Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-08-18
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mus far, this has been the coolies
August for many years.
| The dog days have ended. Siriu!
relinquished his sceptre on the 18th
inst.
| Soon the whirr of the machinery
will be heard in the new Martins
burg spoke works.
| The larger the potato, the lower
the price; it is just the reverse with
the spring chicken.
The corn crop has been cut short
in this section by the recent drouth.
The new market ordinance is meet
| ing with some opposition.
| The camp meeting of the NJ. T..
Church, colored, of this place, held
at Bedington last Sunday was large
ly attended.
The long needed and hoped for
rain has come at last. Some of the
corn was so much injured by the
drouth that the rain will not help it
much.
Tabor, reveling in $3.50 night
gown, is now confronted with more
luxury, in the form of a ten million
dollar suit. Some men do love cost
ly clothing.
Mr.. George w. Miller, who lives
near Little Georgetown has purch,
ased the Byers farm in Opequon
t o wn h Up, near Scrabble. The
price paid was $40 per acre.
Mr.. M. S. Burdette has opened
book and stationary store in Wolfes
Building, Queen street, next door to
W. w. Crumps hardware store. He
has a full stock of new goods at pop.
ular prices.
A New England sugar factory
failed because beets cost it six dol
lars ton. If the establishment can
make use of the dead variety of beet
it had best remove to this city where
the article can be had for the gath
ering.
The Hagerstown Herald and
T0rch6ght has been sold to Mr.. Ment-
ger, of the Odd Fellow. The two
papers will be consolidated, and pub
lished as the Herald and Iorchlght.
The price paid was $4,000.
The astronomers who witnessed
the eclipse last May ARE still in doubt
as to Vulcan. 1t will give them as
much joy to find him, as was evin-
ced by the scriptural woman who
swept her whole house and found the
missing penny.
There are, according to a fashion
item, forty-two different kinds of
corsets. And yet, succeeding sea-
sons of moonlight summer nights
have failed to bring out corset
where the pins don't stand on their
heads and tear coat sleeves ad. lib.
A Scranton Pa. lady has just died,
leaving motherless family of inter-
esting children to fight the battle of
life and grow up without maternal
counsel and protection. The de-
ceased was 10 years of age, and her
youngest, the pet of the family, is a
fodder Of rs.
Some fellow has gone and patented
an improved clutch" Now that
man ought to be taken out behind a
shed and killed. There is no clutch
like the soft yet vigorous grab of
ones girl when she is scared at some
thing, and the man who patents that
ought to be infringed every hour in
the twenty-four.
Sewing bees are very popular in
Western country ns.-EG. This
sort of thing can hardly become pop
ular everywhere. Western bees may
understand the art of sewing and thus
become useful members of society.
But the bees in this vicinity have
such reckless way of using their
needles. that efforts To convert them
into sewing machines have so far
failed.
A lady delegate to the State Con.
vention Of the National party, at
Asbury Park, recently, got up to
speak, but every one wondered why
she only cried and sat down. Her
husband may have been eating pea