Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-04-11
NEWS AND NOTES.


The students Of the university will
hold moot court on the Friday before
commencement.
Barbour County may yet develop
into great copper producing locality.
They have bored 262 feet for the metal
there already.
ITO the pure all things are pure, /"
does not apply to the virtuous boarder
when he contemplates the butter, tea,
and such things.
It costs 5000 year to keep the pris-
oners in the Denver Jail in slippers,
but the expense Of furnishing dressing
gowns has been kept secret.
Life has few charms for bald
headed man. He has just got his
shiny top though rough winter. and
fly time is only a ssaort distance ahead
of him.
That tired feeling incidental to
spring is greatly aggravated by read
+ ing spring poetry in one column of
newspaper and the weather report in
in another.
John H. Kennedy, veteran of the
Civil war, who for several months
has been fighting with the insurgents
in Cuba, has applied at the Soldiers
home, Erie, Pa, for admission.
In about day er two, said Uncle
Eben, de man OATS been putin off
things he orter do till wintah was over
is gwineter say he nebber could do no
work nohow in wahm weather"
A COW belonging to Frank Williams,
of St. Clairsville, O., gave birth Satur-
day to four good sized, we'll develop
ed calves Two of them are living
and thriving, but two were dead when
born.
If it didn't rain sometimes some of
US would never know the value of an
umbrella. The only trouble is we
can't afford the umbrella; and so we
still enjoy the luxury of growing at
the rain.
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts,,
will deliver eulogy on the late Gov
ernor Greenhalge, in Boston, on April
IS, and eulogy on the late ex-Gover-
nor Robinson, in Lexington, Mass,
on April 10.
A Walkerville Mont woman re-
Gently found 81 worth OF gold in the
craws of three chickens. She is pom
dering whether to kill the rest of the
flock or to search for the spot where
the gold was scratched up.
The Chicago police report that the
Iowa officials have been relieving the
crowded condition of their insane asyl-
ums by releasing patients in-the sub
urban districts ofChicago. so that they
can be arrested and committed there.
There is fve-year-old girl in De-
troit who plays on the piano and com.
poses pieces. She wakes up the FAM
lily before breakfast, and often arouses
them in the middle of the night
Fortunately, this form of nuisance is
comparatively rare.
The distinction between a good
preacher and bad preacher has not
changed much since Archbishop
Whately declared that "a good preach
er preached because he had something
to say, and bad preacher because he
had to say something"
Whereas" reads notice printed
in the Biddetord (Me) Journal, "my
husband, Anas. has left my bed and
board without any cause. l caution
all wimin taking up with him, as
am the third one that he has brought
to obstruction to my knolidg."
The S. of V. camp at Moundsville
will be known as 1.-The B. B. Dovener
Camp No.3" The officers are: Cap
tain, c. w. Conner; First Lieutenant,
]. l.. Davis; Second Lieutenant, c. o.
Morgan; Camp Council, D. Messick,
A. Bryson and c. Velton; Delegate to
Division Encampment at Clarksburg,
P. S. Hubbs.
The floating lodging house which
was started recently by New York is
not success. At first it threatened
to be quite popular among the hoboes,
and the IS5 beds were filled every
night and hundreds were turned away.
Little by little the number decreas-
ed, and now the number that applies
nightly is about fifty short of the
accommodations. 1t is feared the
rigid discipline and the hygienic regu-
lations were too much for the wan
derers.
The School Board of Arcola. H.,
has been served with notice that ac-
ton will be brought to recover $4,000
damages by the parents of boy who
fell from a,temporary fence used as a
back-stop by ball players on the school
grounds, and received injuries which
will make him cripple for life. The
suit is based on the grounds that the
School Directors are liable for the ac-
cident in permitting the structure to
remain on the school Fairgrounds.
The officials OF Portsmouth, o., or
dered a post-mortem examination
made OF one of the horses of the fire
department that died OF a mysterious
disease. and DR.. Lake, the city veterin-
airy, found the horse had died from an
overindulgence in chewing tobacco.
The animal consumed three or tour
large plugs day. There are several
horses in the department that eat to.
bacco, and orders have been issued