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INDEPENDENT
. WISNER & LOGAN,
EDITORS ANI) PROPRIETORS
Norlh Queen Sf., rear y pp'ste Posi-Office
SATURDAY, NOV. 4, 1882.
HOME INTERESTS.
Header, are you at work, on
deavoring to do something by
which you and your home may be
benefitted ! If so, you are doing
a duty that in the end will bring
you a satisfied conscience If,
however, you are laying plans for
high or low official position, and
can bo satisfied with empty honors
of office, you are not a citizen do
serving of honor. Vote for no
man who has not sufficient public
Spirit either to organize, aid or j
Work for enterprises that will en- j
large tlio industrial and conse
quently money making, business
expanding improvements at your
own home. It sounds well to bo
called Honorable, or General, or
Major, but when you can wrap a
man up in his commission, and
pay as a member of Congress or a
public scavenger, and he lives and
moves only for that, he don't
amount to much more than an or
dinary blood-sucking leech.
You sell dry goods—you want
tho people to patronize you. You
sell groceries, notions, drugs, to
bacco—you want customers to
• i
purchase. You make boots and
shoes, or clothes, or sell and mend
watches, or nail shoes on a horse’s
hoof, you want patronage—the
more people there are employed,
tho more money there is in circu
lation. Why don’t you get down
to work, and make things move so
as to get this increase? One-half
the labor and earnestness expend
ed by a bevy of candidates iu a
political campaign, if placed iu
inaugurating industrial improve
ments ami developing home re
sources, would make muscle, head
and heart happier, and sweet pros
perity would gladden every man’s
home, willing to share in the labor
that alone can bring such reward
When your wheel gets in tho
mud. you must take your coat. off,
put your shoulder thereto, and
make it go. Just so with large
enterprises. It takes hard work
to establish any business—it takes
just as hard, no harder, to estab
lish large industrial improvements
Combine your forces—let tho iner
chant, the mechanic, the laborer,
and the professional man, aye,
even tho politician and tho organs,
unite their strength of head and
hands and move iu this matter of
home interests with a fair share of
the energy and push that they
display iu routine efforts, and Mar
tinsburg, with the advantages sur
rounding her, will bo made the
(jueen city of tho Cumberland aud
Shenandoah Valleys.
Great battles are won by men
going to the front and staying
there. A city’s progress and stand
ing in the business relations of the
world is a daily testimonial of the
strength and character of the men
who make it their homes. Can
wo not exhibit a better manhood
in this respect in the futur . than
we can possibly claim for ourselves
to-day .'
It is seldom thut the press is
ealled upon to chronicle a sadder
tragedy than that in New York
Tuesday, when a woman, educa
ted, refined and with happy sur
roundings, killed her three chil
dren and then committed suicide.
Insanity doubtless prompted the
crime, but its depth must have
been something terrible to thus
annihilate the wondrous affection
associated with motherhood.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
Hon. E. Boyd Faulkner handed to
us the New Em, a paper published
at Hopkinsville, Ky., containing an
account of a fire that occurred there
on the, evening of the 25th of Octo
ber, and destroyed seven squares in
the heart of the city. Forty-live
business houses, fifteen lawyer’s,
physician’s and dentist’s offices, three
livery stables, postoffice, one bank,
church, opera bouse, hotel, and two
printing establishments were entire
ly destroyed. About one hundred
buildings were swept away, and
probably $350,000 worth of valuable f
property consumed. The insurance j
upon the property will amount to j
I upwards of §100,000. It was a second j
I Chicago fire, and equally as destruc
tive. Home of the insurance was
adjusted and paid the next day, and
contracts were being made to build
up the, burnt district with handsome
and more substantial buildings than
those, destroyed.
We cannot imagine that such de
struction of property could occur
here, where we have admirable water
arrangements, and are not depen
dent upon lire engines and cisterns
as was no doubt the case in Hop
kinsville.
The building, printing presses,&.C.,
of the editor of the Niie J.ra lias
been swept away, yet the paper was
out in twenty four hours, and to
show the energy, pluck and determi
nation of the editor and the good
people who have suffered with him,
we make two extracts from his lead
ing editorial:
“Before the last brick had fallen
last night, we rented another office,
and are to-day getting ready to move
another printing outfit into it.”
