Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-02-23
State News.


Charleston expects to make ten
million bricks this season
One miserable cur killed twelve
sheep for Mineral county farmer.
Charleston has balance of over
$4,000 in the city treasury.
Tyler county has l22 pensioners to
whom are paid $40, 900 annually.
TIE Kingwood Journal says that
wheat in Preston county is looking
we'll.
George Dotts, of Richie county,
tried to suicide with the aid Of NOR
phine anda butcher knife, but failed.
Pocahontas county boasts ofa real
gold mine. Several rich specimens
of quartz have been found.
A woman died in Wyoming coun-
ty, recently at the advanced ase Of
Ill years.
A Lincoln county farmer butcher
ed three hogs the other day, twenty
months old, that aggregated 1858
pounds.
An eight year -ald boy named The
odore Barr fell into the swollen
creek at Wadestown, Monongalia
county, and was drowned.
The Clarksburg News says that
more cattle are shipped at Bridge
port, Harrison county, than from
any other point in the State.
Jackson county votes on the Goth
of March next on proposition TO
subscribe 500, 900 to aid in building
a railroad through the county.
A Preston county NimroG, last
week, killed a wild turkey that meas
ured five feet and six inches from tip
to tip, and four feet and one inch
from the back to the end of the toes.
A remarkable freak of nature is
reported from Richie county. A
child Of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel, few
weeks old, from its shoulders to its
hands, and from its hips to its feet,
is black and covered with u thick
coat Of black hair. Its head and
feet except spot on its chin are also
covered with hair from three to five
inches long.
On the mountain near where the
Middle Fork empties into the Ty-
CARTS Valley river several hundred
feet above the level of the river,
there is about half an acre of ground
on which snow melts as soon as it
falls and even during the cold wealth
er we have heard there has not been
a particle of snow on this spot.
There is continually ascending a
thick vap0r somewhat resembling
smoke, which can in the winter time
be seen for miles around. In the
spring vegetation and the leaves on
the trees are much earlier than that
Of the adjoining lands.
The social circles of Moundsville,
are excited over the el0pement OF
Miss Nellie Hazlett, q talented and
beautiful young lady, the belle of the
town, and the heiresS to considerable
property, with q tramp. The latter's
name is Jas. Howard, and more
disgusting and repulsive specimen Of
the class to which be belongs could
not be found In . long days search.
The cause of Miss Hazlett's infatua-
ton, elopement, and marriage with
the knight of the road cannot be
even surmised by her friends, and as
she uniformly refuses to make any
disclosures, the matter bids fair to
remain In the dark. The beginning
of this romance is detailed as follows:
About month ago Howard was en-
gagged bV Miss HaZlott's uncle. at
whose house Nellie was living, her
uncle being her guardian, TO do odd
chores about the place. Miss Nellie
naturally saw much Of him during
this time, and once or twice within
the past two weeks her uncle 0bServ-
ed her In conversation with Howard
and advised her to keep away from.
She apparently needed his advice, and
the family gave the matter no furth-
er thought until they were astOund-
cd on Friday evening by the discov'
cry that Nellie and Howard were
both missing. A search was at once
begun, but nothing could be heard
OF the runawayS beyond the fact that
they had taken an east-b0und Bal
tim0re and Ohio train. On Sunday
the couple turned up at the residence
Of the uncle, to whom Nellie bland
" stated that she and Howard were
married and intended to settle down.
Intimate friandS'Of the family are
inclined to think the girls object In
clipping was to pique a recreant
lover.