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Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-20

The Changers show figures of
progress in Pennsylvania. AT the
meeting Of the State Grange last
week there were over five hum
dred patrons in attendance, and it
waS prophesied that by next jan
n"ry t'i"fe would be in the State
Il y onS;rd Oranges with a MEM
'r'r~;;i' IT $4,000. One county al
ready has forty Oranges, with a
membership Of nearly 1000, and
the same county had only one
Grange, with less than one hun
lred members, on the first of Jan
ury.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-20

LAMAR's LAST SPEECH. The
Tribune special, speaking of Mis-
sissippi Lamar's late speech in the
House. says: CHS speech was
much in the same tone as that on
Mr.. Sumner. III was full of love
for the South, and of his party, but
its tone was so conciliatOry, so
manly, so statesmanlike, that its
effects must be good upon the
country. = No speech dur
ing the present session has been
listened to with more respect and
attention than this and coming as
It does from one whose family have
laid the costly sacrifice of fifteen
lives upon the fallen cause, itsgen-
erous and manly sentiments ought
to serve as a model. He was warm
Iy congratulated by both Demo
Gratis and Republicans.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-20
INDEPENDENT
Published Daily and Weekly by the
MDEpEMDENT PRINTING co.
esonders 8 uiiding Corner Queen mnrtlnst:
THE BOARD OF TRADE.

Our citizens have been favored
by the publication Of the Constitu-
ton and Bylaws ofthis organiza-
ton. The INDEPENDENT has had
nothing to say in reference TO it
heretofore, because nothing coul6
be known of its character and OBJ
jects without q careful perusai of
the Constitution and Bylaws.
ON account of the numerous ru-
mors derogatory of the intentions
Of the organization, we read very
carefully its aims and objects, and
must say that we fad nothing
therein, not warranted blythe every
day actions of prudent men. We
are glad to say that it is not the in
tention of the merchants to wrong
any person, but on the contrary
their whole effort seems to be di-
recteG, toward protecting the hon
est, well-meaning purchaser, who
intends to pay for his goods, from
the rapacity and dishonesty Of
"dead-heads."
They do not say they will refuse
credit to worthy men, but they do
say they will give reasonable credit
to those who pay promptly. That
is their position. How are mer-
chants surrounded :? A grocer gets
goods on thirty days, and must
pay promptly the dry goods, hard
ware and other merchants pur-
chase goods ON sixty days, and from
three to five per cent. advance on
the price ofgoods for q longer cred
it. Ofcourse, to sell low they must
buy low, and consequently must
keep inside the customary limit.
These goods are brought to town
and dealt out by the pound and
yard on cash or thirty day basis.
Customers fail to pay, but the
wholesale dealers drafts must be
met, and so the merchant must
either go into the bank for money
at ten per cent. interest or submit
to larger shaves on the streets. In
terest accumulateS, goods must be
replenished, and credited out, and
the consequence in few years, is
bankruptcy. Isn't such system
Of business radically wrong, and
should it not be remedied? Oh,
says one, / get my money by the
month, and / had a little too much
to pay that month to settle my
bill. Others make other objections,
little thinking that the merchant
is losing rest of nights and think
ing the soles off of his shoes trying
to make collections. Then again,
while We are talking about credit
business, isn't it a two-sided ques-
ton? Would it not be just as
proper for merchants to ask custo
mers 10 pay for their good
on the first instead of the
last day of the month. Much more
might be said on this subject, but
we think no honest man objects to
the merchants forming an organi-
zation to protect their own credit
by endeavoring to get pay for
what they sell.
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SHOOTING AND sTABBING.
NE w HAMPSHIRE, =.
THE NEW CABLE.

PORTSMOUTH, n. A. June IS
The steamer Ambassador has just
arrived with thirty miles of the
shore end of the new cable. The
Faraday is expected this morning.
The work of laying the cable viii
take place at once.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-20

Adnlph Roger, aged y years, of
No. 8 Frankfort street, lately en-
plOyed as Porter by Pickhard &
Anderson, hide brokers at No. 70
Gold street, committed suicide this
morning by hanging himself from
one of the beams i'm the basement
of rs Gold street. Ii appears that
he was in love with a young lady
whorefused to marry him, and that
this had greatly affected his mind.
N. Y. Post, 1914.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-20
MAINE.

