Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-02-05
THE NEWS.

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Bonner has bought another $l0,-
900 trotter.
The Woman Suffragists are scold-
ing Washington.
| Hog cholera swept off half Iowas
crop, last year.
Senator Sherman fayors Hayes, of
Ohio, for President.
There was 232 drug stores burned
last year in this country.
Last year there was many churches
as lumber yards burned.
As between born idiots and educa-
ted ones, always prefer the former.
In a Union Springs, Ala, Council
election father and son were tie.
Eight thousand friends in Iowa
oppose the restoration of the gallows
Norwich has Temperance boot
MAKER" Perhaps he don't make EN-
tight.
Kate Field says she never carried
revolver. She INDUCES in e-pistol-
airy efforts, tho
Mrs. Robson is the best talker IN
Washington. She talks less than any
other woman.
An exchange heads an article -
"Why don't the men propose 7" Be-
cause it's leap year, and none of the
mems business.
If Speaker Kerr is defeated in his
efforts to prevent the sale of liquor
in the capitol, it will be triumph
for the lick-Kerr party.
The Pennsylvania State Republi-
can Convention will be held at Har-
risburg, March 26th.
The Alabama Claims Commission
has awarded $1,000 in favor of the
owners of the bark Amanda, which
was burned by the Alabama in 1868
in the East Indies,
The publication of the Boston
Daily News, of which WinslOw, the
forger, was one of the proprietOrs,
has been suspended, 1t is reported
that $780, 900 has been sunk in the
attempt to establish this paper.
A horrible tragedy is reported as
having occurred at Lynden, Ver-
mont. Silas Wilder is said to have
killed his father and mother with an
axe, cut his wife's throat and then
hung himself in his barn. His wife
was still alive at the last accounts.
Eight of the members of the whis-
key ring, at indianapolis, have been
sentenced to two years imprisOn-
ment and to pay 81 900 each James
X. Hill is to serve three years in the
penitentiary and pay $1,000 fine ;
Thomas Robb is to pay similar fine
and serve one year. Four others are
sentenced to six months imprison-
ment and $500 fine.
The New York sun enumerates
the following advantages in favor of
Mr.. Blanche has the party sup
port of the South, represents the an
ti-Catholic movement, has struck
the keynote of the coming campaign
and "haS more and warmer personal
friends than any other Republican
statesman.
Mr., David A. Wells, according to
Washington correspondent OF the
Boston Herald, finds a substantial
Improvement in the feeding on the
currency question at Washington
this year. Politicians who a year
ago were avowed intiationists are
coming to think that it may not be
safe after all to increase the paper
currency without doing anything to
improve its value. Others, who were
''do-nothings" last year. are coming
to believe in the policy of contrac-
ton.
There is a journalist in Bristol, Va.
who seems TO be discouraged and
disguised. He edits the News
and thus speaks /: "We fear there is
no chance for us TO win the Presi-
Dental election. We have sent n few
brilliant, pop-eyed fools, like Ben.
Hin, of Georgia, and these seem de-
termined 10 knock the apple off the
head of the Northern men every
time they see il there. Nothing was
so much needed by the enemy as that
our Southern men in this Democrat
ic Congress should quarrel with
them. Nothing has done them SO
much good as the recent hot debate
between Hill and Blaine. Even
Ran. Tucker of Virginia had better
keep his mouth shut. The time is
not yet come for the South to resume
the fiery leadership of 1850"
A correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune writes that there are two
Blaine men among the Visions in
Republicans TO one for Washburne,
and not one in fifty for Morton, and
adds "Indeed, Morton was never
popular in Wisconsin, and if he is a
candidate for the Presidency / warn
him not to build hopes on getting
the vote Of the Badger State. Blaine
has made immense Roadway by his
recent speeches in the House and it
is only occasionally that a man
is found who is sorry the am