And again—
“In conclusion, Hopkinsville has
been terribly injured, and deserves
the sympathy of the neighbors; but
she intends to ‘rise and come again’
in renewed splendor and power, and
does not intend to be long about it,
either.”
The political fight in Massachu
setts is a bitter, close and interesting
one. There is no doubt General
Butler has greater elements of
strength this )car than ever before
and that ho stands more than a
chance of election. The only hope
for the Republican is a drumming
out of the stay at-homes ; tho calling
up of all their reserves in the rural
districts. Butler will go out of Ibis
ton with a majority of from 8,000 to
10,000. IIis forces are well organ
ized, large contributions have been
made to his committee, and he has
the advantage of a vigorous cam
paign as compared with a marvel
lous apathy among tli ' Republicans.
Bfere is ylvauia Pride
for Vos I •
Lancaster Intelligencer.
We are truly delighted with the
disappointment <i the Philadel
phia shop-Urn ; eiw >ver their in
visible profits from the Bi C-*n
lennial ceUbiu.ion. There has
been no rhyme or reason in the
whole performance, and it has not
1) cn of any more benefit to the
visitors Ilian to G, shop-keepers,
for who-e bent fit it was got up.
There has b eo not ing worthy to
see or hear i'hu C mtennial cele
bration was grand and beneficial.
It w .... Bl-<lenten
ie i >!.•>• first wir r.
i in* Ohio Met a cum.
The total vote in Ohio this year
was 0.12,180; tbtal vote last year,
021.225; increase, 7,931.
The Republican vote this year was
297,759; vote 1 st- year, 312,735; de
crease. 11,970.
The Democratic vote last year was
288,420; this vc ir, 316,874 ; inert*.i.
28,448.
The Prohibitionist vote this y ar
was 12,202; last year, 19,597; de
crease, 4,395.
The Greenback vole tins year was
5,545; last year,0,33u ; decreas *, l»>5.
_—_
The Increase of Revenue.
Pinnni i 'l C!) >riioJe.
During th ' ■ ;,i<■ ion! h* of (his ;
calendar y- u - ,n - Untie • at |
New York ul i ivo ■ ii .
nearly 1,250,000 m hly i
of t!i'1 s Mu* '*1 ' of 18'!. aril |
nearly ¥•*» 000, (.'00 •> ii . ex- j
ee-s 'u |S7‘l i’ne y • fi ; tl |
income i>l (i iv on ii. ui ,
ill s nin e', .. -i e<i i.. 1... (i-e . 1
v tf Wo 111 ->.-Iii(> Uii ), can oe ii
li ;»*•••• I o oi ,01 .ys,250,01)11 ,
W o< 111- ly $ 1*50 000,00) : ye • r
A Supposition Rnlhcr Thau
Tael.
From the Wilmington News,
lieu. Buffer i' iiu to have uiio
ey un tf;!' Me -■,!c •Ureify Ciovi •
ii',''.. ■ p a;.d i. •) er on ike Pr
id 1 . . fhi; e i) • iy stlpp. i- itio.
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vv her,- h ppear-i >.> I> .
NOTES AND COMMENT.
Rufus Hatch says Folger will lie
beaten by 50,000 votes.
Rothschild—one of him—has 1,
200 blooded horses on his 42,000
! acre horse farm in Normandy.
James I). Pace, since the death of
i James Thomas, Jr., is regarded as
| the wealthiest man in Virginia. lie
| made his money in the tobacco busi
I ness at Richmond, where he resides.
The colored people in Austin,
Texas, have raised money to send
out several speakers in behalf of that
city as the site for the colored branch
of the State University.
The Park Theatre, New York,
where Mrs. Langtry was to have
made her American debut, was de
stroyed by fire Monday afternoon,
with all its stage scenery and with
many wardrobes.
Ex-Governor Oglesby, of Illinois,
thinks that the Republicans of that
State will poll 50,000 votes more than
they would have done if Ohio had
not gone Democratic.
Ex-Secretary Blaine has written a
letter regretting that he cannot take
an active part in the Republican
c mvass of New Hampshire and ex
presses himself cordially in favor of
Hale, the party nominee for gover
nor.
