Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-08-12
THE NEWS.

Returns from the Alabama cleo
ton continues to show large demo-
cratic gains.
The election in Alabama on Tues.
day resulted in the election of the
Democratic State ticket, and Dem
ocratic majority in both branches of
the legislature by large majorities.
Gen. Benz. Harrison has formally
accepted the nomination for Govern
or recently rendered him by the re-
publican State central committee Of
Indiana, in place of Gollove S. Orth,
declined.
Advices from the Northwest, indi-
cate the imminency of warm work
between Crooks column, now about
to advance, and the hostile Indians.
Meantime suspicious movements of
Indians are reported in the South
west.
James Spicer and his daughter.
aged IL years, and John Fillmore, all
Of Mayville, N. Y, were CT )sized
from a rowboat Monday night at
Long Point, on Chau.e aga lake, and
all drowned. The bodies have been
recovered.
AT Oxley, Ohio, a few miles from
Cincinnati, Sunday, Burrell Dudley,
a colored man, shot and killed his
son, aged Is, while the latter was
protecting his mother from abuse by
his father. Another son, aged II,
interfering, was beaten owe. the
head with the gun in his fathers
hands, and left for dead.
The Georgia State crop report
shows the condition of corn to be 100,
which is 20 per cent. better than at
this time last year. Cotton Is 104,
also % per cent better than last year.
Sugar-cane, ground peas, sweet pota-
toes and almost every other crops is
above the average. Crops in bottom
lands in many counties have been in
jured by overflow, and some rust is
reported in cotton.
Advices have been received
from Gen. Crook at his camp on
Goose creek, Of date of July 16. He
| intended to attack the Indians on
i the 18th Of July, but learned that
they had been reinforced, and con-
cluded to wait for the same reason,
having learned that the United
States soldiers were enroute to his
relief. He intends to act at once on
the aggressive, and appears to have
no doubt Of his success. He has suf-
ficient rations to last until the end of
September.
The answer Of Charles Butler,
Samuel J. Tilden, Russell Sage and
others in the case of the st. Louis,
Alton and Terre Haute Railroad
Company was filed in the United
States Circuit Court for New York
Tuesday. MI. Tilden, answering
for himself, says that from 1862 to
1873, as well as before that time, he
acted as counsel for the company;
that "his services have been very la
borious, requiring special and pecu-
liar skill and abilities" and that for
such services he has never received
any compensation, and also denies
having participated i'm the distribu-
tion OF stocks or bonds of the road to
third parties.
The latest from Generals Crook
and Terry is not at all encouraging.
The hostile Sioux seem greatly en-
boldened by their signal success at
the little Big Horn, while u troops
+ represented as correspondingly
| depressed. At last accounts the
| commands Of Crook and Terry were
| seventy-five miles apart, and were
e~ndeavoring to effect a junction.
The Indians were picking off Crooks
men, driving in his scouts and steal
ing his stock, and so cautiously did
he have to march that he made but
six miles per day. 1t isnow evident
that there will be no general engage
ment if it can be avoided, until the
two columns unite their forces. A
bloody conflict will then be inevita-
BILE, provided the Indians are willing
to measure strength with our troops.
The number of hostile savages is es-
timated at from 5000 to 5000 one
estimate puts it at 1900. The lat
ter estimate, however, is absurd, as
the entire Sioux nation embraces but
about 10000 souls, and the major
part Of the Indians are on their res
ervations eating the bread of idle
ness supplied by the government.