Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-16
THE NEWS.

YEARLY traversing New England.
THIS country is so big that Co
lumbus couldn't have well missed it.
Two hundred stump speakers in
Ohio are now each saying, II did it"
AFTER the Centennial, will come
piano wars, sewing machine war,
etc.
A FIVE mile fox chase is to be
feature of the Greene county, Indi-
ana fair.
AT late Indiana picnic, 20 per-
sons sat under one tree, shaking with
ague.
THEY are holding "open air re-
ligjous meetings in grove in Sa-
vanDah.
SINCE the Ohio election the polit.f-
liitcal fence is less uncomfortat Jly
crowded.
AN indianapolis councilman j 4 ae-
cused OF being CREASED by b ridge
company"
IN Morgan, Indiana, John. Sum-
mers, who spent III years on. earth.
died recently.
SAN FRANCISCO arists ,crats are
moving from their hon ies to the
Palace hotel.
A SOUTH BEND lady while carry-
ing kerOsine lamp ieI in a fit. and
was sadly burned.
Alexander H. 81 >ephens is reported
y; ~ pe iylng oange ,rously i'll at his home
NJ no G osn del e. Dimmick, Attor-
NY Msrr Ietler Al of Pennsylvania, died at
%, ''o arg on Monday.
roh me postoffice of Milford, Pa, was
,oo ed on Tuesday night of 500 in
g. q ,ney and $50 worth of postage
camps.
1 The horse disease is reported to be
spreading rapidly in Pike, Wayne,
Monroe and other counties of Penn
sylvania.
At a. meeting of clergymen and
laymen of Philadelphia on Monday a
telegram was received from Moody
] stating that he would commence his
labors in that city on the 3lst inst.
The North Carolina Constitutional
Convention adjourned on Monday af-
ter session of thirty-one working
days. In the latter part of the ses-
sion several Intellectual attempts were
made to repudiate the specie tax
| bonds.
Josephus Sooy, the late Treasurer
of New Jersey, has been indicted by
the Grand Jury of Trenton for en-
beZZlement and misdemeanor in of
fee. George w. Patterson, men,
Der of the late Legislature, has also
been indicted for enlightenment.
A telegram to the London Daily
| Telegraph says that Turkey and Ser
via have mutually agreed to with
draw their troops from the frontier.
A'quantity of gunpowder which had
been sent TO Crete by the Greek revo-
lutionary committee has been seized
by the Turks.
The Commissioner of Indian AZ
fairs has received a despatch from
Professor Janney, of the Black Hills
geological survey, announcing the
discovery Of gold in paying quantities
in that portion of the Black Hills
country lying in Wyoming.
The Mark Lane Express says the
late damp weather in England has
interfered somewhat with threshing,
and the condition of the wheat sam
| pies is generally bad, The advanced
rates are generally maintained, tho
business is somewhat restricted
There have been unusually large re-
ceipts of wheat from India, but the
quality is low. Ii the recent ship
ments pay, vast acreage will be pla-
ced at the service of England.
| IT announced that Charles Fran
els Adams is about to publish a
series of articles in the Atlantic
Monthly, giving an account of the
most serious railroad disasters since
1879. with their beneficial results.
From this we presume that Mr..
Adams will take the ground that
we learn wisdom by experience, and
that whatever improvements have
been made in the management of
railroads are due to the appalling ac-
cidents which from time to time
have occurred.
A remarkable suicide occurred in
Baltimore on Tuesday A man as
| cended Washington Monument and
leaped from the giddy height, crush
| ing to Il limp and bloody mass at the
base of the column, his brains splash
ing twenty feet away. The case is
without a parallel in Baltimore, al
though about eight months ago man
met a similar death by jumping from
the dome Of the Capitol ut Washing
ton. From a writing found in his
pockets he seems to have been the
silly victim of unrequted love.
| General Bartlett has declined the
Democratic nominstion for Lieuten-
ant Governor of Massachusetts. He