Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-01-08
THE NEWS.

/ HSninent or a3n III Democratic org
Washington have for the present
been abandoned
Secretary Belknap has gone to Iowa
and it is announced that he will be 4
candidate for the United states SEN
ate in the place Of Judge Wright.
A fire at Piedmont, in this State,
on Saturday consumed some twenty
buildings, of which ten were occu-
pied as stores. The Town Hall and
postoffice were also destroyed.
Senator Morton will bring up his
resolution for the appointment of a
committee to investigate affairs in
Mississippi on Thursday next. Ii it
is passed it will he by a close vote.
The discovery has just been made
that the prisoners in the Ohio Peni-
Tertiary have for some time past
been making counterfeit nickles,
which We're put out by little son of
the Warden.
Mr.. Washburne, our Minister at
Paris, has communicated the note of
the United States on Cuban Affairs
to the French Foreign Minister. 1t
disclaims any desire to annex Cuba,
or to require Spain to grant autono-
my, although favoring that reform.
THE Baltimore oyster market is
just now completely glutted, there
being at the different docks about
10000 bushels of the juicy bivalves.
Prices range from % cents to 81 per
bushel, according to quality. The
recent warm weather has caused the
stagnation in the trade, as dealers
are afraid to purchase lest their stock
should turn bad on their hands,
The arrivals, too, have been unu-
sually large.
SOME down-easter has petitioned
Congress for an appropriation of
e100, 900 to erect bronze statue to
Lafayette in Washington city. We
are opposed to any appropriation for
statue or monuments until the
Washington monument at the Ma
tional capital is completed. That
will be about the time the National
debt will be paid off, and then we
will begin to have a surplus again,
and can build as many of those
things as may be wanted.
A novel contest is soon to take
place at Red House Shoals, Putnam
county, w. Va. 1t will be between
two packs of hounds, to show their
comparative speed and training
One pack belongs to Messrs. John
III. Van Buren,, Leonidas Cakes and
James Thomas, of Kanawha coun-
ty, and the other to g. G. Bronaugh,
of Putnam. A fox is to be chased,
and Reynard's skin, should it be cap
tured, is to be the insignia of victo-
ry in the contest.
The whiskey seizures in Chicago
last week formed one of the most i'm
portant episodes of the war upon the
fraudulent trade. 1t is not only the
amount of money-three quarters of
a million of dollars-they will net the
Government that makes them sig
nifiicant, but also the fact that they
will very probably lead to the expos
ure ofrevenue officials who have been
heavily paid by the Whisky Ring to
connive at the frauds. 1t is said that
this movement grew out of informa
ton which Secretary Bristow obtain
ed from members of the Ring already
under indictment, and who are will
ling to tell all they knew in the hope
of securing leniency towards them
selves.
In the case of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad, before the United States
Circuit Court at Washington, Judge
Bond delivered the opinion Of tho Court
announcing that an order would be is
sued directing Henry Tyson, heretofore
appointed Receiver by him, to settle his
accounts by the goth inst, when he will
be discharged and the parties to the
suit be allowed to proceed in the State
Courts In accordance with the wishes of
the creditors Of the road. The effect OF
this decision will be to place the affairs
of the road in the hands of Gen. Wick
ham, previously appointed Receiver by
the State Courts. As soon as this is
effected the foreclosure Of the mort
cages and sale of the property will fol-
low, when it will be purchased in the
interest of all classes of creditors and
reorganized upon plan generally sat
isfactory. The road cost $40, 900, 900,
and its present Indebtedness amounts to
about $27'0O0, 900
The Postoffice Department has made