Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-03-25

THE NEWS.

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April 9th.
The North Carolina democratic
convention is to be held in Raleigh
on the 14th of June.
The last batch of wliskey cases at
Chicago We're called f. trial Friday,
when the defendants pleaded guilty.
A despatch from Chi ago speaks of
a violent storm to the Northwest,
which had lasted two days, doing
much damage to the telegraph wires
l. d. Bell, proprietor of the Peo-
PIES Defence, newspaper at Jack
son, Mississippi, killed Augustus
Carey, a printer, in business diff
Guilty. Bell is in custody.
The costs of the Tweed $4,000 900
suit in New York will amount to
about 500, 900. Judgment will not be
filed nor executions issued until
Judge Westbrook has given his de-
cision on motion for executions to
be heard by the General term.
Ex-Governor Letcher, of Virginia,
who some weeks ago was stricken
with paralysis, is now able to sit up
and converse with his friends, and
will soon be removed from Richmond
to his home in Rockbridge, Va. 1t
is not believed that he will ever re-
cover the full use of his limbs. A
resolution has been introduced in
the Legislature directing the pay
ment OF the expenses Of his illness
out of the contingent fund.
Gen. r.. w. Cox, Chairman Of the
North Carolina State Democratic
Executive Committee, was arrested
on Thursday on q warrant issued by
United States Commissioner Cassidy
at Wilmington, charged with con-
spiracy with four of the commissions
erS OF Robson county to defraud
r. M. Norment of his seat in the
late constitutional convention. He
left for Wilmington in charge of a
deputy marshal.
The Rhode Island Democratic
State Convention met at Providence
Thursday. Gen. George L. Cooke
was nominated for Governor, Ziba
o. Slocum for Lieutenant Governor,
John p. Price for Secretary of State,
Oscar S. Lapham for Attorney Gen.
eral, and VIM. p Congdon for Gen.
eral Treasurer. Delegates were also
elected to the National Democratic
Convention.
In the criminal Court at Washing
ton Friday, Halleck, the clerk who
was convicted of stealing $47, 900
from the Treasury, was sentenced to
four years imprisonment in the PEN
itentiary at hard labor. The trial Of
Gilman, indicted as an accessory,
was then commenced.
Attorney General Pierrepont has
heard from the messenger sent by
him to Canada to procure the pres
ence of Mr.. Marsh in Washington,
and expects that the object will be
accomplished in a few days. Terms
of safety have been offered to him.
Barton and Sanderson, the mail
contractors accused of bribery by the
use Of money in the Postoffice De-
partment. and of burning their books
to conceal improper transactions, de-
nv the assertions as false and mali
cious. They assert that they have
been Systematically blackmailed for
years past, and the present attack
could have been prevented If they
had been. willing to submit to fur
ther imposition. They will prove
that their books were not burned by
producing them.
A conference Of leading Republi.
cans was held in Worcester, Massa-
chusetts, on Friday, the object of
which was to secure delegation to
the National Convention which will
give the voice of the State for can
didate whose character will be q
guarantee of purity and ability. Two
committees were appointed, one to
prepare an address and the other on
correspondence. In reference to can
didates for the presidency, majori-
ty of those who expressed their
views favored Mr.. Bristow or Mr..
Adams.
The Democrats are receiving a
large amount of advice, good or bad,
rs 1t may prove, from journals of
Inelr own IOllOWlng. Inc fhliadei-
phia Times says ssthat discounting
from the result in New Hampshire
all that can be charged to the notO-
rious debauchery OF power, and con-
ceding much for the deep-seated sec
tional prejudices which abound
among its people, the verdict remains
one of pointed political significance.
1t is an admonition plain as the light
Of MONDAY that the Democracy of
Washington, with it's Bourbon imbe-
cility, is the last political commodity
the nation will accept, even as against
debauched Republican rule. 1t is a
notice that he who runs may read. to
the Randalls, the Hills and the Tue
kers, who have assumed the Demo-
cratic leadership. that il they ranra-