Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-03-06
NEWS JOTTINGS.

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amounting to over $4,000, 900.
A large cave, rivaling in extent
the famous Luray cave in Virginia,
is said to have been discovered near
Woodboro. Frederick county, Md.
While the British government is
talking about what it intends to do
for the suffering Irish by and by,
the American fund is rolling up eve-
ny day.
The fixing of the date of the State
Convention in Illinois on May 10Th
is an apparent victory for Blaine ,
as the date is later than that of any
other State.
No better reason could have been
given for the withdrawal of Mr..
Pinchback's nomination by Mr..
Hayes, than that sit was mistake. :"
1t was mistake.
Bennett, the musician who was re-
Gently arrested, in Norfolk for big
amy, turns out to have beautiful
and attractive young wife in Balti-
more.
General Melikoff, who took dis
tinguished part in the Russo-Turk-
ish war, has been appointed head of
the new Russian Commission of Su-
preme Control, with powers which
virtually make him dictator.
The statement that John Sherman
has purchased an interest in the
Cincinnati Commercial is denied pos
itively, and the Commercial states
that all it's stock is owned exclusive
ly by those at work in its office.
If it is true that the Duke of
Edinburgh, the Cars son-in-law,
has been trying to persuade the old
gentleman to abdicate, he has prob
ably wasted his fragrance on the
desert air. No her-in-law was
ever known to abdicate.
Senator Bayard, as soon as his
Dover speech of 1861 was lately re-
vived, produced the original manu-
script and allowed copies of it to be
circulated, thus making no conceal
ment of how he stood nineteen years
ago. 1t seems that he would rather
| be frank than be President.
The demand for a new Federal
bankrupt law is growing stronger
every day. Most of the leading bus
mess men of New England and
New York have concurred in petit
tioning Congress for appropriate leg.
islation, and the Boards of Trade
in all the chief cities have passed
resolutions to the same effect.
Near Middletown, Frederick coun-
ty, Md, Tuesday night, in the par
lor of Mrs. Sigler, pistol in the
pocket of a young man named Daniel
Hutzel was accidentally discharged,
the ball lodging in The hip of Miss
Emma Mcbride, who was sitting
near Hutzel. Though the wound is
a painful one, it is not considered
dangerous.
Senator Davis, of this State, was
before the Board of Public Works at
Annapolis Friday to secure a rebate
on freight shipped over the canal by
the coal company in which the Sena-
tor is interested. His inquiries,
which were favorably received by
the board, were made preliminary to
the proposed construction of a rail-
road from Cumberland to the coal
regions in West Virginia.
The new form of vulcanite that
has been recently discovered incases
every fibre of the material in a film
lmpervious to water, yet this film is
| invisible. 1t can be used on deli
cate colored silks, kid gloves, cotton
and wooden goods, ostrich plumes,
ladies boots, and yet cannot be de-
tected by the touch. 1t is one of
the greatest discoveries of modern
science.
The determination of Congress to
attempt refunding at the rate of 81
per cent. will doubtless have the in
direct effect of stimulating specula.
tion in stocks and bonds. AS Eng
lish per cent. consols are within II