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SENATOR BAYARD.

There seems to be a general lurk-
ing impression that Senator Bayard,
of Delaware, is the coming man Of
the Democracy for the Presidential
nomination. The only present diff
Guilty in the way is that the Diamond
State will be able to give him such
slender backing.
But why should this be regarded as
an obstacle2 Delaware will give him
a solid vote, and his well-known abil-
ity as a statesman and lofty integrity
ought to do the rest. The Cincinnati
Commercial advises Allen, Thurman,
Hendricks, Tilden and therest of the
aspirants for the honor to cultivate
the arts Of peace and good will to-
wards men, as the Democratic stand
ard bearer is to be Senator Bayard,
of Delaware.
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RAILROAD REGULATION.

BY recent railroad legislation in
Michigan, Railroad Companies are
compelled to draw other cars than
their own over their roads, but they
are not compelled to draw the cars of
car-loaning companies, fast freight
lines and other organizations not le-
ultimately connected with Railroads
in the State. Thus far the Railroad
Commissioners act of 1878 is amend
ed. 1t is made the duty of the con-
ductors of trains to announce the
name Of each Station twice within
each passenger car, the doors of the
car being closed at the time of the
announcement and at functions,
crossings, and points where trains
leave in different directions, at or
near the same time the conductor of
each train shall cause to be announce
ed from each car of his train the di-
rection in which that train is to go.
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PER.JTR Y.

The Tilton-Beecher trial will evil
IDENTIFY go into history as the most
amazing development of perjury that
has ever been known. 1t is not a
question of shades Of meaning, OF Of
partial misunderstanding, but of
clear, flat contradictions. So the az
fair stands at present. Tilton told
his story, and was allowed to step
down without REORGANIZATION -
We really hope the end has come. 1t
is trial that does not help to inn
prove the moral status of the public.
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Hotels and Gongs.

One of the most decided nuisances
ever inflicted upon a human being is
a gong in a hotel. They sound at a
time in the morning just when every
body wants to sleep, and the colder
the morning and the more sleepy the
boarler the louder the gong sounds.
The man who holds the drum-stick
with which he beats on the pieces OF
brass seems to know his duty, and
seems to so at his work with view
to producing muscle and not music.
At a hotel in this city where the gong
beats every morning as Il sounding
brass and tinkling cymbal," there
boardsa gentleman whose disposition
is very irritable, the least noise CRATES
harshly upon his nerves, and the only
thing that viii afford him any relief
when in this frame of mind is a loud
conversation punctuated with exple-
tiyes of very emphatic kind. Yes
terday morning the man came around
with that gong, he walked up and
down the stairs, through the passages,
plying the stick freely. Loud screams
came from some rooms, and from 9TH
ers could he heard cries of " Murder
Go way from there with your intern
al noise," and the imprecations that
were passed out upon the head of
that gong heater were of the vilest
kind. But he minded them not, and
only continued to beat louder and
louder, until he reached the room of
the nervous gentleman. Here's scene
was enacted that would have excited
sympathy from the most strong heart
ed. The nervous man leaped out of
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The Wrfslkey Seizures.

New YORK, May 19th.-A small
quantity of "crookedo whiskey was
seized yesterday in Brooklyn.
A Washington dispatch says the
Attorney General has, upon recon-
mendation of the Secretary of the
Treasury, authorized Bluford Wilson
Solicitor of the Treasury to proceed
at once to Cincinnati, Evansville, st.
Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, and such
other points as to him seem desira-
BILE, in order to furnish U. s. District
Attorneys and all others connected
with prosecutions of the lately devel-
oped whisky frauds with such infor-
nation concerning the caseas his i'm
innate connection with it has given
him, and also to afford them all the
assistance in his power in vigorously
pushing forward every branch c. the
prosecution.
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Communicate I
A SAUCY KEJOENDER.
Measrs. Editors:

Messrs. Editors:
Please permit through your COL
umns passing notice of your bonn
bastic correspondent of Bunker Hill
of the - inst, who after noticing
the fine prospect of a wheat crop in
the surrounding country, encourag-
ing the dependent, assuring them
there is no danger of famine. he no.
tices the advent of the young ladies
of Prof. Hyde's school into their vi
cinity; he then singles out a Miss f /.
of the party for vindictive criticism,
and at the same time he would have
your many readers imagine he is no
ordinary young man, but scholar
and linguist, versed in rhetoric and
ancient lore then in an exceedingly
bombastic style las he supposes) in
geniously represents Miss f. in an
nnfayorable light. The young lady
must have trodden on his corns.-
No doubt your correspondent is a
chivalric young knight, and the
young lady who happens to cross his
noble path must feel the force of his
scholarship and rhetoric. Hereminds
us very much of the long-eared ami
NAL III the fable, that threw around
himself the hide of a lion and attempt
ed to scare all the beasts of the fro
est, but little Reynard, who could
readily distinguish between the roar
of lion and the bray of an ass, soon
detected him and laughed at his du-
plicity.
A KNIGHT THAT DEFENDS LAD
les.
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OUT OF DATE.

A writer in the New York San,
who signs himself " Iowa." under
takes to exhibit the true inwardness
of the Cincinnati Convention Of 1872,
and charges its laundering action
mainly upon Mr.. Horace White, Of
the Chicago Iribame-angle of the
famous newspaper quadrilateral. y
Whites animosity to Judge Davis
caused a divided vote of the Illinois
delegation between Trumbull and
Davis, and when the decisive mo-
ment came for putting Charles Fran
els Adams III the lead for the nomi-
nation, White faltered, and Cassius
M. Clay wheeled the Kentucky dele
cation into line for Greeley, initiat-
ing the stampede resulting in the
nomination Of the latter before Illi-
nois was reached in the call. Carl
Schurz, as the presiding officer of the
Convention, is also soundly rated as
utterly wanting in the tact and skill
of leader. This airing of the pri-
yate griefs of that convention would
seem to be rather late in the day, but
it is most probably made, just now,
as significant warning to all get
ters-up of liberal parties to be eau
tious as to the men they put to the
fore.
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For the Independent
HECOLLECTTDNS.
BY AN OLD CITIZEN.

India rubber, or gum shoes, were
first introduced in 1924.
In 1912 | was in New York, and
saw the first Sewing Machine
(Howe's) exhibited.
1t was just after the war of 1872
that the power looms were first in
troduced III Virginia-and the Spin
ming Jenney-I saw them first there
in the year 1915 or 1916; before that
time wool and cotton were spun on
the big Wheel" and flax on the
small wheel, the spinner sitting to
her work.
Fifty years ago gentlemen wore
powder on their hair at balls and
dancing parties, and ques tied with
black ribbon; and in full dress, short
brooches buttoned at the knees, silk
stockings and pumps ii. e. very thin
shoes) with low quarters. Shorts
(breeehes) We're also worn under fair
topped boots, SuWarrow boots, with
black tassels hanging from the top OF
the boots. Boots were then always
worn outside of the pantaloons.-
Hats were of stiff black felt-no caps
were worn by men or boys.
Up to 1912 or 1915, wheat was cut
with the sicKle-the cradle then su-
perceded it.
Some flax was generally raised on
each farm at this time, to spin on the
small wheel moved by the foot and
freddie.
Candles were then " dipped, THE
oil used in lamps was whale oil, ker.
osene being unknown. Tobacco rails
ed and cigars made by the servants
Steamboats, on the Mississippi
were a novelty in 1890.
FlintS were used in guns in the
war of 1S12-'15, and cannon dis
charged by fire ON the end of a rod.
Steam mills and ocean steamships
are not AS years old.
rode behind the first steam en-.
CINE used on the BALTIC. 81 O. r.. r..
about the year 1910, from Martins
burg to North Mountain Depot and
back, on the invitation of Benz. La
trobe to the Town Trustees of Mar
tinsburg.
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his couch with a yell of thunder.
scudding along under bare poles with
a shirt rather abbreviated in length,
until he reached the washstand,
where he siezed a vessel of water and
through the transom emptied the
contents over the body of the musici-
an. Closely following this was vol
ley of boots shoes, bootjacks, pillows
and backing brushes. That gong
stopped, and the noise on the STAIR
way indicated that the man who
welded the drum-stick was standing
not upon the order of his going, but
was busting at rather unsafe rate
of speed. 1t is thought the boarders
will hereafter have some peace.
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THE DRYING ASSOCIATION.
tFrom The Daily Of IHusday.)

