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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-04-22
BABCOCK AGAIN INDICTED
He IL 10 be tried for his share
In the Safe Burglary.

WASHINGTON, April 15.-The
grand jury Of the District Of Column
bia to-day against Orville Babc0ck,
Richard Harrington, Hiram Whitley
s G Nettleship, 4 B Somerville, Geo.
Miles, now undergoing q fourteen
years imprisonment in Vermont
penitentiary, and Walter Brown,
alias VIM Benton, for conspiring in
the matter of the safe burglary.
Some os these men have been already
once tried on this charge, but Bah
cock and Brown have not been in
dicted in this connection before. In
side Of five minutes after the indict-
ments were presented General Bah
cock appeared in court before Justice
Mccarthy and gave bail for his APP
pearance in the sum Of $40, 900, ex-
Governor A. r. Sheppard becoming
his security. Bench warrants were
at once issued for all the others ex-
cept Brown, who is now in contine-
ment.
VIM. III Gilman, who has just h ad
q trial here and on which the jury
disagreed as to a verdict, has been
indicted anew on the same counts,
the larcency and the receiving Of
stolen goods--the SAT 900 in treasury
notes.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-04-22

New X oRK, April Is. The even
ing Post Iii to-day's issue publishes
the full text OF the circular Il. %xA
under the date of New York i. iii
8, 1875, relative to the proposes. ,,sf-.
ference on the subject Of seen mr.
IAN honest administration 1T tins Auv-
eminent. The circular s.t., forth
that widespread corrupti,n III puA-
lie service, the uncertainty u lar1y
councils and the danger u, an ~
ordinate parry spirit may s. rslin
monopolizing political puw,. ,deM
it desitable to secure decisive tia
ence in the impending nations. vlae-
ton, and to hold a free conference
to meet III New York, NAY Ii, u
consider what shall be done to pre-
vent the national election Of the
Centennial year from becoming
mere choice Of evils, and to secure
the election Of men to the higheA
Offices Of the republic whose charac-
ter and ability will satisfy the exi-
igencies Of our present situation ,ana
protect the honor of the Americas
name. The cirular Is signed by WE
Cullen Bryant, New York; Thee
dore ID. Woolsey. Connecticut A
III. Bullock, Massachusetts Horace
White, Illinois; and CauA Missouri
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NEW YoRK, April 14.--A Browns,
vile dispatch says: PorfiriO Diaz, Is
In possession Of the entire frontier
opposite Texas. His troops have
been paid to the nth. Labarra and
the Mexican customs officials are on
the Texan side. Part Of Diaz' CON-
mand was to leave to-day for Monte
roy. The u. 8. gunboat was on the
other side. The American officers
are morally assisting the Mexican
government. Labarra expects to re-
ceive help BY way Of Vera Cruz.
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Another Cargo Of CeiestiaIs.

SAN FRANCISCO, April l6.-Ihe
steamship Crocus arrived here to day
from Hong Kong, via Y0kohoma
with q cargo Of rice and 882 Chinese
passengers. The intention was that
the steamship should sail direct to
this port, but two days out from
Hong Kong the Chinese mutinied,
complaining Of the food and water.
Ting mutiny was quelled without loss
of life but in consequence of the
trouble the ship put In to Yokohama
where an extra crew of forty men
were obtained. 1t having been given
out that on the arrival Of the Crocns
the anti oolie societies would mob
tho passengers, Q strong police was
stationed at the landing. The Chi
namen were, however, undisturbed
on their way to Chinatown.
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We learn that q student ef Con-
ter College, Danville, was hung
BY tho neck by q mob efhis fellow
students the other night and LEFT
In that condition, and death weuld
Immediately have resulted hadshe
not been cut down by some friends.
The reason was q suspicion in the
minds Of the mob that this young
man had been the writer Of 3 sour
ril0us communication which SLAM
dered q number Of the students
1t Is hard for us to believe that
Kentucky boys could be 50 cow
ardly murderous as to hang i man
on suspicion. Harvodsbtry or
scrver.
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NEW YoRK, April TIA Provr
dence dispatch says that Dexter +
Brother, the Pawtucket cotton spin
ners, who, it was announced yester-
day, had made assignment failed for
$400, 900. Their assets are put at
$500 600. They were the largest
manufacturers OF cotton and knitting
yarns in the country.
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A. +. stewards Business

