Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-03-05
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81
Winter wheat in Southern Iowa
and North west Wisconsin is re-
psried to be in magnificent con.
dition.
The Chicago Times estimates
that 100000 cattle have been kill
ed in the great Western ranges by
the unusually severe winter.
The Boston Post says that
America uses | 900, 000,000 of eggs
annually. AS Pat would say, "This
is important hin-formation.'
A young man has been convic :
ted in Ireland of "whisfling at a
justice and thereby intimidating
him." New crimes are being in
vented in Ireland almost daily.
A. B. Modisett, who represented
Barbour county in the last West
Virginia legislature. was killed
on Saturday by fall of a pile of
lumber.
1t is related of Senator Carpen-
ter that the great misfortune that
befell him in his youth was his
being given over to a step mother
OF the worst type.
The number of hogs handled
and sailed by Chicago packers
since October 81, 1880, up to date
is 2,72o, 900 against 2,525. 220 for the
corresponding period a year ago.
Three hundred thousand dollars
is to be spent on the Mardi Grass
tomfoolery in Memphis. This. it
will be rememered, 10 "the taxing
district" which is too poor TO pay
the Interest on its public debt.
The heaviest snow storm of the
winter prevailed Monday through
out Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana
and Michigan. A general suspen-
sion of railroad traffic was occas-
Toned.
Mahone's personal organ indi-
Gates that the Senator is perfectly
willing to preserve his own impor-
lance in the senate by keeping up
the balance of power between the
Republicans and Democrats.
Senator Carpenter leaves an es-
tate valued at over 100000, He
had 100000 insurance on his life.
His other property is worth about
$4,000. His law library is one
of the finest private collections in
the country.
A pretty school girl of Meadville
Pa, was secretly married to a wait
ter at the McHenry House few
weeks ago. Three years ago she
ran away with and married a
young man, but her parents soon
procured a divorce. Twice mar
ried and once divorced at the age
of eighteen is quite a rscOrd TO
start life on.
Nearly all of the business por-
tien Of the town of Franklin,
Southampton county, Va; was
burned on Saturday, originating
in the explosion of a lamp. The
postoffice. telegraph office and the
office of the Black water Navigation
Company were destroyed. One or
two stores and the warehouse Of
the railroad were saved. The loss
10 estimated at $125 900, with $780,
900 of insurance.
Mr.. Charles Thurman, a Ger
man citizen of Cleveland, bought
a Durham cow and heifer from
General Garfield last Wednesday,
paying $50 for the pair. The Gen
eral gave him a cigar and they
walked down to the barnyard,
where the "dickering" took place.
The farmer is proud of his pur-
chase. and says he intends to keep
the animals as long as they live.
The usually serene and placid
Philadelphia Ledger refuses point
blank to be bull-dozed by the
Arkansas legis lature into pro-
nounceing it Arkansaw. Elk SEN
ator Clayton,of that state. however,
says people may produce 1t Just
as they please, which is very kind
of Mr.. Clayton.
Mrs. j. j. Aston, of New York,
is doing a noble work. On Thurs.
day last she sent a party of 100
homeless children, through the
Children's Aid Society, to homes
in the West and South, at a cost
of nearly 81, 500. OF these, seventy
six were placed in homes in Kan
sas, Iowa and Missouri, and TWEEN
ty-four of the large boys found
employment with Virginia far
mers. The total number of chill
dren sent by Mrs. Astor through
the society Is Sl3, at a cost OF over
&ll 800.
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