It is rumored in Atlanta, Ga.,
that Senator Brown will soon resign
his seat. His distressing cough has,
it is said, returned with the approach
of gold weather, and he does not
dare spend another winter in Wash
ington.
The State of \Y isconsiu paid dur
ing the fiscal year ended September
20, as bounties on wild animals,
wolves, foxes, wild cats, etc., $12,
581. Various counties during the
same period, paid as local bounties
on the same animals $10,041.
Richard K. Fox has deposited
with Harry Hill, of New York, ST
OOD, and offered to back Tom Allen,
ex-champion pugilist of America, to
fight any pugilist, John L. Sullivan
preferred, for the championship of
the world and SI,000 to $2,600 a side.
Thirty Armenians of both sexes,
wearing their native costumes—bag
gy trousers and tunics—arrived in
New York on Monday. They were
very plctureeqe, likewise very dirty
—so unclean, in fact, that they will
not bo permitted to leave Castle
Garden until they have been under a
three inch hose.
A poisonous snake of the white
oak species recently bit a colored
girl in North Carolina, and the bite
is said to have been cured by apply
ing a piece of the flesh of the snake
to tin* wound. The flesh absorbed
the poison from the wound, and she
was soon able to walk about, though
before the application she was up*
parcelIv dying.
During the month of October
there were coined at tin* Govern
ment mint 233,550 gold piece valued
at $3.17-! D00; 3,010,00(1 silver pieces,
Valued a: $2,371,000, and 4,190,000
minor coins valued at $79,100, mak
ing .. grind total of 7,433,500 pi ees,
valued at $5,051,100,
Somehow or other, when a poor
man enters Congress, and at the end
of a few years comes out a million
aire on a salary of $5,000 a year,
mean, suspicious persons jump to
the conclusion that he is a thief.
But then, perhaps, he may have
drawn the capital prize iu a lottery.
Feople shouldn’t b so uncharitable.
The discovery of a tin lode is re
ported in Colorado' It is situated on
tlie American basin on tin* lake fork
of the Gunnison,in Hinsdale county.
The ore is of two kinds—English or
silver tin, carrying also fifty ounces
of silver and five ounc.-s of gold to
the ton. The vein is twelve feet
wide, and shows on the surface for
fifteen hundred feet.
The attorney general <d' New York
has given an opinion to the effect I
that if a man fraudulently votes oil
another's name, who is a duly regis
tered voter, when the latter appears
and presents his ballot the judges of
election are bound to receive it, not
withstanding that a ballot lias al
ready been deposited in his name,
provided the judges are fully sati.-eDd
of his identity.
"Here is an excuse from Pallet !' ir
absence yesterday,” Said a school
boy at Paris, Ivy., handing a pi? e if
paper to Prof. Yerks, ‘‘at d here i■.
something from me* and lie shot
the teacher.
Crops.
! WEST VIRGINIA’S STANDING AS AN
A G KIC'U LT V R A L ST ATE.
A Special dispatch to the Wheel
j ing Register says : The October re
l port of the Department of Agricul
i ture contains the following intelli
gence respecting the crops of West
Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania :
Whcrit.-West Virginia—Average
yield per acre, 12.2 bushels; average
quality, 100 representing high medi
um grade, 01. Ohio—Average yield,
10.7 ; quality, 90. Pennsylvania—
Average yield, 15 5 bushels; quality,
93. The total yield will slighty ex*
eeed 500,000,000 bushels,with an av r
age per acre of 13 5.
Rye.—West Virginia —Average
yield, 12.7 bushels; quality, 90 Ohio
—Average yield, 15.8 bushels; quali
ty, 89. Pennsylvania — Average
yield, 15.8 bushels, quality. 101. The
yield of rye for the entire country is
14.7 bushels, making a crop of 20,
000,000. The average quality is 97.
Oats.—West Virginia — Average
yield, 18.5 bushels; quality, 83. Ohio
—Average yield, 28 bushels; quality,
86. Pennsylvania—Average yield,
27.8 bushels; quality, 89. The aver
age yield of oats will be higher than
for two previous years, and the total
product will approximate 400,000,000
bushels.
