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Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13
OHIO.
THE HOOKING VALLEY STRIKE.

THE HOOKING VALLEY STRIKE.
COLUMBUS, June 11.-As sug
gested in the dispatches from t. ,ts
point some days ago, the tr" .rb,os
between the coal miners and one
rators in the Hockir y Valley arc
fast approaching q crisis. The
strike has now. been on more than
TWO NOR -cns, and no work has
peeh done by the Union miners
C.dring that time. All attempts at
reconciliation of the differences
have failed, and for some time
most of the miners have been do
ing very little work.
About a month ago a miner,
Ames, the extensive coal operator
at Chicago, who is Vice President
of the Lick Run Coal Company zen
gagged in mining in the Hooking
Valley, came to this city to see
what. could be done He was
earnestly opposed to make amy
further attempts at cancellation and
advised the introduction of colored
miners. At first the operatives did
not concur in this plan, but finally
acquiesced and empowered Ames
to undertake the gathering of a
force. Ames tn set to work and
in a very few d has gathered at
this point between four and five
hundred colored men, principally
from Memphi Richmoyd and
Louisville.
A large quantity of ammunition,
muskets and revolvers lave been
purchased and will b" taken with
the party to night to Hooking
Valley. 1t is designed to put
all the men into one mine
and distribute arms to each one Of
them to protect themselves. Some
of these men are desperadoes, us
ed to rough usage, and if moles-
ted there will be desperate work.
The proprietors declare that they
will never yield to the dictation Of
the union, and that they will keep
adding colored men to their forces
till a sufficient force is obtained to
put all the mines in the. Hooking
Valley under full Roadway
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13
GENERAL NOTES.

Ship building is one of the grow
ing ambitions of New Zealand.
A University of Modern Lam
guages is spoken of in Massachu-
sets.
The president of cremation
club in Iowa has named his last
baby "Cindarella."
Boston is said to contain only
one Friends meeting house, and
that is only opened on rare occa-
sions.
The British and Foreign Bible
Society issued 1854, 0S6 copies of
Bibles and Testataments last year.
"She roped her way to glory" is
the way a Western journal an
nounces the fate of a little girl
who jumped rope 233 times.
Mrs. Bread, of Sullivan county,
Illinois, threw her husand into
mill pond because he was too
crusty.
The Hartford Times wants some
philanthropist to bequeath mil
lion to Mullett, for another boom
derrick.
Where is that "vigorous war"
that the infationists threatened
only month ago? Ask Of the
winds.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13
PASSING TOPICS.

London Critics are ranking Mile
Albani, the young American ar
tiste, with Patti and Nilsson.
New Orleans defies the Federal
Government to take the shirt off
her back. 1t was stolen long ago.
Ohio papers state that Mr.. Rush
r. Sloan has gone back to Bel
GUM. He ought to visit Rush r..
A new census of Providence
shows a population of 800, 506, and
all crowded into Rhode Island,
too.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13

The extreme temperance doctrines
enunciated by the orthodox Qua
kers at their meeting in New York
city the other day, if carried into
execution, would SAVIOR of the very
species of persecution against
which they so loudly protested
when the members of their sect
were the victims Of intolerance
They would prohibit the manufac-
ture, importation and sale of IL
quors altogether, the penalty
against violation of this law to be
Imprisonment in the penitentiary
for not fewer than ten years. In
tolerance could go no further ; be-
sides which, the Quakers ought to
know from their own experience
that persecution, nor fanatacism,
has never yet accomplished any
lasting good results. The surest
remedy is stringent license sys-
tenn, with the right of aggrieved
parties to recover damages for
the sale of liquor to confirmed in
ebriates and minors.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13
LOUISIANA.
SHIPMENTS VIA eALyEsrcN.

New ORLEANS, June IA Gal
weston invoice Of -four has just
been received here direct from
Kansas City. A shipment Of thir
ty thousand bushels of corn is ex-
pected from Kansas City via Gal
weston, for Liverpool.
SWIFT AND WIFE MURDERED BY MEX
IcANs.
A special to the News from
Rockport says that it has been as
certained that the murderers of
Swift and wife were Mexicans.
They were trailed to a Mexican
rancho on Blanco Greek, twelve or
fifteen miles from Galiad. The
party in pursuit charged the
house this morning, hoping to
take them by storm, but. one Of
them, Lon Holland, was killed in
the attempt The boys then with
drew to a safe distance to await
reinforcements. A large party
left Refagio Quinedy for the scene
conflict. Mrs. Swift was stabbed
in nineteen places. Her throat
was cut to the neck bone and shot
in the face. Mr.. Swift was equal
ly butchered, except that he was
not shot.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13

The Charleston Courier says the
Public Printer has not received a
line of copy of the index to the
Acts passed by our last Legislature.
Well, what's the loss if the Acts
are never printed? Won't we have
another Legislature next fall, and
won't the Acts of the last Legisla-
-ture, or many of them, at least, be
repealed? And besides, where ig-
norance is bliss it's folly to be wise
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13
A GREAT COUNTRY.

