Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-08-13
News Notes.

company, formed in London, Is TO
advertise shortly in America for
designs.
A Rhode Island man called his
neighbor a lantern iawed cock
roach, and the much-abused re-
covered damages.
A mother and four little desii-
tute children lived and slept la the
City Hall park, New York, for
three days and nights.
Electric lights are becoming very
common in New York, and are to
be seen in front of almost every
building of note.
The morgue in Chicago is in
such condition that the rats hold
a horrid banquet over each dead
body that is placed there.
Tanner is now going to attempt
fast for three months. Ii he
don't die there will be more hope
for fools than ever.
The Ne,0 York Herald thinks In
the near future the advice to the
thrifty and industrious will not be
"Go West" but go South
George Walker, who some time
ago stole a young girl in New
York from the front of her home,
was on Saturday sent to the States
prison for ten years.
The Viceroy of India telegraphs
that native messenger, who has
just returned from Candashar, re.
ports that Ayoob Khan Is making
preparations to advance upon Ca
bull.
A woman threw herself into the
rapids at Niagara Falls on Satur-
day because she was "too wicked
to live;' but it never seems to
have occurred to her that she was
too wicked to die.
If the James boys will call at
this Office they will hear some
thing to their advantage.-C incin-
gaii Enquirer The editorial rooms
of the Enquirer Office are furnished
with a back door.
The widows OF two sovereigns
are staying in Switzerland. The
Empress Eugenie is at Baden, in
the canton of Aragua, and the
Princess Dolgorouki Is at Saint
Maurice, in the Grisons.
Some California militia had a
sham battle at Grass Valley on
Saturday, and lost control of them
selves in bayonet charge, several
officers and no less than twenty
men being wounded by bayonets
and the butts of guns.
| In 1870 the cost of moving a ton
of breadstuffs from Chicago to
New York was $16.05. In 1881
the same ton can be moved from
Chicago to Liverpool, via. Mon
treal, for So If this be not prog
ress. what is it?
The New York immigration
commissioners report a continued
urgent call for European labor,
and that less difficulty Is expe-
rienced in responding to it. Six
thousand four hundred men were
furnished with employment dur
ing the last month.
| The time seems to be rapidly
approaching if, indeed, it is not al
ready here, when no Benedict will
be safe. A woman in New York
has brought suit for divorce,
charging infidelity because the
poor man sometimes comes home
with several long hairs attached
| to his coat.
The Car has escaped bombs and
bullets, and got back with his life
to his fortress at Peterhof, where
he will probably keep himself un-
der lock and key for the summer.
He can't go out much for some
time, because the weather is too
warm TO wear boiler-iron over
coat.
The Philadelphia North Ameri-
can devotes half a column to an
swering the question What is q |
salary?" The Albany Journal
says it might have been answered,
in brief, as follows: "a salary is |
something which the Democratic |
party has not been drawing since
1850"
Spotted Tail who as recently
murdered by Crow Dog, was the
husband Of six.Wives, one of whom
he brought to Washington a few
years ago He was a fine speci-
men OF physical manhood, and
was a savage OF unusual amiabili-
~ His speeches before the Sec
rotary Of The Interior impressed
all who heard them with the be-
lief that he was quite as shrewd
"a he VAS brave.