Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-08

were wounded, two OF whom were IN
irons and one chained to the pump,
and another sailor was dying. The
vessel was being worked by the Cap
tain and three hands. The Borden
is an American schooner, Patterson,
master and sailed from New Orleans
for London on the 18th of March. She
was in the port of Baltimore but a
few months ago.
News from all over Arkansas is to
the effect that the prospect for fine
wheat crop was never better.
The laborers on the streets in the
city of Washington, ID. c., are on
strike for an increase of wages.
Santa Fe, New Mexico is more
than three hundred years old, has an
celebrating climate, and is the par
adise of gamblers.
Hon. ID. ID. Pratt, ex- United States
Senator of Indiana, has accepted the
position Of commissioner of internal
revenue rendered him by President
Grant.
Monday night Edward Connolly
and his son Edward were suffocated
by gas escaping from a leak under
the floor in their bedroom, in Buffa-
10, N. Y.
On account Of the backwardness of
the season, the recent frosts have
done but little damage, and the pros
pect for wheat, oats and fruit is be-
lieved to be the finest ever known in
Nebraska.
While the riotous spirit of the stri-
king miners in LuZerne county, Pa,
seems to have subsidized it has broken
out afresh in Clearfield county
There was a riot at Osceola on Mon
day in which two officers were killed.
A correspondent at Annapolis writes
that under the recent decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is
indebted to the State about 100000.
Five men supposed to be coincidence
operators, have been arrested in
Pittsburg, Pa. They are believed to
be the parties who attempted to rob
the Peoples Savings Bank in that
city on Monday
Maryland's favorite militia organ
ization-the 9 Baltimore Fifth y
propose to visit Boston and partici-
pate in the ceremonies attending the
celebration of the centennial anniver-
sary of the battle of Bunker Hill.
Judge Brooks, of the United States
MET Tn,,,.+ IF NJ owl II Corn1ina off
ting at Wilmington Tuesday, charg-
ed the Grand Jury that the Civil
Rights bill, as far as its enforcement
is provided for by criminal process, is
unconstitutional.
Reports from Indiana represent
that the recent cold snap has done
no harm to grain, though in the SOU
thern part Of the State the fruit is
considered gone, and in the northern
part partial fruit crop is expected.
But little harm has been done to any,
thing in the northwest.
Dispatches from Kansas, Missou-
ii, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Min
nesota, report that grain crops have
not been injured by the, recent frosts
but wheat in some quarters has been
damaged by the late and severe win
ter. Fruits. vines, and vegetables,
have suffered from the frost.
The Supreme Court of the United
States decided on Monday in favor
of the State of Maryland against the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Compa-
ny in the Capitation Tax case, by
which decision the Railroad Compa-
ny will be required to pay over about
half a million of dollars to the State.
The annual meeting ofthe Trustees
of the General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church in the United States
was held Tuesday afternoon in Phila-
delphia. The Board has charge of
forty-four trust funds, which it adj
ministers for benevolent purposes
agreeably to the wishes of Donors
Hon. George Sharswood was re. elect
ed President.
Details of Saturdays storm in
Georgia show il to have been destruc-
tive Of life and property, but it is not
to be compared TO the cyclone which
swept the State in the latter part of
March, Five lives were lost and
many persons wounded. The storm
raveled through the State fro m west
to east, following nearly in the direc-
ton of the cyclone in March.