Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-03-18
THE NEWS.

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and great loss of life and property is
reported.
Senator Cragin telegraphed to SEN
ator Morton that the Republican ma
iority in New Hampshire will ex-
coed 5000.
1t is believed that Marsh will be
back in Washington in day or two
under promise of safety from pros
ecution.
Governor Tilden, of New York,
has vetoed the convict-labor bill pass
ed by the assembly of that State.
The New York Democratic State
Convention to elect delegates to the
National Convention will be held at
Utica, April 20.
The Republicans of the third Con-
necticut district have nominated
Hon. John T. Wait for Congress in
place of the late Henry I'll. Stark
weather.
The Democrats of the third Con-
necticut district have nominated
David Welles for Congress to ell
the vacancy caused by the death of
III. B. Starkweather.
At the municipal elections held in
Maine on Monday, the Republicans
were generally successful or made
large gains over the elections last
year.
A bill was introduced in the House
of Representatives providing for
tax of One-twentieth of one per cent.
upon all sales of gold, with penalty
of 5000 for every failure to report
sales.
The proposition for the Govern
ment to purchase the entire product
of the consolidated Virginia and
California mines for use in the re-
sumption ofspecie payments is under
consideration but not consummated.
A summary of the damages in
Missouri inflicted by the late lorna
do says that seven persons were kill
ed and seventeen injured. Thirty
houses were blown down and one
thousand miles of fencing Frustrated
In some places the ground was COW
cred with eight inches of hail.
The Virginia State Conservative
Committee have fixed the oath of
May as the time and Richmond the
place for holding the State Conven-
tion to nominate delegates to the ma
tional Democratic Convention, and
to reorganize the party.
The Democratic caucus were in
session at Washington till near mid
night Wednesday, and finally reSol-
we'd to press MIR. Payne's bill to its
passage in the House. 1t provides
for repeal of the date fixed by law
for the resumption of specie payments
and provides for gradual resump-
ton.
Richard II. Dana, Jr., who has
been nominated for Minister to Eng
land, is to appear before the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations and
be heard in reply to certain charges
of literary piracy preferred by Gene
raj Butler. 1t is not true that the
President has been requested to re-
call the nomination.
The stockholders of the Valley r.
r. held their annual meeting at
Staunton, Va, on Wednesday. The
lease of the road to the Baltimore &
Ohio will terminate on the LIST of
May. The Board of Directors was
instructed to lease the road on terms
that would cover all expenses, inclu-
ding wear and tear of the track.
jeremiah S. Black, of Pennsylva-
mia, Sames B. Beck, of Kentucky,
and Charles j. Jenkens, of Georgia,
have been selected by the States of
Maryland and Virginia to settle the
long standing boundary dispute be-
tween them. They will sit in Wash
ington, commencing in April, and
the examination of the case, with
the hearing of witnesses, is expected
to occupy about three months.
The burning of the Norwich, Con-
necticut, Poor House appears to have
been much more disastrous than was
reported. There were fifty-four oc-
cupants of the building, consisting
mostly of old persons between sixty
and seventy. rive escaped from the
upper windows and were greatly in
jured, two supposed fatally. Seven
bodies have been taken from the ruins
and it is supposed that fourteen per-
ished in the flames.
The London Daily Meas has de-
spatch from Alexandria describinga
sanguinary battle between the Egyp-
tian and Abyssinian armies. 1t COM
menced on Wednesday and on Thurs
day the Abyssinians were repulsed
and retreated. King Kassa, the
Grand Vizier, six chiefs and five
thousand Abyssinians are reported
to have been killed in the trenches.
Prince Hassan and General Loring
escaped unhurt. Rhatib Pasha. was
wounded. The Egyptian losses were
heavy.
Daniel Drew, who went into in
voluntary bankruptcy on Saturday at
New York, has liability as trustee