Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-09-25
THE NEWS.

Boutwell, said in Cincinnati that
he didn't own any stock i'm national
banks.
More than one hundred leading
speakers of both parties are engaged
in the Ohio canvass.
Sam Carey is a g bloated 2 bond
holder to the amount of $50, 600.
For shame, Sam.
Rev. Dong Gong is the name of a
Chinese missionary in Oregon. He
ought to make a noise in the world.
Mayor Cobb, of Boston, has au-
thorized the Mayor of Galveston to
draw on him for SIS 900 to aid the suf-
ferers by the late storm in that city.
The case Of Tilton VS.. Beecher has
been postponed until the next Term
of the Brooklyn City Court, and also
the libel suit of Tilton against the
Brooklyn Eagle.
Mr.. Doolittle's plan to give two
votes to married man and only one
to a bachelor would make the matri-
monial market lively, wouldn't it P
lie SlFlS dill 90 Ill IOf IL.
"No ballots, no babies" was the
motto on a transparency at a late Wo-
mans rights meeting out West. If
this had happened in Mississippi,
Ames would have asked for United
States Infantry.
AT the session of the Grand Lodge
of Odd Fellows yesterday it was re-
solved to hold an anniversary meet
ing of the various lodges of the
United States at Philadelphia on the
Goth of September, 1876.
There were 5000 Odd Fellows in
procession Wednesday in Indianapo-
lis. AT the session of the Grand
Lodge resolution providing for an
appropriation in aid of the compile
tion of the Washington National
Monument was referred to the Com
mittee on Finance.
A report received at New York,
from st. Thomas, says an expedition
was landed in Cuba by the filibuster
steamer Uruguay, formerly the Oc-
tavia, and that General Aguilera had
also landed from Jamaica. The Oc-
tavia had two batteries of artillery,
and large quantity of munitions of
war.
The guarantee fund of the Bank
of California is said to amount to
seven and a-half millions. The trans
fer of the assaying and refining works
to Flood q O'Brien is opposed by a
portion of the Directors of the Bank
on the ground that the Ophir Mine
will soon produce enough bullion to
keep the works busy.
The New York Tribune expresses
the opinion that the extraordinary
responsibility of the tickets put into
the field by both the great parties of
that State will prove that the policy
of indiscriminate mud-throwing will
not be eXpedient in this campaign.
New York is ON the mend, evidently.
The report of the Indian investi-
eating Commission is now in course
of preparation. 1t is said that it
will acquit Secretary Delano and
Commissioner Smith of all culpabil-
ity in the matter of Indian supplies,
but will take the opposite ground in
reference to their subordinates. 1t
is reported that Secretary Delano
will tender his resignation upon the
presentation of the report.
A terrible story of disaster comes
from Texas. The flourishing town
of Indianola was overwhelmed by
the waters of Matagorda Bay dur
ing the late equinoctial gales, and
entirely destroyed. Nearly every
house was swept away, and more
than a hundred lives were lost.
Another account says that one
fourth of the inhabitants persisted.
The survivors are destitude, and APP
peal for aid. Other towns on the
Gulf coast suffered the same terrible
visitation.
Additional particulars received
concerning the cyclone at Galveston
confirm the previous reports of the
extent of the damage by wind and
water, but the loss of life is reduced
to four persons, among whom were
DIR. Peele, the Health Officer of the
port, and his grandson, little boy.
The damage to shipping is not as
great as might be expected under the
circumstances, although several YES
sells were driven ashore, and one or
two sunk. The steamship Austral-
ian, which was loading cotton for
Liverpool, was compelled to put to
sea, and went ashore about 60 miles
North of Galveston, but no lives
were lost. Reports from various 9th
or towns on the Texas coast repre-
sent the storm to have been very Sc
we're, but at present it is impossible
to form any estimate of the loss.
. EX-SENATOR DooLITTLE, of Wis
consin, in an address last Wednesday
at the Winnebago Qll.) Agricultural
Fair, proposed a novel scheme for