Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-07-24
THE NEWS.

JTpdJ UlSLf6SS is Salu TO exist
among the laboring class at Ottawa,
Canada, and some of them are being
sent home to the old country by the
National Societies.
John Wallace was shot and killed
in Allegany county, Maryland, Sun
day, by John Stewart, youth of
nineteen years, to whom he had re-
fused liquor and elected from his
house.
A negro hack driver, named Lewis
Thompson, who beat and outraged a
young lady at the Memphis depot i'm
May last, and who was on last Mon
day sentenced to the penitentiary for
life, was taken from the Jail Tuesday
night by a mob and hanged.
The Journal, of Florence. italy.
says that Cardinal McCloskey is ex-
pected to arrive in Rome next Sep
TENDER to receive the Cardinals hat
from the hands of the Pope, and
many American ecclesiastics will ac-
company him.
The Macon Telegraph says there
are thousand of miles of expensive
railways in the South, which it would
be ruinous to accept as free Gift
under the obligation to run them,
and it is melancholy fact that most.
even of better class, are sadly down
at the heel.
A new Know-Nothing party is re-
ported to be on foot in New York.
1t numbers forty thousand members.
and its principles are that none but
Americans born in the country of
American parents shall run for or
hold office. 1t makes no war upon
religious sects however.
The Hon. Geo. III. Pendleton made
a speech at Galliopolis, Ohio, We'd
nesday, in which he gave an exposi-
tion of the Columbus platform. His
attempt to put sort of metallic
glass on the "greenback' resolutions
was rather lame. Mr.. Pendleton's
financial views have not improved
since 1868.
Nine indictments were found in
the United States District Court of
st. Louis yesterday against different
distillerS in connection with the
whisky frauds. General John Nc
Donald, late Supervisor of the dis
trict, and Colonel John A.. joyce.
late revenueagent,w were among those
indicted.
A curiosity has been added to the
criminal calender in New York.
Thomas Spratt, an engineer, who, on
the 18th of June, threw his wife out
OF a third story window, was sem
fenced to ten years in the Peniten-
tiary, Notwithstanding that both
man and wife denied the assault.
A special to the Detroit Mich
Free Press from kalamazoo saws that
employees on the Kalamazoo and
South Haven railroad train yester-
day morning bring report that Pro-
fessor Donaldson, the missing bal
loonists, alighted between South
Haven and Naugatuck Sunday, in
an exhausted condition.
The vigorous preparations which
will soon be made for moving the
new grain crop of the West, SAYS the
New York Herald, will inspire our
long-despondent business men with
fresh confidence, and we may reason
ably expect brisk and active autumn
under a benefcent Providence which
" from seeming evil still reduces
good"
A German butcher named Zaiser,
who resides in the western suburbs
OF Baltimore, shot one of his neigh
bors Tuesday evening, and then at
tempted to put an end to his own
life. lie was suffering from mania
pota, and no doubt was partially in
sane when the homicidal impulse
overcame him. Both men will prob
ably de.
The captain Of the British, Irish
and Scotch Fights, in a letter to the
Council, express the hope that the
various suggestions for Il match will
lead not only to a contest between
the teams OF the United States and
the Uni ed Kingdom hereafter, but
will insure an annual competition at
Wimbledon for tie championship Of
the world.
There is now bet little hopes that
Donaldson and his adventurous COM
panion have been saved. Nothing
has been learned to confirm the re-
port published yesterday that he had
landed at South Haven The tele-
graph operator at that point knew
nothing about it, and the story il
generally discredited. Steam tugs
have been searching the lake for the
missing men.
The Democratic State Convention
meets to-day i'll the Maryland Insti-
tute, Baltimore. The factions were
active in the city last night, many Of
the delegates having arrived from
the counties, and the headquarters of
candidates being established at Bar
NUNS. The Hamilton friends dis
played much confidence. The friends
of Mr.. Carroll were equally positive,
and Governor Groome proposes to
remain in the field to be last.