Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-08-14
THE NEWS.

city as the champion skim milk city
of the United States. We don't know
about that.
OFFICIAL defalcations keep pace
with commercial failures NOWADAYS.
The dog days do not appear to be ia
vorable to official integrity OF bust
ness stability.
THE new Constitution in Mis-
souri, is to be submitted to the peo-
pie on the Both of October, and if
ratified will take effect November
30th, 1875.
| IT speaks well for the forbearance
of the New York newspaper people
that the lawyer who served the notice
for new trial of the Tilton-Beecher
case is still alive and able to walk
about that city.
| THE police of New York appear to
be vieing with each other to ascer-
tain which is the most expert in the
use of the locust and billy, and in the
general i'll treatment of prisoners. 1T
has not been satisfactorily determin-
ed which party is ahead or likely to
wear the champion belt. Thus far
the contest is ''nip and tuck"
WHAT have the other clergymen of
the country to say to Brother Shear
mans statement in England that Mr..
Beecher did rather less of kissing of
ladies in his congregation than the
average American preacher ?n 1t
would also be interesting to her from
the average +" female church men,
Der OF the country on the the subject.
THE California election takes
place on the 1st of September, Ar
kansas on the 9th, and Maine on the
18th, Ohio and Iowa vote on the 18th
of October, and Virginia, Kansas,
Maryland, Massachusetts,, Missis-
sippi, Minnesota, Missouri, New
Y Ork, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin and Texas in November.
The Constitutional Convention
election in North Carolina is still in
doubt, although the democrats claim
a majority of four. The returns so
far received show the representation
to stand fifty-nine democrats, fifty
nine republicans and one independent
democrat. Cherokee county, which
has heretofore gone democratic re-
mains to be heard from.
The National Convention of the
Ancient Order of Druids, in session
in Cincinnati, elected Philip Reich
vein, of Indianapolis, M. N. G.. A.
Charles Kiel, of Brooklyn, ID. G.. A.:
II. Frendenthal, of Albany, Grand
Secretary, and Philip Stremmel, of
st. Louis, Grand Treasurer.
A portion of the Big Bend Tunnel,
on the Chesapeake 81 Ohio Railroad,
near White Sulphur Springs, fell in
Tuesday night, burying a freight
train. Several persons are reported
killed. The tunnel is one and half
miles long and is arched with timber.
The loss will be heavy.
THE Philadelphia Press denies
authoritatively the statement in the
New York World to the effect that
there is want of hal mony in the
executive committee of the Centen-
NAL Commission. Good enough. The
managers will have all they can do
to pull the exhibition through cred
itsbly and successfully, without any
cross-purposes or jarring inside, and
the assurances of the Press will
therefore be read with real pleasure
everywhere.
Tweed is ON the high road to free
dom. The order for ''bill of par
tlcvlars y III the civil suits has been
confirmed. Inasmuch as it is impos-
sible for the plaintiffs to comply with
this order, it virtually determines
the suits in favor of freed. An APP
peal has been taken from Judge Bar
rett's order refusing to reduce
| Tweed's bail, and no doubt this
Judge will be overruled in few
days, and the great criminal will be
discharged from custody.
The cholera, according to reports
from the East, has made it's annual
appearance in the region where alone
it has its origin. Damascus is repre-
sented as suffering terribly under the
scOurge, the mission schools closed
the Christian quarter deserted, four
hundred cases reported daily, with
an unknown number concealed, and
people dying in the streets. Such a
visitation, in one or another of the
popular districts of the East, is of so
regularly periodical occurrence that
no estimate of the probable extent or
effect Of the epidemic can be made.
1t must be regarded as an inevitable
calamity under the existing sanitary
condition of cilies in that part of the
world, to be restrained within its
natural limits by all the means at the
disposal of more fortunate commun-
tiles. 1t is well established that the
cholera can be disseminated only by
persons or goods from the infected
locality, and that it travels only as
men travel, neither faster nor more