Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-03-13
State News.


There are six candidates for State
Senator in Fayette and Greebrier
counties, which compose one dis
trict.
Phil. Snyder is said to be flooding
his district with Government seeds
Phil. is likely to so to seed himself
after the next campaign.
In Marshall county all the saloon
lists save one have plead guilty to in
dietments and have signed an agree
ment not to sell any more liquor.
George 7. Gosorn, ex-postmaster
at Piedmont and also formerly edi-
tor of the Piedmont Observer, has
purchased the South Branch Gazette.
Rev. Stephen Huber, Of Wells
burg, after a priesthood Of forty
years, is now compelled by the ills
of old age, to ask to retire from
all pastoral duty.
The Wellsburg Herald suggests
to the temperance people of that
place that they boycott all those in
business who favor the granting OF
license to saloonists.
Clifton is now lighted with natur-
al gas from the salt wells in that vi
entity. Preparations are being made
to put down a gaswell in that town
as soon as sprinaepens
An ordinance has been proposed
in the Huntington city council al
lowing the mayor 4 salary of $500 y
year and counciImen $3.50 foractnal
attendance at each regular meeting.
William Warner, of Brooke coun-
ty, while visiting his son, G. W,
Warner, living near ST. Marys, be-
came insane and so violent that he
had to be placed in Jail in Peasants
county.
The Paw Paw tannery, in Hamp-
shire county, is the largest of the
many located in that section of coun-
try. Last year it consumed Ii, 900
cords of bark, for which the sum OF
Sill 900 was paid out.
The Weston World has been pre-
scented with a skin of rattle snake
killed in Braxton county. The rep
tile was five feet seven inches in
length, fifteen inches in circ umfer-
ence and had fifteen rattles on it's
tail.
Mr.. G.. M. Bishop, operating the
saw-will of Messrs. Frazier & Col
ston, in the Cooks Woods" clear
ing, recently sawed for Col Jno. T..
Gibson two logs, cut from the same
tree, which turned out respectively
625 and It's feet of fencing plank.
The butt measured nearly six feet
across.-Spirat Of jefferson.
Mr.. Edward Kilton, representing
a large lumber concern at Columbus
O, has just purchased 1000, zoo feet
of lumber from the Kanawha Lum.
Der Company, of Point Pleasant, and
j. A. Deveraux & Co., of Charles
ton, and has contracted with the
same firms to take all the lumber
they can saw during the approach.
ing summer.
One night last week the track
walker at Clarksburg found several
rails placed across the track. He
removed them just in time to save a
passenger train from being wrecked.
An hour later freight train was
wrecked at the same spot, and as it
was Immediately ahead of passen-
ger train,it is presumed the obtsruc-
ton was intended for the latter.
The suspected perpetrators of the
outrage We're arrested.
Mr.. W. II. Abby, representing
Cleveland, Ohio, syndicate, purchas
ed last week a large tract of land at
Leon, w. Va, on the line of the Ohio
Central railroad. He will cause to
be erected on the property without
delay, one of the largest saw mills
in the State and prepare lumber for
the Cleveland market. Mr.. Abby
was in Charleston a few days ago,
and purchased all the lumber and
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