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

kand a pretext for the annexation of
the remainder of the country.
There are now in North Carolina
two hundred and thirty lodges of the
order of Good Templars, with a men,
hership of ten. thousand.
A Tennessee court has Just decided
that teacher has the same right to
enforce obedience from a child that
a parent has, and can therefore inflict
corporalpunishment when necessary.
Governor Hendricks, of Indiana,
has accepted an invitation to deliv-
er the opening address of the South
em States Agricultural and Indus
trial Exposition. on the 26th of iNeb-
ruary.
A dispatch from WilkesbaIre, Pa,
states that the late thaw has started
The ice in the Susquehanna, which
has gorged and overflowed the flat
between that city and Kingston.
Bremen dispatches give an account
of a massacre of some 1000 Egyptian
troops by the Abyssinians. An Egyp-
tian expedition is about leaving Cal
70, which will be joined by every
American in the service Of the khe-
dive.
In response to an invitation to re-
cognize the enterprise by contribut-
ing works of art to the exhibition,
Pope Plus TX has written "a letter to
the Centennial authorities "couched
in the warmest terms Of friendship
for the United States. =
Pesquira, Governor of Sonora Mex
oo,with 600 armed revolutionists, has
retreated into Arizona. The Cover
nor of Arizona calls on General
Kautz to drive them back to fight
their battles in their own country.
The "code'' is not extinct yet in
New York. Mr.. Henry Reenz has
been arrested for sending challenge
to fight duel and committed to
await the result of inquiry as to his
sanity. This is the kind of an i'm
quiry that might well be made in all
such cases.
A gang of desperadoes boarded a
passenger train on the Reading rail-
road, near Mount Camel, Pa. Tues
day night fired on the conductor and
brakeman, and then commenced
beating conductor, who was finally
rescued by several passengers. Spe-
cial police have since been placed on
duty to guard the tracks and trains
of the railroad company in the vicin-
ity of Mount Carmel.
The Brazilian exhibition was
opened at Rio de Janeiro on the End
of December, the fiftieth birthday of
the Emperor, and on the same day the
Emperor's grandson was baptized.
These events were celebrated with
great rejoicing gifts were distributed
to the poor, and many slaves were
liberated apart from the law of grad
ual emancipation.
The recent efforts of the Chicago
Inter-Ocean toally Secretary Bristow
with the whiskey ring do not seem
to be meeting with success. Per-
sons in Louisville mentioned as cog
INFANT of the Secretary's connection
with the ring deny the statements,
and the democrats in Louisville are
said to be indignant at the Inter
Oceans course. 1t is ascertained
that Secretary Bristow does not
know Hobart, of Cincinnati, with
whom the Inter-Ocean charges he al
ways stays when in that city.
The presidents of all the national
and State banks in Charleston S. c.,
together with all the principal mer-
camille firms, irrespective of parties,
have united in a dispatch to Cover
nor Chamberlain approving his
course in refusing to sign the COM
missions of F. j. Moses, Jr., twhitc,)
and w. J. Whipper, (colored, J recen-
thy elected State Judges by the Leg
islature. They say that they believe
a blow has been struck in the late
judicial election threatening ruin to
the people of the State land they will
do all they can to sustain the Cover
nor in what he hes done.
A number of the leading members
of the bar of the parish of st. Mary,
La, Wednesday evening presented
to Il. b. Mentz, the parish Judge, a
formal request that he resign his Of
fee, stating as their reasons that his
is manifest, and the
motives which in most
cases Influence his decisions are pal |
pable. The judge responds that he |
has tried to perform his duty faith
fully and impartiallyy and that as the |
,igners of the request did not vote |
Tor him at the last election, he |
,hOuld continue tn admiriisfar the
of his office until his con-
'tituents call upon him to resign. 1t
S the intention Of the members of
he bar to appeal to the Legislature
or his impeachment.
The telegraph reports two supposed
shocks at Richmond, Va,
between eleven and twelve O'Clock,
Wednesday night, causing general |
Ilarm in that city. This is the first