Barley.—Average yield, 23 bush
els; average quality, 103, the highest
of any .State or Territory. Ohio
Average yield, 29.9 bushels; quality,
93. Pennsylvania—Average yield,
23.5 bushels; quality, 98. The aver
age for the whole country is 23.5
bushels, making an aggregate of 45,
000,000 bushels, of which California.,
New York and Wisconsin produce
more than one-half.
Corn.—The yield per acre cannot
yet be ascertained, but the condition
of the crop is as follows : We.it Vir
ginia, 89; Ohio, 87; Pennsylvania,90.
The condition for the whole count ry
averages 81, being very high in the
South and comparatively low in the
States of largest production. In Il
linois with 8 per cent, decrease of
area, condition is only 72; it is 70 in
Iowa and 87 in Ohio. These States
produced 40 per cent, of the crop of
1870. West Virginia’s crop made
little or no improvement during ike
past month, several counties suffer
ing from too much rain. September
and October’s considerate weather
did all that could be done tor-com
in Ohio, and “out of danger” is the
report from all parts of the state.
Cutting is in progress, and frost did
not injure even the latest lields. The
total production will be about 1,080,
000,000 bushels, of which New Eng
land grew 8,000,000,the middle States
82,000,000, the Southern States 319,
000,000, and those north of Tennes
see and West of Pennsylvania arid
West Virginia 1,250,000,009 U i • Is.
The 1,800,000,000 product predicted
by the corn buyers is a myth, \:hich
has been so persistently assumed
that tlie public may be misled. The
increase in tire South, where ten to
fifteen bushels may be considered a
laige yield, cannot make good the
reduction in Illinois alone. It is
gratifying to know that the product
is more than four hundred millions
greater than last year,and ample lor
illiberal supply for domestic wan! >
and exportation; a imply news • x
needed, with two exceptions 1879
and 1S80, notwithstanding .* he el
and more unpropitious planting -ea i
sou than has oceui ied m many > * urs.
Potatoes.—The average condition
of the potato crop is 81, indicating a
yield of about Bo bushels per acre on
an area approaching 2,090,000 ‘acres.
In West Virginia the condition is
100,19 points above tin- average o!
the country. In New York the
av« rage is 70, foreshadowing a short
crop in a State of large production.
In Maine, S5; Vermont, 84; and less
in oth'-r part-■ m New England. In
Michigan the prospect is very IDt
tering, and throughout the Ohio
Valiev, Missouri, and K msas, an t
in the Southern Slates the condition
is unusually high. In the Northwest
it is somewhat reduced.
.. _
i Close Call for Gould.
A It icheater spool tl of October
00. says: “Jay (J tuld ami bis
pafty stopped her • Ibis morning,
on their return from the West.
Mr. Gouid, on aligto i n; from his
peeia! ear at the new depot, step
ped on a side traek in front of a
moving loeomo'ive, and would
have been run over but for the
outcries of those standing near.’’
An enthusiastic New Yorker who
saw the head of 15ai tlioldi’s statue
of Liberty when in l’aris, describes
it as magnificent, and expresses a
willingness to give tm dollars to
wards tlie pedestal, without which
it cannot be set up 1 i New York
harbor, lie deplores the disgrace
and meanness involved m allowing
so grand a gift to be lost.
The Uritish Medial Journal says
that an enterprising Loudon under
taker has issued a circular to medi
cal men, asking for introductions to
funerals, and ottering commissions.
The Journal very pmperly i-mirks
that tilts is an msu t to these t>>
whom it is aiidn-so-d, and will cei
t ainly I end i at '.m to injure I liaii
t)< the p o t in iju- sttoo.
A complete oigwiuz i. mu 1,1
National < > Hard ordeied in ine
Chilian Republic, ohiiging a- : i
zena to enlist.
XEIUHBORIfODB NEWS.
The Cumberland Times advan d j
the opinion that one hundred Jdi' j
tional boats are needed on PJ cana*- I
The Chambersbur" Repository
says that a large r-^stra »>aa been
organized in c't}ri which will !
eclipse any “ ^ie vadey*
Dr. .1 Sim“ons, Mayor of
Charle'c0Wn> has taken the contract
for -lie erection of four fishways at
,uferent points in the Potomac riv
er.
The protracted meeting in the M.
