Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-02-16
Fine sleighing.
Business is dull.
Refrain from swearing.
Hurry up that to wn clock.

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Rev. Busy, CT Kearneysville, was
In this city on Tuesday.
Mr.. Louis e. Brown spent Sunday
last at his parents home in Charles
Town.
Messrs. Frank and Roger Wild
we're in Cumberland on Tuesday on
business.
Miss Stone, of Frederick county,
Nd, is visiting the family OF Mr.. G..
A. Miller.
Mr.. Peter A. Kelley, OF Johnston
g. Co., paper dealers of Harrisburg,
was in this city yesterday.
Miss Bessie Porterfeld has been
visiting the family of Mr.. T. PLick-
lider, on West John street.
Miss Tabb, of Hampton, who has
been visiting the Misses Faulkner, at
"Boydville." has returned home.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Bales, are
visiting Mrs. Bales parents, MI. and
Mrs. DeGrange, at Berkeley Springs.
Lee II. Gooey has arrived home
after a CO.'S d rable "spell' of illness
at Baltimore where he went for
treatment
Messrs. II. S.Cushwa & Bro. have
replaced the broken glass in Mr.. G.
A. Mantz's Tobacco Box" with a
new and heavy French plate.
Peiietta A!lmon, daughter o. Mr..
and Mrs. Perry Allmon, was buried
last Friday. The services were con-
Quoted by Rev. B. w. Kirk.
The United States Senate has
adopted the proposed measure for a
cable to the Hawaiian Islands and
has appropriated 100000 therefor.
A marriage license was issued this
week for Mr., Robt. ]. Barber to
Miss Fannie A. Thompson. The
marriage took place on Wednesday.
Officer Hartman arrested Dennis
Butts on Saturday last, for drunken
ness. He made arrangements for
the payment OF his fine and was dis
charged.
Owing to some difficulty, the re-
suit OF the snow blockade, the lee
ture of Will Carlton did not occur
on Tuesday night. There was a
much disappointed audience.
1t was reported on Monday, that
Mrs. Times, who lives CD East John
street, was frozen to death, but we
are glad to say the rumor is
false. She is away en- visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. M. Zimmerman
of Brunswick, Nd, who las been
visiting relatives in this city the
past two weeks, returned to their
home in that place, on Monday last.
Judge Daley who held special
term of court here on Friday and
Saturday, was unable to get home
on Saturday afternoon owing to the
snow blockade. He spent Sunday in
this city.
The infant child Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Chesher died at the home of its par
ents on Maple avenue, on Tuesday
morning, aged four months. It is a
heavy affiiction for the young father
and mother.
Many of the grand jurors and wit
nesses at the Jefferson Circuit Court
were unable to get to Charles Town
at sill this week on account of tie
bad roads. Nearly all cases went
over until next week.
An unknown man, who gave his
name as Ferguson when arrested,
was sentenced Is days in Jail by JUS
tice Harrison for stealing snow SHOW
els on Friday morning. Mr. BurrelI
Martin made the arsc {.
A tramp s.0le snow shovel from
the hardware store Of D II & Co.
last Thursday and when apprehend-
ed said be stole it for the purpose of
being taken to jail to get warm and
be fed. He did not succeed.
Clyde, the 9-year-old son Of John
Timmons, fell and struck his face
against a chair at his home lastWed-
nasday, and his nose bled so much
that the services of DR.. Bland were
required to save him from bleeding
to death.
The amount of heat we receive
annually from the sun is sufficient to
melt layer of ice ITO feet thick, ex
tending oyer the whole earth. The
sunbeam, however, is only 1,300,-
000th part intense as it is at the sur
face of the sun.
Justice Harrison sent q colored
boy named George to Jail for 80
days, for stealing a ham from the
cellar of Mr.. John w. Neer, on
South Water Street. Officer Kim
merllng made the arrestafter lively
chase to the suburbs of the city.
The trial ofseveral persons indicted
for illegal voting and perjury at
Kearneysville at the last election
has been set for next Wednesday.
Messrs. U. S. G. Pitzer and j. Nelson
Wisner are employed forthe defense,
and will 60 down the day before
DR.. Morgan, of Gerardstown, was
taken i'll at the st. Clair Hotel last
Thursday, and for q short time was
considered in critical condition.
DR.. 7. j. Bland was called in, and
rendered the necessary medical aid.
DIR. Morgan was able to 60 about the
next day.
We would suggest that an exami-
nation be MADE Of the fire plugs for
fear they are frozen up. In case a
fire should occur the city may suffer
dreadtully from inability to use the