Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-02-26


never been undertaken before.
Hope springs eternal in the
human breast" &c. II is said that
Mr.. Stanley Matthews still thinks
he will be confirmed by the Sen
/ ate.
The Buffalo Express advances
the awful social proposition that q
man who Is good enough to vote
for president 10 good enough to
dance at his Inauguration.
1t Is now said that Edison has
perfected his electric lamp
Perhaps, in view of past disap.
pointments, it would be well to
wait awhile for conclusive proof
OF the statement.
Women are striving to become
school officers in New York, and
the Herald very truthfully says
they could not be worse as trus-
tees and commissioners than some
of the present incum bents.
In their haste to turn an honest
penny many persons at the nation
al capital are erecting cheap traps
for spectators, and the National
Republican predicts that there will
be several bones broken on the
9TH.
Fannie Mays troupe of female
Ministries were arrested at Atlanta
Ga, last Saturday night at the
Opera House by the police in the
middle of the performance. The
troupe numbered fifteen people.
The members were carried to the
station house and locked up, char
ged with using pr0fane and vul,
gar language and public indecency
The company was playing under
the auspices oftwo young lawyers
of Atlanta, the proprietor of the
Opera House having refused to
rent the hall to the company.
The railroads leading to Rich
mond, Va, are suffering from a
freight blockade, owing to an in
ssmmttiicc!ency of rolling stock to meet
the demands of the business boom.
The Richmond and Petersburg
Railroad has notified the Chesa-
peke and Ohio that no more
through freight from the West
will be taken until the local trade
Is accommodated.
ACCIDENTS AND CASUALTIES.
A. w. Middlemost, well
known stockman, was found
twelve miles north of River Bend
Col, on Friday frozen to death.
Two OF the four horses in the
team which he was driving were
also froren and the others were In
bad condition, having been eX-
posed TO the weather since Mon
day.
On Friday last. near Milton, n.
c., while the one yesr-old boy of
Major Williams was sitting in
the kitchen doorway, q large eagle
towering around made o swoop at
a chicken which the child was
feeding and missed it. The bird
few off, but came back, and made
a second swoop, this time at the
child, whom it caught in its beak
and talons. The child screamed,
and when the nurse came in the
eagles talons were so entangled
in the cbild's dress that its efforts
to escape were unavailing, and
the nurse succeeded in killing it.
The birds wings measured seven
feet from tip to tip.
AT Nanticoke, Pa, on Saturday
night, a Hungarian named Laf-
schuski broke bottle of alcohol
in his pocket and the contents
saturated his clothing, He after.
wards lighted match, when his
clothes caught fire, and he was so
terribly burned that he will prob
ably die.
Carl Jansen, a Swede, twenty
one years of age, who it thought
| to be insane, jumped into the river
at New York yesterday snd lam
ded on 8 cake of ice. The police.
men attempted to rescue him
when he fired six shots at the M
from revolver. He then jumped
into the water, but was tished out
and taken to the hospital.
Miss Laura Horner, of Osceola,
Clearfield county Pa, in bidding
good night to two male friends
who had been visiting her one
evening last week, refused 10 al
low one of them to kiss her. A
playful struggle ensued, during
which she was thrown down, and,
striking her head, a blood-vessel
was ruptured, which it is thought
will prove fatal.
Charles Richardson, man aged
%, who kept store in Clarendon