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

denS OF germany.
The people of Baltimore have been
made happy by the arrival of 5000
heads of cabbage, brought over from
Bremen, by the steamship Leipzig.
Lovers Of sauerkraut need not des-
pair. II the cabbage crop is short in
this country, our friends in Germa-
ny will take care of us.
An exchange states that two
sharpers are going through the coun-
try victimizing the farmers. They
offer to sell mackerel in half-barrels
at very low price. Upon purchas-
ing, the victims find their half bar
rel filled with rubbish, with a thin
layer of fish on top.
The town of Boonsboro, Md, is
90 years old having been founded 10y
George Boone, native of Pennsyl-
vania, in 1888. The remains of both
Boone and his wife lie in the old
church yard of the Reformed Church
of that place. The grave of Mrs.
Boone is marked by plain slab of
marble, whilst that of Boone has but
flag stone.
The Vicksburg Herald is happy
because it says the yankees are
again invading the south that this
time, instead Of fire and sword, they
are coming to invest their money in
factories, banks, railroads, planta-
tions," etc. 1t says that northern
men have virtually obtained control
of business matters in Atlanta,
Charleston and New Orleans.
Typhoid fever prevailed to such.an
extent in many western localities
during the fall that it was like an
epidemic. 1t is said to have been
most prevalent where the drouth was
severest. The medical scientists are
being called upon to investigate the
connection between excessive dry
weather and typhoid fever, with the
view of discovering some way of
preventing the spread of the disease
in future.
Is the Newark bank collapse the
beginning of another financial panic,
as was the failure of Jay Cooke &
Co., eight years ago? A good many
people think so and as the present
is largely a speculative era, with
prices for many things nearly up to
the high mark of war times, many
of the conditions for a general break
down may be said to be already ex-
listing. With spectators at such a
time it is much as with row of
bricks set on end. 1t only needs a
starter TO bring down the whole line.
The Mechanics National Bank of |
Newark, n. j., closed its doors last |
Monday. 1t was compelled to do so
on account of the ENLIGHTENMENT by |
the cashier, o. L. Baldwin, of sum
rated at not less than two million
dollars. Baldwin had, without the
knowledge OF the directors of the
bank, made huge loans without Sc
curity to the firm Of Nugent Il Co.
The cashier and one of the firm of |
Nugent Il Co., are under arrest.
The New York Commercial cred |
its two Presidents, Jackson and Ar
thur, to the Irish immigrant, the |
father of each having been born in
Ireland. The Utica Observer adds |
James Buchanan, whose father i'm |
migrated from Donegal eight years
before the President WAS born. A
fourth is put on the list by the Buff
falo Courier ip the name of James |
X. Polk who, that paper says, twas |
Of Scotch-Irish decent" The Irish |
immigrant has certainly done his
share in America.
There ought to be some means OF
punishment for the bank examiners
who, year after year, reported the
Mechanics Bank Of Newark to be
in good condition, when in fact, all
its assets were in the hands of spec
ulators. The president and direc-
tors of the bank were criminally
negligent, but they suffer the loss Of
the property they had invested in the
concern. The bank examiners were
officers OF the United States, and
their favorable reports Of the insti-
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