E. Church South, at Charlestown,
continues with unabated interest.
About thirty persons have professed
conversion up to this time.
Mr. John llockenberry, of Mar
tinsburg, was married at Shenan
doah Ironworks Thursday of last
week to Miss Susan Kiser, formerly
of Martinsburg.
The subscription to the “Crowell
Manufacturing Company,” of
Greencastle, exceeds §110,000. The
first installment of this subscription
is payable on 1st of November.
There are many cases of diphthe
ria in Harrisburg. It i3 known as
black diphtheria and is very fatal.
There are also a number of cases of
this disease in Hagerstown.
Mr. Samuel Miller, of Washington
County, Md., whilst cutting wood a
short time ago, split his foot with
the axe. Mortification ensued and
resulted in his death last Thursday.
The Geiser Manufacturing Com
pany, of Waynesboro, Pa., have
shipped this season more than 400
Peerless engines, 27S separators and
a large number of horse powers and
saw mills.
Miss Agnes Fox, aged 7 years,
grand-daughter of Mr. J. W. Kid
well of Shepherdstown, accidently
fell from a boat on the C. &. O. Ca
nal, at Berlin, while on the way to
Georgetown, with its mother, on
Monday of last week.
Our clever young friend and late
employe Mr. B. F. Pitzer, of Mar
tinsburg, lias laid us under obliga
tions for a trio of thoroughbred Ply
mouth Ro<;k Chickens. They are
real beauties, and we appreciate the
present very highly. For our young
fiieud who sends them we have the
highest regard, and will say that the
girl who draws him for a prize will
not get a blank in the lottery of life
—but a good, steady, sensible young
man, worthy of her best affections.
Spirit of Jeffers- a.
As announced last week,the Shep
herd.-s town Rregister 1ms been pur
chased by Messrs. .1. William and
Ilarry L. Snyder, brothers, who will
hereafter edit and publish the paper.
Mr. Zittle, in his valedictory says:
••In taking leave of our readers, af
ter so many years of pleasant com
munication with them, it is truly a
soi rowful task. For nearly 30 years
we have weekly lurnished the Reg
ister to our patrons. In 18o3 we
came to this town, and in October
of that year issued the fust number
of this paper, and there are now on
our subscription list the names of
persons who read the first number
of the paper, and are still subscrib
ers, and have stood by us through
evil report and good report, and are
still warm friends, tried and true.”
The Winchester Time says while
excavating for a building on the
farm occupied by the late Daniel
Wright, near White Hall, the other
day, Mr. Sam. Wright unearthed a
skeleton. It was found about three
feet below the surface and was in
perfect condition. It was evidently
very old, and there was no traces of
a cofllu about it. The 1 arm is one
of the oldest in the county and no
one is able to account for the unex
pected “find.” But there is a tra
dition among the older people in
that community to the effect that
during the Revolution a Tory who
had made himself specially disag
able to his neighbors, who adhen d
to the American cause, disappeared
.suddenly, and was never heard of
again. It; is believed by many in
t he neighborhood that the skeleton
just f mud is that of lire obnoxious
Tory.
Tin i!I,y O'Neill, who escaped
ir<sm Hart’s I sland, New York, near
l\ a month ago, is to ho tried lor
I'm iking jnisou. He lashed together
iih twine, two colllns from the dead
; ous. and lloated off with them.
His nov l craft was wrecked on Ex
ecution ltock, but he was taken off
in a passing vessel and landed iu
New York.
Fighting a Mob.
COWARDLY CONDUCT OF A BODY
OF KENTUCKY MILITIA.
Cincinnati, November 1.—A.
Lexington, Ky., special says:
“Troops guarding Neal and Craft
while on (heir way fo the steamer
Granite State were attacked by a
mob. The soldiers fired, and sev
eral were killed and wounded ot
the attacking party. The priso
ners and troops got safely on
board, when the mob seized a
train and headed off the boat at
Ashland, Ky., where another at
tack was made. The troops re
turned the fire, and again a num
ber of the mob were killed and
wounded. So far as known only
three of the so'diers wer wound
ed, and they but slightly. Private
dispatches received here place the
number of killed at five and
wounded at thirty. The steamer
Granite State has passed Ports
mouth, and unless the fog pre
vents will reach Maysville to
night, where the prisoners will be
transferred to the railroad, to be
taken to Lexington.”
