Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-11-27
THE NEWS.

In ice Richmond Police Court
Monday General Brca J -. Jebason
was fined twenty dollars for assault
ing Gen. Imboden ON Saturday last,
and put under bonds of 81 GOO to
keep the peace for one year.
The Uai.ed B,otle. God cf L
connective Ficemen, who have been
In session in Chicago, have adopted
plan fof mutual insr lance, cleo
Office s and adjourned to meet in B r.
timoie next yeal.
The Baltimore Corn market h9
become quite active as lega' dis West
ern Corn, large contacts having
been made within the last day or two
for December and January delivery
OF new mixed corn at ga cents. Old
mixed corn is becoming very scare,
and sold Tuesday at 72t cents.
An unprecedented religious rev.v.
is now in progress in Port Jervis, N.
Y. Over 500 persons have been con
verified during the past few weeks,
and the work still continues. The
Moody and Sankey revival meeting
in Philadelphia Tuesday was largely
attended, notwithstanding the in
clement weather.
Carl. Schurz writes from New
York to his paper, the st. LOUIS
Westliche Post, that the growing
sentiment among the Eastern Dem
ocratS is to dodge the currency issue
both at the approaching session and
Their national platform. The friendT
of Tilden are already prepared to
surrender TO The infationists of the
West.
All is report ted quiet on the Texas
border. Captain McNally, command
.ng toe State troops. who had en-
trenched himself on the Mexican
side of the Rio Giande, has recrossed
his TO 'ce after obtaining promise
from tie Mexican authorities that
they would deliver the stolen cattle
and thieves if caught. Subsequently
seventy-five head of stolen cattle
were delivered at Rjnggold Barracks.
The trial OF Gen. Mcdonald was
brought to cioce ip st. Louis Mon
day, by the jury rendering verdict
of guilty on ali The counts of the in
dictment. Judge Treat stated that
he would not pass sentence on any
who had been convicted or pleaded
guilty until he had heard all the evil
dence 10 tie trials YET to take place.
Gen Mcdonald was remanded to the
custody OF the United States Mar
shall, his bail beiog fixed at $50, 900.
WHEN Judge Kelley utters such
predictions as the following we trust
his prophecies will utterly fail. He
said at New Haven, on Tuesday
night last 81 'stead of being on the
road to specie payments, we are on
the road to bankruptcy; l predict
that the coming winter is to be one
much more severe to the working
classes than has ever been witness
since the foundation of the Govern
ment." Should the Judges fore
bodn1s be realized, and the weather
p edictions of Prof. Wagner literally
fulfilled, the coming winter has many
teriors IN store for the poor.
Col. JOYCE, the convicted reve-
nre official, who has just got justice
dore him by being sent to the peni-
( hilary, has mother living in Chi
cago VINO is in abject poverty. Joyce
has been reveling in his ill-gotten
gains for some time, yet refused to
contribute a penny to the support of
his poor old mother, whom, he says
in answer TO letter asking for con-
tl.ioution, lie thought was dead. If
The e we no Other charges against
him, he desc YES TO lemail in the
pen TENT y the rest of his days for
such treatment o; his mother. SOci-
ETY. is always well rid of such fellows.