Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-05-13

Circuit Court will begin in Jeffer-
son next Tuesday.
The number of employees on the
canal has been largely reduced, as
there is no work to be done.
A number of incendiary fires have
occurred in Hagerstown and vicini-
ty, during the past few weeks.
Chambersburg and other towns
in the Cumberland Valley, have
been visited by a set of professional
burglars during the past few months
and number of safes were success
fully blown open and robbed.
Mr.. Thos. Taggart, of Hagers-
town, owns a young Jersey COW,
which produces, ''they say" as many
as twenty-four pounds of butter in
week. He has just been offered
| $4,000 for her, and holds the offer
under advisement.
On Wednesday of last week, Ed
ward Gosweu an employee in the
telegraph department of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company,
while engaged in transferring the
wires from an old to new pole, at
the east end of the Harpers' Ferry
bridge, met with an accident which
resulted in his death on Thursday,
at his home near Woodstock, How
ard county, Md.
The Hagerstown Torch Light says:
All parties found with bass in
their possession will be liable to be
punished according to the provi-
sions of the new law, signed by Gov
ernor Hamilton on Wednesday of
last week. Give the bass rest dur
ing the month of May, so they may
be able to protect their young. In
June fishing will commence again so
we will not have long to wait. All
kinds of fishing is prohibited during
this month.
During the past few nights incen-
diaries have been active in the vi
cinity of Hagerstown. On Satur-
day night Friendship School House,
situated on the Williamsport pike,
about three miles from Hagerstown,
was fired and totally destroyed, and
Monday night the Pest House, re-
Gently erected at Bellevue Asylum
for the accommodation of smallpox
patients, was also fired. 1t was to-
tally destroyed but fortunately there
were no patients in it at the time.
The Shepherdstown Register says
a Coroner's Inquest was held on
Sunday the % of April, near Kear-
neysville, upon an infant female
child, found, charging Alice Jack
son, colored, the mother, with kill
ing the child. A coroners jury was
summoned, and after an examina-
ton Of DR.. ID. W. Border, Sarah
Cole, Nellie Washington, Rose
Wheeler and Margaret Hurley, the
jury rendered a verdict that the child
was stranged to death by its moth
er, Alice Jackson, and that she be
held for the action of the grand ju-
ry.
The Spirit Of Jefferson says:
A negro burglar was caught in the
house of Mr.. Jno. A. McCreight at
Harpers' Ferry, on Friday last The
family of Mr.. McCreight is absent
from home, and he has been taking
his meals, during their absence, at
the house of a neighbor. Going to
his residence at noon, he heard some
one within, and, after wisely with
drawing and summoning assistance,
he entered and found negro man
secreted beneath the floor, with a
lot of jewelry belonging to the fami-
ly on his person. The negro had
Just come to Harpers' Ferry in COM
pany with another strange gentle
man of color, and it was thought
both were engaged in the robbery,
but only the one was caught, and he
was committed to Jail here on Fri
day afternoon.
Arrangements have been made by
which all colored teachers of West
Virginia may receive free tuition
and room rent, in the Normal De-
partment of Storer College, at Har-
pers' Ferry, w. Va, for eight weeks,
commencing June 5th, 1882. Eigh-
teen of the number to be designated
by the State Superintendent will re-
ceiVe in addition, the use of text
books free Preference will be CIV
) en- those already appointed if they
will make known their intention OF
remaining during the eight weeks.
A Peabody institute will be held the
first five days OF the session, under
the direction of competent instruc-
tors. Board can be obtained at 81
90 per week. Those who wish to,
can board themselves at very low
rates. For futher information, APP
ply to N e. Bracket, Principal ,
Harpers' Ferry, w. va.