This institution, yet in its infancy,
will close its first meeting to-day. 1t
has been the means of attracting to
the town a goodlynumber of persons,
and enabled many of our business
men through increased demand for
goods and necessaries of life, to pay
off a debt here and there, and has adj
ded considerable to the amount of
that desirable circulating medium
called money. The officers have kept
it free from gambling, and being
governed by the rules of National
Association, intended for the fair and
proper development Of the speed of
horses, has been honorably conduct
ed, so that even those who have con-
scientious bubbles on this question,
land frequently do worse) cannot
characterize it with opprobium.-
Many Of those who have and viii reap
pecuniary advantages from this meet
ing have failed to attend, and whilst
we will urge no one to abandon con-
scientious convictions, still we must
say that we frequently find large
numbers of our citizens attending
minstrel shows of doubtful charac-
ter and enjoying the stale and oft in
decorous jokes of painted circus
clowns. We shall not find fault, but
as the old woman said, when she
kissed the COW, ''every one to their
own liking The gentlemen who
have dared to start this enterprise in
the hope of aiding Martinsburg, are
entitled to great credit, and we trust
their next effort win be better and
more generally patroniZed. Those
who may see fit to attend to-day viii
beagreeably entertained and we hope
to see many of our ladies and gentle
men there. The owners of horses
who have so kindly visited us with
their unexceptionable stock are en-
titled to thanks, and we trust their
treatment ON this occasion will bring
them here in the future.
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NEW YORK, May %. The mania
for raising expeditions to explore the
Black Hills has reached the east
One company has already been form
ed in Boston, and its president, ID.
X. Allen, who is now in this city,
says the expedition is ready to leave
in six hours notice. A meeting will
be held here next Monday to more
thoroughly organize the company
which it is proposed to start from
here. Among the speakers expected
are Gov. Thayer and Gen. Steele, of
Wyoming ID. X. Allen, president
Of the Boston expedition; q. f.
White, of Philadelphia; Buffalo Bin
and others acquainted with the
Black Hills country.
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The GrasshOpper Plague.

CHICAGO, May Especial tele-
grams from Pleasant Hill, Liberty,
indianapolis, st. Joseph, Lexington
Kansas City and st. Louis, give most
alarming details of the extent and
increase of the grasshoppers. They
have crossed the Missouri river on
their eastward march, and are play
ing sad havoc with the crops. The
western tier of counties are already
overrun with the pests, and they APP
pear to be eating their way eastward.
Everything in some counties from
which adyices are at hand, have been
destroyed, and the farmers have been
obliged to drive their stock into Ar
kansas for paeturoge.
1t is feared they will pass through
the entire State of Missouri, and in
fest Southern Illinois. During the
present season ten thousand square
miles of Missouri land has already
been laid waste, and the farmers are
utterly discouraged. Every effort is
being made to exterminate the
plague, but all seems futile. 1t seems
nothing short Of a miracle can avert
famine and bankruptcy. All the
wholesale houses of st. Louis are
receiving letters by the hundred from
Western Missouri creditors declar-
ing their total inability to meet their
paper on account of the plague. The
formation of relief committees have
already been agitated.
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EllIGRA TTON.