SPEAKER BLAINE RENuMINATED.
AUGUSTA, June 19.-Ilon. Jas.
G.. Blaine was to-day renoninateb
by the republicans OF the Third
Congressional district in their con-
vention here.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-20

the Rhode Island Prohibitory
law forbids the sale of liquor ex
cept for mechanical, medical and
sacramento purposes. The Mayor
of Newport says that the commu
nifty is much divided regarding the
policy Of sucl, a statute, and he is
pleased that its enforcement has
been cOnfided to officers for whom
lie is not renOnsihle.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-20

Dom Piatt has termed his batter
les on Governor Aemper, of Vir-
ginia. IT viii add TO the Govern
or's popularity among the better
class ofcitizens.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-20

The Conference Committee OF
the two houses of Congress has
agreed upon new currency bill
in shape subs tantially as hereto
fore reported. 1t provides for
free banking, the abolition of re-
serves on circulation except five
per cent, the retirement Of green
backs at tie rate of thirty-sev en-
and one-haif per cent. for new ma"
t;onal ank notes issued and re-
denption in gold, or five per cent.
in bonds, on January | 1878. The
report recommending the pas
sage of the bill is signed by
Messrs. Morton, Sherman and
Mcrrimon, members of the coufor
ence on the part Of the Senate, and
by Messrs. Maynard and Far
well on the part Of the House. 1t
is not signed by Mr.. CIymer,
the remaining member of the Con
ference Committee. The fact OF
Senator Sherman indorsing the
report is presumptive evidence
The President will approve the
bill.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-20

HAILWA EARNINGS. - The
panic has not affected the railway
interests very disastrousiy The
earnings OF fourteen of the priuci-
pal railways Of the West fer the
month of May, 1874, were 50, 270,-
40l, against $685., $40 in May, 1873,
showing Il ret decrease Of SIG, 406
The earnings from January 1st to
May 3lst were s.$2l,521, Jas
against 3,8.9,099 ia same time
last year, showing a net increase
$l16,G92
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-20

There are strong indications that
the elections this fall for Congress
mcs will turn on the financial is
sue, and on that rock the old par
ties are likely to go to pieces.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-20

The Compromise Currency bill
reported by the Conference Com
mittee of the Senate and House
passed the former body on Fri
day, but was defeated in the
House on Saturday by vote oil
146 to 109. The bill was killed by
the clubs of both parties, financial
and political.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-20

\ cargo Of prairie hay has been
sent from Chicago to Liverpool,
where an effort is to be made TO
use it for paper stock, instead OF
The Spanish grass, the available
supply Of which is diminished BY
the civil war in that country.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-20

Monday next is the day fixed for
the adjournment of Congress 1t
is now limited that an adjournment
viii not take place on that day
We trust nothing will prevent
them from carrying out the resolu-
ton.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-20

A Charleston correspondent OF
the Wheeling hateHigencer, allud
ing to the Senatorial question,
says:
"The idea of talking of Gov.
Price. C. J. Faulkner, G.. ID. Cam
den and A. t. Caperton for the Sen
ate is absurd; neither of them will
more than control their own cOun
ty delegates The fight is between
Walker and J. n. Camden"
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a writer says. "There are Ger
tain men who can never buckle TO
their days work save under com
pulsion. Good servants, when
firmly held and inexorably guided,
they are lost as freedmen govern
ing themselves Give them two
days for the essay which cost
them four hours TO write, and ii
Will be done on the evening of the
third; stand over them with
your editorial buckle and throng,
and you will get it in three hours
and three quarters. Tell them
blandly, "There'S no hurry for
the picture, the copy, the deed,
the agreement, and You may wait
until your hair is gray and ali the
SAVIOR has gone out of the thing
you wanted press them for an i'm
portant matter as if your life de
pended upon it, and time had that
kind Of quality which gains more
vitality he more it is shortened,
and you wifi nave your work done
10 az moment, and of first rate
force. Ii is al! through want of
ability to buckle TO at their own
accord all he odd dependence on
a leading hand for the fit wear
ing ofthr yoke and the cousc-
qucnce of carrying thr load 20 it
destined end But what pity
that want Of ability is. and hoW
many lives are wrecked by i"''
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-20

