Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-11-13
THE NEWS.

IItdSuiEfa buWeJG. aud State Aud
Ilor, Beanett, is now going on at
Wheeling.
About sixty Mormon missionaries
PASSED through Omaha during the
week. bound for different portions az
the country.
Miss Florence Triton Friday even
ing sent a communication to The
Plymouth Church Committee asking
fer a letter of dismissal.
A party, under the auspices Of the
Atlanta Constitution, left Homer
vile, Ga, Saturday, for the purpose
of exploring the Okefenokee swamp.
The Charleston Courier demands
that the Capital question be taken up
Immediately upon the assembling Of
the Legislature, IN Wheeling this
week.
The State of Tennessee has given
great encouragement To female school
teachers everywhere, 10y declaring by
law that the State will not hereafter
pay any teacher less money than am
other on the ground Of sex alone.
There was afurther decrease in the
numbers in attendance at the revival
meeting in the Brooklyn Tabernacle
Friday morning. After requests for
prayer had been read, sermons were
preached by Rev. Mr.. Needham, the
Irish evangelist. and Mr.. Moody.
The Governor of Louisiana has
just signed the death warrants ofsix
murderers, two of them white and
four colored. Two of them are to be
hanged at Coushatta, on the 10th,
two in Monroe on the 26th, and two
in New Orleans on the same date.
The Maryland returns from the
counties. outside of Baltimore, give
Harris, reform candidate, about 1000
majority. The Legislature will stand
House 81 democrats and 81 reform
ers Senate 20 democrats and re-
formers.
There was a meeting of the Tam
many General Committee Thursday
night. at which John Kelly made a
speech. He charged the defeat of the
Tammany candidates to the reduc-
tion of the wages of the city laborers,
but exonerated the organization from
any responsibility in the matter.
A Berlin despatch says that Rus
STA is not DESTROYS of acting indepen-
IDENTIFY in the Herzegovinian question
and that the three Powers are in
complete harmony. The insurgents
are reported to have recently receiv-
ed one thousand breach-loading RI
fles from Montenegro. The military
commander of Bosnia and Herzego-
vina have convoked an Assembly for
the purpose of proclaiming a Nation
al Government.
Great distress is said to prevail
among the industrial classes of Ger
many and Russia on account of the
failure of the crop, and much worse
condition of affairs is apprehended
during the coming winter unless the
respective Governments should take
prompt measures for relief. The
German Government has been asked
to establish loan banks, as was done
during the last war, but thus far has
shown no inclination to accede to the
request.
Secretary Chandler has not yet de-
cided what recommendation he will
make in his forthcoming report with
reference to the Indian Bureau.
While in the Senate he advocated
the transfer of the Bureru to the
War Department, but contrary to
the current rumor, he has not yet de-
termined to make such a recommen-
dation in his report.
The republicans of Washington
fired one hundred guns Saturday
evening in homer of the recent victo-
ries. President Grant was serena
ded and made a short speech, in
which he congratulated the Republic
cans of the country on the result OF
the recent elections. Secretary Robe
son and Ex-Governor Shepherd were
also serenaded.
The publication of the resent DIES
patches in reference to the CORES
pondence between the United States
and Spain on the Cuban question
having giving rise to the apprehen-
sion in some quarters that measures
of a hostile character were meditated
it is officially stated that there is no
foundation for uneasincss on that
head as the matter is merely one of
diplomacy.
The prosecution of the Whisky
Ring in st. Louis and Chicago is
progressing vigorously, and the Gov
eminent is sternly refusing to listen
to any offer OF compromise coming
from the criminals. There has been
no confirmation Of the report that
Oryille Grant and General Babcock
were among those indicted by the st.
Louis Grand Jury, and it is now be-
lieved to have been simply device
of the Ring to save itself and hinder
the prosecution.
Alaska is again BEGINNING Ia loom