Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-09-23
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| glaF' IL IL pretty girl.
The Brooklyn wells have been
analysed. There was only one
containing pure water.
A panther six feet in length was
recently killed in Buchanan coun-
ty, Va ii had for a long time
been terror to the neighborhood
1t is comforting in this warmish
weather to know that on Mount
Washington the wind has been
blowing 100 miles and the temper
ature is l6'
The Telephone Exchange in
New Orleans is operated in q build
| ing that is gradually falling TO
pieces. The floors are falling six
inches every six months.
A man and wife in ST. Lawrence
county. n. Y, over seventy years
old, have just come down with
the whooping cough, which they
caught from their grandchildren
Five summer hotels on the New
England coast have been burned
within a few weeks. and in most
cases many of the guests were
compelled to fee for their lives.
A Boston court has decided that
ice cream is not to be classified
among the necessaries of life, and
has fined q West-end cOnfection-
er ten dollars, with costs, for sell
ing it on Sunday.
John Boylan has been discharg-
ed from the Albany Peniteniary
for the forty-eighth time. His
last term was $50 days. He is an
old man, and has spent most OF
his life in prison.
A young nun escaped from a
London convent by scaling the
garden wall, daring and difficult
feat. Then she stole q dress and
hat from house in the neighbor-
hood, donned them In place Of the
nuns clothes, and made her es'
cape.
The first arrest under the new
law making attempted suicide a
misdemeanor in New York has
been accomplished. Christopher
Mccain is the man, and he had
tried to jump overheard from
steamer. He will be tried and
fined.
The Green Ribbon Army is the
latest rival of the Salvation troops.
The first meeting was held in Lon
don al the beginning of this month.
1t is branch of the temperance
League Of the Gross, and is presi-
ded over by Cardinal Manning.
Murphy disturbed meeting of
the Salvation Army at Oldham,
England. Private KershaW,
muscular exhorter, accepted his
challenge to 60 out and fight. The
encounter was protracted and
desperate exhibition of pugilism,
but the sinner was whipped.
During the recent disastrous
food on the C0ncho river, Texas,
Edgar Il. Lewis, a fragile young
clerk in q store Of that town, per-
formed a deed Of such daring that
the bravest men shrank from be-
holding it. An old man had been
swept from his house top, and was
hanging by the limb of a tree call
ing Justify for help. The distance
TO land was a quarter OF a mile.
While the entire population stood
around in dazed horror the boy
constructed a raft, and venturing
out in the swift current guided
under the branch and pulled the
man off, saving his life.
Egbert G Vincent, Of Water
vile, Me-, who is visiting friends
in Brooklyn, after strolling along
the bay shore on Saturday after
noon, lay down and fell asleep in
an inviting spot shaded by pear
tree, near the Delaplaine House,
in TWenty-ninth street. A goat
came along, and shifting about,
discovered the edge Of a roll Of
greenbacks, amounting TO $40, |
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lie selected bit of one bill, and |
finding it a delicacy compared |
with a circus poster, deity insinu-
ated his tongue into the vest pock
ct and pulled out the whole |
amount, which he chewed up with |
great gusto,
Mr.. Henry Havermeyer,of New |
York, has purchased large tract |
Of land in Washington county, |
New York, opposite the declivity |
where General Putnam made his |
daring ride when persued by the
British in revolutionary times.
He is removing the bones from
an old burial ground near where
formerly stood an Episcopal