Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-04-08
THE NEWS.

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A relapse in the grain trade and
decline in -four are noted in Lon
don.
CHICAGO has organized munich
pal reform club with which to knock
on the head all rascally politicians.
Mr.. WIGGINs, OF Utah sentenced
to death for murder, choose shooting
instead of hanging. He preferred i
distinction without a difference ais 10
the result.
Won Arnim's property will not be
sequestrated until after his trial,
which viii be proceeded with in
continuation If he refuses to obey the
summons to appear.
1T COSTS 500 head to bring wit
nesses from Alabama to testify in
the case Of Senator Spencer-who ID
thus made an expensive luxury but
then, darn the expense, sir.
Mr.. SMoAKE, OF Texas, is to be
hanged. It is sad to think that q hui
man life should end in Smoake. And
in this case the Smoake is even be-
fore the fire.
IT rs suggested that the reason
the Senate Committee oppose Mr..
Dana as Minister to England is that
he does not know a bobtail flush
from a full hand.
Mr.. EvARrs will be the Centen-
NAL orator, and those who 90 to hear
him should take their beds with
them. 1t may take hisn four days
to get through.
A MINNESOTA girl named Happi-
ness Quinn is followed by q host Of
follows who are willing to lose their
lives and liberty in the pursuit Of
Happiness.
ONE of George WashinQt0n,s old
letters sold for $40 the other day and
yet fellows write to us that they will
furnish Centennial correspondence
for So column.
The United States Express Office
at Akron, Ohio, was entered by bur-
glars Friday night who stole between
$4,000 and $50, 900.
The condition of President Grant
has much improved since Saturday
morning, and his symptoms are new
decidedly favorable for return to
speedy health.
The Cincinnati Gazette, after can
wasting the matter, asserts that af-
ter Governor HAYES is dropped the
vote of the Ohio delegation in the
National Republican Convention
will stand 20 for Bristow, III for
Blaine, and for Morton.
Representative Wilson, of this
State, is somewhat better, and, his
friends have some hope OF his final
recovery, although he is still very
dangerously i'll.
Postmaster General Jewell has re-
covered from severe rheumatic
attack, and has gone'to Connecticut
to remain until after the election.
The New York Herald SAYS Blaine
is the second choice of the Pennsyl-
vania delegation and Bristow the
third, but that .Conkling seems to
have no friends"
If Mr.. Dana is not confirmed Gen.
Butler will have a good time running
for Congress in Massachusetts, next
fall, as he is said to intend doing.
THE other day twelve young wo-
men were graduated from the Phila-
delphia Medical College, but DIR.
Mary Walker says they will never
make good doctors until they wear
pantal00ns and learn to walk with
out wriggling.
THE Herald patheticaAly exclaims,
"Oh, for the good old political days
of thirty years ago, when Webster,
Clay, Hayne and Calhoun were the
pride Of America, and whiskey was
only twenty-five cents galloni"
IT is said that since Senator Chris
tiancy's marriage the bachelor Sena-
tors are the victims of an orga zed
raid by ambitious Treasury girls and
buccaneering widows. Cameron, Of
Wisconsin, and Jones, of Nevada, are
the special objects of attack
The London Times expresses the
hope that the Ministry may yet be
better advised than to persist in
recommending to the Queen the as
sumption of the title of Empress of
India, and expresses alarm at the
rapid decline in the authority and
reputation Of the Government since
the beginning Of the present session Of
Parliament.
A meeting was held in Philadel-
phia Friday night Of those interested
in the defeat of the bill before Con-
gress authorizing the funding OF
$500 900 900 and heard the report Of
a committee which recently visited
Washington. A resolution was pass
ed protesting against the bill substi-
tuting silver coin for fractional cur
rency- A estate Greenback Club "
was formed.
In the colored men IS convention at
Jackson, Miss, Friday to appoint
delegates to the national convention
0f r0lorpd men a resolution xuac NJ