Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-23
THE NEWS.

in Fayette county, Georgia, has been
captured in Atlanta.
Samuel J. Frost has been sentenc-
ed, at Worcester, Massachusetts,, to
be hanged for the murder of his
brother-inlaw, Frederick p. Towne.
A member Of the constitutional
convention of Texas proposed u
clause forbidding judges, prosecut-
ing attorneys and jurors from Off
ciating while intoxicated.
There are but two German news
papers in the country that support
the cause of soft money--the Gin
cinnati Volksfreund and the st.
Louis American.
A picnic procession of colored
coach drivers, in Brooklyn, New
York, was assailed with stones on
Thursday night by rowdies and two
colored men killed. Seven of the
assailants were arrested.
Wendell Phillips speaks of the
Venetians using paper money.
Doubtless Othello had just received
his pay in that currency when he ex-
claimed, "IIe who steals my purse
steals trdsh!'
The final unofficial returns from
Ohio place the snajority of Hayes,
republican, for governor, at 4,753
and give the republicans II majority
in the House of Representatives, and
three or four majority in the Senate.
The negro who killed Sam Garner
in Murray county, Ga, a few days
ago, was taken from the guard at
Springs Place by a party of disguised
men, Wednesday night, and hung.
The waters Of the An Sable river,
between Lambton and Middlesex
Canada. have been turned into new
channel cut for the purpose, and it is
claimed that nineteen thousand acres
of drowned land will be reclaimed by
this work.
Judge Lawrence, of the New York
Supreme Court, has denied the mo-
tion for stay in the suit against
Tweed, holding that the orders of the
General Term, which it is proposed
to appeal from are not appealable,
being entirely discretionary with the
court.
The notorious bandits, John Bull
ner and Allen Baker, convicted of
killing Col. George w. Lisney, have
been sentenced to twenty-five years
in the penitentiary. Other indict-
ments ormurder are pending against
them, and they have little hope of
escaping the gallows.
Alois Herdberg, Barthel Spitzel-
berger, David Grail and Anna Grail
have been arrested at Cincinnati
charged with passing counterfeits on
the First National Bank of Aurora.
Ill. About one hundred dollars in
counterfeit money was found in their
possession.
The result in Ohio, where the
question of sound money was an is
sue, is a wholesome lesson to the
specializing politicians of both par
ties, teaching them not to underrate
the intelligence of the people, and to
suppose thai they can succeed with
them by demagogue appeals and the
of cheap money.
The New York World says: "The
Ohio election prognosticates no good
to any of the republican Presiden-
tial candidates who have been here
tofore prominent in the field. 1t
brings toward at once into the font
rank a new candidate with the por-
tentous claims. Governor Hayes has
assumed the leading posi-
ton in his party"
The executive committee of the
anti-Tammany organization in New
York has agreed upon the following
nominations For judge of the SUI
preme Court, Charles f. Sanford:
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas,
ID. Mcmahon; Judges of the Marine
Court, Charles Cary and Joseph
Koch; county judge, Col. A. Glider
sleeve; recorder, John X. Hackett;
district attorney, Benjamin Phelps
coroner, Moritz Ellinger; surrogate. |
VIM. G.. Trarhagen.
Messrs. Hackett for Recorder, and |
Phelps, for district attorney, were |
tlso nominated by the republican
judiciary convention on Monday |
evening, and it is expected the other
of the Anti-Tammany |
,arty will be ratified by the republi-
cans.
FREE-LovE kind easy divorce seem
o have made such Roadway in Chi
ago that the Tribune of that city has
undertaken to start re-
rival movement in behalf of matri-
nony. That paper plumes itself al
eady upon its success in attracting
attention 20 this important topic,
md gives the full text of a Sunday
DISCOURSE by Rev. Robert Collier
Ipon it, " in the happiest vein ofthat
celebrated preacher and lecturer.
dr. Collier expresses himself as not
much disturbed about the prospect of
hitch in the general system of mat
imonial economy; 1.-THE stout old
abit of our race y will take care of