Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-29
THE NEWS.

though when he appears in the role Of
summer-up.
Boyton will, on Thursday, make
another attempt to cross the English
Channel, starting from Boulogne.
Wheat is ripening rapidly i'm Tex
as, and Dallas county farmers viii
soon commence harvesting.
Red Cloud said he came to Washing
ton to learn the truth. Queer place
to visit for such a purpose.
| Poor Mrs. Lincoln. The closing
of the asylum door behind her Is the
last scene in a sad, sad story.
Post-mortem examinations of nors-
es that have died from the disease
now prevalent in st. Louis show that
the disease is cerebro-spinal menin-
gifts.
The Hon. George III. Pendleton has
| developed unexpected powers as a
dinner-giyer, and is, therefore, grad
ually crawling up as a Democratic
Presidential aspirant.
Darwin makes a clean $4,000 a
year by proving that his grandfather
was monkey This shows he is
not an ass.
The Governor of Illinois has issu-
ed proclamation setting apart MAY
20 or May 81 as a day for the decora-
ton of soldiers graves.
Many q man has reached the sum-
nit OF fame and then looked down
into the humble valley he came from
and longed to be back again.
A Des Moines woman gave her
husband morphine to cure him of
chewing tobacco. 1t cured him, but
she is doing her own ploughing.
The protracted cold of the past
winter was very fatal to bees. Full
three-fourths of those kept in some
parts of New York State have died.
Judged by his memoirs, Gen. Sher-
man is tired Of peace. These viii
bring him war enough, or human ma
ture has undergone strange changes.
A Vienna despatch says meeting
OF the Emperors of Austria, Germa-
ny and Russia has been decided on,
and will probably take place at Ems.
The grasshopper panic in the west
is dWindllng somewhat under more
encouraging prospects. Reports from
Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota, and
Iowa are all of a more hopeful char
acter.
President Scott has notified the
Postof1ice Department that no cars
belonging to the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad Company viii be permitted
to pass over the railways under his
control between Philadelphia and
New York after the first of June.
A despatch from st. Louis says that
three children of a family named Fin
dlay, residing near Sedalia, Mo. died
Friday last from starvation. The
family have been in destitute cir
cumstances all the winter.
1t is said that Senator Jones, who
went over to New Y DIRK to ''bull Bo-
nanza," lost upwards of seven hun
dred thousand dollars. Instead of
being a successful bull, Jay Gould
gobbled him up like lamb.
One of the largest professions ever
seen in Memphis, made up of both
Confederate and Federal soldiers,
turned out Monday to decorate the
graves at Elmwood Cemetery. The
tattered battle flags of both armies
were carried in the ranks, and the
very best feeling seems to have pre-
vailed.
An unhappy disaster is reported by
cable from Vienna to the effect that
a no hgt ..I
Der of Catholic pilgrims, while cross
ing the river Muir, at Idenburg in the
Tyrol, sunk in midstream, and that
seyenty-six of the pilgrims are be-
lleved to have been drowned. Fifty
nine were saved.
Persons arriving at Jefferson City,
Mo-, from all directions, say that most |
OF the 'grasshopper talk y is all bosh:
that grasShoppers can be scOoped up
by the buShel in some counties, but
that they are doing little or no dam
age to the crops. They assert that
the Governors proclamation, setting
apart June 3 rs q day Of fasting and
prayer for deliverance from the
''scourge, has done great injury and !
that immigration to the State will be
greatly retarded thereby. GOV. Har. !
din presided at church meeting in
Jefferson City, Sunday, at which res |
olutions were passed setting forth /
that grasshoppers, chinch bugs, etc,
were running the farmers, and sug-
costing steps for their relief.
Mr.. Delano has yielded TO the pop
ular pressure, and will not later than
June Both take his departure from
Washington. In the resignation or
removal of this prominent official we
have another practical illustration of
the potency of popular sentiment, es-
pecially when, as in this case, it finds
broad expression through the news
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