Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-07-03
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ton.
The Cincinnati Commercial expects
q reaction against the Democracy in
Ohio.
The whole amount Of United States
currency outstanding at date, Of all
denominations, is $418, 456, 1869.
Wendell Phillips is casing again
about " impartial liberty.n George
Francis Train has not been heard
from.
! The estate of John e. Breckinbridge
is found to amount to about $40 600.
Representative Beck is appointed as
one of the executors.
According to Susan b. Anthony,
there are 100000 drunkards in the
United States, and one woman in sew
enteen is married to such man.
Great fields of drifting ice still ex-
list in Lake Superior, and it is said
that it formed to the depth of an
eighth of an inch on the 9Th instant.
| The Peach Growers Convention at
! Middletown, Del, last Saturday, de-
veloped the probability Of a 100000
| baskets crop of peaches on the Pen
| inSula.
There is nothing new in Railway
affairs. The basis of freight and
passenger rates has not, as yet, been
determined or made public.
Mr.. Francis Cation has been COM
pairing school boys in town and coun-
try, and announces that at the age
of Ia, the average rural pupil is an
inch and quarter taller, and seven
pounds heavier than his city cousin.
A terrible rain and hail storm Wis
tied Buda-Pesth, Hungary, Monday,
and five hundred people are reported
missing, besides immense destruction
of property.
Six new indictments have been
found in the Court of General Sessi-
ons against Tweed, Sweeney, Wood
ward and others of the ring who have
not yet been arrested, for obtaining
money by false pretences.
A correspondent of the Augusta
Chronicle calls for the opinion of
Hon. A. III. Stephens on Gen. Grants
letter concerning third term. Mr.
Stephens Interpretation of the letter
would be interesting.
The Norfolk Day Book finds some
consolation in the grasshopper plague
with which the Northwest is afflicted
in the fact that emigration may be
attracted to the South, where such
infections are unknown.
"Summer Excursion Routes is
the title of a little pamphlet issued by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
which presents comprehensive ex-
hibit of excursion trips over the coun-
try, with little details as to cost, etc.
The publication is useful and the
price ten cents.
An anti-treating society," is or
ganizing in Pittsburg, the purpose of
which is to abate the excessive use of
liquor and expenditure of money re-
sulting from the absurd American
custom of treating" in drinking
saloons.
Letters are being constantly re-
ceived at the Postofiice Department
from all parts of the country COM
planning of the poor quality of the
postal cards now in use. In many
cases it has been found impossible to
take letter-pr copies of the cores
pondence.
President Stille, of the University
of Pennsylvania, is making a tour of
the different american colleges to
obtain hints as to the proper forms
of collegiate development, to which
the munificent gift of the late Mr..
Towne may be best devoted.
Father Thomas Burke, the noted
Irish Dominican preacher, who made
such gallant contest with Mr.. Jas.
Anthony Froude in New York few
years ago, is reported to be very Sc
riously i'll. A letter from Dublin,
dated June 10, published in the Mon
treal Witness, says he is supposed to
have cancer of the stomach, and the
gravest apprehensions are felt for his
| life.
In Montreal, Rev. G.. Long has in
stituted action to restrain the tenn
poralities boards Of the Presbyterian
Church of Scotland, from dispossess-
ing themselves of the reserve fund of
1858 900, otherwise than for the ben
eft of those who maintain connec-
tion with the Church of Scotland
Similar action has been taken in ref
erence to the widows and orphans
fund, which amounts to $1,000.
China has appropriated 10000 teals
for representation at the Philadel-
phia exposition. The local govern
ment at How Chow proposes to send
Independently 10000 teaIs' worth of
porcelain and silks. Japan will be
represented at the exposition by Sal
go YOSEMITE, recently Commander
in-chief of the Japanese forces in
Formosa. He will leave Yokohoma
for America in October.
The California Democratic State
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