Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-16
THE NEWS.

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\ Turkey proposes to pay the inter
est on her " National blessing half
in cash and half in iive-per-cent.
bond.
The menagerie at Central Park,
New York, has had an addition, in
the shape of three young lions and q
leopard.
Alfonso has offered Don Carlos the
rank and title of Infanta of Spain if
he will cease the war. The offer was
refused.
The American Board of Foreign
Missions report that nearly all the
missions have been very successful
and are rapidly growing.
The new Merchants movement lat
Baltimore, looking to a Reputation
OF the action of the recent Masonic
Temple meeting, is making rapid
progress.
The British Admiralty has found
1t expedient to suspend the law re-
quiring the surrender of fugitive
slaves found on board British ves-
sells.
Mr.. Daniel Dechert, formerly pro-
| prietor of the Hagerstown Null, has
become associate editor and pub
Usher Of the Danville IVA. Times, d
prosperous weekly.
T. II. Wallace has been convicted
Of highway robbery in the circuit
court of Dinwiddie county, Vir-
ginia, and sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for eight years.
The failure Of John Gorham, Pre-
sident of the Gorham Silverware
Manufacturing Company, Of provi-
dence, (R. IL will in no wise affect
that concern. His liabilities are
5000, 900.
The report of the Treasurer of the
Peabody Educational Fund shows
the total amount Of available funds
for appropriations to educational
institutions, to be $96,500
There seems to be an epidemic for
Conventions throughout all branches
of trade and professions. The Crack
ermakers' Convention is the latest.
They have been in Convention for
two days in st. Louis.
Treasure trove, in the shape of SO
gold sovereigns, was dug up q few
days ago by boy in a sewer excaya-
tion in New York. The coins bear
the stampof the reign of George w.,
and had evidently been buried for
safe keeping.
There are indications that the
New York anti-Tammany democrats
are feeling their way to junction Of
forces with the republicans on local
nominations, with view of defeat
ing the Tammany ticket.
Professor Fred. Mather, of the
United States fish commission, is to
take charge of the Matching estab-
lishment recently erected by the Un-
iversity OF Virginia in connection
with the Virginia fish commission
Chief Justice Waite held court at
Lynchburg, Virginia, last week, the
first time a Chief Justice of the
United States Supreme Court ever
presided in that city, and probably
the first time one was ever in the
city.
A BILL has been filed in the u. s.
Court at Parkersburg, to foreclose
the mortgages on that portion o. the
Chesapeake a. Ohio Railroad, in w.
Va, aud a similar one in the II. s.
Court at Richmond, to sell out that
portion in Virginia.
WENDELL PHILLIPS has Joined the
rag baby brigade, and i'm unison with
Ben Butler, and Pig Iron Kelley, is
urging on the imitation fallacy.
George Francis Train ought to be
released from the insane asylum to
AFFORD him an opportunity 10 join in
the chorus.
The officers Of the Huntington
West Virginial bank have brought
TO that place and Imprisonment j.
III. Ebb, who was arrested in Fem
tress county, Tennessee. On him
were found a pistol belonging to the
uank and ~ 500 in money. The lat
ter was wrapped In bloody shirt
sleeve, and Is supposed TO have be-
l0nged 10 Jesse James.
A large meeting Of the friends of
women suffrage, i'm Boston, over
which Rev. Freeman Clark presided
passed resolutions opposing Castor,
democrat, and indorsing Rice, repub-
liean, for governor, and urging the
friends OF woman suffrage to attend
the primary meetings and secure the
nomination Of suffragists to the Leg
islaiure even tothe breaking OF party
lines.
The national executive council Of
the Catholic Total Abstinence Union
received at Cincinnati Friday, dis
patch from Rome bearing the papal
benedlction 20 the members OF the
union. IL was announced in the
council that vice. rresidnnf Rnv Inc