deposits, has re-
duced the rate of interest on certifi-
Gates of deposits bearing interest to
three per cent. per annum.
On Tuesday of last week Mr..
Thomas L. Hass, a farmer, near
Cumberland, was kicked by a horse
he was attempting to catch in a field.
His skull was crushed, and he died
in a few hours. He leaves a wife
and five children.
At the last meeting of the County
Court of Jefferson county an order
was made that the Prosecuting At
torney request the Attorney General
of the State to collect all taxes now
due from the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company to the county, by
suit or otherwise.
The Shepherdstown Register of
last Saturday says: "Col. w. A.
Morgan, Capt. Lee Fl. Moler, Capt.
NJ. 5. Billmyer, Mr.. Frank Billmyer,
Mr.. VIM. l.. Rinehart, of this vicin-
ity, and Mr.. Benz. Johnson, of Bal
timore, returned here on Saturday
last with three deer, captured in
Mineral county. The party captured
ten deer altogether"
Thursday night last the log barn
of John Degrange, on the Harper's
Ferry road, with its contents, was
destroyed by fire. Four horses, one
colt, a lot of fodder and hay, two
threshing machines, lone the prop
erty of Lewis Riddlemoser. of Fred
erick,) "A new drill and a Jersey
wagon we're burnt up. The fire was
the work of an incendiary .-Shep-
herdSt0Un Register.
A special to the american from
Cumberland says that on Saturday
last as a Baltimore and Ohio freight
train, drawn by engine No. 4S5, was
approaching Cumberland and reach
ed a point near the glass works, the
trainmen espied lying on the track a
few yards in front of the engine a
small child, belonging to a man ma
med Riley, living near the road. AL
thoughthe engineer reversed at once,
it was evident that the train could
not be stopped before the uncon-
scious child was reached. One of
the brakemen, Samuel Rankin, of
Martinsburg, ran forward on to the
pilot and leaping off, seized the child
and threw it to one side and out of
danger. The brave man escaped,
and the child only received a few
scratches.
DR., Uriel Terrell, democrat
member elect to the Virginia Leg
islature from Orange county, is
perhaps the oldest person in pub
lie life in that or any other State
in the Union. He is in the nine