Tie Chicago Times roundly ac-
cuses Collins Graves ofseven miles
Of poetry.
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NEW YORK.
CRIME IN NEW YORK

NEw YoRK, June 18.-Early this
morning a crowd Of roughs at.
tempted to rescue a prisoner from
Officer Galligan, when the latter
shot Andrew White, one of the
crowd, in the back, fatally wound
ing him.
During a drunken fight this
morning Thomas Goss stabbed
Charles Shendon three times in
the neck causing serious, if not
fatal, wounds. He was ARE sted
SHOOTING AND sTABBING.
During an alteration last night
Daniel McDermott was stabbed
eight times by Mathew ONeil
The wounds are fatal. O'Neil was
arrested.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-06-20

Philadelphia wants ice in her
rinking 70 uniains.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-12-31

yet more singular that the article on
the same subject proved to be written
by the editor in person. But Mamma
Mullen had for her consolation the
adage that great minds think alike.
By the same post arrived Skiggs' bill
for twenty-five dollars, Quiggs' bill for
eighteen dollars, Haggs' bill for twenty
dollars total, sixth-three dollars. And
the Mullen ssreceipts had been thirty
five dollars Mamma Mullen finds a
difficulty in summing up. Something
is the matter with her eyes. And the
winter clothing, and the Christmas
rose The " dodge" had accumulated
two dollars in spite of the claw" The
little woman had brought SIX cents out
of trade. The young inventor and the
little woman proposed to invest the two
dollars and six cents, after supper, by
means of committee of two, which
mamma was not invited to join-fo1
reasons common to Christmas.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-12-31
CHAPTER VIII.
RETURNS, BILLS, AND BALANCES.

RETURNS, BILLS, AND BALANCES.
A letter at last, about the Working
Idyl." AN excelle Mt idea," the letter
said; but was there not touch of
nitro glycerine in it, that, admitted,
might blow up society, or some sub
scrlber's idea of society, which would
be quite the same thing, as far as news
papers are concerned" and so with
| thanks, it was returned.
Mamma Mullen tore her hair, or
rather whatever, in the mental econo-
my, corresponds to hair (the real article
is too expensive), In private, mind YOU!
and then came down smiling, and got q
letter about the "Carol." A letter. A
blow in the face.
"There was something theological in
the Carroll the letter said, and truly.
Mamma Mullen was devout woman.
and it had slipped her pen, without in
tending it. "There was always dan
GER" said the letter, "in handling the
theological porcupine, even with
gloves; and the paper declined to take
the risk. And so-with thanks" etc.
"Christmas comes but once year. !"
and to make all these slips and STUN
bles then! A Protestant pilgrimage.
barefoot, to the Stock Exchange, or
some other temple of Mammon, and a
solemn vow never again :" to call spade
spade, would have relieved Mamma
Mullein's overweight feelings as she
subtracted forty dollars from her cal
culations. Then the tide turned. in q
letter sweeter than any love-note, in
closing check, for the "Preach about
Babies" twenty dollars. Another let
ter, and another check, for the
Review" fifteen dollar.
Fifth Week. = Appropriate articles
for the Chignon not returned-they had
been specially ordered, but gone into
bankruptcy. The paper had fallen into
financial collapse. Broken reeds that
pierced her side. Mamma Mullen had
scarcely the heart left to subtract forty
five dollars more from their calculations.
1t was over now. She kept bright
face for the younger Mulleins but,
though there might be still some scanty
shreds and patches of Christmas, there
could be no Christmas-rose for them.
SSrth Week-The day before Christ
mas. Returned, the prose version of
"The Cow Jumped Over the Moon,"
with thanks .sThe editor would have
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-12-31

ter, make toast over their wretched
little fire, and turn the whole into a
revel, which they talk OF with glee.
There is cantankerous good-nature, an
abominable cheerfulness alb ut them.
They will not accept the situation, and
consider themselves disinherited. They
have every new painting and engraving
by heart. They visit the art sales. They
know just where they would place the
inlaid cabinets and rugs Of Shiraz, and
the prints of Hogarth. They will not
see that they have no finger in such
pies. They are continually trying to
put by money for artistic treasures,
when the ends of their income will not
meet. Such stupidity! AS said an
attar-of-roses woman, Of similar null
leins, They live in a world of their
own" They will not see themselves as
others see them Talking of art, and
stamped indelibly with Poverty, her
mark Condemned for life to fat beer,
and dreaming of Amontillado, in Vene-
tian glass They could not be made to
see why it was so impossible to grow at
least one little rose from their stalk,
just one
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-12-31
CHAPTER Y.
THE CHRISTMAS-ROSE.

