Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-03-27
NEWS JOTTINGS.


the revival of trade in England is
general.
Mr.. Edison has sold his patent on
the electro photograph to the West
ern Union Telegraph Company for
the sum of 100000.
Guessers at the census of 1880, es-
innate the population of the United
States to be between 47,000,000 and
100000. In spread eagle speeches
hereafter it will be 'fifty Millions"
| The Culpeper (Va.) Times con-
cludes an editorial on the political
situation by nominating John w.
Garrett of the Baltimore and OHIO
Railroad, for President of the Uni
ted States.
Ex-Governor Joseph D. Brown, of
Georgia, has presented to the South.
ern Baptist Theological Seminary,
at Louisville, Kentucky, $50 900 for
the endowment of a professorship.
The whole amount has been paid.
The truth about the negotiations
between the United State and China
for revision of the Burlingame
treaty is that our government is try
ing to get the better of the heather
and does not exactly see how to do it.
The Baltimore Gazette is conduct
ing an interesting and valuable in
vestigation into the adulteration of
food. 1t has found pork packers
watering lard, millers mixing corn
meal and less eatable substances
with wheat flour, and all sorts of
things in buck-wheat flour.
A Rome special to the Freen,an's
Journal announces that on Sunday
the Pope approved Rev. Michael
Heiso, Bishop of La Crosse, Wis, as
coadjutor, with the right of succeed
ing to Archbishopof Milwaukee, and
also approved Rev. John A. Waiter
son, President of Mount st. Mary's
College. Emmittsburg, Nd, to be
Bishop Of Columbus, q.
In pleading exemption from jury
service Friday, a New Yorker told
the clerk that he read the newspaper
entirely through every morning, be-
fore going down town land. formed and
expressed an opinion on every fact,
occurrence or subject in its columns,
and regarded himself universally and
perpetually disqualified as a juryman.
This is a good example to be follow
ed by any one who desires to escape
like service.
A special from Newmarket, Va,
says that information from Honey
vile, Page county, is to the effect
that James Brow, negro, murder
ed three year old child of Mr.. Hill
lard, his employer, while alone in
the woods. He fed, but was over
taken by citizens, and after confess
ing his crime was hanged. The on
ly motive for the killing was that he
became annoyed at the caresses Of
the child who was very fond of him.
I Dispatches from London continue
to report remarkable activity on the
part of the Liberals in the parlia-
mentary canvass. Mr.. Gladstone,
whose endurance and eloquence ON
the stump reminds us of similar
feats performed by Mr.. Blaine In ex-
citing campaigns, is now making
three speeches daily, and the public
desire to hear him is so unappeasa-
BILE that as high as fifty dollars a
piece has been offered for seats at his
meetings. fiEE I rN
DIR. G. w. Meyer, chairman of the
Democratic Executive Committee of
Dakota, a kinsman of the Randolphs
of Virginia and New Jersey, a news
paper man and leading physician of
the Black Hills, was married on the
7th instant at Deadwood. The bride
was Miss Annie Hezer, otherwise
knewn as "Little Buttercup," and
for some time an inmate of a noted
house for the frail sisterhood. The
ceremony took place in the Opera
House, which was brilliantly illu-
minated and crowded with curious
spectators, many of whom remained