Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-11-10


procession flag.
WE are one people, let the best OF
good will prevail.
BEAUTIFUL weather, with slight
rains. Election day was like June.
THE Statesman is not printed yet.
Great heavens, what fall was that.
JSo. PAuLDINa is about $1,000 in
on election bets. No wonder he
smiles.
TINS world may be all q fleeing
show, but people are all willing to
pay pretty high price to see the
whole show.
Now, where are they who listened
to the howlers, and delighted in the
glare of the torch2 Alas poor
Yorick!
Now, Cap. didn't Buxton pave the
way to defeat? How do you like ity
Be Just, and you won't have to sit in
sack-cloth and ashes.
THE .sstill hunt and quiet, honest
campaign, free from the glare of
torches, the disappointments of bar
becues, the shoutings of the partisan
and the crash of music.) won.
GEORGE LAMBERT is very much
obliged to several democrats from
Jefferson, who made him several hun
dred dollars. He bet on Harrison.
THE slaughter house of Mr.. An
drew Grazier, on Raleigh street. has
been remodeled into comfortable
dwelling house.
THE peculiar red light in the heav-
ems, Wednesday night, is now &C.
counted for. The Republicans in
New York were painting things.
JOE KITCHENS address, after JAN
uary LIST, will be Charleston, W. Va.
Just as we said-character and hon.
esty never lose.
DROP politics now--take up bust
ness with new vim and determine
ton. No hard feelings-there has
always been too much of this.
"WHATl" said new recruit to
the Republican party on the day of
the election, "do you expect an old
democrat like me to accept free trade
instead of free whiskey Never,
boys, neverp
The extra Saturday sheet lost
many vote to the democracy of
Berkely. It.1was in harmony with
the manner in which it conducted
the campaign.
The democrats now begin to preach
civil service reform. One clause
knocks their argument in the head
"offensive partisans."
LAST Monday night Mr.. and Mrs.
J. F. Thompson came near being snf-
located by escaping gas from the
stove.
NEXT week we promise descrip-
ton of the democratic party's voyage
up "Salt River" The whole trip
will be wildly portrayed. Be sure
and get that issue of the INDEpEN-
DENT.
MAJ. SAM DAVIDSON, of Morgan
county, was here this week. He had
been an old Wing, but democrat
since the war. This time he sup
ported Harrison, and none seemed
more elated over his election.
G. P. MATTHAEI, ESQ.,, has made a
safe and able justice, and can give up
the office with the consciousness of
having done his duty. Capt. Bart
lett, ais successor, is good business
man, and will, we have no fear, be
equally as safe and competent.
SOME persons claim that 1 am cor
respondent for the Harrisburg Iele-
gram. It is hardly necessary for me
to deny the assertion, but I take this
means to emphatically do so. I am
in no way connected with, nor have l
written a single line of correspon-
dence for it. u. S. GRANT PITzER.
Now the torch is extinguished,
And the sounding drum is mute
Now, no more on the fitelet
The puffy-cheeked piper toots.
No more the air by shoutings
And derisive boots is cleft
Peace has resumed her reign
But the Statesman and boys were
left.
CAPT. w. B. CoLstoN is spending a
few gloomy days on the banks of
"Salt River" where he has been pen
sively dreaming of the bursted po-
litical air-castles he had been build
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