Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-06-17
THE NEWS.

The attendance in both Houses of
Congress Monday was very slim.
The Democrats had a majority in the
Senate.
Allthe mills of the Sprague Manu-
featuring Company at Providence,
II. l., will shut down as soon as the
stock on hand can be run out. The
Hamilton Print Works at Lowell
Mass. have suspended operation in
consequence of a st !. of the calico
printers.
A bill for the relic. sf suspended
employees Of the Unit, s,tates Treas
ury (giving those not reinstated two
months pay) was introduced in the
House yesterday by Mr.. Willard Of
Michigan.
/ A bridge on the Ulster and Della
ware railroad, neal Rondout, N. ",
has been burned by striking quarry
man, to prevent the company from
quarrying any more stone.
John Morgan was drowned in the
James River, at Richmond, Va, on
Tuesday, while trying to say the life
of a friend. Both were stone cutters,
and employed in the government
works. Morgan was a native of En-
gland. He leaves a wife.
The bronze statue of the celebrated
trotter, American Girl, was unveiled
at Elmira IN. " Driving Park on
Tuesday, in the presence OF 4 large
number of spectators. It is life size,
standing upon a granite pedestal,
which rests upon a mound Of earth,
underneath of which lies the body Of
the "Girl.,
Sam Anderson, colored, who was
arrested in Memphis, Tenn. Monday,
for attempting an outrage on Miss
Vaughan, of Desoto county, Miss,
and cutting the throat of her brother
and leaving him for dead, was taken
from the officers Monday morning by
a body of armed men and hung. His
father, charged with being an access
sorry to the attempted murder, is in
Jail.
The Delaware Democratic State
Convention met at Dover Tuesday,
adopted hard money resolutions, and
appointed delegates to the st. Louis
convention, with instruction to vote
for Thomas +. Bayard for the presi-
Dental nomination. The Maine
democratic convention met at Ban
gor, nominated John G. Talbot for
Governor, passed anti-inflation reso-
lutions, appointed delegates to st.
Louis, and declared Tildcn to be the
first choice of the convention for the
national presidency
The Washington Correspondent Of
the Baltimore Gazette says: There
has seldom ever been Witnessed in
the House of Representatives so
impressive a scene as to-day follow
ing the reading of the report exon
Grating Speaker Kerr from the
charge made against him by Law
renee Harvey. Mr.. Bass was the only
MEMBER of the committee absent,
otherwise the report would have
had the signature Of all the members.
Mr.. DanfOrd ,one of the republican
members, addressed the House in a
most feeling manner, regretting that
the character Of men in high places
could be so easily assailed, and that
charges base and malicious be too
readily believed by a great many of
the people. During his speech a still
ness like that which pervades the
hall on funeral occasions hushed ev-
cry footstep. From the republican
side came the motion that the vote
should be a standing one, on the I'M
animous adoption OF the report, and
the Speaker was requested to count
the number, that it might be enter
ed upon the journal OF the House,
Two hundred and ten members arose.,
and then it was voted to formally ac-
quaint the Speaker of the action Of
of the House in indicating his good
name and unsullied character, by
sending to him a certified copy of the
report and action of the House.
When Mr.. Kerr heard Of the mag
unanimous conduct OF his political OPP
ponents he wept, and his emotions
quite overcame him. AT an early day
he intends to go to Red Sulphur
Springs, West Virginia, where he is
promised remarkable advantages to
aid him in strengthening his sys-
tenn.