Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-09-18
TIE NEWS.

| 1enerdI SPINNER mas accepted the
| republican nomination for Comptrol-
Ter of New York.
Sir Edward Thornton's daughters
| make their debut in Washington So
ciety this season.
The New Jersey cranberry crop is
| estimated at 10000 bushels is COM
pared with 10000 in 1874 and lie, 900
| in 1873.
The prospects for full crop in
Ohio are very tiattering. Corn and
| wheat look splendid. Oats are not
| up to average.
The Cincinnati Commercial inti-
mates that the republican leaders
are too cowardly to make a square
fight on the financial ISSUE
The propeller Equinox went down
III storm on Lake Michigan before
day Friday morning. Twenty-Five
lives Were lost.
The New Orleans Republican wit
tily says: Charles Francis Adams
is likely to be nominated more and
elected less than any other man.
The cattle disease is assuming
alarming proportions in England.
In one county 5000 cases have been
reported. Cattle, sheep and pigs are
affected.
The renewal of political troubles
in Mississippi, on the eve of cotton
| picking, will, it is feared, greatly in
terfere with the successful harvest
ing Of that product throughout the
State.
The Farmers and Mechanics Con-
ference which met at st. Louis, had
n very inllarmonious session, the
Eastern delegates finally Withdraw
ing. Only thirty-eight delegates out
of two hundred who had signed The
call were present.
Writs have been issued out of the
court of common pleas OF Philadel-
phia by DIR. Helmbold against the
Pennsylvania Hospital for the in
sane, Drs. 5. Littell and j. Gordon
Maxwell, Alderman John Urian and
others, who were concerned in the
arrest and Incarceration OF Dir. Helm
bold in Kirkbride Asylum.
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Cardinal Manning says the gift of
prophecy Is net needed to perceive
that Europe is on the eve Of a blood
Ter war than has ever been chronicled
in the past, The arming Of seven
million men, with power unequaled
in human annals, he thinks, can have
but one result.
Governor Tilden has been nomi-
mated for the Presidency by several
papers. If honest Samuel is wise, he
will discourage all such proceedings.
brought prominently before the pub
lie as an aspirant for the office. No
more effectual method of damaging
candidate could be devised than
such premature proceedings.
The Richmond Wing argues that
one of the main features of the dem
ocratic policy in the next Congress
must be the maintenance Of States
rights, although "not the old doc
trine that each State is q sovereign
within herself, and that all uncon-
stitutional laws enacted by the Fed
eral Government may be rightly re-
sisted by any commonwealth that
may dare to disregard them"
The Democratic State Convention
of Pennsylvania, after stormy ses-
sion, nominated Cyrus IL. Pershing,
of Schuylkill county, for governor,
and declared for rag money, adopting
the Ohio platform almost rerbotim.
A long and protracted struggle was
had in the committee on resolution
over the financial plank of the plat
form, and the rag money men finally
triumphed by a vote Of u to 22.
The trial Of the Georgia insurrec-
tionists came to an end Thursday by
the acquittal of Jake Hicks, who had
been put on trial at the special term
that of Judge Johnson's court at
Wrightsville. Judge Johnson charg-
ed the jury that the evidence adj
duced was not sufficient to convict,
and after half an hours absence they
returned a verdict Of not guilty, after
which all the other prisoners were
discharged and the court adjourned,
The Chairman Of the Commission
to treat with the Indians for the
purchase Of the Black Hills country
informs the Interior Department
that about one hundred lodges of the
wild tribes have been brought into
the Red Cloud Agency. Red Dog,
who is supposed to favor the sale,
and who is said to have more influ-
ence with his people than Red Cloud,
had talk with the Commission ON
the 18th. The Indians had been
promised horses and equipments, and
the Department has telegraphed au-
thority for complying with the prom
Use.
The general council Of all the In
dian nations and tribes, held at
Okmulgee Indian Territory, before
adjourning pasSed resolution man.