Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-01-01
THE NEWS.

Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain is re-
ported to be Ill with measles.
An explosion of fire damp occurred
Tuesday in the Hutchinson mines,
near Kingston. Pa, by which three
men were killed and several severely
injured.
Governor Chamberlain, of South
Carolina, receives praise from all
sides for his energetic efforts to keep
that pair Of rascals, Moses and
Whipper, from degrading the bench.
Susan B. Anthony has been re-
quested to return from Kansas to
New York, so that she can be sum-
moned as a witness in the Loader
perjury case, but declines to do SO.
BY the falling of the floor of a
school house in the village of He'll
kon, Canton of Aagau, Switzland ON
Saturday during the celebration of a
Christmas festival, eighty persons
were killed and fifty injured.
The Richmond Wing says that in
the death of Mr.. Lewis ID. Crenshaw
one Of it's leading business men, which
sad event occurred on Monday after
noon, Richmond has experienced a
heavy loss. She has too few enter
prising men to bear the loss of even
one such lightly.
Railroad Postofflce Clerks and
Route Agents will in future be re-
quired to stamp the word ''mis-sent"
on all letters or newspapers that may
come into their hands eroneously the
practice having been found beneficial
in some of the large postOffices. Two
thousand stamps have been prepared
for the purpose, and will be at once
distributed.
The Examining Committee Of Ply
mouth Church have reported in fa-
vor of granting Mrs. Moulton's re-
quest for a Mutual Council to try
the questions at issue between her
and the church, and it will be called
at as early a day as possible, probably
about the second week in January
The Advisory Council will not be
called until after the adjournment of
the Mutual Council.
So far as heard from a majority of
the members of the National Demo-
cratic Committee are opposed to
holding the next National Conven-
tion east of Cincinnati. Some of the
EASTERN members want the conven-
tion held in Pittsburg. The COM
mittee will not be called together un-
til after the Republican Committee
shall have acted on the time and
place of it's convention.
Governor Allen, of Ohio, is exper-
fencing the bitterness of human in
fidelity. He smothered his lifelong
convictions and simulated a fondness
for the rag-baby because his friends
told him that was sure way for
him to become President. Now those
same friends are convinced that the
Governor has outlived his usefulness
and that George III. Pendleton is
their ideal for a Presidential candi-
date.
Congressman Denison's vote in fa-
vor of a third term has caused a COM
motion in Vermont. The spook is
very unpopular all through the State
and his unexpected appearance in it's
favor causes wide disapproval. The
party newspapers are trying to excuse
him by saying he did not mean to ia
vor third term when he voted for
the resolutio but simply to show
that he considered the measure a
piece of Democratic clap-trap. The
friends of Judge Poland, who was
defeated by Mr.. Denison, are jubi-
laet and noisy.
A a recent article in Harper's
Weekly, presumably by Mr.. George
William Curtis, attracts wide atten-
ton among politicians. 1t points
out that while Grant may be nomi-
mated by the Republicans, and while
there is undoubtedly danger of it,
there are no possible circumstances
under which he can be elected. The
substance of the advice which it has
to give the Republican party, there
fore, is to avoid third termers, but
if there are constituencies which de-
mand them to try to have them open
third termers not sneaks, who strive
to avoid committing themselves.