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The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-06-07
a Melancholy Comtradtctton.

mors were again rife that Secretary
Delano had rendered his resignation, and
that Ex-senator Scott, of Pennsylvania,
bad been rendered the position. Mr..
pelano to-day says there is no truth In
the statement, but on the contrary he
has no intention Of withdrawing from
Me Cabinet.
PERSONAL.
Secretary Preston arrived last night
End resumed his official duties this morn.
ing.
here last night.
REVENUE DECISIONS.
The Treasury Department has i'll
Nructed the Surveyor of Customs at St.
Louis that the proper rate Of duty
on wool guipure lace Is 30 cents per lb.,
and 30 per cent. ad yalorem. He has also
decided that a reduction in lieu of break
age on effervescing wines, liquors, &C.,
IN bottles, under the second section Of
the act Of February, 1875, is to be made
Invoice. The same result would be
Reached by assessing duty on the entire
Invoice and a deduction of five per cent.
from the amount thus ascertained.
1t is announced that tamaripds under
the free list includes only the article in
tts natural condition. II preserved in
sugar or molasses, they are dutiable at
% per cent. ad valorem, under provision
IN schedule for fruit preserved In sugar,
hSandy, or m0lasses.
The Collector at Detroit ts advised
that the machinery Of an American ves-
pel, such vessel having been burned in
canadian waters, and the machinery
having subsequently been subject to
purchase and sale, Is liable to duty un-
esr Article At, General Regulations,
lS74.
Fish caught from inland lakes or the
canadian tributaries thereof are free un-
Her the treaty OF Washington, but when
Imported and entered in good faith for
Immediate consumption, as fresh fish,
bre free. Under the tariff Of sailed and
backed, after Importation, they are liza
Ne to duty ut the rate Of 30 cents per
100 pounds.
THAT STOLEN PACKAGE.
Considerable excitement was caused
here by the publication of an Associated
Press telegram from New York to the
Park Bank had recovered the $47,600
package stolen from the Treasury De-
tartment few days ago.
Inquiry at that depot developed the
lact that second sum of $47, $40 had been
sent to the bank, and of which it acknowl-
6dges the receipt, but 1t was to replace
the package which was stolen. AS yet
The detectives have no clue to the thief
md it is now hardly probable that the
Ytolen money will ever be recovered.
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Tho C0naI-HeaVy Ratns-BMrned to
Death

Special to the Star.
DAYTON, o.. June 7.ANavigation 7. will
be reopened on the canal tomorrow.
The river at this point is very high,
owing to the recent heavy rains. There
have been serious fears of an overflow,
but the water is now said to be receding.
Mrs. Mary Hof, an aged lady, living
with her daughter, near Germantown,
was so severely burned by her clothes
taking fire, Saturday evening, as to
cause her death in q few hours.
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-06-07

The oug-talkel vt Parsons College is
to be located at Fairfield, Iowa. 4
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-06-07

Becretary Preston arrived last night
lnd resumed his official duties this morn
hg.
Senator Morton, of Indiana, arrived
here last night.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-09
THE WISE BUZFUZ.

Most any fool might tell us we
were ninnies and be believed, and
we therefore are astonished that so
wise man as Buzfuz not only wastes
his valuable time to tell us so, but
seeks to win our money on an admit
ted truth. We know Buzfuz is the
wisest, and the greatest, and the best
man living. Pure of heart, chaste
of spirit, land generally full of 'em,
too,) correct in action, infallible in
morals, he is the embodiment of Con-
centrated rectitude, wouldn't harm
fly or poke fun at ninney. Here,
take our X-or maybe he prefers
things stamped with Xxx and takes
them out of a glass.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-09

