Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-24
NEWS JOTTTNGS.

on the Zotn uay OF May next.
Senator Beck, of Kentucky, says
the Republican ticket will be Grant
and Blaine.
Senator Hereford has gotten thro'
the Senate the House bill appropri-
ating $4,000 to erect public build
ing at Charleston, w. Va.
Hon. B. F. Martin has been con-
fined to his room in Washington by
an attack of rheumatism from which,
his friends will be please to learn, he
is recovering.
In the recent elections English
men were compelled to adopt the
word "boom.' They could find
nothing else adequate to express the
magnitude of the Liberal movement.
Senator Edmunds seems to be
copying Hon. Horatio Seymour's
style. He daily declines a nomina-
ton that may very likely never be
offered him.
Mrs. Emily Douglass Forrest,
widow of the late Commodore
French Forrest of the U. S. and G.
S. Navies, died suddenly in Wash
ington City, on Friday night, April
9th, aged 20 years.
Hon. S. J. Tilden sent his check
for SIS, 900 to Eugene Kelly & Co., in
New York with the request that it
be forwarded to the account of the
Duchess OF Marlborough's Irish Re-
lief Fund. This is Mr.. Tilden's Sec
ond contribution. The first was also
SIS, 900.
1t has long been known that fishes
return to about the same place in the
same rivers each year to spawn, but
it is recent discovery that they go
up the left hand side of the stream
and coming down take the opposite
side. Fishermen may be benefited
by remembering this.
1t is Mr.. Hendricks solemn opin-
ion that the Republic is "tottering."
1t is remarkable how long it has
been "tottering," if political orators
are to be credited, but still it seems
able to straighten up and travel
along at lively gait when occasion
requires.
The Hartford Comant, the first
newspaper to plainly declare for Ed .
munds, insists that Republicans who
desire to render him their active
support, need not hesitate for any
fear that he will not respond to the
call to take the head of the presiden-
tial ticket.
Colonel Tom Ochiltree, of Texas,
has turned Grant boomer, and pre-
diets that the General can carry five
or six Southern States; but Thomas
was always given to overriding the
thing when he has to put the en-
broidery and gilt-edging on plain
statement.
A storm of unprecedented violence
passed over Missouri, Illinois and
| Wisconsin Sunday night, doing great
damage to property and causing
much loss of life. Marshfield, Mo-,
was literally wiped out by the cy-
clone. Seventy-eight persons were
killed, and over 100 wounded.
A scandal has been caused in Pat
terson, N. j., by the discovery of the
dead body of an infant in vault at
tached to the late residence of Bish-
op Starkey. The body is supposed
to have been the Legitimate child
of Susan Clements, girl employed
in the family, who, since the dis
covery, has disappeared.
A girl eleven years old who was
brutally treated 10y William Miell
and his wife in Lee township, Ohio,
and afterwards deserted by them,
has been identified as Kidnapped
child. Her real name is Mary Elva
Boone, who was stolen six years ago
from her parents, living near Hin
ton, in West Virginia. She started
for Athens, o., on Monday last 10
charge of a guardian, and was soon
restored to her father and mother,
who had mourned her as one dead
since tS74.
The New Orleans 1inzs attacks