Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-09-30
NOTES AND COMMENT.

give away more money than any
woman in the United States.
1t has already cost the Govern
ment $4,000 to give Dorsey an OPP
portunity Of proving himself an in
nocent man.
Damage to the extent of $250,00O
was done at Panama and to the ex-
tent of 100000 in Aspinwall by the
recent earthquakes.
Mississippi has the proper mode to
stop wife whipping. Five hundred
dollars fine and six months in Jail
is the penalty for each offense.
Among the premiums offered at a
fair in Texas are a pair Of smooth
ing irons to the ugliest woman pres
ent. They will be indeed sad irons
| to the winner.
If there is any disaster that the
public can hear of, and bear, with
absolute complacency, it is the loss
es of capitalists in an unsuccessful
attempt to corner corn.
Senator Ferry believes the Repub-
licans, of Michigan will elect a solid
delegation to Congress and have from
10000 to $4,000 majority in the
State.
An anti-Morman editor filings to
the breeze the sentiment : zone
county, one starry banner, and one
wife"
The inhabitants of the Sandwich
Islands have dwindled under civil
zation from a people numbering AGO.
600 to one aggregating about $4,000.
The eighty-seven horses and the
elephants Of Coup's circus were sold
in one lot for $4,000 to livery man
in Detroit.
AS DR.. Lamb IS regularly in Gov
eminent employ, it is held he can
not be paid the $4,000 claimed for
the Garfield autopsy without violat-
ing the law,
| The school marms of New York
| have been depleted by an epidemic
of matrimony. More than thirty Of
them got married during the sum-
mer vacation.
a Virginia postmaster was
bounced" for sending voluntary
contribution" Of $50 in Confederate
money in answer to General Ma
homes 5 per cent. circular.
Col. /. II. Fitzhugh, once door
keeper of the House of Representa-.
tiyes and the original "bigger man
than old Grant," has forsaken the
field of politics, and, in connection
with some wealthy Chicago men,
has formed u company which will
conduct a cattle ranch in Texas.
While the American merchants
and capitalists are doing a great deal
of talking about the wretched con
dltion Of our shipping interests,
other nations are forming companies,
sending on their vessels, and selling
upon all points OF vantage What
we want is energetic and prompt aG-
ton.
A special dispatch from Washing.
ton states that it is the intention ot
President Arthur to order special
investigation into the management
of the Treasury Department during
Sherman's administration. General
Arthur has never forgiven sherman
for the course he took when Arthur
was collector Of New York. There
have been several Investigations all
ready made into the contingent fund
expenditures, but these were uper-
fetal.
General Wolseley, 10 seems, was
sent to Canada by the British g5y-
eminent about the time rupture
with the United Stated was thfeat-
ened in consequences ot che seizure
of Mason aud Slidcl. After tie
trouble was settled General Wo
ley ran the blockadeaud visited B.e.-
mond and General Lees amw
When he reached home again hc
wrote an article for Bt1rl
1iagasiae, expressing ardent syuf-
thy with the C0nfelT.cy u3 u..-
tempt for the waste of resources #l
military incompetency of the Nol.n.