Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-11-05

Senator Camden has rented the
Reverdy Johnson mansion. adjoining
the Arlington Hotel, iii Washing
ton, and will occupy during the COM
ing winter.
Rev. J. +. LOTUS. who was injured
in the railroad accident at Thornton,
during the summer, Is still in crit
ical condition.
A new courthouse is being erect
ed at West Union.
Potatoes are selling at one dollar
a bushel in Clarksburg.
The Gilmerjte reports a snow fall
at Gieuvllle, Oh the l0sh ult.
The Democrats of Wheeling are
going to organize jefferson Dem
Ocratic Association.
The County Comm ssioners of
Taylor county have abolished all
tolls on roads and bridges in the
county.
The Richie county Grand Jury
found seventy-eight indictments
against one man for unlawfully sell
ing whiskey.
The Marion Oil Company have
commenced to bore another well on
their lands in that county, this being
the third one.
A number of ex-soldiers have
brought suit against UpShur county
for county bounty premise TO volun-
teers during the war.
The engineers on the G. e o. Ex-
tension have completed their survey
to the mouth of the Kanawha, on
the south side, opposite Point Pleas
ant.
Judson Spofford's appointment as
postmaster at Huntington, fias been
confirmed by the Senate. Spofford' s
appointment is credited to Senator
Camden.
A school teacher at Huntington,
arrested for severely chastising a pu-
pill, was tried and acquitted the
punishment, according to the jury,
being merited by the scholar.
The st. George Democrat remarks:
While married men are sparkling
young ladies around town. we Won
der il their wives think they are
coon hunting.
Mr. VIM. L. RawsOn, of the G.. &
Q. Il. r., has made sale of $4,000
acres Of fine white pine timber land.
situated in Pocaaontas and Green
brier counties, to some Pennsylvania
parties for 100000. 1t is estimated
that the are 100, 900 900 feet of white
pine lumber on the property.
There are over 1000 coke ovens in
operation along the line of the Ches-
apeake and Ohio II. r., and many
others are being erected. The de-
mand for West Virginia coke is far
in excess of the supply. The coal on
New river is said to be the finest
coke coal in the United States.
Within the past ten days, Mr.. Geo.
G.. Bloomer has lost some fifteen or
twenty sheep from the ravages of
bears. The sheep are being ranged
on what is known as the "Peach Or
Chard," on Anthony'S Creek, and
the wholesale destruction will COM
pei the removal of the sheep. The
scarcity of corn and other food of
the bear is the cause of their inroads
upon the tiOcks.-Greenbrier hide
pendent.
a SAD STORY.-A nice looking
elderly lady got off the train at the
B. 81 o. depot here on last Friday
evening, and went into the office of
Agent NeSbitt and asked him for
pass over the road, stating that she
had learned of the whereabouts Of
her son. Mr.. Nesbitt, who formerly
held the position he holds here at
Piedmont, knew the lady to be
Mrs. Rowan, of that place, who,
about twenty-seven years ago, went
crazy with grief fer the loss Of three
children, who died within few DAYS
of each other. Her only remaining
child, son, lived and grew up, sup
porting and caring for his unfortu-
nate mother, until about three years
ago, when he, too, died. The pecu-
liar phase Of Mrs. Rowan's lunacy
IS, that she does not believe her chill
dren dead, but that they simply wan
dered from home and were lost and
since reason fled from its throne,
nearly thirty years ago, she has been
hunting, ceaselessly hunting for her
wandering children. She has walked
and ridden over the whole length Of
the b. Il. 0. road east of Wheeling
many times in search of them. She
is well known to the employees of the
road, and no conductor ever refuses
her passage on his train. Since the
death of her son, the good people of
Piedmont and Keyser care for her
as best they can, and she seldom suf-