Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1893-04-15


ted IFS centennial 1t is estimated
that eight sll ;, on al average, b re
been nailed unur. hoIs s feet every
work day dnling the century, max
ing total Of about $4,000 shoes.
Two cows, the property of Hill
Costellow, IT Windsor, ~ O.. we're
found dead last week, with the neck
of one fast between the horns Of the
other. It is supposed that they we're
fighting AID being caught Ia the
above position, broke one another 9
neck.
There i a time when man should
be excused for gett ne ungry, and
that is when a man in front IF him
at the postoflice window, spends a
quarter OF an hour buying stamps,
and then spends the rest OF the hour
in putting them his letters at the
window. A man who has no more
sense than to do thing of this kind
land there are many who haven't)
ought to be compelled to send his
letters by freight.
Charley Horton, one of the most
notorious horsethleves in this State,
who has served two long terms in
the penitentiary, and for whom the
authorities have been looking for
some time, was arrested by Sheriff
Morgan, of Marion county, and Jail
ed at Sutton. He hired a valuable
horse from liveryman in Sutton,
and never returned it. II convicted
he will go to penitentiary for life.
One Of the famous white oaks of
New jersey stsnds in the Presbyte-
rian churchyard at Basking Ridge.
1t measure Ia feet inches ia cir
conference at feet high, while the
branches shade circle of lis feet In
diameter. 1t has been a famous tree
for more than century, and it vas
no doubt a noble specimen in 1870,
when a log church was built on the
ground where the present one now
stands.
Editor Childs owns silver statue,
the tautifully nodded figure of a
woman, exactly five feet in height.
The proportions, it is said, are abso-
lutely perfect, ard all the sixty eight
requirements are fulfilled, though Of
course all are on smaller scale than
the real figure of woman. The wo-
man stands on a Mexican onyx clock
four feet In height, and the pendn-
lam of the clock is suspended from
her right hand. The statue cost
| $4,000.
The Chinese baby at Washington,
which is yet SO young that it has not
been through one presidential term
| of four years, has already fallen heir
| to the finest opal in the world. The
| opal belongs to the Chinese minister
1t is as large as pigeons egg and
is surrounded by beautiful white dia-
monds. The minister wears it IN his
| cap on state occasions, and the baby
wore it upon the day in baby's life
which corresponds to an American
christening.
The sexton of the Assumption
church, at Canton, MINI, and J. J..
Collins, Of Monroe county, Wis,
went before notary at Canton and
made affidavit that they ''saw bright
star, about six inches in circumfer-
| ence, ascend from the roof of the As
| sumption church on Christmas night
Unluckily NO photograph goes with
the affidavit. Papers" are invaria-
bly, required with stories of unusual
interest, and in exceptional cases,
| pictures should accompany them.
Sleepy Hollow cemetery, which-is
situated just cut of Tarrytown, N.
Y, is famous as the resting place of
Washington Irving's body and it
contains the family plots and maui
soleums of D. 0. Mills, Manton Mar
BILE, Gen. Delevan, George Lewis,
the late George Jones, and many
other noted families of New York.
The other day the pet cocker span
iel of New York lady was buried
there with all the ceremonies that
would have been accorded to the re-
mains of a human beng.