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

Ine rellglOuS press OF Philadelphia
do not favor the Moody and Sankey
revival.
The American Jockey Club is said
to intend giving grand Centennial
purse of $4,000 for a race of four
mile heats.
During the last three months | ,440
horses, 81 donkeys and five mules
were killed in Paris for public con-
sumption.
This years crop of apples in Mich
igan surpasses anything ever pro-
duced there before. From Adrain
alone 22,851 barrels were shipped in
the month Of October.
Cardinal McCloskey presided at
High Mass at the Cathedral, Dublin,
Ireland, on Sunday last, an immense
crowd being in attendance.
The leaders of the Ultramontane
party at Berlin have published no
tlce declaring that no authority has
been given to negotiate for the set
Element Of the ecclesiastical ques-
ton,
| The Khedive of Egypt has applied
to England for two financiers to UNI
dertake the control of the Egyptian
finances, and promises the fullest in
formation on the subject to the Great
Powers.
New England being hard pressed
for amusements, has revived the
spelling bee mania, with a prospect
OF becoming as generally prevalent
as it was for time last winter
A San Francisco despatch announ-
ces the laundering off Cape Flatterey
of the steamship Pacific, bound from
Victoria to that city, and the loss of
all her passengers and crew lover one
hundred in number) except one man
who escaped by clinging to the pilot
house and was picked up by pass
| ing vessel.
| One inch of snow fell Tuesday and
Wednesday morning at Milford Pa,
and vicinity, and is reported that
snow fell to the depth of two inches
Twenty miles further north. A Sc
we're snow storm prevailed in North
ern New Hampshire and Vermont.
| Near Brattleboro, VT, ten inches
had fallen up to 8 O'Clock last night
| Several days ago the family of C.
Massey, ST., at Fordsville, KY, was
taken suddenly ill. The physicians
pronounced the sickness the effect of
poisson, and despite their efforts the
son, daughter and wife died. The
physicians discovered the we'll used
| by the family filled with poison, eth
er strychnine or arsenic, but how it
came there it is not known. Other
members of the family are in a fair
way of recovery.
1t is officially announced chat the
Patrons of Husbandry in all parts of
| the country have united in a hearty
support of the Patrons Centennial
Encampment" scheme, and are rap
idly absorbing the stock of the asso-
citation, which has been formed for
the purpose of securing the site,
erecting the tents, furnishing the
latter, and supervising the encamp-
ment generally. To prevent specu-
lation none but Patrons of Husban-
dry can become stockholders, and no
patron or granger can take more
than single share.
The tanners convention at Har
risburg, Penn, Wednesday discussed
the tanning of upper leather, the
use of bark extracts, &c., and adopt
ed a resolution agreeing hereafter to
buy hides only according to the class
ification adopted by the convention.
This will do away with the evil Of
cut hides. A committee was APP
pointed to extend an invitation to
tanners end dealers throughout the
world to meet in worlds conven-
tion of tanners at Philadelphia the
second Tuesday Of July next.
Official returns from all the coun-
, ties but Sullivan in Pennsylvania
gives Hartranft rep. for Governor
ll,641. In Massachusetts, Rice rep,
it tsrns out, is only elected by plu-
rality, his vote being 1928, while
combined vote of CASTOR dem. /,
Baker prob Adam (ind.) and
Philips labor reform) for Governor,
foots up Sc, 2S6. Rice over CASTOR
has 5,277. All the Others over Rice,
1868. In Maryland complete returns
give Carroll dem. 1906 for Governor
In New York Bigelow DEM, for Sc
cretary of state, has about II 800.
, The Conductors Brotherhood, in
Session at Atlanta, Georgia, adjourn
ed Saturday night. Grand Chief
Conductor Cruzen of Crestline, Ohio,
was expelled from the brotherhood
: for misdemeanor and fraud in Of
flee. w l. Collins, Hornellsville, n.
Y, was elected Grand Chief Con-
) ductor. G A Staunchfield, Crestlon,
: Iowa assistant j G Long, Fort
Wayne, Grand Secretary; M Brad
ley, Atlanta, Grand Treasurer Cal
vim S Wheaton, Elmira, n Y, Grand
Conductor of Ceremonies w IL
Morse. Omaha. Nebraska. Grand