Secretary Bristow is gradually clean
ing up bis Department. There were
several unwholesome corners in It when
he began bis renovatipg labors. He is
doing well. The squeaIing Of small
rascals is music in the ear of the people.
[Ciucinnati Commercial rnd.l
We do not believe the story, started
by bullionist paper ia the East, to the
effect that Judge Kelley is paid salary
Of $4,000, 100000 or $4,000, 000, 900
by the Rothschilds to keep silent on the
financial question. It's true that the
Judge has mysterionsly dried up Of late,
but it is more than likely that his own
party, and not the money power, has
hired him to keep still.-Chicago Times
Ind.)
The New-York Tribune says: "In
New York and Massachusetts, they are
nominate g men for office on account of
what they believe in and what they are,
and not on account of the party labels
Oh them." Peoplein other States be-
side New York and Massachusetts, will
do likewise. Party labels are losing
their old reputation aud significance
Dubuque Telegraph tDem.)
The Republican Conventions which
adopted anti-third-term resolutions did
not know that Gen. Grant is an orator,
and circumstances may alter the case. II
TIE President should centin ue to deliver
speeches the third-term movement
would soon become irresistible. Buffa-
10 Courier tDem.)
The Democratic party arraigns the
Republican Administration eloquently
enough in general terms when it is pos
s.ble to charge corruption and incompe-
tncy in all their synonyms without
the possibility of refutation. When
we ask fora bill of specifications, we
are RECALLED with the abuses which the
party has itself hunted out and set
Observation-Disclosures Press (Rep.)
The wailing Of The Chicags Inter
Ocean over the loved and lost Apprai-
sership has begun. It's readers, so long
advised to distrust all charges against
the Administration, will be startled to
discover that Secretary Bristow, dur
ing his brief occupancy Of the Treasury,
has made slaughter-psn of his de-
partment," although they will be con-
soled by Reinsurance that "this Ken
lucky Conservative will have chance
to taste the bitterness of the same obal-
ice he has presented to the lips of so
many of his subordinates in rank but
superiors in merit. IN. Y. Eve. Post
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A DLSORDERED CURRENCY.

While the inflationists are trying
to depreciate the value of our paper
currency, by making its redemption
impossible, thus entailing upon all
classes the evils of a disordered cur
rency, the words uttered by Daniel
Webster, in 1882, may not be map
propriate. They are as true to-day
as when uttered by Webster, in the
Senate Of the United States. He
said:
" A disordered currency is one of
the greatest political evils. 1t I'M
dermines the virtues necessary for
the support of the social system, and
encourages propensities destructive
to it's happiness. 1t wars against in
dustry, frugality, and economy, and
it fosters the evil spirits Of eXtrava-
gance and speculation. OF all the
contrivances for cheating the labor
ing classes Of mankind, none has
been more effectual than that which
deludes them with paper money
This is the most effectual of inven-
tions to fertilize the rich mans field
by the sweat of the poor man brow.
Ordinary tyranny, oppression, excess
i've taxation, then, Ibear lightly on
the happiness of the mass of the
community, compared with fraudu-
lent currencies and the robberies
committed by deprecated paper
Our own history has recorded for our
instruction enough, and more than
enough, of the demoralizing tenden-
cy, the injustice, and the intolerable
oppression on the virtuous and we'll
disposed, of a degraded paper curren-
cy, authorized by law, or any way
countenanced by government.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-09

JUDGING from the Geographic re-
port of ex-senator Fowler's grafton
on Andrew johnson at Nashville,
on Saturday last. the friends Of the
dead ex-President were not very
fortunate in the selection of their
orator. In referring to Mr.. John
sons last resting place, he said,
" Earth has no grander spot--it is a
temple where a god might dwell Thy
warfare DER, rest now in peace. No
reyerential or sacrilegious hand will
disturb your remains in your har-
monious sepulchre." A harmoni-
Gus sepulchre F" is bad enough, but
fancy the ex-senator, in closing his
panegyric, tapping his auburn poll
after the fashion of Hamlet, and
calculating in fine frenzy, Brave
patriot, we will remember you while
memory holds seat in this distract
ed globel"
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-09
REPORTERS of New York papers

