Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-11-20
THE NEWS.

President Grant and Gov. Hartranft.
The National Grange Patrons of
Husbandry met in convention We'd
nesday at the Gait House, Louisville.
''The drift of politics to-day" says
the Chicago Tribune, Hseems to be in
favor of smashing the Tammanies. :"
The Grand Jury of Columbus,
Miss, has failed to find a bill against
Lieutenant Governor Davis, against
whom charges of bribery were made.
BY vote of eleven to two the Chi
cago Board of Education refused to
order the immediate re-int1oduction
of the Bible in the schools.
A fight occurred recently in Sono-
ra between the insurgents and the
Mexican troops in which the latter
were defeated.
Pools ON the Speakership of the
next House of Representatives will
be sold in Washington next week.
Tickets for the French pools are fix
ed at SO each.
The Board of Missions of the Epis-
copal Church, in session at Louis
vile, were engaged Tuesday in dis
cussing plans for bringing the negro
lace within the pale of the Church.
Ex-Governor Letcher, Fitzhugh
Lee, A. III. III. Stuart, and Represen-
tative Goode, are among the candi-
dates for United States Senat0rship,
in Virginia.
The Mexican Senate and House Of
Representatives have chosen their
President and Vice President. A
compulsory educational bill has been
introduced in Congress.
Owing to the dizziness of the iron
trade, Messrs. Blockow, Vaughn 81
Co., of Leeds, England, have been
compelled to discharge between two
thousand and three thousand opera
tives.
kidnapping it seems, is about to
become popular crime in Philadel-
phia. An attempt was made the other
evening in that city to AIRY off
little girl, which was happily trust
rated by passing citizen.
Secretary Chandler denies the le.
port that he had determined to ac-
cept the formal resignation of Indian
Commissioner Smith, and that he
had selected George Jerome, of De-
trOit, as successor.
Senator Morton telegraphs to AS
siStant Postmaster General Tyuer
UnaU all reports that he has attempted
to interfere against Mr.. Jewell, or in
behalf of getting anybody else into
the Cabinet, are utterly false.
1t is noteworthy fact that Moody
and Sankey not only owe most of
their fame to the secular press, but
have received from it much more en-
couragement than the professedly
religious press has ever accorded
them.
If the Eastern Democrats unite to
support Keer for the Speakers p
the Cincinnati Enquirer Inf. Dem
ocrat) thinks it win show the weak
ness of the East in the politics OF the
country, and that the West and
South should oppose him.
The latest gossip on the questioa
of Speakership puts down ex-Gov.
Walker asa compromise candidate
between the Kerr and Randall fac
lions. 1t is doubtful, however, if
the proposition has existence out
side of imaginative Washington cor
respondents.
The New York Herald dominates
its old antagonist Comptroller Green
for the Mayoralty, saying, "He is
obstinate, ungracious, stiff -neckeed
But he is an honest man has held the
thieves at bay and has saved the city
hundreds of thousands by his policy
or lighting every unjust claim.
The Washington Capital is print
ing some severe articles about Mr..
Samuel J. Randall. 1t alleges that
he has pledged himself, if elected
Speaker, SO to organize the commit
tees of the House of Representatives
as to prevent any expression of faith
or opinion upon any subject now be-
fore the public.
The st. Petersburg Official Gazette
says that Europe never was in mole
favorable condition for the settle |
ment of any difficult question, and
that the peace of Europe is firmly es-
tablished in the mutual confidence
and good unde standing of the Pow
ers. and no danger of its disturbance
exists.
The millers of Minnesota and Wis
consin, it is reported, propose having |
meeting soon with President Gar
rett, of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, with a view to arranging
for the excl lsive transportation of
their flour to the East during the
winter. The millers mink they can
offer the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road sufficient iaducement to keep
out of the trunk line combinat,o /.
This woul1 reopen the railroad war |
in earnest.
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