NRw York, April 15.--Mrs. A
+. Stewart has transferred to Henry
Hilton all her right and title 10 the
interest Of her late husband in the
business firm Of A. 4. Stewart a Co
A copartnership under the old firm
name has been formed between Judge
Hilton and VIM. Libbey, and = GER
tificate was Aled this afternoon in the
County Clerks ONCE.
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WasIhfngton Safe Burglarx

New YORK, April T,-AOn Satur-
day Thomas "A. Somerville, a lawyer
Of this city, was arrested pursuant
to instructions from Washington
where an Indictment had been found
against him charging him with being
concerned In the 7safe burglary.
He was then allowed to 90 on his
own recognizance until this after
noon, when he appeared and gave
bail In $1,000 to stand his trial.
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ST.. LOUIS, April 17.-The tow
boat Dictator, belonging to this city
collided with the bridge At Hannibsa
Mo. this .. m, and was'c0n1pletely
wrecked. Harry Young, the clerk
and eight Of the crew, whose names
are not reported, were drowned.
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PROVIDENCE, n. T., April H.
An Italian named Francisco Vim
cent? was fatally stabbed last night
by = fellow countryman named Pas
cnio Cararino while attempting to
defend a women with whom he was
walking, and whom CararinoI 'haA
struck In the face. CaEarino was ar
rested. Jealousy was the canse.
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Disaster toe Centennial goods

ALBANY, N. ", April II. The
barge Keystone, Of the Philadelphia
transportation company 3 line, cams
in collision with an abutment Of the
bridge here yesterday and sunk. a
large quantity Of Centennial goods
belonging to business men in this
city were ruined by the accident
The loss is estimated at $40, 900.
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MACKANAw, Mich. April IA
The recent warm weather and rains
have had q great effect on ice, and
there is even appearance Of an ear
~ break up. The Straits Of Macki-
nav will undoubtedly be open in ten
days or sooner.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-04-22

The regular spring thaw appears to
have set In. Heavy freshets are re-
ported in Michigan and other places
in the West, and apprehensi0ns Of
serious floods are also felt in Maine
and New Hampshire.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-04-22

Ottman has been again indicted II
connection with the Treasury rob
berry, and his trial will probably take
place during the week.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-04-22

PHILADELPHIA, April A.
Twenty-one car loads of goods were
discharged at Machinery hall this
morning.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-04-22

The California Democratic Con-
vention to elect delegates to the st.
Louis Convention meets May oath.
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WEST VIRGINIA
UNIVERS ITY
MORGANTOWN, W. IA.

TINE healthfulness of the locality; the
l. superior facilities for instruction;the
economical, disciplinary and other ad-
vantages offered have made this institu-
ton deservedly popular with those who
desire to accomplish sound education
under the most favorable circumstances.
Winter Term begins January 9th ;
Spring Term begins March 10Th.
n catalogue and fuller information,
address any one of the Regents or of the
Faculty.
JOHN W. SCOTT, D. D., LII. D.,
Acting President.
ian. 25.f
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08
THE Joy OF INcoMPLETENEss.

1
II all our lives were one broad glare
OF sunlight, clear, unelouded;
! If all our path were smooth and fair,
| BY no soft gloom enshrouded;
| If all life's flowers were fully blown
Without the sweet unfolding,
And happiness were rudely thrown
On hands too weak for holding
Should we not miss the twilight hours,
The gentle haze and sadness?
Should we not long for storms and show
ers,
To break the constant gladness?
II none were sick and none were sad,
What service could we render?
l think if we were always glad,
We scarcely could be tender
Did our beloved never need
Our patient ministration,
Earth would grow cold, and miss indeed
Its sweetest consolation;
If sorrow never claimed our heart,
And every wish were granted,
Patience would die, and hope depart
Life would be disenchanted.
And yet in heaven is no more night,
In heaven is no more serrow!
Such unimagined new delight
Fresh grace from pain will borrow
As the poor seed that underground
Seeks its true life above it,
When sunbeams kiss and love it.
so we in darkness upward grow,
And look and long for heaven,
Bnt cannot picture it below,
Till more of light be given.
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DESOLATIoN.

