Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-05-20
THE NEWS.

The Southern press is disposed to
be candid about x-Doorkeeper FitZ-
hugh. They unanimously call him
an ass.
The Petersburg Inde1-AppeGl says
the action of the Connecticut Demo-
Gratis in electing Mr.. Barnum as Sem
ator, was NOTABLY unwise."
Everything is quiet in the mining
regions of Tuscarawas Valley, Ohio,
and the indications are that the strike
is about ended.
The Alabama Republican Conven-
ton, of which Ex-Governor Smith is
Chairman, met at Montgomery on
Tuesday and nominated a full State
ticket.
The seven million dollar suit against
Sweeney, and the one million dollar
suit against Tweed, before the New
poned until June 9Th.
Gordon w. Rollins, Wall street
broker, has brought suit against the
New York Herald for 500, 900 dam
ages, for saying that he was one of
the American bond forgers arrested
in Paris.
THE hotel rates in Phil adelphia
are coming down already. Even one
of the two first-class hotels in the
city announces that it will charge
during the Centennial it's old rate of
$3.50 per day. That is sensible.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany announces that it will reduce
the price of round trip tickets from
all points east to Cincinnati and st.
Louis during the continuance of the
Republican and Democratic Nation
al Conventions.
The Independent Presidential Con-
ference held another meeting Tues
day at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New
York, and adopted an address to the
people of the country setting forth
their views on the political situation
and the methods they propose for the
publication of the civil service.
Mr.. Gibson, of the New York San,
contradicts that part of Mr.. Riddles
last statement which makes him the
author of the garbled account of the
Knowlton story about the transfer of
Kansas Pacific Railroad bonds by
Mr.. Blaine land demands correction
of the statement.
Mr.. VOORHEES, and Mr.. Knox ,couil-
sci for Mckee and Mcguire, made an
appeal to the President for a pardon
or modification of the sentences of
their clients. The President refer
red them to the Attorney General,
but Judge Plerrepont, after an inn
partial hearing, declined to interfere,
holding that the law must take its
course, and that no further delay in
the execution of the sentences could
be granted.
The Committee on Ways and
Means, through Mr.. Morrison, re-
ported the Senate bill to allow Mrs.
Minnie Sherman-Fitch to receive her
diamond necklace without the pay
ment of the usual customs duty. Mr..
Faulkner, of West Virginia, was the
leader of a very small minority who
opposed the proposition. The bill
eventually passed without yea and
nay vote. due, however, more to the
quick ruling Of Speaker Cox than the
desire of the objecting party to allow
the beneficiary to be thus excepted.
The Ohio democratic convention
met at Cincinnati Wednesday. Hon.
George HI. Pendleton was made per-
manent president, and James w.
Newman secretary. n question Of
contest as to the seat of Hon. G.. f.
Cary, which the committee had set
tied in his favor, created much ex-
element, and Mr.. Cary finally dis
posed of it by withdrawing his name
as delegate. The committee on
resolutions made two reports. The
minority report which was presented
by Mr.. Morgan and represented nine
of the twenty members of the COM
mittee, was adopted by vote of 1856
to 266. 1t favors the repeal OF the
resumption law and the gradual SUBJ
stitution of legal-tenders for nation-
al bank notes,n mo forced contraction,
no forced imitation, but Il sound cur
rency, equal to the wants of trade,to
be regulated in volume and gradual
ly equalized with gold 10y making it
receivable for customs and intercOn-
vertible with 3 ,65 government bonds,
an income tax to meet at least the
premium on gold to pay the interest
ON the public debt, and the making
of silver Il legal-t'nder for the pay
ment of all debts, public and private.
The report closed by recommending
the name of VIM. Allen as the
choice of the Democrats of Ohio for
the Presidency, and requesting the
delegates to st. Louis to favor his
nomination.