REPORTERS of New York papers
have been interviewing leading mer.
chants on the business prospects,
and it appears that while prices have
been lowered somewhat, there is a
feeling of greater confidence, and the
general belief that business is now
conducted with prudence, and is
more generally sound than hereto
fore, gives the wholesale dealers
ground for encouragement. In sew
eral lines of trades sales for cash OF
on very short credits are represented
as coming into favor; but there APP
pears to be no apprehension felt of
many failures in the near future.
The West and South are said to be
absorbing large quantities of dry
goods and other articles, although
buyers are careful not to lay in ex-
cessive stocks. The crops in those
parts of the country, it is asserted,
are SO abundant as to give New
York merchants good hopes of activ-
ity in business during the remainder
of the fall and winter. Wholesale
dealers in dry goods, clothing, boots
and shoes, groceries, and metal, ex-
press confident anticipations of sales
of fair extent with reasonable re-
turns. Shippers of grain and pro-
visions state that they look upon the
check to shipments to England as
temporary.
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aSs}aA fNyEsTs,sATx;:Ns
- rcei', ~fthe Committee to
day-A thorough Report TO
be Rendered.

New York, Oct. 5.--The Red Cloud
investigating committee did not meet
yesterday al Ffth Avenue Hotel as ex-
pectrd. Mcssrs Harris aud Anterior
were the only msnhers that reached the
city. The committee will probably be-
gin to day their consultation regarding
tho conclusions drawn by each member
from an examination of tho testi mony.
The meeting of the COMMITTEES will be
secret aud the report agreed upon will
be transmitted to Washington before its
tenor will be made public. Mr.. Harris
says the report will be long one. and
all charges against the Indian bureau
regarding the beef, -four, dc, made by
Prof. Marsh will be considered as care
fully az possible, and no charge. either
general or specific, will be omitted.
The system of the department is fur.
nishing supplies will be discussed aud
Improvements suggested. Harris says
the members of the committee have not
expressed any views on the subject, and
it would be unsafe to announce any
conclusion yet to be reached Some OF
the committee favored the employment
Of army officers in overseeing transport
tation, inspection and delivery of In
dian supplies.
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The Ohio nail factories report re-
newed activity.

he ONO nall factories report re-
newed activity.
The large California ranches are
being protitably cut up.
The disposition to turn pirate is
dying out of our youths.
Fenton; Of New YofS is travelling
through Wisconsin.
Kossuth deyotes all of his time to
agriculture and mineralogy.
Catarrhal sore eyes !" prevail in
several counties of Georgia.
American edge tools are working
their way into English favor.
Politeness is the mother of peace,
and grandmother of success.
New sets of cheap French je~elry
initiate all the details of fine sets.
Madame Patton, at the age OF 81 is
dancing with French circus.
A religious revival is going on in
the Methodist Church in Charles
town.
On the Altamaha river Georgia,
some people are raising panama
trees.
Lick's ambition is to give Cali
fornia the biggest telescope on the
globe.
The Globe runs Charles Francis
Adams for United States Marshal OF
st. Louis.
The iron industries of the WeS
and South show turn for the bet
ter.
Cidereal influences have been fa-
vorable to Michigan; her apple crop
is big.
1t is said Senator Booth for time
was threatened with the Presi-
dency."
The President lost heavily by the
peremptory sale Of his thorough
BREEDS.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-09
POLITICAL NOTES.