The st. Louis Globe is forced to
admit this is very free country.
Last week the Quakcrs gave out
from their Convention in New
York a platform of strict prohibi-
ton, making it a penitentiary Of
fence to manufacture, use or sell
intoxicating liquors; and while
the broad brimmed brethren were
doing this, the brewers in national
Convention assembled, were issu--
ing a pronuneiamento equivalent
to the establishment ola new party
with beer for its corner. stone, if
we may be allowed the Hiberni-
cism. We pity the man who sets
himself to the task of deciding be-
tween these two extremes; but it
is a healthy sign Of public senti-
ment in this country that extreme
views on all subjects can be freely
entertained and expressed, and
that, by way Of diversion, we can
fete q Rochefort, under the delusion
that he is great martyr, and listen
to a Bradlaugh without denounc-
ing him as a great humbug.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13
INDEPENDENT.
Published Daily and Weekly by the
INDEPENDENT PRINTING co.
RIondeI's uiidng Corner Queen MnrtInst:
Republicans and m Il G ID en-
dents.

Last weeks State Journal con-
tanned nearly three columns of an
address from the Republican State
Executive Committee to the peo-
pie. Though prepared by politi-
clans, it is pretty fair statement
of the condition of affairs, though
there are a few things in the state
ment that, in these later days Of
calmer thought and more deliber-
ate action, might as well have
been left unsaid. 1t is useless for
politicians to try to stir up the Bit
ter things of the past. The people
have outgrown Fourth of July
orations, and John Brown aboli-
tionism and 1861 riots. They are
things of the past, Kept quiet by
courtesy, incurred in common and
memorized by one general decora-
ton day. Humanity baptized in
brothers. blood has renewed its
faith in Republican institutions.
Some are longer in learning these
facts than others, and we fear that
the churches will follow instead of
leading the politicians back to one
common shrine. But to the adj
dress. After the statement there
is no call for organization, without
which any party is doomed to de-
feat. The Republican voters are
simply called upon to vote for
good and true men in other words
they are left to act independent
and unshackled by party consider
alton. Grand position for freemen
your generals disband you and
tell you to seek your own safety.
We tell you to inform the generals
that you have won their living
long enough, that you have sent
men to the Legislature and to Con-
gress for partisan purposes often
enough, and that now it behooves
you to organize for the people, and
fight organized rascality, misrule
and politicionocracy to the death.
If there is Republican party in
the State able to fight the fearful
ruin that has hepn and is beinp
wrought in the State by the recent
legislatures, let it stand up to the
work. If it is not strong
enough to meet the common
foe let the independent people of
all parties organize to conquer,a land
as Tweed and his conferes went
down in New York, so wrong and
old fogyism go down in West Vir-
ginia,
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13

Railway trains travel at the rate
of nine miles an hour in Egypt
Horse cars would be an improve
ment.
Who says the Car can't talk
English? After reviewing an En-
glish battalion he remarked,
splendid! Magnificent!'
The finding of a hair pin in an
Indiana husband'sp0cke procured
his wife a divorce She probably
wanted eight or ten gross.
The Boston correspondents of
the Hartford C0urInt says politics
is getting away from Butler 1t is
the wisest thing politics could pos :
sibly do,
A young lady mas purchased q
yacht in Portland, and contem-
plates a voyage accompanied only
by female friends, No huoys will
be taken Oh boa
Mrs. MarroV!1t wants to know
in how many places that Tom Col
Inns is buried, as she hears so much
now about Collins Graves.
A San Francisco jury has been
called upon to decide the value of
a young lady's scrap book. Fan
ME Marston got 1929 from the chap
damaged hers.
Mr.. w G. Howels, lately APP
pointed Consul at Quebec, is said
TO be the oldest editor in Ohio. He
is also the father of Mr.. w. G..
Howells, and that is something to
Howell over.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13

The woman-suffrage amendment
to the Michigan Constitution is to
be voted upon in September, and
Mrs. Cady Staunton is stumping
the State in its favor. The general
request of those favorable to the
change is that Mrs. Staunton go
home before she has done more
damage by her injudicious har-
angues.-Er.
We fear that Mrs Cady" is like
the old woman in this place, who
runs the "other paper" that is, has
more CAB and impudence than
brains. Cady kills every PROPOSE
ton she advocates, andso does the
old granny here. AS their "cack-
ling" seems to do them mighty
sight of good, we see no reason why
they should not be permitted to go
on ad nauSedna.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13