Walking alone in the quiet wood,
paused to hear
The song of the wind in the swaying trees
The night was near.
The leaves were shining and wet with rain
The air was sweet
With scents OF MOSES and violets
And at my feet,
Just by a cluster of bending ferns.
Lay little bird.
Many a rain drop glinting down,
As the leaves were stirred,
Shone in the tiny chalices
Like drops of dew
Caught in the sweet ,anemones,
And voilets blue.
Mournfully sweet through the solitude,
And but family heard,
Piercing my heart came the tender call
OF distant bird.
And there at my feet with a cruel wound
In its shining breast,
Lay the little mate that never would
Fly home to its nest
Through the branches the wind still grieved.
And the night drew near;
Out Of the poor little heart the song
Ringing sweet and clear.
Then growing fainter, at last was hushed,
As the darkness grew.
The trees were black, but the golden stars
Just glImmering through,
Seemed to be sorrowful for the pain,
And the WEAKNESS,
of many heart life has filed
With its dreariness.
But slowly the calm, unloving moon
Sailed on to the west;
Nor knew why 1 wept as l went TO my own
Little empty nest.
Chicago, November1S75. -p4beiUe.
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Plants from

In whatever way the plants are com
pared, and however minute the meas
urements that are made, the advantage
remains always with the plants from
the large seed. The much greater
uniformity of growth cannot be shown
in the table without taking too much
space; but it appears all through the
details given in the original paper. To
give one or two instances Of the 10
plants taken up June / all but one of
those from the large seed had its leaves,
as given in the table, and the odd one
had II leaves; on the other hand, of
the plants from the small seed some had
10, some IL, and some II leaves, and
one had 10. The uniformity of the
plants from the large seed was marked.
AT the rate given in the above table
the increased yield per acre of seed of
the first quality that may be obtained
by the use Of large seed rather than
small would be $50 pounds. A SINH
lar course of experiments with peas
gave the following results:
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How Indians Cure Meat and Dress
Skins,

When her lord has killed a buffalo
the woman's work begins. She has to
skin it, the meat to secure, and all to
pack upon ponies or mules, and carry
to camp, where the meat must be cured.
This is done by cutting it into thin
sheets, and hanging it over poles in
the hot sunshine, whereit is soon dried
thoroughly; then it is packed fresh in
packages about one hundred pounds
each, and inclosed in nice folding
sack Of thick buflaloskin, prepared es-
pecially for the purpose. This is not
dressed down thin after being feshed,
but well tanned, and of the full thick
ness Of the skin the hair side nicely
ornamented with paint, for the outside
of the sack. This is cut out like a
huge envelope, SO that the ends and
sides will fold over, whatever is put in
them, and secured by strong bucksin
strings. By being thick it retains its
form, and is very useful for CARRYING
other things besides meat and tallow.
After the meat is taken care of the skin
must be looked after. Those taken at
this season of the year are mostly
dressed for lodges. They are first
staked on smooth spot of ground, and
water put upon them when they are
ready for fieshing. This consists in re-
moving the flesh with an instrument
made of straight bar of iron, about
a foot in length, fattened at one end
and filed to an edge. This being
grasped in the hand, and a succession
of quick blows given, the work slowly
proceeds. The skin is then dried,
after which the hair is removed in a
dry state, and the skin reduced to the
proper thickness by dressing down on
the hairside. This is done with an in
strument made by firmly tying fiat
piece of steel, filed to beveled edge at
one end, and with the corners rounded,
to large prong Of a deers horn.
This is so trimmed, in connection with
the body of the horn, as to form an
elbow, and is used little as carpenter
uses his adze. This work is usually
done in the cool of the morning. The
brains of the animal, having been
properly taken care of for the purpose,
are now soaked and squeezed by the
hand until reduced to a paste, and ap-
piled to both sides of the skin, which
is afterward worked and rubbed until
flexible. The preparation of robes is
from winter skins, and differs from the
foregoing only in being dressed down
ON the flesh side, so as to leave the
wool and hair upon the robe, and is
more thoroughly worked. and secured
by means of a sharp-gritted stone.
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THE CHRISTIAN MARTYR.
W DELAnocur.


