Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-15
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THE NEWS.

CallIOrnla now leads all other States
in wool growing, and pretty much
everything else.
Seven brothers and sisters were
buried at the same funeral at Sand
lake, near Troy, New York, one
day last week. They all died of diph-
liberia.
Montgomery Blair has written
long letter in which he strongly urg-
es the nomination of John w. Gar
rett, President of the b. Il o. r.. r.,
for the next Presidency.
The Beecher trial is approaching
its close. One OF the counsel says so.
But there has been SO much gas-me-
tering in that trial that we are not
prepared To believe him.
The Roman Catholic Bishops of
Prussia have decided to dissolveeyen
the religious orders which the State
tolerates, being unwilling to see them
subjected to governmental supervis-
ion.
At the monthly meeting of the Di-
rectors of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Wednesday, President Gar
rett expressed himself as highly graf
flied with the results of the railroad
war.
The investigation of the means en-
ployed for the election of Mr.. Spencer
to the Senate of the United States
from Alabama, continues to develop
rascalities of the rarest and raciest
order.
A surgical operation was perform
ed on Gen. John G.. Breckinbridge on
Tuesday for a disease of the liver,
but the condition of the patient was
not improved thereby At last ac-
counts he was sinking rapidly.
Amputation has left Mayence for
Rotue to present to the Pope a con-
grab latory address, in which are at
tacted over million of signatures,
on he occasion of his attaining his
SD year, which takes place to-day.
Mexico is afflicted with another
revolution, in consequence of the
publication of church reforms and
expulsion of the Sisters of Charity.
The revolution commenced in Mich
oacan, and is extending and gaining
ground in other States.
The steamship Metropolis, about
whose safety so much painful aniety
has been felt for week OF more past,
arrived in Narragansett Bay We'd
nesday morning with "all well on
board.' This ship has had q
| terrible voyage, experiencing heavy
gales. For the past two weeks the
passengers have had to subSist on po-
tatoes and onions.
The Schiller disaster is even worse
than first reports made it. Only
nineteen passengers were saved, and
more than three hundred and fifty
lost. And as yet no light has been
thrown upon the affair, which re-
mains wrapped in as black an obscu-
rity as was the rocks upon which the
| unfortunate vessel ran.
1t costs 500 to call a railroad mill
lionaire in Massachusetts ga public
robber and public corrupter." The
Springfield Republican has tested the
matter in the case of one Phelps who
sued it for $500. 900 damages. A jury
trial having been dispensed with, it
must crafty Mr.. Phelps to find out
that in the opinion of the Judge he
was only damaged the two thous-
andth part of what he thought he
was.
A tornado passed over the village
of Green Springs, Ohio, on Monday
afternoon, blowing down three hous-
es, by which two children were kill
ed, and demolishing every chimney
in the place. Passing northward sew
eral houses and barns between Green
Springs and Clyde were blown down,
and trees and fences destroyed. At
Clyde the Nicholas House was par
TALLY unroofed, and considerable da-
mage done to stores and residences
between Clyde and Bellevue. Along
the line of the Lake Shore Railroad
scarcely building escaped uninJur-
ed. The course of the storm was
from south to north, and its track
about two miles wide.