Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-09-11
THE NEWS.

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| poison.
/ A Chinese college in Nevada is
| proposed.
The warm weather has been of
| great value to the corn crop.
/ Pennsylvania will have about two
thirds of an apple crop.
A corner in charcoal is the latest
financial sensation III New Orleans.
Olive Harper says that it seems to
her the entire population of Italy
does nothing but eat.
Suppose Jay Gould should fail In
| getting bank accommodations heay-
lily loaded as he is with stock
Professor Kostlin, Of the Univers-
ity of Halle, has written what is
said to be the best life of Luther and
record of his times yet published.
Blanton Duncan says the total
issue of confederate currency never
reached $3.50, 100000.
| The New York Herald speaks Of
"a noise-ess panic in real estate in
that city.
One of Ralston's clerks was an
accomplished Chinaman, who kept
up his Asiatic correspondence.
w. III. Vanderbilt and party made
the run from Louisville to Nashville
(1S5) miles in four hours and fifty
three minutes.
The New Haven Journal says:
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams is no.
| toriously one of the stingiest and
seliishest of stingy and selfish men. =
The Cincinnati Commercial is
painfully disturbed on the subject of
| internal improvements by the Gen.
eral Government.
The average price of farm labor
with board in the United States, ac-
cording to the Department of Agri-
culture, is $12.4o.
The only republican papers pub
lished in Virginia are the Valley
Tirginida, published at Staunton,
and the Day Book, published at Nor
folk.
The firm of A. T. Stewart 81 Co.,
pays into the Treasury of the United
States customs duties to the amount
of from $S,00o.e00 to $4,000, 00e u
| year gold.
The Cincinnati Gazette calls Sena-
tor Thurman the ablest democrat in
Ohio. So he is; and though he has
been many years in Congress, his re-
cord there is without spot. The
Ohio democracy may well be proud
of their eminent Senator.
Governor Hendricks of Indiana
made speech at GAINESVILLE the
other day, declaring himself in favor
of specie money as matter of the
Dry, and in favor of irredeemable
paper as a matter of practice. Re-
speeding specie payments he was
very brief bnt in favor of imitation
his speech was long and loud. The
plan of carrying water on both
shoulders, like the religion which
implores the protection alternatively
of the Lord and the devil, is a plan
that will not work.
Full returns give the following re-
suits of the election at San Francis
co, California. The independents"
have elected the Assessors, District
Attorney City and County Attorney,
Chief of Police, Coroner, Public Adj
ministrator, Superintendent of the
Schools and four Supervisors other
wise the Democrats have made
clear sweep, electing Bryant Mayor,
eight Supervisors, with the entire
State, Congressional and Legislative
ticket.
An extensive Indian outbreak is
reported in Eastern Nevada and
| Western Utah. A number of set
tiers and miners have been killed
The women and children are being
removed to places of safety. The
military commander at San Francis
co has been asked for arms and am
munition. Orders have been issued
for infantry and cavalry to proceed
at once from San Francisco and Be-
nicia to Eastern Nevada. The rising
| is attributed to Mormon influences.
| A correspondent of the New York
San, who has travelled | 300 miles i'm
various sections Of Ohio, comes to
the conclusion that Allen will be
elected Governor. The correspond
ent says: "Since j emerged from the
iron and coal districts of the State,
have had no doubt of the election of
Allen in October. When | entered
Ohio two weeks since my opinion as
to the result of the contest between
him and Hayes inclined the other
way. A tour of 1900 miles i'm vari-
GUS sections of the State, with eyes
and ears open to both political par
ties, has gradually carried me to the
opposite conclusion. With five
weeks of the canvass yet remaining,
during which the struggle is to be
kept up with unprecedented vigor, |
do not mean to assert that there Is
no doubt Of the election of Allen.
only say, have none now