The body Of q martyred Christian maiden is repre
Did We mark when the maiden was hurled
Did We listen the horrible splash?
And, after this rage of the world,
Can We hear now the cold water pIasb
About her? and see ye affair the dim sun
Setting sickly and wan at the deed that i.
done?"
heard but now do not hear!
Tor listen an infinite song,
whI(ch is all in sweet tune on my ear
WITHOUT waves as they bear her along
It's OF joy and yon light is no vision for
lis an omen, but less Of the night than the
morut
This daughter Of God hath been proved,
And what now, If cast to the waves,
For awhile, for His sake, whom she loved,
u this wilderness-water Of raves,
She sojourns. awaiting the beautiful hour
Whe He comes with His kingdom and glory
and power?
IT'S her body 80 sojourns! her soul,
Blessed ghost! hath sped over the stream;
And zee, as the dark waters roll
They bear on their bosom CLEAN
OF her Eden-the shore where, secure from
Her sweet spirit abide. in it. happy repose j,
Let me live in snch faith let me die
Sach death! let snch music and light
The Glad cong of the ehOirs of the sky,
The bright eleam Of such robes washed
Marx mine end. and, like hers, let my body
Down theziysr q nisAt to The ssas of the !
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The Lepers of India.

The London Lancet is reminded b,
"the gorgeous displays, the festivitie.
| and other manifestations of rejoicing
in the East, with which the Prince o.
Wales has been welcomed" of the sac
condition of the LEI ers in Bombay
What leprosy is no one who has moi
seen it can well imagine, and it is un
necessary to describe it. But in the
Samsetee Jejeebhoy Dhurrumsala, a
refuge for the destitute and sick in
Bombay, the Lancet, on the authority
of the Times of India, says that
there are some one hundred and TWEEN
ty lepers lodged at the present time,
sharing its scanty accommodation with
an approximately equal number of
the poor, aged and crippled. The
lepers live in what are called chawls or
cells, some six feet long by five feet
wide, and the Institution is so full that
often two lepers are crowded into one
of them. They are without furniture
or even cooking utensils, but each of
them is allowed two pounds of rice
and three pice with which to pay for
fuel to dress their food. Thew consist
of men, women and children, the child:
rem being the offspring of the men and
women, some of them being born in the
Dhurrumsala itself. for no separation
of the sexes is attempted, or, it seems,
even thought Of Unfortunate crea-
lures with ''their limbs wasted till only
the outline of the bones remains, or
else swollen out of all form of limbs"
sit or lie about as they choose, without
supervision or medical care, except
from one charitable physician, whose
name is withheld at his own request
seemingly. They are visited by no
friends and by no minister of any
religion. "They are abandoned says
the Times of India, "of God and man,
and we're it not that the Dhurrumsala
gives them the half Of six-foot
cell in which to lie, and handful of
rice with which to sustain life, they
would die in their sores along our
streets and in our compounds" Only
these who are very much afflicted are
into the Refuge. Those who
are not in so advanced a state of dis
ease are sent away to beg in the public |
and byways until they aresick
to be taken into the Dhur-
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esed than to take the trouble to sift hi
seed, and get the same crop from
smaller number of better plants from
better seed; and when he consider.
further that much larger proportion
of his larger seed will come UP, and
that the quality of the crop from the
large seed will be two or three times as
good as that from the small seed.
abundant reason will be found for the
precaution to secure the seed of the
very best quality. If, however, it
should occur to him that he may per-
haps avoid the necessity of getting
good seed by using larger quantity of
common seed, large and small together
it can be clearly shown by other results
OF Lehmans that such a course will be
no less Improbable and unwise.
When equal weight of each of the
three sizes of seed, which quantities
would of course include larger num-
Der of the smaller seeds than of the
larger, was sown on three plots of the
same size the crops obtained were respec-
lively: From OOplants from the small
seed, ounces; from the medium-sized
seed, 15.5 ounces, and from the largest
seed, 22.5 ounces; and with the quail
ty of the crop taken into considera-
ton, this large difference in favor of
the best seed would be very greatly in
Still another investigator in this di-
rection arrives at substantially the
same results, and he asserts that by
proper care in the selection of seed the
farmer may at least double his crop of
peas from the same area. AT another
line we may take occasion to show
hat the same rule holds good, though |
lot In all cases to the same extent,
With other than leguminous crops
Prot. G. C. Ctuld,reU.
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Don't Worry About Yourself.

