Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-04-15
NElGHBORHOuD NEWS.

Dr. w. L. Manning OF shepherds
town, has removed to Washington
city.
A light infantry company was or
ganized in Williamsport Md, last
Saturday.
Mr.. Aaron F. Lantz, of Hagers-
town, who had been suffering from
lockjaw, resulting from treading on
a nail, died early on Saturday morn
ing.
Mr.. Charles w. Henshaw, Mid
dleway, Jefferson county, has been
granted a patent for a machine for
sharpening mower and reaper
knives.
Hon. James G.. Blaine and Cover
nor Cameron, of Virginia, have &C
cepted invitations to attend the fair
of the Shenandoah Valley Agricul-
tural Society, at Winchester, in Oc~
tober next
The remains of Col. Jack WartOn,
late U. S. Marshal of Louisiana, who
died suddenly in New Orleans sever
al days ago, were uttered in the
Episcopal Cemetery at Hagerstown,
Md, last Tuesday, in the family lot.
Ten little Indian boys, pupils at
the Carlisle training school, have
been received by baptism into the
Presbyterian Church in that town.
In all, thirty-five Indians have made
profession of Christian faith at that
school.
Boatmen all along the line of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal are anx-
iously awaiting the opening up of
business on the canal, but the pros
poets for an active season are not
very bright, owing to the strike of
the coal miners
The Hagerstown 1orchlight says
the wheat in that section is gener-
ally looking well and promises an
abundant harvest, Notwithstanding
the succession of freezing and thaw-
ing which it has undergone the past
winter.
The South Branch Iatelligencer
says Senator Henry G.. Davis, Ex-
Secretary Blaine and other promi-
nent gentlemen have had chartered
under the laws of Pennsylvania
coke company, with large capital,
and will at once commence opera
tions at Connelsville.
Three young men of Cumberland,
the Independent states, had bet the
other day on eating oranges, the one
who eat the least was to pay for the
whole lot. One eat Z, another s,
and another 10. The one that got
away with 10 had to be put to bed
under large mustard plaster
The difficulty between the City
Council of Hagerstown, and the
Cumberland Valley Railroad, grow
ing out of the proposed crossing of
Antietam street at grade below the
bed of the street, has eliminated in
the company deciding to abandon It's
purpose of building a new depot and
car sheds there on the property 1t re-
Gently purchased.
The honest farmer of Maryland,
besides having to contend with the
fertilizer swindler and the fruit tree
swinder. has new pest on his
hands. 1t is bogus windmill agents.
They represent themselves as agents
for windmill company, and agree
to give there victims a mill free of
charge if they would sell three or
more, taking from the farmer note
for the profits on the three or more
to be sold.
The Hagerstown Globe has the
following: During the late war, the
remains of Confederate soldier was
buried in the cemetery at William
sport. After the war was over the
body of this soldier was recovered by
his friends and taken elsewhere for
burial. Last Friday, while work
men were engaged in digging agrave
for the late Isaac Rowland, upon the
same spot occupied by the Confede-
rate, at depth of couple of feet in
the ground asilver watch was found,
evidently the property of the soldier
with whom it was inferred. The
watch was found to be in a perfect
state of preservation, and with the
exception of the crystal which was
broken in opening the watch, it is
in good repair and ready to resume
it's tick after its enforced idleness
for a neriod of about twenty years.