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

Bret Harte'S new novel will he
bugun as a serial in the November
number of Scribaer.
General Plaisted has been elected
to Congress from the Fourth Maine
District by about ! 900 majority.
The foot and mouth disease is said
to be spreading rapidly throughout
England but the proportion of deaths
Is small.
Western farmers say that il the
frost is delayed two weeks they will
have the largest corn crop ever grown
out of doors.
Within short time 100 illicit stills
have been destroyed in the mountains
of Northern Georgia, and 9S persons
convicted for illicit distillation.
Ex-Priest Gerdemann was mobbed
again on Thursday evening of last
week, in Manayung, near Philadel
phia. He escaped without serious in
jury.
Things are mixed. That down
right Democratic sheet, the Balti-
timore Gazette, says the Republican
party is the real imitation party.
The New York World cruelty pro-
poses to send Governor Allen up in
balloon to secure "an immediate ex-
pansion in the average length Of the
solar spot period
John Daley, formerly of Oakland
but latterly Of Deer Park, formally
announces himself as candidate for
doorkecper Of the next House of
Representatives.
The census of Charleston, s. c..
shows that there are in the city 81
622 white voters and 6,S22 colored
voters. This is an increase, since
1870, of nearly six hundred in favor
of the negroes.
The Emperor of Germany will
leave Baden-Baden about the LIST
prox. on his proposed visit to the
King Of Italy. 1t has not yet been
definitely settled whether Prince
Bismarck will accompany him, but
the probability is that he will do so.
The Rev. Moses ID. Hoge, the pas
tor of the church in Richmond, Va,
which "Stonewall' Jackson attend
ed, is expected to deliver the Grafton
at the unwilling of Foley's statue of
the late Confederate General i'm Rich
mond in October.
The Alabama Constitutional Con-
vention adopted bill of rights Fri
day last. The following section was
adopted unanimously: THE people
of this State accept as final the es-
tablished fact that from the federal
union there can be no secession Of
any State"
AT the consistory held in Rome on
Friday seven new Cardinals were
created, and several Bishops and
Archbishops appointed. The cere-
mOny of comforting the ring and title
on Cardinal McCloskey closed the
consistory. The death of Cardinal
Gaspard Grassellini is announced.
The New York Democratic Con-
vention re-adopted the platform of
1874, nominated a State ticket and
adjourned. The Nebraska Democrat
ic Convention assembled at Fremont
on Thursday last. The resolutions
adopted were in favor of retrench-
ment and reform in the National and
State Governments, and in opposi-
ton to paper money.
The State Central Committee of
the National Union party of Massa-
chusetts met at Boston Thursday ,bnt |
owing to the absence of Gen. Banks |
the meeting was adjourned to Satur-
day. Letters Of sympathy with the |
new movement were read from Col. |
Il. II. Stockdale, of Mississippi, and
Gen. j. A. Early, of Virginia.
A Kansas Court has decided that
a man and wife may go to a circus on |
a ticket that says "admit one," as |
they are of one flesh" and consider
ed as unit. If this decision is to be |
regarded as a precedent in such cases
by our Courts, theatrical people may
suffer somewhat in the future. But, |
we presume, the two in one, or one |
of two, will be restricted to a single |
seat, and that the wife will be re-
quired to sit in the lap of the husband.
The Postmaster-Gen has sent
letters of thanks to Thomas A.
Scott, president Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, and William III.
Vanderbilt, president of the New
York Central, for the promptness
and dispatch with which they have
carried the first mails. He considers
the accuracy, system and speed with
which those mails are delivered nm
anywhere in the world.
The equinoctial storm which com
menced in the Gulf on Wednesday
last, has continued without intermis-
sion in nearly all the Southern States.
At Galveston the wind amounted to
a hurricane, the water Of the bay
being backed up in the city, which