Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-01-29

THE NEWS.

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The Senate Of Iowa has resolved
to limit that States appropriation
for the centennial to $4,000.
The Cincinnati Commercial linde-
J pendent) thinks that Bristow is the
favorite Presidential candidate of
the Liberal and outside forces.
! At a meeting Of coal companies
held in New York Thursday. total
suspension of mining operations was
ordered for five weeks from February
| It'll.
4 Two squares of buildings, compris-
ing half the town of Apollo. Pa,
were burned on Wednesday night.
/ originating in the explosion Of coal
oil lamp.
Allegheny City has been made Il
new Roman Catholic diocese, with
! Bishop Domenee as Bishop, the Very
Rev. DR.. Twigg being appointed as
Bishoo of Pittsburg.
1 A STUMP speaker. in dealing with
| the : modern physical degeneracy of
| women,n exclaimed, 1--WE must take
good care of our grand-mothers, for
we shall never get any more.
On Friday the Legislature of Ken
/ lucky expressed a sentiment in favor
of that State making an appropria-
tion towards the centennial. .s
Mr.. Moody, the evangelist. has
gone to Florida to place his son in d
milder atmosphere. He will return
in time to commence his labors in
New York on the LIST of February.
Wouldn't it tend to simplify the
amnesty question IN Congress, and
pour oil on the troubled waters If jeff
Davis would just come ON and read
them that Winnebago Agricultural
Address.
THE London Saturday Review says
that the farmers and traders of the
United States are probably superior
in moral and intellectual qualities to
the bulk of any other civilized com
munity."
Miss Anna Dickinson's new lee
ture is entitled Sowing and Reap
ing An old bachelor crnelly says
that Sowing and Ripping would be
a more appropriate subject for wo-
man.
AT a meeting of the Republican
State Executive Committee of Vir-
| ginia, held in Richmond, a resolution
was unanimously adopted declaring
for Blaine for President.
Hon. Lynde Harrison has engaged
rooms at Gilmor's Grand Hotel, Gin
cinnati, for the Connecticut delega-
tion to the Republican National Con-
vention.
Indiana editors don't believe in
leaving their wives at home when
they go travelling, that's evident
Philadelphia papers number the ex-
cursion party at ''140 journalists, ac-
companied by 155 ladies' y
A Fort Edward woman, of ques-
tionable reputation, has set half the
married women in the town by the
ears, by gaining access to a photo
graph gallery, and securing their
husbands pictures for exhibition in
her parlor album.
AT a Republican caucus of the
Maine legislature delegates were Sc
| lected to the National Republican
| Convention, and q resolution passed
unanimously declaring that the Hon.
James G.. Blaine is the choice of the
Republicans Of Maine for the Presi-
dency.
The Cincinnati Commercial says:
''Blaine could not speak or be silent,
be present or absent, noisy or reti-
cent, quarrels0me or cOncilliatOry,
without exciting a yell that he is
| playing part. He might as well
have the game as the blame"
A building is to be erected on the
| Centennial grounds for the exhibit
ton of files of newspapers. 1t is to
have a capacity of displaying eight
thousand files of newspapers and
serve as the headquarters of journal
lists, and all the requisites for gi-
gantic reading-room.
The Pennsylvania Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee has unanimously
adopted a resolution inviting the
| Democratic National Committee to
fix on Philadelphia as the place and
the 4th OF July as the time for hold
ing the convention.
In the Virginia Senate the bill APP
propriating $4,000 towards a repre-
sentation of the industries of that
State at the centennial exhibition
was defeated by vote of nineteen to
seventeen-three less than the requi-
site majority of all the members Of
that body. This is considered final
defeat Of any appropriation by the
State of Virginia.
According to the Washington cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Press
a few prominent Republican Sena-
ators and Representatives have ex-
pressed the hope that delegates to the
Republican National Convention