Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-06-03
= GETTYSBURG INDEPENDENT.
THE NEWS.

"The Eastern fine-cut tobacco
manufacturers are trying to foil the
Westerncrs." Tin foil them, proba-
bly,.
The st. Louis Times warns the au-
liberties of that city that the keno
houses are running. Trust the Times
/ fellow for finding that out.
Eli Perkins has got into print once
| more with a biography of Emma Alb
bolt. 1t is one of his most extensive
lies nearly two columns long.
Mr.. Won Hellburn, defaulting tax
| collector Of Chicago, who is now on
| the briny sea, owes his downfall to
the C's.-eards, credit and cham
| payne.
The republicans of Dakotah Terri
tory have elected an uninstructed
delegation to the Cincinnati conven-
! ion.
The republicans of the eleventh
| congressional district of Massachu-
sets have chosen Blaine delegates to
Cincinnati.
The books of the Treasury Depart
ment show the amount of silver paid
i, out to the close of business May oath
to be $6,700,000.
1t is reported that the deaths by
yellow fever at Rio Janeri0 average
from so to 100 per day.
The California democratic conven-
ton decided not to nominate presi-
Dental electors until after adjourn
ment of the national convention at
st. Louis.
Francis Peralto, a Mexican, Thurs
day accomplished at Fleetwood Park
Long Island, the difficult task of rid
ing twenty five mustangs distance
of 176 miles in seven hours.
Gen. Hawley President of the Gem
tennial Commission, positively will
resign if the exhibition is opened
Sundays. Sorry to lose you, General
but, ia ia.
G. M. ID. Bloss, one of the editors
of the Cincinnati Enquirer, was
struck by locomotive Sunday night
and instantly killed.
Saturday night the safe of J. b..
Kirby ~ Son, jewelers., in New Ha-
| ven, Connecticut, was burglarized
and 100000 worth of jewelry carried
off.
The six Chinese companies of San
francisco have prepared memorial
to be forwarded to the President Civ
ing their side of the Chinese immi-
grafton question. s
The residence of Col. j. III Branch,
| near Cincinnati, was robbed on Sat-
urday of $4,000 in bonds by a man;
| who called the Colonel's daughter to
the door and threw snuff in her eyes.
The House of Representatives SUBJ
committee Of ways and means will
report that ex-Secretary Boutwell's
award of a lease of the Alaska fur
sea islands were properly made, and
should be sustained.
An explosion Of ulphur occurred
in the Phoenix Park Colliery No.2,
near POttsville, Pa, Saturday NOR
ming, by which thirteen men were
injured, three of whom will proba-
bly, die.
The confession of the murderer
Piper, who was hanged at Boston on
Friday, of his attempt to murder the
girl lyman, has been confirmed by the
finding of a hammer with which he
assaulted her in a cellar where he
stated he had put it.
The Valley of Virginia papers re-
port the growing wheat crop in that
| section as the most promising since
the war, and the Richmond Whig
says the same favorable reports are
received from other sections of the
State.
There was celebration at Louis
vile, Kentucky, on Thursday by the
Baptists of Kentucky, of the hum
dredth anniversary Of the first SER
mon preached in that religion by a
Baptist clergyman-the Rev William
Hickman-who delivered his first
sermon ON May 25th, I776, near Hor-
| rodsburg.
The General Assembly Of the
Presbyterian Church, which has been
holding its session in New York has
adjourned after adopting resolution
expressive of it's desire for union
with the Southern church, and send
inga telegram to that effect to the
General Assembly now in session at
Savannah. The next meeting of the
General Assembly will be held in
Chicago.
California is expecting this year to
raise a larger crop of wheat than
ever. There are two and one-half
millions of acres sown in wheat, and
a crop of at least fifty millions of
bushels is expected. California
wheat, like California wool, rivals
| California gold as an article of profit
for that great State. Her granaries
are now one of the chief sources of