To begin: It had happened month
or two before that they found them
selves in possession of surplus two
dollar note. That is, of a two-dollar
note which need not be paid over at
once to landlord or shoemaker. This
note was deposited by reclamation in
the "Sixpenny savings" as beginning
toward growing the Christmas-rose.
Henceforth the family leaned much on
it, and it often came up in conversation
as {" that two dollars, you know"
Then the three Mulleins had each a
little plan for growing a Christmas rose.
Master Mullen invented what he
called the "dodge," as this There are
certain transactions in business, so much
matter of course, that you are startled
to reflect on the number of persons who
earn living in these very departments.
Who thinks how notes, bills and mes
sages, get about? Yet they certainly
don't run on casters, as young
Mullen, with his wallet chained about
his waist, might have assured you. If
you have an eye for rosy boys, I dare
say you have seen him and if you have
observed him, arms up, hands cIinched,
running on sort of dog-trot, so as al
ways to keep pace with the car or stage
in which you were riding, why then you
have seen the "dodge." There are
lines on which a boy of determination
may keep neck-and-neck with the
horses. On such lines Mullen pocketed
the fare and ran the route. There are
lines that defy the best-breathed run
ners." On these, as a boy of honor.
Mullen rode. He reported himself to
the house among the earliest of the
runners, and, nevertheless averaged
thirty cents day by the "dodge.'
There are six days in the week.
x30=$1.8O It lacks six weeks OF
Christmas tide: 6x 180=$1O8O.
But
The world is under the reign of laws,
and the Mullen household was under a
law of necessity, that, do what they
would, was sure to levy tax of, say
thirty cents on every fifty cents am assed
by the dodge" for matches, soap,
paper, car-fare-something of the sort.
After the eleventh or eighth" collision
between the "law" and the "dodge, !"
it certainly occurred to Mamma Mullen
that things looked discouraging and
she sighed. But the young inventor
went sturdily on, with pluck and an
undiminished faith in the virtues of the
dodge" quite delightful to see.
The little woman such a very little
woman She was preparing to go into
trade-in orange-peel and old news
papers-when she could find a buyer.
People do buy such things somewhere,
you know.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-12-31
A Needed Railroad Reform.

The news that the great American
dead head has driven to despair all the
managers of all the railroads, and COM
PEELED them to recognize him as bellig-
erent, is rendered less al rming by the
further information that one great line
has struck blow at the sleeping-car
monopoly and reduced it's rates from
50 for each berth to $3.50. Sleeping
and palace cars are always running and
earning money, their life is longer than
that of other rolling stock, and they are
always filed to their utmost capacity,
so that there is no earthly reason why
their occupants should be charged at
the rate Of 81 night, plus fifty cents
or ST. to the orter. Great as is their
convenience for the business traveller
who desires fully to economic his time,
their expense is by no means light on
his pocket, and if so desirable reform
as reduction can be brought about and
made general, the travelling public, East
and West, will be deeply indebted to
the Illinois Central Company. -Nea0
York World.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-12-31
CHAPTER VII.

