Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-01-13
SNAP SHOTS.


If the weather continues during the
coming winter TO be as pleasant as the
first week of JANUARY, the outlook for
a crop of ice will be discouraging in
deed.
| An ice plant located in our city
would be very acceptable as we'll as
profitable to all persons concerned.
Some person or persons not having
the fear of the law in their minds ard
entirely ignoring one of the Ten Com
mandfnents, but who must have been
in possession of fowl stomach enter
ed the premises Of Mr.. William Schadd
one night last week and for time
took possession Of his poultry house
removing from Is or 50 chickens. If
Mr.. Schadd could have applied a good
dose of buckshot to these intruders,
it would have been a lesson to them
not easily forgotten and warning to
others who contemplate in engaging
in the same kind of business
We regret to see L. S. Barton, one
of the good citizens of Strinesville on
the crippled list, it appears he was OH
top of d box car at Brunswick trying
to apply brake wheel, when, from
some cause he lost his balance and
would have received, perhaps, fatal
fall; knowing this he sprang from the
top Of tie car to the ground an
crushed or dislocated his ankle. His
sufferings are intense. We hope how
ever that his recovery will be rapid
and that he will soon be at his post
Of duty again.
On last Sabbath a very painful acct
dent occurred to a little son of Mr..
Walter Hipsley residing on Liberty
street. He was playing on the porch
of neighbor when one of the boards
of the floor broke, his foot going
through the broken place, caused him
to fall breaking his leg just below the
knee. During last summer this little
boy, in company with some ofhis play
mates, was carelessly handling some
dynamite when an explosion occur
red wherein he lost two fingers truly
bad luck is lurking in the path of this
little fellow all the way.
Did you hear the big coarse whistle
at the Middlesex Hosiery Mill, near
the B. & 0. r. R2 We were sure it
had been attacked by that monster,
grip, and was only trying to relieve
its throttle; but there is history CON
nected with it. 1t was the device and /
complete, of one of our
and well-known townsmen,
Mr.. F. w. Weaving, the prince of
OF West Virginia, whose
ability for making almost anything
out of iron or brass no one who knows
him questions. In length it is "a
inches, in the bell 81 inches in diam
ator, and from end to end is As inches
long. 1t was manufactured on lathe /
only shade larger than itself, and .
is model of mechanism. It's tones are
SO loud and coarse that it can be dis
distinctly heard many miles. In
with a young gentleman
rom Williamsport, recently he in
Tormed me he could hear the big whis-
lie as plainly at his home as he could .
near the whisperings of his best girl
IN calm evening.
There appears to be no truth in the +,
-umor that after the first of January,
he work train running between this
,ity and Brunswick would be abandon
ID and numerous other changes would
AXE place. Everything is moving
,long in the even tenor of its way and
hose who have work are happy,
.hough they are few in number, while
hose out of work are looking for the
lover promised by the four years
more of Grover; but have found roth
ng but species known as poverty
grass. This month will contain less
working days in the railroad shops
here than either of those we have
passed through. DETECTIVE.