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
A special dispatch to the Com
mercial. from Ashland, Ky., re
ceived iale this evening, says:
“This noon twenty-five men and
hoys, who were partly intoxicat
ed, seized an engine and car and
went on to Catlettsburg against
the advice of sober men, who last
night gave up all of getting the
prisoners from the military.
When they reached Catlettsburg
they made no effort to capture the
prisoners, who were safely placed
on board the steamer Granite
State at 3 o’clock i\ M. The crowd
then hastened hack to Ashland,
awd about twenty of them went
to a ferry-boat, and, by the use of
pistols, compelled the captain to
put out to intercept the Granite
State Their attitude was so ridi
cuiou? and their cases so hopeless
that the affair would have been a
farce but for the reckless discharge
of a revolver in the hands of one
the boys on the ferry-boat. It
was answered at once by a volley
from the soldiers. The balls pierc
ed the boiler of the ferry-boat, and
the escaping steam completely
disabled the mob. By this time
a great crowd had gathered on the
banks of the river and in the
houses. The soldiers turned their
guus outturn and fired without
provocation. He-e the mischief
was done.
Only tin r were wounded on
tiie ferry-boat, wniieail the others
on the causally list were of the
peaceable people on the shore.
The following is a list of the kill
ed : George K en r, J not - Mc
Donald, Coion 1 It ppert, and an
infant m its mould 's arms. Tnose
seriously wouuded are John Baug,
Charles Balinger, Willie Serey,
Will Springer, Mrs. Serey, Gra
iam Randall and Robert Pritch
ard. x tie following are slighty
wounded: Martin Dunlap, Alex
ander Harris, John Ga Huber, Ju
lius Sommers, Thomas B er, Mrs.
B. Butler, A. H. Dickson, Taos.
Deuurura, N. E Bail, Dr. Hills,
Marlin Gear, Robert Lowlher
and J. W. House. Colonel Rep
pert i.aia highly respected citi
zen, 70 years o il. Mrs. Butler was
t quarter of a mile away, attend
ing a nut ting held to organize a
public r< ading-room The ci.iz ns
. > gard the firing on t he ferry-boat
;s justifiable, bui have no words
to x xpress tiieir indignation at the
firing on peaceable citizen-.”
One account to the Gazette says
thtxt tin* f rryboai signalled ttie
Granite State to hind when she
ivme alongside the ferry. Then a
>1 was fii on t he rry. Af
u i mitt ti t* snldii rs ( n tt e Gran
in State find on I,, on •• volley it; to
ti *• ft r y : ■. o t nri.i d ar.d fired on
l - ;u i»j>I-- on siiere, ml kept it
up u hi i in rang-. l i e soldiers
r e of in ntory D no* yet heard.
I : sditnni to ill. .*• .* t lore r•<mod,
J •«• i* i5 - w • killetl. I'he l» xl»y
t i i J v.. s Jr-. Mart Dunlap’s
chi d
•k?3«ro rorkand Lcks Hell.'*
Senator Voorhees thought he had
asked a poser in a recent speech in
j Indiana when ho inquired: “\Iy
farmer friends, what is to become of
your great corn crop in this county
if prohibition is adopted?” There
was a brief pause, and then an old
Democratic farmer spoke up, saying:
“I)o 1 understand, Mr. Voorhees,
that you really want an answer to
i that question ?” “Yes, my friend ,”
aid me Senator, straightening him
self to his full height, “I am seeking
for information.” •‘Well, 1 hen,”
leplied the farmer, ‘ I will tell you
wnat we will do with our corn crop.
We will raise more pork and less
hell.” The Senator had asked the
question at several meetings before .
but he lias omitted it since, not car
ing to listen again to the laughter
that greeted his discomfiture.
The antipathy between the white
and black races at the South is de
scribed by the Wesleyan Christian
Advocate of Macon, Ga., as “one of
instinct and not of prejudice;” and
>' • editor is against the mixing of
the colors in churches and schools.
Fur Good Flour, Feed and Grain, go , > a. , . uuiusbuiv. Flouring *Iilis.