The PEACE OF EURoPE.-The Lon
don News remarks:
No one can doubt that the situation
itself is full of uncertainty. The two
determining elements in it are the tenn
permanent of the French people and the
character of Prince Bismarck-the for
mer excitable and impulsive, and the
other swift and eager, and disposed to
anticipate by prompt blow even that
quick movement OF events to which
Lord Derby the other night ominc ,usly
referred. The German Empi. is now
welded by and unprecedented in one
man far more coLclusively than the
French Empire in the days of Napole-
Ill Prince Bismarck's ascendancy
over his masters is complete; and one by
one his rivals, Won Usedorn, Manteuffel,
and now at last Arnim, have been swept
aside. II he is convinced, that France
has simply adjourned the renewal of the
struggle until she feels her forces equal
to it, he certainly will not wait for the
recovery of her strength. He will strike
his adversary as she is rising from the
ground. This, we presume, was the
meaning of Count Moltke's celebrated
speech, and if the drift Of Prince Bis
marck's statecraft. The real path of safety
lies in the pursuit by France of a policy
of peace and not simply of adjourned
war
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13

A man named William Fruit is
running for Office in Mercer county,
Pa. This is said to be good year
for fruit.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13

The Changers will have candi-
date for the Presidency. He is
already foreshadowed in Nesmith,
professional politician, and a
man caring no more for the real
interests of the farmer than Ben
Butler.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13

The Cincinnati Commercial says
ifthere is a Presidential possibility
in the Democratic party, it goes by
the name of Senator Thurman.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13

RAILROAD ENTERPRISE. THE
year 1878, although extremely un-
healthy in its later months for cer-
tain classes Of railroad enterprises,
did not interfere with the healthy
growth 0fthe others. Poor's Man
ual of Railroads in operation at the
close of last year was 20, 65i, an in
crease Of 1901 in the number of
miles operated. There were built
during the year 1916 miles. The
gross earningsof the roads amount
ed to $685., 100000, being $65, 900, 900
more than in 1872. This increase
has arisen, not from an increase in
the tariffs, but from the transaction
of greater volume of business in
all sections of the country.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13
The Maryland Eye and Ear Ensti-
tute

tuLe.
This Institution, located at No.
66 North Charles street, is one of
the very best to be found in this
country. It is under the charge of
DR.. George Reuling, who short
time ago performed very difficult
and delicate operation upon the
eye of w. w Corcoran, Esq, of
Washington, of which the Gazette
of last Saturday says:
Some ten days since DR. George
Reuling, the distinguished surgeon
in charge of the Maryland Eye
and Ear Infirmary in this city pc =
formed difficult and delicate an
Grafton for cataract upon the we Of
w. w. Corcoran, Esq, t. 40 well
known capitalist and pr ,,,anthroI
pist Of Washington. " p Corcmro y
had been previously ,nerated mon
IN Paris Tor cataf act in his other
eye, ana mad Dc zen confined to his
f r upWar As of three months
l nnod r .,,e tseration, but has recov-
1 s,oor o i"p IDLY, though over seventy
yo eai' of age, from his recent ope-
= !" Ion, and is now able to take his
Tally walks. The oft tried skill Of
the surgeon, who has thus restored
him has, in this instance. as when
Joseph Jefferson's eyesight was
saved by him, relieved the anxiety
of a large circle of friends and All
mirers.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13

The Governor of Iowa will pro-
coed to Washington, and ask relief
from the grasshoppor raid. Con-
gress ought to resolve itself into a
Committee of the Whole to go out
and catch lem.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13

Walker, of the Charleston Co,w-
Ter, is of the opinion that the Graf
ton Capital removing Convention
didn't amount to much, and yet
it worries him to the extent of a
column leader, in fierce denuncia-
ton of the proceedings every day
since they reached him. lie will
have a merry time writing it
down.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13

Now we know why United
States Ferry. of Michigan, wants
Mackinaw Island converted into
National Park. He was born there
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13

Mr.. r. w. Cooper, Of Rains
boro', Ohio, sends the following
to the Dover DelaWarian
81 was at q house in Pike c0un
ty, Ohio few days ago, and there
met and conversed with probably
one of the Oldest ladies in the coun
try. Her masden name was Sa-
rah Reed, and she was born and
raised in,Kent county, Delaware.
She was born October 10, 1862,
and is therefore nearly 112 years
old. She married a man by the
name OF Abraham Jerman, in
New Castle, and raised family
Of children. Her husband died,
and she removed to Ohio, where
she married again and raised an
other family of children, when
her second husband died. She is
now a widow, and despite her eX
IRENE age is well and hearty, and
can get about the house quite brisk
ly."
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13

