Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1890-01-25
CORRESPONDENCE
( From our Bunker HUI Correspondent
Random Flashes Picked Up Here and
There, by Beatrice.

There, by Beatrice.
Are we going to have any winter?
was a question asked us the other
day, when the sun put forth her ra-
dance and twas as warm as any
summer day. What did we say
how could we tel-nothing. 1t only
behooves us to prepare for it, for
surely it's upol us now. Had we
the genius of Ellison, who throws
electric light in his hennery during
the night to max, his hens believe it
is day, and for his reward, gather
1900 eggs a ola, from 1000 hens,
then there would be some possibility
of an answer, butenough.
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"Unis," the courageous and tri-
umphant misanth,ope of the INDIE
PENDENT, whose letters we are led to
believe in MEASURE are apropos,
tho there is misgiving connected,
regarding certain denominations,
that we would have aim banish-ban-
ish, | say, tits not justice. Some
have their full right meted out, while
others, were those churches not
known, would be hurled ignomini-
ously into darkness, even were they
to live up to the given rules of the
schurch-they are lost. Is this JUS
tice? In any church, can we not be
Christians ? Can we not live right
eously, uprightly, in one as in an
other? We might disabuse the WV
id, though sacred, thoughts in the
revelation of such things of Mr..
Unis, that there is naught but good
done only in his church. "Bear no
malice, and we gain thereby" We
don't crlticise the ability of "Unis,"
he writes in plain, plausible, forci-
BILE manner, that has atendency to
please some, while others would take
exceptions, and only in Justification,
as the Episcopal church, where he
says, "they believe children cannot
enter the kingdom of heaven without
being purged of their sins by bap-
tism." This is delusion. We har-
Tbor no such belief in our hearts. We
say it simply, it is only injustice to
the church of God. We doubt not
the veracity of his Christian spirit,
but believe not there are only Chris
.tians in the one church, let yours be
Catholic, Presbyterian, Baptist,
Methodist, or what. We conceive
good in all.
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Martinsburg to have electric lights
oh, no! Why not? There should
he the same enterprise and vim in
.Msrtinsburg that there is in other
places of its size. Look at Grafton
and other places. Is there not the
same feeling for rise of the hour !?
Martinsburg, with the population of
a city, and with the talent, profess
sional, legal and musical, shops,
churches, schools, and everything in
proportion, should rank as one of the
first cities in the State in time.
Should we get government build
ing, then there would be rise worth
stating, and with the G. V. extern
sion, this valley would be one of the
most attractive, with Martinsburg as
its leader, in the State.
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ala grippe" is holding on to our
people with pure tenocity. Editors,
ministers, farmers, mechanics, and
every one alike AYERS this, that the
portly form of Editor Wisner has
survived the "cussed" thing, and that
his able assistant, u. S. Gauger, is
still at his post. We can only say
we are glad for what could we do
without their brilliant CD thoughts,
and spicy news-die natural death,
even without the assistance of ala
grippe"
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A funny little thing occurred on
the G. v, between here and your
city, last week. Conductor Snod-
grass, the genial and afable conduc-
tor on the noon train, pulled up with
a smile; the brakeman, postal clerk
and passengers all seemed in a good
humor, and not until the revelation
of one of the passengers, was the fun
known, it was this: AS Capt. Snod-
grass collected the tickets, there was
one, ali old lady, who persisted in
going into the smoker. She said she
would go, and went. The conductor
tried to assure her, the ladies did not
sit in there; she said, 81 will, / paid
my own money; | done a washing
and scrubbing for that money, then
l give it to you son-ofa-gun just to
ride to Winchester-I say, will
/ warrant YOU" Don't you see,
madam, this is for the men? Darn