Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-12-02
NEIGHBORHOoD NEWS.

| W. y. DlllO, VINO was arrested IN
Hagerstown last Friday, for forgery,
was released upon giving bail in
the sum of $500.
j. I. Messler, of Carroll county,
Md, has Durham cow that gives
milk yielding 1871 pounds of butter
week.
Basil Avis, Esq, of Harper's Fer
ry, was stricken with paralysis a
few days ago and has since been
very i'll.
The record of deaths that has oc-
Cured in Sharpsburg during the
past fifty-one years shows that no
less than fourteen hundred persons
have died in that place during that
time.
Mr.. A. V. Barr, living near Hag-
erstown, lost during the past week
nine hogs. Mrs. Mary M. Cramer
and Moses Carey of Hagerstown,
two each, from some unknown
cause.
Henry G. Dickerman, formerly
employed in the Western Maryland
Railroad shops at Union Bridge,
Carroll county, Md, has fallen heir
to a fortune of $4,000 left him by
a relative in England.
Mr.. McNeal of Berkeley county
w. Va, seventy years old fell down
stairs on Sunday while visiting the
family of Mr.. Randolph Kreps, liv-
ing near Clearspring, and died the
same day from fracture of the
skull.
An old man aged about sixty,
named John Hopkins, a miner, of
Frostburg, Nd, was found frozen to
death in the water station at Cherry
Run, Morgan county, Monday
morning. No money or papers were
found on him.
The Winchester Times says that
Mr.. l.. L. Jacobs raised one of the
finest crops of corn in Frederick
county. Sample ears which he left
at that office measured fully thir-
teen inches in length, and the entire
crop was of more than average size
and quality.
Mr.. Samuel Binkley, whose farm
is north Of Hagerstown, while haul
ing corn, was thrown from the wag-
on on Tuesday and died a few hours
his neck being broken.
He was siXty-two years old, and
leaves a wife and five grown up
children.
Samuel Manuel, a colored man in
the employ of Messrs. Rush and
Harry Turner, near Shepherdstown,
met with curious accident on Sun
day night last. Being sleepy, he
gave huge yawn, when he slipped
his jaw out of joint. Ittook two doc
tors to get it back in its right place.
The steam packet "Arctus,"
owned by William I. Hassett, Esq,
residing at Four Locks, Washing
ton county, Nd, was destroyed by
fire, on Friday night of last week.
The packet was tied up for the
night at Cherry Run. The fire orr
ginated in the cabin, and the at
tempts made to eXtinguish the flames
were fruitless. The boat was burnt
to the waters edge.
The Hagerstown Globe says: Mrs.
Glare Stanhope, nee Hamilton, con-
cluded her studies in Paris, and a
few days since arrived in New York.
She proposes to spend the winter in
Annapolis at the GubernaJorial
Mansion, with the Governor and
his family. In the meantime the
suit for divorce will be prosecuted
without opposition from her hus-
band, Mr.. Stanhope.
The Middle Conference of the
Lutheran synod OF Maryland, IN an
nual session at Harper's Ferry last
week organized by the election of
Rev. p. Ii. Miller, Of LovettsyiIle,
Va, president, and Rev. w. II.
Stottlemyer, of Jefferson, secretary.
The subjects discussed were 1.-The
Mission of the Minister Of the Cos
pei" and "The Duty Of Members to
the Church." An interesting essay
on the subject "How Long Should a
Sermon be on Ordinary Occasions"
was read by DIR. Diehl. lie thought
that the length of a sermon should
be determined by circumstances and
ordinarily not over thirty minutes.
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