Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-01-30
Items OF Interest.

county, ~. l., yleluS ore WoTJH 2oz.-
rs per ton.
President Cleveland was at Balti-
more Monday night attending the
charity ball.
Gam bling in stocks is said to be a
good deal more prevalent among the
women of Chicago than it ought to
be.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
received a conscience contribution of
$4,000
Hot-house strawberries have ap.
peared in New York, and command
about 20 cents apiece.
Many miners have been killed or
injured by snow slides in the Aspen
mountains, Colorado.
The citizens of Lancaster, Pa,
will try to raise 100000 to keep the
watch factory in that city.
Mr.. p T. Barnum has proposed to
establish geological garden on the
Potomac flats, Washington.
The ST. Cloud hotel, Philadelphia,
was burned last night, and six firms
occupying buildings on Arch street
were burned out. The loss is heavy.
At Parkersburg, w. Va, yesterday
Thomas Stafford, wild young man,
fatally shot his elder sister during a
quarrel and escaped.
A colored woman, living near
Montgomery, Ala, gave birth to four
children a few days ago. They were
all living and doing we'll at last ac-
counts.
A snow-melting machine, which, it
is claimed, will melt snow as fast as
fifteen men can shovel it in, was tried
with success in New York the other
day.
During the past two weeks over
five hundred colored men from the
Carolinas have passed through Sa
vanah to engage on the turpentine
farms of South Georgia.
The English Parliament was open
ed by the Queen with q formal
speech, in which she referred to dis
orders in Ireland and said that they
would be repressed by law.
The Atlanta Constitution mentions
runner that o northern man who
pulled o pair of skates out of his
trunk in Florida was set upon and
murdered by the insulted inhabitants.
Last Saturday Al miners were en-
tombed in the coal mines at New
burg, this State. The accident
occurred by an explosion of firedamp.
Twenty-Five bodies have thus far
been taken out.
A young lady named Riser, while
skating with party on the Yough-
iogheny river, near Dawson, Pa,
Wednesday night, fell into an air
hole. Her escort, JAS. Marshall,
went to her assistance, and both were
drowned.
With Thursday night came the
coolest weather this winter in Dako-
ia. 1t showed all night and strong
northerly wind drifted the snow bad
ly. The thermometer yesterday at
Glendale, OAK, was 40 degrees be-
low zero.
The Greek government insists up
on its claim to Thessaly and Epirus,
and declares that it will fight for
them. England and Germany are
making naval preparations to repress
any demonstration she may make.
In recent sermon the Rev. Sam
Jones said II think the finest
tombstone | ever saw, and the pref
test epitaph ever saw, waswhen
was visiting an old friend of mine.
After dinner he took me into the
garden, and in the most prominent
place there was erected beautiful
tombstone of white marble in men,
DRY of his wife, and on it | read her
name and the date of her death and
her simple epitaph was this line
'She made home pleasant. ~
Mr.. Sherman, President of the Sen
ate, made notable speech Monday,
to the effect that after nearly hun
dred years it still remains an unsolv-
ed problem as to how the Electoral
vote shall be counted. He argued
that where the two Houses cannot
agree on any question affecting the
count, they shall meet and vote in
joint convention. His plan was en-
dorsed by Senators Hoar and Ed
munds. The debate was unusually
interesting and was made more so