Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-06-11
Notes and Comment.

route contracts, but he is filing
the Treasury of the United States.
Gen. Grant is at quarantine be-
low New Orleans, and has proba-
bly, been fumigating his clothing
with good Havana cigars for TWEEN
ty-four hours.
The cut worm and the army
worm are causing some destruc-
ton OF corn and grass fields in
Pennsylvania.
An American horse, Iroquois,
owned by Pierre LoriIIard, OF
New York, won the famous Eng
lish Derby race.
Arrangements are being made
to remove the ashes of William
Penn from England to the city Of
Philadelphia.
The clearances of the st. Louis
banks for the month of May were
larger than for any other month
in the history of the city.
Elk Confsderates are preparing
warm welcome to the Society of
the Army of Cumberland, which
meets at Chattanooga, Tenn, next
September.
Washington is the favOrite
place for lovers bent on matrimo-
nicide, not because tits the capt.
tai of our grand and glorious re-
public, but because the license fee
is but one dollar.
Mr.. j. w. Garrett returned to
Baltimore on Wednesday last, af-
ter an absence of more than a year
in Europe, and was given a grand
public reception by the Mayor,
and business men of the city.
Miss Emily Myers, a former res
ident of Chambersburg, was MUIR
dered at her home in York county
Pa, by her disappointed lover.
She was milking the cows when
she was shot by Coyle.
The Richmond Wing wants to
burn every copy of the revised
Testament after it had been look
ed at for curiosity's sake, and to
stand by the venerable edition of
our fathers and mothers, and be
damned Or saved by it with them.
Lee Chin, who married Mrs. E.
II. Hall, a white woman, in Wy
oming, and his wife are 10 be
prosecuted for miscegenation.
Che Chinese ambassador at Wash
ington has ordered the case to be
contested.
Patrick Kelley, the young man
who was found dying miserably
in the streets of New York, on
last Monday, met with the fate of
most prodigal sons. The good old
days when the fatted calf was inn
molated in honor of such worthless
are gone never to return again.
Now is the season whea stories
are given wide circulation about
"hailstoues tho size Of hen eggs"
If this perennial yarn could occa-
sionalIy be varied by the state
ment that the stones were the aize
of goose eggs, it would add to the
effsct very materially.
The forthcoming census, in the
opinion of superintendent Walk
ar, will be infinitely the best yet
given to the country, both with
respect to the extent and accuracy
of the statistics. It's compilation
and publication will not be com
pleted, until Congress makes fur
Their appropriations TO aid the
work.
Chicago has a ghost that throws
bricks. The other night it aimed
one at policeman who was sit
ting on a fence, and sent him
sprawling into the back yard.
Ghosts which clank chains and
groan have long since b9en recog-
nized by science; but brick throw
ing COLLINS have heretofore kept
themselves in the shade.
Lee Chin, Mongoliau, proposes
to sea whether or not he has a va
lid claim to his wife, who happens
TO bS a "Melicsn" woman. The
latter's taste may be questioned
but we more than suspect that
when the case reaches the United
States Supreme Court that august
tribunal will decide that neither
she nor her husand has fractured
any clause Of the federal COnstitu-
ton.
Speculative life insurance, says
the Lancaster E,CdmjNer, has re-
ceived a check in q recent decision
of the Supreme Court Of the Unit
ed States, to the effect that parties
buying up policies Of the insurance
upon the lives of individuals can
only claim the amount of money
actually due to them out of the
nOlicies. ANY eXcess COLLECTED