Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-04-15
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Railroad Company.
The immense power engine in the
Centennial grounds to run all the
machinery was satisfactorily tested
Monday.
| The rumored withdrawal of Secre-
tary Bristow from the Presidents
Cabinet is denied on the authority of
the Secretary himself. He intends
to stick.
The town of New Loredo, Mexico,
has been captured by the revolution
lists. Quintato, the Federal com
mander, escaped with part of his
| forces.
The convention at Columbia, South
Carolina Tuesday, was disgraceful
affair. Pistols were drawn, and the
lives Of Governor Chamberlain and
Mackey were threatened.
Babcock is in the tolls, and cannot
escape. According to the confession
of Whitley, ex-chief of the detective
force, Babcock was one of the origi-
majors of the Washington safe bur-
tglary.
| A possible Democratic candidate
for the Presidency is Col. w. r. Nor
rison, Chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee of Congress, and
putative father of the free trade tar
iff bill.
A tremendous Independent meet
ing was held in Chicago Tuesday
night. Thirty thousand people were
present, and the designations Of the
mayor and the ring officers were
demanded.
A. V. Sout, President of the Shoe
and Leather Bank, of New York.
has given $780, to endow two pro-
fessorships of $4,000 each, one for
the Middletown University and one
for the Drew Theological Seminary.
1t is reported that the republicans
in Congress are organizing for an eff
fort to compel the Committee now
holding secret sessions to throw open
the doors to the public, so that the
facts may come out.
! No national household is complete
Low without an exhibition. Each
one in turn must give party to the
rest of the world. 1t is Frances turn
next. The Empire had it's great fair
in 1867, and now the Republic is to
have one i'll 1878. 1t will soon be
time for Bismarck to try his hand at
a show.
The New York Times publishes
call from the Congregational Com
mittee investigating the Beecher
scandal inviting all persons having
any evidence in reference to the mat
ter before the committee, not already
investigated by the civil court, to pre-
sent the same before the committee.
The suit of the State of Maryland
VS.. the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
to recover one-fifth of the passenger
fares of the Washington Branch
since January l, 1875, was decided
Monday in favor of the State. An
appeal will be taken. The amount
is 500, 200.
Franklin Landers, the chief of the
soft money brigade Of the House, has
gone to Indiana to look after the
Democratic nomination for Cover
nor, Holman, it appears, has not
withdrawn as an aspirant but places
| himself in the hands of his friends
to present his name if there is any
prospect of the Convention nominal
ing him.
General Boughton, clerk of the
House Military Committee, was con-
fronted Monday with an indictment
presented against him in Texas in
the fall of 1869 for conspiracy to de-
fraud the Government. He escaped
through dismissal of suit, ordered
| by ex-Attorney General Williams.
The evidence is so strong against him
that he will undoubtedly be removed
in disgrace.
| Diaz's party is in possession of the
whole Mexican border. A gross out
rage has been committed on an
American citizen at New Laredo,
Mexico, by the Federal commander
Pueblo Quintano. The Mexicans on
| Monday threw shell into the city
of Brownsville, Texas, wounding
three American citizens. The
American commander opened a bat
terry on the Mexicans and silenced
them.
| 1t is proposed to send r. III. Dana,
Jr., rejected nominee for Minister to
England, to the Cincinnati Conven-
vention at the head of the Massachu-
sets delegation, so that he may be
enabled to get even with those Sena-
torial aspirants for the Presidential
nomination who voted against his
confirmation.
The Government Printer, A. M.
Clapp, of Buffalo, is charged with
failing to account for $4,000 now in
his possession, and the Committee on
Printing insist that he shall be, re-
moved. The money was obtained
from the sale of imperfections, vast
age, ETC., and Clapp claims to have
used it in the payment of employees,