Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-07-29
STATE NEWS.

Preston county promises a big
crop of chesnuts.
A ponderous panther has been
seen near the Cheat Mountain
House.
The lion Chas. j. addressed the
Hampshire Democrats at Romney
Monday.
Snake bites are the most excit-
ing news items in the back dis
tricts at present.
The Pilgrims is the name of a
new BENEVOLENT order started in
Clarksburg.
Canal boats, railroad trains, Gyp-
sey camps. steamboats, and camp
meetings are being canvassed for
Tilden and Hayes votes.
DIR. r p. Davis, the we'll known
physician and politician of Park
ersburg, died Thursday. His ie-
mains were taken to C~larksburg.
The Kanawha county Teachers
Association passed a resolution
recommending Prof. Martin Hill
as State Superintendent OF schools
to the Parkersburg Convention.
Two Parkersburg girls went
blackberrying. One was prostrated
by the heat. and the other COM
panion was frightened into in
sanity by the fate OF her friend.
The Portland Presbyterian s
have almost finished their new
church. The Kingwood Journal
thinks the steeple two large but
the disproportion may be toned
down "by skillful combination
of colors."
Kanawha county's running ex-
penses before the war were $780,
600 per annum Since the war they
have been $50, 1000. Before the war
the Prosecuting Attorney got
$3.50, while now that honorable
gets $1,000.
The Courier says of the Kama
wha Convention The delibera-
tons of the convention were de-
cidedly stormy for a while, and at
one time there were serious appre-
tensions Of a break up. We do
not Of course, intend to claim
that the contest for the Sheriffal-
ty nomination had at all All ami
cable termination. This could not
be said of a democratic struggle
when the final result was greeted
by loud hurrahs for the Republic
can nominee.
Last Wednesday Owen s. Nc
Kinney, of Palatine, shot his faith
er-in-law, E. HI. Ayers. McKin-
ney married Ayers daughter
against his consent,and ever since,
Ayers has abus ed Mckinney and
his wife. About a week ago he
went to McKinuey's house and
abused and applied to Mrs. Nc
Kinney the vilest epithets We'd
nesday, as Mckinney heard Ayers
talking in an abusive way about
himself and wife, he went home,
and, it is thought, got a revolver
and then returned, meeting Ayers
near the store. Mckinney told
Ayers he must stop his talk about
his wife. Ayers started toward
Mckinney, who ~retreated as far
as he could and then fired, the ball
taking effect in Ayers throat. The
wound was considered mortal.
Isaac and Samuel Perkins were
acquitted by the jury at Chenille,
Gilmer county, in the face of what
is styled unimpeached evidence.
eff the result the Mountaineer
says: How long is it to be thus?
Shall the murderers of Jemima
Green, who was a poor, helpless
misguided orphan just merged in
to womanhood, be permitted to go
free? Shall crime of the darkest
hue; crime at which satan himself
would blush, be permitted to go
unpublished? II so we, say Alas !
Alas !! for the civilization of the
nineteenth century. The men
had been convicted at the trial in
Braxten county. last December.
A Hampshire county enti- Bour
bonite writes to the Romney In
telligencer on the question of
Judge Hoge's nomination for Con-
gress; The patience and long suf-
fering of nine counties in this
Congressional District. lying west
of the Alleghanies, at the contin-
ued and arrogant self-assertion
exhibited by the eight counties on
this side, claiming every Federal
or State Office of distinction or
trust, is or ought to be we'll nigh
worn out. Look at it: Jefferson,
Court of Appeals Judge; Berkeley,
Representative in Congress;
Hampshire, Governor, Attorney