Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-11-18
THE NEWS.
SATURDAY, Nov. 18th,


The total interments at Savannah
were six, of which three were from
yellow fever. The was a heavy frost
in the morning. yesterday the total
interments were again six, of which
three were from yellow fever.
One Of the piers of the railroad
bridge at Louisiana, Mo-, having
been undermined by the current,
went down few days ago with a
crash, without warning, taking two
long spans of the bridge with it. BY
good luck there was no one on the
falling section at the time, and the
only loss occasioned by the casualty
was that of the property itself,
amounting to some 5000, 900.
Further accounts of the effects of
the cyclone in India on the 31st of
October represent them as much
more terrible than at first represent
ed. Twenty, some estimates say
forty, thousand persons persisted. In
one of the towns three thousand
houses were blown down. The de-
struction appears to have extended
over the whole of the eastern por-
tion of Bengal. From Bombay the
reports of the famine are worse.
Though the dismantling of the ex-
hibits at the Centennial has begun,
it is said in no way to interfere with
sightseeing, and the display can be
now seen with more comfort than
formerly. A meeting of citizens ia
vorable to forming stock company
to secure the main building as per-
manent exhibition was held on Sat-
urday, and the preliminary measures
were taken for that object.
The reports to the Savannah Cot
ton Exchange from forty EIGHT coun-
ties of Georgia for the month Of Oc-
tober represent that the weather has
been clear and warm and exceeding
ly favorable for gathering the crop
in good condition; much more favor
able than last season, as shown by
the superior grade of cotton. The
estimate of the yield is that it will
be greater by fifteen per cent. than
that Of last year. In Florida, re-
ports state that the crop will not ex-
coed that of last year, which was
short one.
MONDAY, Nov, 18th.
Reports Of the Mississippi cotton
crop say that about three-fourths of
it has been gathered, and the yield
is estimated to be twenty-four per
cent less than that of last year, but
in much better condition as to clean
ly gathering.
President Grant has pardoned w.
o. Avery, who has been for some
months imprisoned in the Missouri
penitentiary, having been convicted
Of completely in the whisky frauds.
Mckee, it is stated will also be par
doned in day rtwo.
Specie to the value of eighty-four
thousand pounds sterling was with
drawn from the Bank of England
yesterday for shipment to the United
States. The steamship Oden from
Southampton to New York yester-
day brought 1912 sos, of which $780,
900 was gold coin, the remainder
silver bars.
Reports to the Mobile Cotton EX-
change from fif.y-six counties in
Alabama with regard to the cotton
crop say that the weather has been
dry and more favorable than last
year, tie crop Will be entirely har
vested by the 18th. The yield is "a
per cent, less in fourteen of the bot
tom land counties, and ten per cent
less in thirty-two of the upland
counties. The crop has been gath
cred much more clearly than last
year, making the grade higher.
TUESDAY, Nov. 18th.
Notices were posted on Saturday
in all the mills of Manchester, N. Ill.
of reduction of wages five to fif-
teen per cent, to take effect Nov.
9th.
The Medical Society of Savannah
to-day declared the yellow fever cpl
demic at an end in that city, and no
titles absentees that it is safe to re-