Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-08-07
THE NEWS.

the dollar.
| Circulars are being sent all over
the country in the interest Of N. p.
Banks and l.. @. g. Lamar, for the
| Presidency and Vice-Presidency.
| General Longstreet is at work ON
an account Of his part in the battle
of Gettysburg. He believes that his
tory will do him injustice if he does
not defend himself.
Wheat advanced five cents per
bushel at the Baltimore Corn Ex-
change Tuesday, prime Southern
wheat selling up to 155 cents per
bushel. Medium and high grades of
/ Baltimore -four advanced twenty
| five cents. Western corn is also
higher.
Advices from the Kentucky cleo
! ton are meagre. General Harlan'
the republican candidate for gov
/ ernor, makes some gains i'll Louis
vile. Scattering returns from other
parts of the State indicate the usual
democratic majority.
/ New York Presidential candidates
are getting very plenty. Ex-Goy-
ernor Z. J. Morgan is put on as the
republican candidate by the Penn
| Van Journal, and Senator Conkling
appears to the Households Journal to
be the only man who is entirely equal
! to the same position.
To-day the Postal Department of
this country and of Canada, enter
into a reciprocal arrangement for the
cashing of each others money orders.
1t is to be hoped that the reciprocity
! is not on the same basis as the pre-
sent law ON newspaper postage, which
| requires two cents for paper from
Canada here and four cents to send it
back again.
The Charleston Courier gives this
as a part of it's political creed: Re
union and peace, with equal rights
| and mutual respect; no crocodile
tears, no bootlicking by one side more
than the other, but loyalty always to
the United States under the law and
the Constitution @
On Tuesday last Mr.. John 9. Davis,
master mechanic of the Baltimore
q Ohio Railroad, ISSUED an order pro-
hibiting the men under his charge
from loaning or borrowing money,
under penalty of instant dismissal.
The action was rendered necessary
by the action of some of the men who
were loaning money at usurious rates
of interest.
| General Crook has arrived III the
Black Hills country to carry out the
| orders of the President in relation to
| the occupation of the country by
| miners. He has ordered all un-
authorized persons to leave that
region by the 18th inst, and two
companies of cavalry and one of in
1 fantry have been despatched to en-
force the order. The miners have
held meetings and resolved to aban-
don their claims.
i ONE of the severest things ever
said of Washington, as place of res
idence, was the recent remark of
General Sherman, who is alleged to
have said: Desiring to bring up
my children to be useful men and
women / came to st. Louis, for /
knew well enough that they could
| never be such in Washington So
ciety." If that be really true-and
we do not want to believe tive
shall not care to agitate the removal
of the National Capital to this town
in hurry.
| The Chicago Times publishes an
affidavit of man in South Chicago,
who swears that he picked up a bot
| tie on the Lake shore which con-
tanned card ON which was written
message dated 2 A. NJ, on the 10Th
ultimo, and signed n. S. G.. Newton
S. Grimwood, J which stated that the
gas was rapidly escaping from the
balloon, and that they could notre
main up more than an honr longer.
If this statement should prove TO be
true it will remove all doubt as to
the fate OF Donaldson and his com
panion.
The New y orlx Sun announced a
few days ago that its advices from
Ohio, from valuable and disinter-
ested sources, was to the effect that
Allen would be beaten for governor.
The San has again heard from Ohio.
and in its issue of yesterday says
Our latest advices from Ohio,
and from republican as well as demo-
cratic sources, are that Allen will
probably be elected governor by from
$4,000 to $4,000 majority"
Disinterested parties viii come to
the conclusion that the San is some
thing Of weather-cock
Colonel j. w. Forney believes the
damage by storms III Europe win be
the sort of i'll wind which is to blow
a great deal of good to America. He
writes in one of his London letters
concerning the injury to the Euro-
pean wheat crop. and then adds this
highly colored bit of prophecy: "The
effect upon all our own interest must
be lasting if not instantaneous. Gold
will now he Shinnnd from ENGLAND