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

DIR. Helmbold has been liberated
from the Pennsylvania Hospital for
the Insane on the application of his
father.
NINE jurymen can return a YER
diet in Texas now. That gives fine
other three a chance to go out and
take suthin.
John Skates, of Columbus, O., is
1O4 years old and he does not remem-
Der winter when he was of less ac-
count than this.
A celebrated ssknife eatern recent.
ly died in Ohio. The doctors opened
him hoping to find capital enough for
a hardware store, but he was as dis
appointing as Esop's hen.
Dom Piatt married two daughters
of the late millionaire, Kirby of Gin
cinnati. and thinks that entities him
to large slice of the forturn.
Accounts from the Black Hills
country give glowing descriptions of
the amount of gold taken out
Twelve hundred men are ennaged in
the hunt for gold.
The Republicans journals of Maine
are in high glee over the unanimous
resolution of the Legislative caucus
that Mr.. Blaine is the choice of the
Republicans fthe State for the Pres
idency.
r. or Joseph Ell. Johnson has ar
rived at Washington with the men,
orial of the Alabama Legislature al
leging the illegality of Mr.. Spencer's
election to the United States Senate.
Three Judges of the New Y ork Su-
preme Court have decided that Stokes
is not entitled to writ of habeas
corpus, and he therefore has no OPP
portunity to escape further punish
mcnt.
The President-makers, who are so
sure Mr.. Blaine is dead, had best not
be N haste about burying him. He
will be found at Cincinnati animated
with an amount of livelinesS which
would be simply preposterons in a
corpse.
Dock Mangum, said to have been
a noted guerilla on the Federal side
during the war, has been assassinated
Vile blowing on his farm near Sa-
vannah, Tennessee, by two masked
men, who carried his body off and
probably threw it into the river.
The magnificent residence of Jas.
Ingersoll, at Norwalk, Conn, was
destroyed by fire. 1t was valued at
100000, and had $4,000 insurance.
The furniture cost $4,000, but was
partly saved. The owner was the
chair maker formerly connected with
the Tammany Ring, and it was prob
ably paid for from the proceeds of
many swindles ON the New York
City Treasury.
George Morris, of New Orleans,
has been sentenced to death for muir
der after being tried and defended
against his will. He attempted sew
eral times to plead guilty, declaring
that he did not want trial-all he
wanted was to be sentenced and
hanged-engaged in a desperate fight
with the officers of the court, and
altogether made his case a remarka-
BILE one.
the insanity dodge is wonderful
safety escape for murderers. The
case of the murderer Scannell in New
Y DIRK has shown the perfection with
which it may be worked. The insan-
ity came upon him just in time to
let him do his murder, lasted just
long enough to save him from convic-
ton, and obligingly left him clothed
and in his right mind as soon as he
he had secured verdict of acquit-
tai.
IT is stated that number of dem
ocratic members of the House at
Washington, who have been disre-
garded in the matter of amendments
to the currency acts have grown tir-
ed of it, and are determined to have
q caucus whereby they can agree
upon a measure that will be referred
to the Banking and Currency Com
mittee for action and report and the
desultory firing in of bills to be stop
ped. Several of the leading Demo-
cratic Senators have been consulted,
and they have Endorsed the plan.
The attention of the President was
called Wednesday to statements that
he had declared to Senator Conkling
that he would not be candidate for
denomination, and that he would ia
vor Senator Conkling for the nomi-
nation. The President remarked
that he had had no conferences with
Senator Conkling nor with any one
else on this subject, neither had he
written any letters in regard to the
matter. He further said that he had
no doubt of the election of the repub-
lican nominee. He considered it de-
sirable that there should be harmony
in the deliberations of the conven-
ton and its choice of a candidate 1t
is the impression among the friends
of the President that he will main
tain the same policy as he did prior
bic fret a11A cnnpn1 toopainatinn