Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-07-22

THE NEWS.

1 ~Alohu NHiihSc, fdss tlldb hC
IS slowly but steadily improving in
health.
Haywood Grant was hung at Rome,
Ga, Friday for arson. He confessed
TO having killed four men, n of
whom was Gen. Hindman, of the
Confederate army, at Helena, Ark.
The Dallas Herald says that while
other Southern States are stationery
or retrograding, Texas goes briskly
ahead, having no less than seven new
lines of railroads building at pres
ent.
The republicans of the first Min
neSota district have nominated Mark
II. Dunell for reelection to Congress
l. j. Young internal revenue collec-
tor at Raleigh N. c., has been NOM
mated for Congress by the republic
cans.
The paid admissions to the Gen.
tennial exhibition Thursday were
1883. Forty-eight cases of illness
were relieved at the medical depart
ment, nearlya all of which were due
to the effect of the heat.
The local press of Georgia and
South Carolina, on the borders of
which States the recent tragedy at
Hamburg occurred, is unanimous in
~deploring the bloody sequel to the
negro riot, and in calling for the
punishment of those concerned.
Mr.. Beecher's counsel expect to
send an answer to Francis ID. Moul-
toms complaint in his suit for dam
ages for malicious prosecution with
in the allotted twenty days, which ex-
pires this week. Mr.. Shearman con-
fesses that he is in a position from
which he cannot appeal.
Gov. Thomas A.. Hendricks, of
Indiana arrived Thursday at Sarato-
ga. He was waited upon at the
Grand Union Hotel by Major O'Con-
nor, of Tennessee, who presented
him a formal notification of hisnom-
ination for the vice-presidency by the
national democratic convention.
Gov. Hendricks said he would reply
in a few days. 1t is understood that
he will accept.
The excessive heat of the past few
days has had a deleterious effect on
Mr.. Blaine's health, and confirms
the opinion of his physicians that
the original attack was Of the nature
of sunstroke. 1t is expected that Mr..
Blaine will be sufficiently improved
in the course of a week to permit of
his removal to the seashore.
At Freedom, Pa, a damaging rain
storm occurred Thursday. Crows
Run, which empties into the Ohio at
Pittsburg, was swollen into a river
in size, and houses all along its banks
were flooded. A house belonging to
Thomas Lighthill was swept away,
and Mrs. Lighthill and her four chill
dren, who were in the house, were all
drowned.
J. w. Jackson, a clerk in the Penn
sylvania Auditor Generals Office at
Harrisburg, has been arrested for
conspiring with j. III. Milspaugh,
treasurer of the city of Scranton and
with James COPYRIGHT, late treas
urer of the county of Luzerne, to de-
fraud the Commonwealth by making
forged returns of the money received
by those treasurers for the State.
General Sherman is credited with
saying that General Crook is album
dainty able to take are of himself,
and that there need be no fears
regarding him. Notwithstanding this
it cannot be disguised that serious
apprehensions are entertained in re-
gard to his safety. Remembering the
terrible fate of Custer and his gallant
troopers, it is but natural that the
long silence in regard to Crooks
whereabouts should be regarded
with uneasiness. 1t is possible, how
ever, that he is quite safe, and that
his couriers have all been waylaid
and killed by the hostile Indians since
he undoubtedly sent messengers back
from time to time to report in regard
to his operations.
All remedies for sunstroke are
somewhat similar in character. The
New York EceningE Express furnishes
one which has proved eflicacious in
many instances, and which should
be generally known. The remedy is
the free use of ice, internally if it
can be swallowed, which is rarely the
case, and its free and persistent use
externally. Whoever finds a patient
effected should carry him into an
airy room, and placing a nan at each
extremity, get him to rub him from
head to foot with large pieces of ice.
This reduces as rapidly as possible
the temperature, or in other words,
puts out the fire, and if this be
promptly done, recovery will take
place even in cases apparently of the
most desperate character.
That is a suggestive bit of infor-
nation which comes by telegraph
from Chicago, to the effect that the
hostile Sioux are somewhat disabled
for want of ammunition since the
last battle, and that ''they will prob
ably not risk another fight until they
get a new supply from the agencies