Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-12-17
STATE NEWS.

1870 ~ AO NN@S
Of smallpox in Clarksburg.
Ann Eliza Young, Brigham's
nineteenth wife, is lecturing in this
State.
Fresh beef sells at Beverly at 5 cts
per pound at B~uckhannon 8 cts.
per pound.
The tobacco crop in Fayette coun-
ty this year is said to be the finest
ever raised.
John Kahn, of Roane county, in
dicted for murder, has been released
on $4,000 bail.
A Wheeling family are believed to
be heirs to an $50 600 900 estate some-
where in the old country.
One hundred thousand dollars Of
Wheeling's new Al per cent. loan
was taken by the Irreducible School
Fund.
The Mound City Hotel property,
at Moundsville, was sold last week
to r. j. McFadden, for $12,7 700.
West Virginia has 644 post-ofices;
one Office of the second class nine
of the third, and torty-nine Money
Order offices.
The Marion county grand jury, in
session this week, returned 1873 in
dictments, 60 Of them being against
n man for unlawful retailing.
Contracts are being let for the
erection of the United Brethren Col
lege at Buckhannon. 1t will be a
very fine building, and well differed.
A new railroad company, named
the Winfrede, to build a road up
Fields Greek, a branch of the Ka-
nawha, has been incorporated by
Secretary Stalnaker.
Last week II inches of snow fell
In some parts of New York. Att the
same time, fruit trees were bearing
their second bloom in some parts OF
the Third District.
There is excitement in Meade Dis
trict, Upshur county, over the re-
ported discovery of a gold mine.
The same mine was found once in
Indian times, so it is said.
The Point Pleasant Visitor an
nounces that four members Of the
bar were indicted for gambling at
the recent term of the Circuit Court
OF Jackson county.
The Charleston Cali says that
Bishop George w. Peterkin, of the
Episcopal diocese of this State, has
been instrumental in building of fif-
teen new churches since he took
charge of the diocese.
George Cavanaugh was examining
an unloaded revolver in Caperton's
store, in Union, when it exploded,
the ball passing through his throat
and making a dangerous and perhaps
fatal wound.
Burglars went through the resi-
dence of Henry Fisher, ST., at Point
Pleasant last week, getting $500 in
money, which was under Mr.. Fish
er's pillow. He was afraid of banks
and always kept his money in the
house.
Setszer Lee, a we'll known citizen
of Mason county, and owning con-
siderable property, deserted a wife
and five children and eloped with a
widow woman named Eads. Lee
had sold nearly everything he owned
and left his family in a destitute
condition.
The Armstrong coal property, con-
si2ting of about 500 acres of land on
the West Virginia Central Il Pitts
burg Railroad, some five miles or
more above Bloomington, has been
sold by the Messrs. Davis Bros. and
Major Alex. Shaw, to Jacob Taylor
and others, of Baltimore city, for
800, 900.
A man named Backus was killed
instantly by being struck with a
piece of timber which scaled off a log
that was being sawed at McGOwan's
mill, Doddridge county, on Friday
last. His brother vas killed under
exactly the same circumstances a
few years ago, on Goff's place, Da-
VISIONS Run, and it is said by a per-
son who saw both bodies that the
bruise inflicted by the piece Of tim
Der was almost in the same spot on
the body of each.
A New York jeweler having an
account against a West Virginian
merchant says THAT his home attor-
ney had advised him that there was
NO chance to get a fair trial in West
Virginia that the Red Men and
southern prejudice would throw him
into the costs and defeat his action /;
that he would be a stranger among
Phillistines, and would be dealt with
numerically" But he got a judg-
ment before a Mineral county jury
all the same.
Silas Stellar killed a wild cat near