Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-12-10

The Berkeley Springs Lyceum has
been re-organized.
Buckwheat -four is quoted at 6 cts.
per pound, in Morgan county.
The price for turkeys in Shepherds
town, is 7 and s cents, live weight.
Pork is selling in Berkeley Springs
at S. per hundred. Turkeys at Z and
s cents, live weight.
Mr.: Simon Long, a resident of the
f, neighborhood of townsville, Wash
ington county, Md, while working
in front of a circular saw, in his
steam saw mill, Friday of last week,
his leg came in contact with the re-
volving saw, nearly cutting it off be.
tween the foot and knee. His leg
was a%mputated, and he is in a criti-
cal condition.
DR.. J. j. Wilson, Of Cumberland,
reports an epidemic of diphtheria at
Cash Valley, a few miles north of
the city. Ten cases occurred in the
family of Henry O'Becker, includ-
ing every person in the house. One
child died, and another is very low
Six children of Mr.. Ormand Frost
were also attacked, but they are all
convalescent. In all there are TWEEN
ty cases, and are all attributed to
bad drinking water.
John Murray, a Woodworking
blacksmith of Cumberland, a few
weeks ago obtained work near
Bloomington, Garrett county, and
employed his leisure moments in
building a shanty intended to accom-
odate his wife. After completing
the building ,he learned that his wife
had sold off his household effects
and gone off with another man. He
went in pursuit of the guilty pair,
threatening vengeance upon her Sc
Queer, but, as far as known, has not
succeeded in finding them.
The Winchester NelUS of Wednes-
day says: Four or five csses of small
pOx, one Of which proved fatal, have
occurred among the colored people
since our last issue. 1t was intro
duced by a negro from Pittsburg.
Notwithstanding rumors as to its
appearance ia various other quarters,
we believe it is confined to a single
locality-east Piccadilly street. The
building has been rigidly quarantin-
ed by the authorities, and except
among the negroes, there is no par
ticular excitement about it. The
doctors seem to have the disease un-
der control, and express no alarm
about it.
A bold but unsuccessful attempt
was made in Cumberland, on Thurs
day evening, of last week, between
6 and Z O'Clock, by two men to COM
NIT an outrage upon Maggie Hoff-
man, who succeeded in getting her
arm free enough to throw y stone
against the house of a neighbOr, who
came to her assistance. She was
found tied to a fence alongside of
the railroad tracks with a gag in
her mouth, and her feet fastened
between the palings of the fence.
The girl was on her way home, and
was followed up Centre street by two
men until she got near her fathers
house, when she tried to escape
from them by turning up Hay street
to the Pennsylvania Depot, and fol-
lowing the track until she got near
ly to the corner of Ice alley, and a
few doors from her fathers house.
Her father, George Hoffman, is a re-
pair hand on the Baltimorean and Ohio
Railroad. She describes one of the
men as being tall, with black wills
kers, and the other was a small man.
1t is supposed the men were stran-
gers, as the locality is a public one,
and a train was due about that hour.
The Hagerstown Herald, in record
ing the above mentioned accident,
says: SIN this connection it may
not be amiss to mention a strange
fatality that seems to have over
Swallowed the family of which the
victim of the above mentioned acct
dent is a member. Mr.. Isaac Long,
the father, met his death, by falling
over a stone fence on his farm and