Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-06-10

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the Black Hills to Yanton, bringing
with them $50, 900 in gold dust.
Tom Ewing, of Ohio, thinks Han
cock is coming forward rapidly. AL
len is a loser by this opinion.
Ex-Governor Bullock, of Massa-
chuSetts, declines, on account of
previous engagements, to be q dele
gate to the Cincinnati Convention.
The Supreme Court of New York
has adjourned until October the
seven million suit against Peter b.
Sweeney and the one million suit
against VIM. M. Tweed.
An explosion of steam boiler oc-
Cured Monday morning in the Col
lier white lead works at st. Louis, by
which a portion of the building was
demolished and several employees Sc
verely injured.
Before the Congressional inyesti-
eating committee ut New Orleans
Tuesday several witnesses testified to
Collector Casey being connected with
the Whiskey Ring in that city, and
to Sypher's being implicated in
frauds on the pay department of the
Custom House.
The death of Mary S. Fuller from
abortion, in Boston, last Thursday,
has led to the arrest of Miss Fannie
Drake, the practitioner, and Lysander
Denham, the latter having, as Is al
legged burned the body of the child in
a stove to prevent discovery.
Thomas f. p. Milstead, late inter-
nal revenue collector at Yorktown,
Va, recently convicted of embezz-
ling government funds, has been
sentenced by Judge Bond to two
years Imprisonment and $500 fine.
A dispatch from Beaufort, S. c.,
to the Savannah News, says that the
wife of Capt. T. II. Smith, of the
monitor Saugus, lying at Port Royal,
was found dead in her room at a ho-
tel in that city Saturday. 1t is sup
posed she committed suicide. The
case will be investigated.
Messrs. Frank M. Pixley and p.
r.. Roach, delegates from San Fran
cisco, made arguments before the
foreign relations committee OF the
Senate at Washington, Wednesday,
on the Chinese question showing the
necessity of immediate action by the
government 20 prevent the importa-
| tion of coolies, and the Monaghan
criminal classes. Senator Sargent
also made comprehensive argument
on the question.
The reunion of the Army of the
James was held at theChesnut Street
Theatre, Philadelphia, Wednesday.
The theatre was handsomely decOra-
ted with bunting, eyergreens and
flowers. Gen. Samuel A. Duncan
presided. Among the officers pres
ent were Generals Sherman, Cad
wallader, Weitzel, Gordon and Haw-
ley. Gen. Jos. II. Hawley delivered
the Grafton and an appropriate
poem was read by Jas. b. Everhart,
after which the audience was dis
missed and the society went into
business meeting.
The reunion of the Grand Army
of the Potomac was held in the acad-
envy Of Music at Philadelphia We'd
nesday. The stage was embellished
with cannon, stacked arms, flags and
tents, and the sauditorum draped in
the national colors. Gen. Hancock
presided and made a short speech.
Gen. John A. Dix delivered the ora
ton, in which he urged the re-estab-
lishment of amicable social as well as
politicas relations, and the restora-
tion of kind feeling between the
North and South. A poem was read
by Winters entitled the" Voice of ST.
lence." Short speeches were made by
Gems. Sherman, Sheridan, Hooker,
and others.
A diabolical outrage was perpetra-
ted on the person of young marri-
ed women named Mrs. Richard Har-
ris, residing in the surthern section
of Frederick county, Md, by two
men named Scott Andrews and
Frank Nichols, alss residents of the
same vicinity. From what can be
CLEANED it appears that the two men
called at Harris's house during his
absence, and knocking at the door
were answered by his wife, said to
be about eighteen years of age, who.
noticing large knife in the hands
of one, and suspecting an evil intent
started to run from them. Being
overtaken, however, the villains ac-
complished their purpose and then
fled across the line into Montgom-
cry county. This morning, it is un-
derstood, they had the audacity to
make overtures to the distressed
husband looking to compromise
whereby they might escape arrest.
yet no arrests have been made.
Mrs. Harris's head, neck and chest
were shockingly bruised, and her
appearance shows that she made
great resistance to her brutal out
RACERS. Neither of the villains is
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