Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-05-27
THE NEWS.

The Right Worthy Grand Lodge
of Good Templars of the world COM
menced in Louisville, KY, Monday.
The Richmond tVa.) Enquirer is
not quite sure but the South will
have to make the Democratic nomi-
nation for the President after all.
The New Jersey Democratic Con-
vention assembled at Trenton Tues
day, and adopted resolutions endors-
ing Ex-Governor Parker for the
Presidency.
The Lawrence Republic an-Journa
is confident that the overwhelming
sentiment of the Republicans of Kan
sas is in favor of the nomination of
Blaine.
The one hundred and twenty-sixth
anniversary of the birth of Stephen
Girard was celebrated at Girard Col
lege, Philadelphia, Monday.
A woman named Buck, in Harris
burg, Pa, Monday, while Temporal
rily insane, committed suicide by
cutting her throat.
State Treasurer Jones, of Georgia.
has been indicted for Withholding
money belonging to the State to the
amount.Of over one hundred thou
sand dollars, and is held in custody
in default of bail.
1t was reported in Washington
Monday that the President had re-
ceived cable announcement of the
death of his grandchild, the infant
of his daughter, Mrs. Sartoris.
Gen. o. O. Howard says he didnot
serve as trustee of the Freedman's
Bank, as charged in the report of the
congressional committee appointed
to investigate the affairs of that in
stitution.
Rain and wind storm prevailed
disastrously at several points in the
Northwestern States Sunday. In
Iowa many houses were destroyed
and the crops crushed by hailstones
three inches in diameter.
Sunday night, at Chattanooga,
Tenn, Robert Burrows, moulder,
formerly of Cleveland, Ohio, shot
himself through the head and died
instantly. He had been drinking
very heavily.
At the auction sale in New York
on Monday of domestic dry goods
there was large attendance from the
principal cities. The bidding was
spirited, and the prices realized were
but one and a'half to two per cent.
below the prevailing prices of the
goods sold.
Mr.. Logan occupied the entire
time of the secret session of the Sem
ate Tuesday in an argument in Oppo-
sition to the jurisdiction of that body
in the Belknap impeachment case.
1t is expected that vote will be
reached on the question before the
close of to-day's session.
Congressman Frye, of Indiana,
does not have to work hard to keep
his seat. His constituents have NOM
mated him three times by acclama-
ton, and are likely to do the same
thing again, He tells them they
may if they feel like it, but he shall
not feel at all hurt if they prefer
some other man.
The harvest of the wheat crop has
already commenced in Texas, and
flour made from the new wheat has
Just been received at st. Louis. The
crop is represented as being the most
abundant ever raised in Texas, whilst
the quality is excellent. The wheat
prospect in Maryland and Virginia
is also better than for some years.
IT is very evident that Fitzhugh
did not mean that he was a "bigger
man than old Grant" in an official
sense; it was only his careless way
of using words. If he had said in
his festive way, "I'ma heftier man
than old Grut," he would have
been entirely correct, as he weighs
at least fifty pounds more than the
President. For this little mistake
the committee have decreed that
the descendant of Patrick Henry is
to lie bounced"
The Society of the Army of the
Potomac, General Winfield S. Han
cock, President. holds it's seventh
annual reunion at the Academy Of
Music in Philadelphia, on Tuesday,
the 9th of June. The Grafton will
be delivered by General John A
Dix, and the poem by Mr.. William
Winter, of the New York Tribune.
The meeting various corps belong
ing to the army of the Potomac will
be held June 5th. The Society of
the Army of the Cumberland, Gen.
eral Z. III. Sheridan, President, and
the Society of the Army of the James
General A. p. Terry, President,
will meet in Philadelphia June 9th
and 7th.
IT is reported from Washington
that Ben Eggleston, late M. g., but
now of the Cincinnati Times, has
been in that city for the purpose of
securing the removal of Secretary
Bristow, 1t is understood that some
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