Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-11-21
state News.

was tnlng OF life. so he called his
hands and dogs and tore the stack
down, and found it was honey-comb-
ed with rats. In the scrimmage that
followed six hundred rodents were
piled up four feet high for funeral
purposes, and it took good yoke
of oxen to haul the remains to the
cemetery.
Miss Ann Mynes, Of Hurricane.
Putnam county, swallowed hand
ful OF pins to sharpen her appeti tie
Thus far she has suffered no inc on
venicnce from her meal of hardw are
A panther was seen near st.
George few days ago.
Brooke county has sent seven
prisoners to Moundsville this year.
Hog cholera is raging in Jeffer-
son county. One man lost fifty head.
Clarksburg will soon have the sig
nal service flags, as will also Buck
harmon.
Snow has already fallen in the
mountains to three or four inches in
depth.
Marshall Crane, of Preston, has
shipped over 1000 bushels Of chest
nuts this season.
Editor Piersol, editor of the State
Standard, is laboring hard to estab-
lish colony in Nicholas county.
River towns have been suffering
for some time with an overdose of
burglaries, which is supposed to be
the work Of Migrants living on boats
along the river.
The State Journal continues to
hammer away at the Wood county
court clerk. Up to date it has sue
oeeded in getting $500 in gold paid
back into the treasury.
The Lewis county cattle men who
took their cattle to Pocahontas, have
about all brought them home. The
increase in flesh has not been as great
as they could have desired.
Braxton county farmers who have
tried raising millet and Hungarian
grass, this year, are greatly pleased
with the result Of their experiment,
and will hereafter devote more of
their attention to the production of
this kind of feed.
The Vest Virginia argus says:
"Our fellow townsman, Mr.. John
Moore, is the proud possessor of
sow pig that gave birth to litter of
eight pigs, each being born with an
iron ring in it's snoot. The only rea-
son that can be assigned for the re-
markable occurrence is the fact that
the mother and father have iron
rings in their shoots or that the hog
pen is on an old iron ore bank We
should think this would be an inter-
esting matter for scientists and med
ical men to look AFTER
Thomas Butler met with terrible
death while working at saw-mill on
Fish Run, near Darlington, a few
days ago. Butler was carrying away
the lumber as it was sawed. At the
time Of the accident he was riding
on the carriage as it was being run
back. Somehow his foot slipped and
he fell forward on the saw, which
caught him and threw him up into
the air He fell back again, and the
saw caught him and threw him up
the second time, and again the third
time before he could be got out of
the way or the saw stopped. He
was horribly mangled, one leg being
cut nearly off, and he was cut down
through the shoulder and into the
breast until, it is said, his lungs came
out. He was still alive and talked
after the accident occurred, but died
in few moments. CO.
One of the most heartrending sto-
ries ofpersonal deprivation and peril
comes from Tucker county,, this
State, it being the terrible expert
ence of James Helmick, a hunter,
who lost his way in the great Back
Bone" mountain last Monday, and
wandered through the dense woods
and thickets of the Wilderness for
five days, without food and over
ground covered with half foot of
snow.
Before daylight on Monday morn
ing James Helmick and Abe Dowson
started from little settlement at
the foot of the mountain and ascend
ed the Back Bone for the purpose of
killing deer. AT dark Dowson re-
turned, and stated that Helmick had
become separated from him, and
that he feared lie was lost. Early
on Tuesday morning a party Of
twenty-five men, headed by Dowson,
stared p the mountain to search