Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-01-03
NEWS JOTTINGS.

from the Ohio river to Chichago is
to be located in Baltimore.
| The Baltimore Herald says the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad com :
pany contemplates raising the wa ges
of its employees 10 per cent. the
change to take place the FIRST of the
year.
George William Curtis is against
third term now and forever, ard
the Democratic papers pat his back
approvingly.
The French Assembly has voted
$11 100000 for education. This is
the best of all ways to drive the
nails in the coffin of the empire.
Mississippi, at late election, re-
jected a proposed constitution al
amendment providing for biennial
elections and sessions of the state
legislature.
The New York Herald says the
time for violence in Maine, if vio-
lence be justifiable at all, will he after
the legislature has refused to seat
the members actually elected.
The situation in Utah is critical'
so of course President Hayes thinks
no one but an Ohio man can be
equal to an emergency, and has, con-
sequently, selected Gen. G. G. Ew-
ing, Tom Ewing's Republican
brother, to succeed Gov. Emery.
The Southern Journals which sup
! port Bayard's resolution to deprive
greenbacks of their legal-tender
quality, are the Richmond State,
Charleston Ne,cs, Augusta Chron-
! icle, Nashville American, Mobile
Register, and New Orleans Times
and Picayune.
This is the centennial anniversary
of the winter when loaded four-horse
teams drove seven miles across the
Chesapeake Bay on ice seven inches
thick. In 1850 the bay was covered
with ice as strong as sheet Iron from
it's head down below the mouth of
the Nanticoke.
To prevent such outrages as were
perpetrated on one of their trains
the other night near Baltimore, the
Baltimore and Ohio company have
issued special commissions to their
conductors. These commissions are
issued under the act of 1860, chapter
119, which authorizes the president
to issue commissions to employees of
the road. giving them all the powers
of a constable or policeman. These
conductors thus commissioned have
all the authority and right of arrest
which is possessed by a policeman or
constable in the city, and resistance
to them will be attended with all the
serious consequences which are Wis.,
tied upon offenders who forcibly
resist the constituted authorities of
the State.
John Quincy Adams, Democrat
c leaders in Massachusetts, and sew
eral times the candidate of his party
for governor, says of the Maine
affair: "The Governor was bound
to execute the spirit of the law rath-
er than the letter. Had he done
that he would have satisfied the peo-
pie of his state, without distinction
of party, and his own conscience.
AS it is, he has made fatal mis-
take, a sad blunder, one that win
have an injurious effect upon the
political party to which he belongs.
am surprised that Governor Garce-
lon should have allowed himself to
be influenced into such action. He
must have had very bad counsel
for it,
1t is seldom that the Philadelphia
Ledger discusses politics, but this
Maine business is too much for it's
patience. 1t says: Cheating at
elections, and disregard of law and
honorable dealing are such manifest
dangers ahead in this country that
all thoughtful men must see them.
If they would only give full force to
the warnings thus sounded in adj
vance and shape their thoughts into