Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-02
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Alexandria, Va, Gazette, is dead.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
will hold their next session in Phila-
dclphia.
Prussia is nowat the head of civil
ization ii it consists In hundred-ton
guns. Mark her down ais boss of the
Military Ring.
A Kansas City, No.. dispatch re-
ports the arrest of Genl. j. ID. Graf
ton, late Adiutant General of Mis-
souri,, for alleged forgery in connec-
ton with war claims while Grafton
was Adjutant General.
A feud in Arkansas between two
men named Deason and Strader eul-
minated in Strader shooting ut Dea-
son through a window in Deason' Is
house, but killing instead Thomas
Horton. youth, who was In the
room.
A Vienna telegram says that every
person holding office in the Servian
Court has been dismissed, in conse-
quence of the discovery of Il great de-
falcation, In which all the officials
are more or less implicated.
The incoming Legislature of wy
oming will be asked to repeal the
disgraceful gambling and lottery Ii
cense laws Of that Territory, and al
ready the sports of Cheyenne and La
ramie are raising a corruption fund
of SIC, 900 to defeat the movement.
All persons holding documentary
stamps Of over two cents value must
present them for redemption to the
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
prior to October the first.
John Little has been murdered by
Indians near Fort Laramie, Wyom-
ing Territory, while endeavoring to
recover stolen cattle. His body was
shot through, his nose and chin shot
away, and his ears cut off.
Mr.. Delano, Secretary of the Inte-
rior, has resigned his office, and the
President has accepted his resigna-
nation. Who will be Mr.. Delano's
successor is not yet stated, but it is
said that he will come from Pennsyi-
vania.
A negro named Weston, who was
arrested for completely in the murder
of Abraham Weissburg, a Jewish
pedler, in Westminster county, New
York, has confessed that he and two
other negro men, named Ellis and
Thompson, committed the deed on
the 18th inst.
The body of the woman who com
mitted suicide near Lebanon, Pa, on
Wednesday, has been identified as
that of Miss III. a. Showalter, Of
Spring City, Chester co., Pa, and
has been taken to that place.
The Greenback party held meet
ing in New York Thursday night. -
Most of the prominent inflationists
who We're advertised to speak were
absent. The National Bank system
was denounced, and the Western de-
mocracy congratulated ON its infla-
ton course.
The news from Indianola. Texas,
| confirms the worst accounts we have
received. Over 400 persons have per-
ished. Starvation threatens the sur
vivors. The Mexicans were caught
robbing the dead bodies that floated
away from the town, the citizens or
gained party and shot five of the
Mexicans.
The Harrisburg Patriot tells of
tramp who found a pocket book and
returned it to its owner without
charging him q cent. That wasn't
one of the kind of tramps that make
our county their stamping ground or
else there was nothing i'm the pocket
book.
Senator Morton delivered speech
at Pittsburg. Pa, Thursday night,
on the financial and currency cues
tion. lie claimed that the original
issue of paper money was a necessary
war measure, and that the war being
over, the limitation act OF Congress
was now the only safeguard the peo-
pie had against unlimited paper mo-
ney, the repeal of which. he said,
would be disastrous to national in
dustries.
The Grand Lodge Of the /. @. o. 1
Il. of the United States at Indianap-
oils, Adjourned Saturday. During
the session the amendments to the
Constitution Of the Grand Encamp-
ment Of the District Of Columbia
were adopted. A protest was receiy-
ed from several Representative
against the action of the Grand
Lodge Of the United States in ruling
''that Grand Lodges and Grand En- |
campments can be opened in the |
scarlet or royal purple degree for ex-
emplilication of the unwritten work. |
In these days of domestic difficulty |
and arrangement, it is pleasant
mournfully 50, Of c0urse-to read Of |
one husband who so loved his wife |
that her death killed him. He sur
vived her hardly day. 1t was ALTA |
fayette, Ind, and William Doudcan |
is the name. The demise Of Mrs. |
Doudican threw him into a condition
of AGONY. no rpfl1ead all consolation