Some of the Administration organs
are so delighted with the President
speech that they think he ought to lay
aside his official dignity and take the
stump for bis partyl
The great objection the soft-msny
organs make to Mr. Schurzs speech is
that there is nothing new in it. That
is fault quacks always find with prin-
ciples. There is nothing very new
about the law of gravitation, but still
it is pretty trustworthy law.
Congressman Waddell of North Caro-
lima has come out asa rampant in1a-
ZIONIST, and is publishing long letters
for the purpose OF convincing the peo-
pie of the soundness of his views. He
preiaces his FIRST letter with the entirely
unnecessary statement that he is not a
"fnsncier.' After reading his letter ne
one will think of calling him one.
The Democrats OF Lorian County
Ohio, have nominated man for Coun
ty Auditor who declared in the Conven-
ton that he was a hard money man and
voted against Gov. Aliens reelection.
A majority of the Convention seemed to
be in the same heretical state Of mind,
too. They were all coupon clippers"
doubtless. Gov. Allen should 90 over
there and roar at them some.
Indian Commissioner Smith remains
in Office out Of pure love for Indians.
He is afraid his Successor will not treat
the poor red men SO gently as he has.
He showed his fondness lew years ago,
when he telegraphed on bis own au-
thority to Fort Sill to begin an Indian
war;" The order was so atrecious that
the order must be countermaDded, or a
war would ensue which would cost the
Government $4,000, 900, The order
was countermanded. The truth OF this
story is vouched for by men of hitherto
unquestioned veracity.
Lieut.. Peno Of New Orleans
hits the nail sauarely on the head when
he says that the prlncipal feature Of the
Presidential contest next year, IN case
the Democrats put up soft money eau
didate, will be the ndependeH, voting in
dulged in by the people. He thinks
the money question would make a
grand shaking up Of parties. As for
Louisiana he thinks the main question
there at present is how to get good men
into Office, regardless of party affilia-
tions, and therefore he thinks the DEM
ocrats ought to hold no convention now.
Col. John Forsyth is doing good ser
vice for hard money in The Mobile
Register. He is publishing daily ex-
tracts from the admirable speeches of
Senator Bayard and Carl Schurz, and is
accompanying them with such sound
observations as this: "Tbe more this
question is examined by msu honestly
inquiring to get the truth, the more
they will be convinced that the only
firm ground they can stand upon is that
OF the money OF civilization hard money
and that the rest is snare and delu-
sion, a will-e'-the- wisp, that in the end
will lead to bankruptcy and ruin"
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-09

A CORRESPONDENT of a New
York journal in writing on the
financial question and the depression
in real estate in that city rs the al
legged result of contraction in the
currency, puts few facts, that it is
well not to lose sight of, in the ex-
perience of the past nine years.
From 1866 to 1868 the currency was
contracted twenty millions and real
estate increased in value in that
time from 80 to 100 per cent. The
next two years prices remained near
ly stationary with the volume of the
currency fuctuating. Late in 1869
or after Black Friday the volume of
currency began to increase, and
since 1870, eighty-six millions of ad-
itional paper money have been put
1T and in that time the real estate
rket in New York has fallen on a
IL average 35 per cent.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-09
OUR NEIGHBoRS.

They that govern best make least
noise.
San Francisco bay is full of sal
mon.
France has $4,000 industrial es-
adjustments.
The Deer Park Hotel closed on the
30th ult.
The Berger family, with Sol Smith
Russell, are at Cumberland.
Cholera is prevailing among the
hogs in Allegheny county, Md.
The Cumberland papers report a
very good attendance at their fair.
Morgan county farmers are now
cutting off the best crop Of corn ever
raised in the county.
The new Episcopal Church at Ri
pom, Jefferson county, is fast ap-
preaching completion.
Apple-parings and 'butter-bilings'
are making stirring times among the
lads and lassies of Morgan county.
Mrs. Berry, widow of the late
Henry Berry, of Shepherdstown,
died in Alexandria, on the 10Th ult.
Some thieves entered the barn of
James M. Ransom, near Charlestown
last week, and stole thirty-fve BUSH
els of seed wheat.
Western Maryland is being thor
oughly canvassed by the politicians,
and the chief inquiry in the political
journals is, are you registered ?"
The new depot building in Win
chester has commenced, and is to be
sixteen by forty weight feet. The News
says it is hardly respectable hen
coop.
Mr.. George f. Laymar, son of Mr..
James Laymar, of Shepherdstown,
had his foot severely mashed between
the the bum bumpers GERS of railr9sd train' a
The Cumberland Valley Railroad
Company has broken ground for the
erection of large building in Cham
bersburg, to be used for car paint
shop.
S. Howell Brown, ESQ.,, has been
elected to the position of secretary
and treasurer of the Charlestown
amp Harper's Ferry Turnpike Com
pany, to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the death of Humphrey Keyes,
Esq.
A lad named Bradshears, aged
about IA years, was drowned in the
canal, ten miles east of Cumberland
on Friday. The water was drawn off
the level, and the body found. The
remains were taken to Sharpsburg,
where the lads parents reside.
The negro, Dick Thompson, who
robbed Mr.. Hartford of his watch,
on the Pughtown road, near Win
ches ter, was arrested about the mid
die of September, indicted in the
Husting's Court of Winchester and
tried last Friday, sentenced, and
sent to the penitentiary for sixteen
years, and safely lodged.
Judge Jackson has indicated his
purpose to render decision in the
case Of the u. $. Us. the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Company, involving
certain property rights at Harper's
Ferry, at the next session of the
court in Wheeling on the 10th of
November. The case was argued in
the United States Circuit Court on
the 18th of September last.
Hagerstown was captured by burg
lars on Tuesday night. The stores
Of Jno. III. Beachley, dry goods and
grocery merchant on the Square, and
Mr.. B. t. Holiday, dry goods mer-
chant, on North Potomac street, and
the Cumberland Valley Railroad
Freight Office, were broken open and
robbed. Mr.. Beachly lost S202; Mr..
Holiday $50 in cash and $65 in kid
gloves and as the Agent of the G..
V. r. r. didn't leave the money in
the Office, they only got seventy-five
cents there.
FIha nIN;n e. -
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-09

