Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-08-14

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Constitutional Convention in North
Carolina has resulted in the choice
of a majority of Conservative men,
bers.
France has collected by taxes for
the first half of the year ST., 900 900
more than was collected for the same
period last year.
Sam. Randall's star is still in the
ascendant for the Speakership Of the
House of Representatives, and from
what we can learn he appears to have
a fixed impression that neither Kerr,
nor Cox, nor Wood can trip him.
The returns from fifty-six out Of
the one hundred and sixteen counties
in Kentucky give McCreery (demo-
crat) for governor gain of about
1000 over the vote in the same coun-
ties for Leslie in 1871.
Tue condition Of trade fortnight
hence will pretty accurately de-
termine whether we are likely to
have an improved fall business, or
whether the comparative stagnation
of the two panic years, now nearly
completed, viii be continued.
Governor Kellogg has addressed a
letter to the sheriffs of North Louis
lana, where number of murders are
reported to have recently been COM
mitted, directing them to call in the
aid OF the better class of citizens to
bring to justice the perpetrators.
Returns from the North Carolina
election, leave the result still in
doubt. Both parties claim major
ity of the delegates, and it may be
several days before the result is def
nitely known, as several extreme
western counties are yet to be heard
from. 1t is not probable the major
ity will exceed two either way.
Ex-Speaker Blaine is peregrinating
in various directions, evidently with
an eye to the arrangement Of the pre-
liminaries for the Presidential cam
paign, of which he is prominently
spoken of as leader. However, other
candidates may feel disposed to dis
pute his claim to that honor.
j. G. Bridgeman, Indian Agent,
has requested the United States mar
shall to remove the Stockbridge In
dams, who are said to be trespassing
upon the reservation in Shawnee CO.,
Wisconsin. A Deputy Marshal at
tempted to comply, but the Indians
resisted him. There are apprehen-
sions Of trouble.
Eleven children living in the neigh
borhOod Of the Frankfort road, Phil
adelphia, were poisoned Thursday by
eating m0uldy sausage, given away
by the proprietor Of grocery store.
One Of the children died Thursday
afternoon, and the keeper Of the gro
Gerry and the maker Of the sausage
were arrested.
The engine Of the construction
train on the Marietta and Cincinnati
Railroad ran off the track, Wednes-
day night, near Stewards Station, Is
miles East Of Athens, Ohio. Them
CINE was turned over into Hooking
river. Two men were killed, and
nine others, Including the conductor,
injured.
The reports which continue to
reach us of the floods in the West re-
present that the waters are subsiding
in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, though
are still apprehended in
the low grounds along the MISSISSIPPI
pi. 1t is impossible, as yet, to esti-
mate the full extent of the damage
to the crops, though the reports Of
the loss vary from 80 to 50 per cent,
according to locality, the destruction
of the wheat crop in some sections
being complete.
The floods having subsidized, the
have been turned loose
again by the spectators. Reports
from points along the line of the
Union Pacific railroad in Nebraska
say immense clouds of grasshoppers
are flying south along the line from
Elm Creek east as far as Silver Creek
with few clear streaks at Willow
Island. They have commenced on
corn, having already done considera-
BILE damage there. AT most points,
but few have alighted.
Senator Morton, of Indiana, made
a speech at Urbanna, Ohio, on Satur-
day, in which he asserted that Hon.
Alexander III. Stephens was a repre-
Southern man and demo-
crat, and held that the views Of that
gentleman in favor of State SOW
ereignty were bloodstained and
reasonable doctrine" and that they
were Endorsed by the Northern dem
ocrats. He believed that, with but
few exceptions, the democrats re-
garded the colored people as a race
that ought still to be enslaved. He
then spoke in favor of the specie re-
bill of the last Congress
and criticized the Ohio democratic
combating the greenback
theory and claiming that it was a
and treacherous design
TO destroy the national banks, then
destroy the greenbacks themselves,
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