During the last forty years Ireland
has contributed nearly three millions
of souls to the population of the Uni
ted States. This is at the rate of
seventy-five thousand per annum. OF
course, the number was not so large
as that during the first years of that
period, but latterly it has considera-
bly, exceed il, frequently touching one
hundred thousand, and during one
year reaching one hundred and eight
thousand.
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Brutal Murder Of "a Lady.

MORRISTOWN, (PA.,) May 20th.--
There is still great excitement here
over the brutal murder of Miss Ma
ry Whitby, at the residence of James
II. Weikle, her sisters husband, on
Tuesday last. Mr.. and Mrs. Weikle
started from home for this place in
the morning, Weikle having been
called on a jury. They left at home
Miss Whitby and a hired boy, named
Thos. f. Curley, aged about IS. The
latter has been arrested on suspicion
of being concerned in the murder.
Yesterday John Herpst was also ar
rested. He answers the description
given by the boy Curley, of a tramp
whom he alleged he had seen leaving
the house during the afternoon, and
on whom he endeavored to throw
suspicion. Herpst had been com
planned Of by q woman for following
her, and was captured while trying
to Chamber into yard in town. His
account of himself was that he came
from Reading and was a peddler. 1t
is hoped that the coroner's investi-
cation will throw some light on the
mystery.
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Ex-senator Nye is alta private asy-
lum near Brooklyn, where he passes
most of his time in sleeping OF talk
ing to himself in a disconsolate mon
otone, meaningless and mad. He is
never completely himself, but is sub
ject to Authorizations, which speedi-
ly pass away, and give way to others
equally quiet. He attempts to read
and write occasionally, but with no
great success. His mental faculties
do not seem to be dimmed by any
temporary insanity, but to have ac-
tually completely given away, never
to return again.
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The Striking Miners.

New YoRK, May ga dispatch
from Osceola, May 10Th, says: The
strike in the Clearfield mining region
is virtually ended. A majority of
the miners in their several districts
voted last night to return to work at
the old rates, provided all We're taken
back. As the men We're fully aware
that the operators would not permit
the leaders of the strike to work in
any of the mines in the region, the
vote of the district meeting simply
meant the men knew they were beat
en- and were unwilling to go back un-
conditiOnally.
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SECRETARY BRISTOW.

1t begins to look as if the ambi-
tious Bristow will soon share the fate
that befel Secretary Cox when he un-
dertook to run the Interior
Department upon a highly moral in
stead of highly political plane. His
colleagues in the Cabinet, and the
President, were apparently much ex-
ercised yesterday, and it begins to
look as if the whisky ring was strong
er than the Secretary. Mr.. Bristow
is denounced as being " too smart, :"
as a wilful aggressor upon the do
mains of his colleagues, as a plotter
for the succession, and is condemned
accordingly.
AS to his being too smart or active
in uprooting frauds upon the reve-
nue., we cannot see why he should be
blamed for that, as his duty as Sec
rotary of the treasury compels him
to do just what he appears to be do
ing. Neither can we understand how
his prosecution of the whisky ring
interferes with or encroaches upon
the functions of his colleagues-un-
less they are in league with those who
have been defrauding the revenue
Nor can we perceive any serious
grounds of offense in entertainment
of presidential aspirations, unless
Grant wants a third term and eX-
acts the cheerful allegiance and 10y
atty of his cabinet to his own person.
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DEATH or GENERAL BRECK-
INRIDGE.

Gen. John G. Breckenridge is dead.
He died at his residence near Lex
ington, KY, on Monday afternoon,
in the fifty-fifth year of his age. For
one of his age his career has been re-
markable.
He was elected Vice-President of
the United States when only thirty
five years Of age, and was nominated
for the Presidency when thirty-nine.
He was chiyalrous and dignified
gentleman, a ripe scholar and logi-
cal debater.
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THE CAPITAL QUESTION.

We take the following special dis
patch from the Wheeling Register:
CHARLESTON, w. Va, May r.
Judge Smith gave in his opinion this
morningand dissolved the injunction
against the removal of the Capital.
1t is rumored that already the initia-
tory steps foran appeal have been la
ken, the appellants having executed
a bond on appeal in the penalty of
$500.
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OPPOSITION.