1t costs the country a )out thirty
six dollars per day during the
heated term to supply the House of
Representatives with iced tea and
lemonade. And the horny headed
granger, as he sips down the reju-
venating beverage, doesn't object.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13

Kansas held an Independent
Convention on the 10th Reform
or Independent Convention assem-
bled in indianapolis on the 10th,
and an Independent Convention
met in Illinois on the same day.
Three Independent Conventions in
three different States on the same
day is enough to cause rattling
among the dry bones in the parti :
IAN camps. eve are coming, Fa-
ther Abraham, 100000 strong"
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13

Chicago chimney sweeps adver-
tise 10 do their work to 'soot."
"The Henry Ward Beecher of
Austral ia" has arrived S an
Francisco.
Patti never sings for less than
$500.
Rochefort never made light of
of"La Lanterne"
Dumas new play is "Jerulalem
Taken by Titus"
Miss McGill shot Miss Maguires
in Texas the other day.
Bismarck could sit up to have
his bed made. at la3t accounts.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13

Shoddy "heroism." Oh cry, the
Mill River gate keeper, has hired
himself out to a Snowman to be
toted around the country as Gu
riosity.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13

BY a new law in Massachusetts,
reservoir companies are held
responsible for any damage
resulting from carelessness in the
construction Of the reservoir.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13

The civil rights bill is regarded
as dead, for this session at least.
Benny did it with his little Ratchet.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13

GRANGE TROUBLES Throughout
the West very damaging stories
are now in circulation among the
Changers. In many places the
honesty of their leaders is serious
ly called in question, and in
several instances there has been
actual thefts Of large sums of
money. These things have led to
more careful consideration of the
structure of the Society. The
subordinate Oranges pay large
sums of money into the treasury
Of the supreme body, and neither
get any return for their money
or any knowledge Gifts disposition.
Besides, the few men at the head
have great opportunities for the
exercise of not only arbitrary but
very profitable power. The bulk of
the crops raised by the
membership are sold only when
orders are received from head
quarters, the belief obtaining that
in this way the producer can keep
control of the market but the
leaders in several States are
accused of using this extraordinary
power for their own advantage, by
buying when low and unloading
when highly resorting to every
means whereby profit can be
realized from the crodulity of
followers. We read charges
and limitations like these in
western and other journals, and
if half of what is charged be true
the Grange organization will have
to be speedily remodeled if it is
to be saved from general
observation-disclosures County
American.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13

The members OF the Maryland
Editorial Association, instead of
taking a railroad excursion this
year, propose to camp out on the
beach in Worcester county, that
State, and trough it," for week
or ten days hunting, fishing, &c.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-13

Andy Johnson, the man of We
toes and swayer Of circles Of politi-
cal preferment, is more than ever
DESTROYS Of a seat in the United
States Senate, and is leaving no
oratorial stone unturned to secure
the darling object of his ambition.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-04-24
Butter Factories.

Just now factory butter, like factory
cheese, commands an extra price. In
butter factories, as in cheese factories,
a S periOr class of help is employed,
and we think the expenses to the patrons
are ightened and the profits increased.
We find 1t so among our cheese facto-
ries, and no farmers wife who has once
been rid of cheese making would be
willing to return to the old method. 1t
would be Just the same with farmers
wives, If the farmers in the butter dis
trlcts were to once adopt the factory
system of butter making, it is such a
relief to the family. And as the sales
are made Oftener, there is the advantage
of always having ready money.
The same method of dividing ex-
penses and proceeds of the sale may be
employed in butter factories that is en-
ployed in cheese factories or a compa-
ny might be formed to buy the milk ;
or cream only might be taken to the
factory. As TO the butter-milk or skim
med-milk, that might be fed to hogs
or calves. If the factory is conducted
on the pro rata system, a good way
would be to purchase hogs or calves
with the money of the patrons, taking
those of the patrons at a fixed rate per
pound, put them together and employ a
man to take care of them. If any ad-
ditional feed is needed, let it be pur-
chased with the common fund by an ex-
ec1tive committee. In the fall, when
the calves or hogs are disposed of, let
the profits be divided pro rata.
1t seems to US that this plan would
give satisfaction, and we know it would
make freer, happier homes to be re-
heved from the care and drudgery of
the dairy. This is to us a vital consid-
GRAFTON, and induces us to favor any
kind Of profitable association that viii
lift the burden from the backs of wo-
men, Utica Herald.