To regain or recover health, persons
should be relieved from all anxiety
concerning diseases. The mind has
power over the body. For person
to think that he has disease will
often produce that disease. This we
see effected when the mind is intensely
concentrated upon the disease OF an
other. 1t is found in the hospital that
surgeons and physicians who make
speciality of certain diseases are liable
to die of it themselves; and the mental
power is so great that sometimes PEG
pie die of diseases which they only
have in imagination. We have seen
a person seasick in anticipation OF a
voyage before reaching the vessel. we
have known a person to die OF cancer
in the stomach when he had no cancer
or any other mental disease. A bhnd=
folded man slightly pricked in the
arm, has tainted and died from be-
lieving that he was bleeding to DEATH
Therefore, well persons, to remain
well, should be cheerful and happy,
and sick persons should have their at
tention drawn as much as possible,
from themselves. 1t is by their faith
men are saved, and it is by their falth
that men die. If he wills not to die,
he can often live in spite of disease ;
and if he has little or no attachment
to life, he will slip away as easily as
child will fall asleep. Men live by
their souls, and not by their bodies.
Their bodies have no life of them
selves, they are only resources OF LIE
-tenements of their souls. The VIII
has much to do in continuing the
physical occupancy or giving 1t up
Journal of Health.
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furnish warm stables for their animals
in fact, a capacity for physical endur
ance under deprivation of natural Oh
artificially acquired needs is seldom
considered.
| DEMONSTRATION has produced many
artificial wants in our animals as well
as in man, and to ignore them is cruel,
if not a positive SIM When our farm
ers seek to make their animals perfectly
comfortable at all times and seasons we
shall hear of fewer failures to make
stock-raising profitable, and fewer losses
by diseases. There will not only be
warm stables and variety of food for
winter use, but shade trees in pasture,
pure water, salt and other condiments
provided for them.-M Y. Sun.
LARGE vs. SMALL SEED FOR PLANTING.
DIR. Gustav Marek has recently pub
lished very valuable monograph ON
this important subject, embodying the
results of a great number of expert
ments and observations made by him
at the experiment stations at Halle
and Leipsic. A number of reasons
have already been given in few notes
recently taken from the monograph
why large seed should be preferred to
small for planting. Most convincing
proof of the superior value of large
seed is furnished by the results of some
of his experiments in the field. Beans
and peas were planted in the garden,
small and large seeds of each kind be-
ing planted on adjacent plots, the
beans II inches apart each way, and
the peas in rows 10 inches apart and
two inches apart in the row. Not only
was the crop carefully harvested and
measured when ripe, but the progress
of growth was closely watched during
the season. The larger and more uni
form growth of the plants from the
larger seeds, from the beginning to the
end of the season, is very plainly ex-
hibited in the condensed, tabular form
in which we have arranged the results
Of these experiments. Hight is given
in inches, and weight in ounces, if not
otherwise specified:
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08

LOCATION OF BRAINs.-J. Henrys
young hopeful had been behaving
badly when his uncle was there to din
ner. He had, indeed, gone to the
extent of asking the dignilied and
rather grabbed brother of his ma how
he got ga skating-rink on the top of
his head John Henry chuckled a
little in secret at this, for he had his
own opinion of his wife's relatives /;
but when the boy, who remembered
his own early teaching, advised his
uncle not to make "such a Dustin
noise when he "chawed," there was
nothing for mamma to do but to take
him upstairs for brief introduction
to the slipper. Well said the
uncle, as the young hopeful returned,
red as to his face, and unsteady in his
breathing Well, did you have some
brains beaten into your" "Brains ?"
gulped the little fellow, with sob,
and moving his hands about uneasily
in his pantaloons pockets" May be
your brains is there, but mine hain't. :"