BY the middle Of October the pub
lie is promised an exhibition of the
wondrous powers of Kelley motor
That is not very long time to wait
and if the public will only possess its
soul in patience, the curiosity now
so strong and almost universal in re-
gard to this giant may be grati6ed.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-09
VEST VA. EDITORIAL En-
CURSION.

The editorial excursion of members
of the West Virginia Press Associ-
citation, announced to start from
Martinsburg on October 18th, has
been postponed until the 18th, in or
der to complete arrangements, and
accommodate all, in regard to time,
who desire to join the excursion. We
have received from &. III. Hodgson,
Secretary of the Association "a circu-
lar announcing the postponment,
from which we make the following
extract:
Necessarily the excursion is post
poned until Monday, Oct. 1S,to start
at noon. The programme is as fol-
lows: To assemble at Martinsburg
on Monday, Oct. 18th (where FREE
transportation will be furnished for
the entire trip as follows: To Har-
risburg via. Cumberland Valley rail
road; thence to Philadelphia to visit
Centennial Grounds; thence by the
Pennsylvania Central r. r. to Pitts
burg; thence via. TT. Wayne and
Chicago r. r., to Chicago; thence
to Kansas City via Missouri Pacific
r. r.; thence, via Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe r. II. to Grenada, Col.
Returning, same route to st. Louis;
thence, via Indianapolis and Column
bus b. r., to Pittsburgh; thence
home by original route.
1.-THE time occupied will be from
ten to twelve days. The expense
will depend upon the attention re-
ceived en- route. 1t may probably be
nominal but an estimate at $3.50 to
$500 per day will be prudent"
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-09
THE TROVBLE

There are many theories advanced
as to the cause Of the present stagna-
ton and business depression. Some
of them are only partly correct, and
some have no bearing on the case
whatever. We have an idea that
politics is the principal thing that
ails business now.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-09

POSTMAsTER-G GENERAL JEWELL.
in answer to applications from Ala
bama for offices, writes that he must
have good men in responsible posi-
tions, and that he prefers good
democrats to bad republicans.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-09

MANY fancy that much currency
means high wages. They forget that
inflated prices hurt more than inflat-
ed wages help them. In times of
huctuation, "wages, of all things, go
up last and least, and fall first and
lowest"
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-09

If young ladies wish to get stout they
should eat their food slowly. Haste
does not make waist in such cases.
Detroit NesCs.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-09

.--Seuator Paddock, Nebraska's new
Senator, is said to be in favor OF ex-
Speaker Blaine for the Presidency.
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