Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-06-05
THE NEWS.

1Hty pay 10 Gus. u DuSnel Tor dead
grasshoppers in Missouri.
Bowen has thrown out a skirmish
line in the person of his son.
A Milwaukee Judge has decided
that husband is no relation to his
wife.
O'Leary, the pedestrian, is walk
ing in Chicago. He is no relation to
the COW.
A Hendricks county, Ind man
has died of a nail swallowed twenty
years ago.
The "pen is mightier than the
sword" About 100000 mightier,
Gen. Sherman thinks.
If a body meet body s.Going
through the Ryen out West, ten to
one that body is a revenue officer.
The total number of Lodges in the
United States are 1854. Master Ma
sons, 543, 474; Encampments, 400 -
knights, 40,410.
A proposition to abolish imprison-
ment for debt has just been rejected
by the Constitutional Convention of
Missouri.
A despatch from Key West says
that one death occurred there on last
Sunday from yellow fever No other
cases were reported.
The decrease in the public debt du-
ring May was 81 ,1S9, 456, and the to-
tai decrease since 30th of June last,
was very nearly S13, 100000.
They say that Jay Gould invited
Senator Jones to walk into his stock
parlor, and that the California states
man did SO at the expense to himself
of several hundred thousand.
An English preacher has discover
ed that all heresy lies in Sussex pud-
dings. They are eaten hot and hea-
Wy, and end in dyspepsia, which
makes, of course, dyspeptic sermons.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
instructed the Assistant Treasurer
of the United States at New York to
sell one half million dollars in gold ON
each Thursday during the month of
June. The total amount to be sold
is two million dollars.
President Garrett says that when
the President of the Pennsylvania
Railroad allows him to enter New
York over the same line that he has
been using for thirty years, and es-
tablish such rates as he pleases be-
tween Baltimore and Chicago, then,
and not till then, will be ready for
peace.
A cable despatch announces the
failure OF the Aberdare Iron Compa-
ny of London, with liabilities of
G750,000 and assets estimated at
e9S0, 600. Sanderson q Co.. bill bro
kers, are involved, their Liabilities be-
ing some gS00,000. The Times APP
prehends serious consequences from
the failure.
That feature of the Railroad war
which has just now developed into
the question whether the Baltimore
and Ohio or the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company shall control the car
riage of the through mails between
Washington and New York, is being
brought out by the contestants with
a good deal of diplomacy as well as
earnestness, and is giving rise to not
a little letter writing. There seems
to be some hesitation on each side as
to the taking of the final step which
will render retreat impracticable.
The New York Tribune says re-
vival of trade in that city is mani
fest. With the warmth of Spring it
declares, "there has come a rapid de-
velopment of retail business, and
leading houses find their sales much
exceeding those of May of last year.
In fact the general testimony is that
the Spring trade has put a quietus on
the cry of hard times.
Carruth, the Vineland editor, who
retires from journalism because of
his ''inability to cultivate a lead
mine and edit a newspaper at the
same Time" says that with charity
for all and malice towards none,n he
bids adieu to friends and foes alike,
and will ''settle back on his pillow
for a good, long refreshing nap" A
lucky editor, even if he does wear
bullet in his head.
An interesting event transpired on
Friday last at La Cross, Wis, where
fifty Winnebago Indians, having
complied with the law in abandon
ing their trial relations and adopting
the customs of civilization. made
their appearance at the Land Office
and proceeded to enter forty acres of
land each under the Homestead act.
The land is located near the Black
River Falls, Wis, and the Indians
will at once occupy their new posses
sions, where they will erect farm
houses, establish schools, and gener-
ally cast off the generic habits of
their race.
The new movement in the railroad
war threatened by Colonel Scott was
consummated ON Tuesday. The Bal
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