Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-08-28
THE NEWS.

The Kansas City Ners proclaims
seThere is every indication of both
political parties going to pieces in
the coming Presidential election. !
An engine and fonr cars were
thrown from the track on the Balti-
more II Ohio Railroad near Wheel
ing Thursday, and the fireman killed
and the engineer badly injured.
The census of Louisiana, recently
completed, shows a total population
of i04 1861 whites, and 10000 color
| ed, being an excess of the latter of
| rs. 66S.
There was frost at various points
in Illinois Saturday night. In the
vicinity of Freeport it severely i'm
jured corn, potatoes and other veget-
ableS.
The Boston Transcript has dis
covered that :" the introduction of
the currency issue into politics was
originally against the wishes and
purposes of the politicians.
The Cincinnati Commercial is
greatly disturbed about the "high
protective tariff" Contraction, low
tariff and increased taxation, it
thinks would be 9 heavenly
The Worcester Guxette saws that
General Buffers letter "shows that
this gentleman has lost none of his
capacity for making trouble Of bam-
boozing the people.
| The English grain market is mac
] tive, but prices appear to be well slls-
tanned. The wheat thus far put upon
the market has been of inferior quail
| ity, and the harvest will he about 3
per cent. below a fine yield.
| Two more of theoutlaws of Frank
lin county, Illinois, who were recent
| ly fired on by the Sheriff's posse have
been discovered, one being dead
Sevenof the fourteen fired upon have
been found either dead or wounded.
Legal proceedings will he at once
commenced against such of them as
may be captured.
Theodore w. Brown, one Of the
parties chaged with the robbery of
the SAT 900 package from the Treas
ury Department, was before the
Washington Police Court on Satur-
day for hearing, but the Govern
ment not being ready to proceed to
trial, the case was postponed to the
Both inst.
Among the delegates to the recent
republican convention of Wisconsin
which strongly approved by resolu-
tion the Governments raid on the
Whisky Ring, were two Milwaukee
patriots who were soon after indicted
for completely in tie very frauds they
had helped to denounce.
The Cincinnati Price Current has
reports from various sections in Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri,
Michigan, Kentucky, and other
States, which show that wheat, corn
and other cropsp present full acreage,
yield somewhat short, large losses by
rain, and the quality very inferior.
Rev. Cornelius Springer, familiar
ly called g Bishop Springer, /" one of
the oldest and most prominent men,
bers of the Methodist Protestant
church, as well as one of the leading
horticulturists In that section of the
country, died near GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
on Monday last, in the 85th year of
his age.
The wheat crop of Minnesota was
too much for the young grasshoppers
of 1875, and these pests were obliged
to leave growing plants which pro-
duced about 32,000,0 900 bushels Of
grain. The st. Paul Pioneer-Press
estimates that of this crop $4,000, 900
bushels will be for sale, and that it
will bring to the State over $23 ,000,-
600, or more than twice as much as
was obtained for the crop Of 1874.
If there is anything belonging to
the public which regular ring poll
tican will not try to steal, it has yet
to be discovered. In Philadelphia
the coal provided to warm the public
schools has become an object of pee
ulatiOn, and even school commits
sioner was concerned in the dirty
work. The coal was removed from
at least two of the school houses, at
least twenty-five loads being taken
and its removal charged for under
the head Of removal of ashes. Thus
the city was made to pay for the
carrying away of its own stolen
property.
The iniative step toward forming
what is designated as the National
Union party, with Gen. N. p. Banks
for Presidential candidate, and pos
sibly l.. @. G. Lamar, of Mississip-
pi, for Vice President, was taken in
Boston on Saturday. A State Cen
trial Committee was formed, and
platform and resolutions adopted
No prominent persons of either par
ty took part in the proceedings. The
resolutions pronounce Republican or
Democratic partisan organizations