Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-09-18

IncTe are SIX thousand cases OF
cattle disease in Devonshire, Eng
land.
The National Convention of the
Order of Red Men, is in session in
Cincinnati.
Eleven persons were suffocated by
poisonous gas in an English col
liery on Saturday.
Brick Pomeroy delivered a lecture
Monday night at the Maryland In
stitute, Baltimore.
Mr.. John King, Jr., of Baltimore,
has been elected president of the
Pittsburg and Connellsville railroad.
The Evangelical ministers of Chi
cago have resolved to invite Moody
and Sankey to that city to inaugu-
rate revival.
A newspaper has been started in
Paris for the purpose of giving in
formation concerning the Centennial
celebration at Philadelphia.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers and the Locomotive Engi-
neers' Mutual Life Insurance Asso-
citation meet in New York on the
Goth proximo.
Typhoid fever is raging in some
parts of Washington county, Penn
sylvania, owing to the immense de-
posits of decayed vegetation which
were made by the late floods.
We have meagre returns from the
Maine election. The democrats have
made large gains in nearly all the
towns of the State. General Con-
nor, the republican candidate, is
probably elected, but by majority
greatly reduced from that of last
year, when the republicans carried
the State by 1856.
Six hundred and twelve men and
one hundred and fifty-eight women
were recently indicted in Russia in
connection with the late socialistic
movements. The Procurcur General
says Socialism is spreading rapidly in
the Empire, and that only an oppor-
tunity is wanted, such as a foreign
war, for the Socialists to put in prac-
tice their eXtravagant idea.
The report of the Finance Com
mittee of the Alabama Convention
shows the debt of the State to be
500, 000,0 900 and the total value of
taxable property about $159, 200 900,
and that it would require nearly 20
per cent. of the entire taxable prop
erty of the State to liquidate the
debt.
The ninth reunion of the Society
of the Army of the Cumberland, as
sembled at Utica, N. Y, on We'd
nesday. Generals Grant, Sherman
and Hooker were present, and were
enthusiastically received. A letter
was read from Gen. Sheridan regret
ting his inability to attend. AT the
business session of the Society in the
afternoon General Sheridan was re-
elected President.
According to the Report of the
Department of Agriculture the con-
dition of the cotton crop for the pre-
sent month (September) shows quite
marked Improvement over that of
the month of August, and as compar-
ed with the same period of 1874, the
condition is much above the average.
Some damage is reported by droug-t
and lice, but not sufficient to serious
ly affect the general average.
District Attorney Britton, of
Brooklyn having addressed letters to
III. w. Beecher and +. ID. Moulton
suggesting that nolle prOsequi be
entered in the libel suit of Beecher
against Moulton, the former has ac-
quiesed in the suggestion, but the
latter not only emphatically refuses
to do so, but reiterateS the charge of
adultery made against Beecher, and
demands a trial of the case, saying
that he is ready on any reasonable
notice to make good his defence.
A director of the Bank of Cali
fornia yesterday stated that there
was no ground for distrust as to the
progress of the Syndicate toward re-
sumption, but that nothing definite
could be stated as to the time for the
reopening of the bank, 1t was sup
posed, however, that it would resume
the LIST proximo, and meantime mat
ters were progressing favorably. The
guarantee fund thus far subscribed
amounts to over seven million dol
lars.
Serious fighting is reported to have
occurred on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday of last week between the
HerZegovinian insurgents and the
Turkish troops, in which the latter
were defeated. The Servian govern
ment has called out six brigades for
the protection of the frontier in con-
| sequence Of the concentration of
Turkish troops on the Servian border
The Prince of Montenegro, in reply
to deputation who urged a declara-
| ton of war stated that the attitude
of Montenegro in the contest would
| depend upon the action of Servia.
There is no further news as to the
Progress made by the foreign Con-
snle In the work Of modification