''THAT TWO DOLLARS HOPE LONG DEFERRED.
The little woman went into trade.
She sold the old newspapers for six
cents. The orange-peel speculation
resulted in failure. Nobody would buy.
Meantime, "that two dollars, you
know" was drawn from the bank per-
force, to pay the washerwoman-a poor
old woman who needed the money, on
which Mamma Mullen felt sinking of
the heart, and was obliged to do that
sum about the "Idyls," etc., twice
over, before she could quite recover her
usual cheerfulness.
Also the "dodge, though in splendid
working order, was so continually trip
ped up, and circumvented by the
''law, that it's young inventor might
almost as well have spared the car
horses the shame of their defeat.
"The Christmas-rose will be very
small growth, " they told each other.
Decentralization weeks Such
weeks The hours in them had feet of
lead, and were lame besides. Darkest
of all, came to be that hour known as
the postman's. No such heart shaking
hour in the year, as, if you are mul,
lein person, or like those who joined
David in the cave of Adullam, and you
are at the crest of the wave, and letter
will tide you over, or dash you down in
it's CULTS, you very we'll know. The
"Hour" quite overshadowed the Null
lein family. When it began, everybody
grew nervous while it endured, every
body started at each tinkle of the bell,
and watched slyly out of window. When
it ended-oh! the miserable blank
worse even than the torture of SUSPENSE
and when the member from outside
who had been absent meanwhile, re.
turned-there WAS another trial. The
vague expectation, the quick glance at
the table and into the faces of the
stayers- home, the pathetic attempt
at Indifference on the part of every.
body and the determination of every.
body to show no anxiety, and to see
none!-ah! let it pass! It is easier to
write than to witness.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-12-31
CHAPTER II.
MULLEINs AND ROSES.

What has this conversation (which
actually occurred) to do with the story ?
Wait little.
This is a story Of aggravation, and
not Christmas story, for, in fact, they
had no Christmas at all, and it was i'm
possible that they should have had, and
they ought to have known better. It is
written to be read after Christmas, when
the bills come IN, and the indigestions,
and the doctors, and you and your
wife have come to an understanding
about the current expenses, and the
Christmas brightness and the Christmas
snow have given way to a raw, dipthe-
ritic fog, and no end of slush. Read it
then!
And now, they ought to have known
better, as 1 said before, for they were
mullen people, and there is nothing in
MULLEN that can produce rose. AS
regards manners, morals, and ideas,
they might be American velvet-plants
they were. But, as regards sterility
of resources, and the figure they cut in
the world, and the estimation in which
they were held, they were mullen
people; growing on very black hill
side, too.
And always haunted by the desire and
intention to grow roses! The ordinary
mullen accepts the situation. But
these human Mulleins!-they would
behave like roses. They were always
.outwitting Step-mother Fate. However
+ she snubbed, and twitched, and set
them in corners, they were ready for
her. Take away the carpets, and they
stained the floor walnut brown. Deny
them bureaus, and they transformed
.1aolyin0-hnx a dollar looking glass,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-12-31

to come had it not been for a sudden
and mysterious development of good
fortune.
One dark, stormy night two men
came up the river in their little black
sloop, which had been engaged in many
narauding expedition, and landed at
Bay Ridge, In the rear of the unoccu-
pied residence of Judge Van Brunt,
with the intention of robbing it. Not
knowing that the house was provided
with, burglar alarm connected with
the adjoining residence of the Judges
brother, the two burglars entered. The
alarm did it's work. The family was
aroused, and the Judge, his son, and
the hostler armed themselves, went
over to the house, and at last, tired of
waiting for the burglars to come out,
opened the doors and provoked an en-
counter which resulted in the death of
the two villains. They were Mosher
and Douglas. Mosher was killed in
stantly, and Douglas lived long enough
to confess he assisted in the abduction
of Charlie Ross, but died without dis
closing the whereabouts of the boy.
The identity of the two burglars has
been established beyond doubt, Charlie
Ross brother, uncle, and others having
identified them as the abductors, and
their relatives having identified them
as Mosher and Douglas.
Death has visited a sharp and quick
revenge upon the two rufians, but
where is Charlie Ross Mosher's wife,
who might have told something, has
disappeared. Douglas wife or mis-
tress, through terror of the detectives
power, has agreed to tell all she knows
at the inquest, but this may not amount
to anything definite. A more joyful
den ouement than the restoration of the
little fellow to his home again could
not be imagined but this may not be
possible. The clouds still hang dark
over the afflicted home, but the crime
has been fearfully avenged. The same
good fortune which made the two
scoundrels targets for the unerring
practice of the Van Brunts may yet
bring back the little fellow, and fill the
chair which has been vacant SO long in
the Germantown home. Chicago
| Tribune