Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-11-11

Washington who, for one reason or
another, strange as il may appear,
feel @ good deal interested ia ths
election returns now coming in. and
the town has for some days stood up
on edge, as it were Not much pub.
| lie business has been done in the De-.
| partments for more than week
past, as large proportion 30 The
clerks have been absent 0u voting
leave, while those that remain have
been studying the situation. Taking
the country over, it is pretty safe to
say that things political were never
more thoroughly mixed than they
are at this time. IL is scarcely
worth while to discuss the matter in
this letter, however. 1t is too late
to speculate and rather too early 10
moralize intelligently We shall see
what we shall see, and probably all
find out where we stand later on.
Whatever happens my individual
opinion is that the American eagle
will continue to soar and the old
nag-and an appropriation-contin-
ue to wave over the land Of the free
Preparations for the Garfield Mon
ument Fair, to be held in this city
the latter part of this month, are go
ing forward on a large scale. 1t
gives promise of being a grand expo.
sition second only to the Centennial
So much demand has been made by
manufacturers Of fancy goods for
room to show off their wares that the
Capitol is not large enough for all of
them, and the new building lately
erected in the Smithsonian grounds
has been pressed into service. There
is to be an immense Knight Templar
parade one day, and grand bicycle
| tournament the next, and this will
be followed by a competitive militia
ny drill, participated in by crack or
CARNATIONS from abroad, while on
Sunday evening there is to be grand
sacred concert in both the theatres
and Lincoln Hall, the principal art
lists appearing at each place success
sively. The ladies of various States
will make special displays Of pretty
things at the tables allotted to them.
The Arkansas ladies will make a
speciality of flowers at their table,
and cotton balls tied with ribbon
marked in memory Of the occasion
to be kept as souvenirs will be among
their wares. The Illinois ladies will
make a fine display of perfumery,
and the Pennsylyanians have chosen
confectionery for their speciality.
Mrs. Garfield, they say, is employ
ed in a task which rarely combines
the extremes Of pleasure and sad
ness In her new Cleveland house a
large room has been set apart for the
reception of all the gifts Of love
which came 10 her husband during
his long days Of accomplishing suf-
fering5, and the tokens of sympathy
which rained in upon The stricken
wife after those sutferiugs had ceas-
ed. Hearts were touched in every
part of this broad land as hearts had
never been touched before, and Of
ferina OF love and sorrow were sent
by Masonic brotherhoods state as.
sociati0ns, orders of high and low
degree, by men and women jndivid
ualy and by hosts Of little children,
For, in the simplicity Of his life, in
the pathetic endurance and heroic
courage displayed by that man,
wounded unto death, was touched
that chord in nature which makes
the whole world kin. The several
valuable libraries which Mr. Garfield
gathered about him at his various
places Of residence are to he placed
in this room.
The President went over to New
| York again Saturday to vote and
look after the election returns, in
which he was personally good deal
interested, and has not returned yet.
In fact he has been in Washington
so little during the last six or eight
weeks that there has been 10 oppor'
tunity to start a new matrimonial
rumor about him. There are people
in this town mean enough to say
that the President has had no less
than three roaring, bowling airta-