Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-12-04

clined. 1t is not known to whom
the Office will be next offered.
Frank Williams and Charles Smith
Monday pleaded guilty Of repeatir 80
at the late election in Chicago. and
were sentenced to pay a fine # one
thousand dollars each and 20 he inn.
prisoned for one year.
The guillotine Of Zaek. Chandler
continues at work, and scores of
heads in the Int. dor Department are
being officially loppoed off. The new
Secretary wants to begin operations
IN his de ,eartment anew, and very
wisely concludes that he must have
new material to do it.
Paris dispatches state that ''hard
timesn have struck the fashionable
| world i'm that gay city. Worth, the
man niilliner, is reported lowering
on the brink of bankruptcy, chiefly
through his losses by failure of fash
ionable Americans.
A great throng Monday visited
the State House in Boston to view
the remains of Vice President Will
son. A memorial discourse was de-
livered in the hall in which he began
his public life. The body was then
sent to Natick for burial.
Fernando Wood has retired from
the contest for Speakership, and the
race now seems to lie between Mr..
Kerr, of Indiana, and Mr.. Randall,
of Pennsylvania. Mr.. Cox is cam
didate, but it is said that he will trans
fer his strength to Mr.. Kerr, who will
return the favor by making him
Chairman of the Committee on Ways
and Means.
Resolutions are before the Nation
al Grange at Louisville, KY, declar-
ing that the farmers are unjustly
burdened, and recommending Gran
gers to keep out of party politics and
give their votes to the promotion of
the agricultural interests.
The new constitution of Missouri
just adopted by an overwhelming
popular majority contains provisions
giving the people supremacy over the
| railroad corporations, and requiring
the Legislature to enact laws which
will practically enforce those provi-
| si0ns.
The State debt Of Virginia ON the
LIST Of September was $29, 514, 426, a
| decrease of about half million dur
ing the preceding year. OF the total
over fifteen millions is that which
| Virginia claims West Virginia is
responsible for and the latter refuses
| to assume.
Secretary Chandler relieved the In
terror Department Saturday of the
remainder of the old clerks in the
Indian bureau who had been in that
burea for any considerable length of
time. Edward S. Tobey, of Bos-
ton, personal friend of the Presi-
dent, has been rendered the appoint
ment of Indian Commissioner in
place of Smith.
| Mr.. Evarts, counsel for the Ches-
apeake and Ohio Railroad Company,
made motion in the United States
Circuit Court at Richmond on Sat-
urday for the dismissal of the pro-
ceedings under which a receiver has
been appointed to sell out the road
for the benefit of the bondholders.-
Judge Bond will have a further hear
ing of the case at Alexandria on the
| Goth of December.
| Secretary Bristow brands as cab
solutely and unqualifiedly falseh the
rumor mentioned by a witness on the
trial of chief clerk Avery, that he
was interested in the distillery of
| Newcombe, Buchanan u Co. at Louis
vile, KY, and the rumor is also de-
MED by that firm. The secretary,
however, urges the strictest investi-
gation of all such rumors by the
grand jury at st. Louis. The trial of
John S. Taft, a gauger, and Philip
Weimer, a rectifier, began in Mil
waukee, Wis, last Saturday.
| SENATOR HAMLIN proposes max
ing the amende honorable, las soon as
Congress assemblies, first by proving,
or endeavoring to prove, that if there
is any Objectionable feature in The
newspaper postage law, the paternity
of which undoubtedly belongs to
him, it was not so intended, and Sc
condly, that whatever influence he
possesses will be devoted to undoing
the wrong. The Senator has by this
time learned that hornets nests are
not circumstance to newspapers,
! when thoroughly stirred up.
| THE st. Louis whisky conspiracy
grows more and more interesting sv-
cry day. The developments are de-
eidedly rich, and withal immensely
important. Already a number of
prominent persons have been impli-
Gated, several Of whom have been
tried and convicted, with others still
hanging on the ragged edges of des-
pair awaiting their turn. This
prompt and decisive method Of treat