The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany is threatened with a powerful
rivalry for its business. The Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, on
Thursday, by vote of it's directors.
authorized the extension Of the wires
ofthe Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph
Company along all its lines of track.
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Vice President Wilson and Judge
Kelley are both delighted with their
Southern trips. Each pronounces a
eulogy ON Southern hospitality and
courtesy, but there the parallel ends.
Judge Kelley predicts the gloomiest
kind of Southern future, unless
there is change in the financial pol
icy of the country, while the Vice
President views affairs down there
through.rose-tinted spectacles. Which
of these two eminent statesmen is
correct? Let us hope the latter.
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The New Orleans Ptcdyt0le con-
graduates its readers on the aboli-
lion of the detective force. Now,
it says, burglars are regularly cap
tured within few hours after the
offense transpires.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-22

Colonel Anthony, the Kansas City
editor shot by Embry, another editor
of the same place, shot and killed r..
G. Salterer, a Leayenworth editor,
five years ago. Like Anthony him.
self this time his victim was then I'M
armed, They do all things strange
ly in Kansas.
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YOUNG MEN.

The subject of the employment of
young men in these times and the inn
portance of making wise selections
has attracted the attention of some of
our most thoughtfulmen. And itmay
well be so, for the number out Of en-
ployment, and uncertain what they
shall do, claims special attention. An
extensive aversion to trades and far
ming appears to prevail in every di-
rection, The professions are suppos-
ed to be more genteel and less labor
ious, and withal more remunerative,
than the vocations of mechanics and
farmers. This belief, however, is not
borne out by the facts in the history
of the most prominent and influenti-
III men of the present day in our
country. In support of this assertion
we might enumerate men almost in
definitely. Indeed the fact is motor
ious. On the other hand the failures
in the professions are enough to dis
courage a young man from engaging
in the profession of eitherlaw or med
icine. This is so not only in refer
ence to those young men who are in
moderate circumstances, and there
fore unable to incur the expense at
tending the acquisition of a suita-
bic education, but also Of those who
abound in pecuniary resources
Hence, would it not be safest for a
young man, after having a fair aca-
demical education, to look for a pur-
suit in life outside of the professions?
Studies of any kind may be success
fully prosecuted by young men on
the farm and in the workshop, as
well as in the offices of the lawyer
and the physician. The sooner young
men accept this fact, the better it
win be for them and the country.
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Adv ERTIsINc RATES.
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Liberal deductions made for Quarter,
Half and Whole columns for annual, semi
annual and quarterly advertisers.
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TERMS,

In all cases, except where taken from
the carriers, the money must accom-
pany the order for papers.
Remittances may be made at our
risk By Express Charges prepaid), reg
istered letter, post office money order,
or draft, Address
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an EXPANSION of the currency since the pas

an expansion of the currency since the pas
sage Of this law.
The issue Of silver subsidiary coins IN place
of the fractional currency required several
months Of preparation, even it the price OF
gold had not gone above the rate at which It
was estimated silver could be maintained IN
circulation. The high premium on gold. by
deranging foreign exchanges, has tended to
lower the price Of silver, snd the Government
has seized the opportunity to lay in large
stock on the most favorable terms both in the
East and on the Pacific coast. The minis are
running at their full capacity, and the silver
bullion on hand will last at least through the
fiscal year.
The conditions for the preparation for the
payment Of silver are unusually favorable, and
if gold should fallto ITO, or even, 1l2a, by
next September, the present high rate will
not have disturbed in the least whatever ef-
fectiveness the Finance bill would have had
under any circumstances. By September 80
the Government will have 100000 or
S., OOO, 900 silver coin. Whether the rate OF
gold will be maintained through the summer
and autumn Is a problem which cannot pc
solved by the Actuary of the Treasury De-
partment, but it is the opinion OF those OH
GERS who have most to do with monetary trans
actions that the price must fall within few
weeks