Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-05-28

books brought only 81 500.
William OFT, one of Napoleon's
soldiers at Leipsic and Waterloo,
died at Watertown, Wis.,, on Tues.
day, aged 81 years.
| Some of the engineers on the New
York elevated railways have been
warned nor to spark the factory
girls as they shoot past the open
windows.
The library of the Rev. Stephen
III Tying, Jr., which was sold at auc-
ton, contained 5000 volumes, in
GLIDING many rare theological
works.
Hugh Swinton Legare, OF South
Carolina, who has been appointed to
West Point cadetship, is the
grandson and namesake of Presi-
dent Tyler's famous attorney gener-
al.
The granite monument to the late
Senator Zachariah Chandler has
just been completed at the Maine
quarries, and is nearly forty. feet in
height and weighs upwards of thir-
ty tons.
George w. Harrison, of Philadel-
phi, has been appointed by Governor
Hoyt, to proceed to England and as
sist in preparing the remains of
William Penn for shipment to the
Quaker City.
The Hon. AMIGA Mines, the ell
der daughter of Lord Houghton,
peer and poet lis about to be married
to Mr.. Gerald Fitzgerald, director
general of public accounts to the
Khedive of Egypt.
Mr.. James Revsll, a Boston four
nalist, has started from New York
on a bicicle for Boston. The dis
lance is $40 miles, and he expects
to accomplish the journey In three
days and two nights.
General Skobeleff has declined
the governorship Of Turkestan, and
leaves Russia for. his health.
John p. Clarke, of Milton, is the
heaviest taxpayer in Vermont. His
property is assessed at 5000 ,000.
The State is without a single mil
lionair.
John Harris, of Rochester, N. Y,
went fishing for trout on the Gale
donia creek recently, but the swal-
lows, deceived by the imitation flies
with which he was whipping the
surface, made dashes at them and
were caught on the hooks. Three
were unlocked uninjured before he
had chance of hooking a trout.
The lot at Woodland Cemetery
where Col. Scott was buried is large
and located near the center of the
cemetery on hill. 1t is enclosed
with heavy copings OF white marble
and is unmarked by any monument
or tombstone. 1t contains but
single grave besides his own-that
of his son, who was also named
Thomas A. Scott, and who died two
years ago, by coincidence, on the
same day OF the same month as his
father. This mound has aflat slab
bearing the young mans name.
The oak trees form triangle in the
lot, and in the center of the TRAN
gle Colonel Scott was buried. He
named the trees himself, calling
one of them "Penn," the second
"Pan," and the third "Pitts," hav-
ing in recollection the three great
systems of railroads now united
in one, with which his life was iden-
tifed-the Pennsylvania, the Pan
Handle and the Pittsburg and Fort
Wayne. The grave was dug very
deep, and so imbedded with flowers
that not particle OF earth was visi-
BILE. A solid mass of soft white
flowers lay below, and the sides were
hidden to the surface behind fringes
of pretty foliage, filed in with buds
and blossoms of spring. The earth
that had been dug up was also heap
ed over with branches and masses
of bloom. Near the lot, on differ
emit sides, are the burial places Of
several of Col. Scott's relatives, and
the monument over John Edgar
Thomson, his predecessor as presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania road. is in
sight.