Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-02-07
NEWS JOTTTNGS.

/ IOuuu Twenty-Five uulCttutilS dSdiuSt
Bev. Edward Cowley, of the Shep-
herds Fold, and in default of bail
| he has been locked up in Jail.
| The recent action of the New
York Democratic State committee
shows that Tilden has as strong
grip on the machine as in 1875, and
that he will control the delegation
| to the National convention. The
Kelly people will be left out in the
i cold.
Parson De la Matyr insisted, dur
ing debate on the new rules the
other day in the House, that the
chaplains should be sworn to faith
fully perform their duties, the same
as any other officers or employees; 9TH
erwise he was not sure that they
would do their very best in the pray
ing line.
The Moorefield Examiner says:
Our railroad prospects seem very slim
just now. The excitement seems to
have died out. We do not deserve
railroad, because we are not willing
to do anything to help on the enter
prise. We don't help ourselves, and
therefore have no right to ask others
to kelp us.
The Louisville Courier-Journal sat-
isfed itself by saying that it was "evi-
dent from the first that Garcelon
was an old humbug; that his party
was a lot of political dead. beats, and
that, bad as Jim Blaine and his buc-
cancers are, honest men could not
afford to go in with the riff-raff of
fools and knaves who made up the
opposition"
One of the great recommendations
of Senator Gibson, in the opinion of
the New Orleans Times, is that
"when his constituents have occasion
to go to Washington on business,
they are not forced to look for Glib
son there where the tiger bucks the
statesman grand, or there where the |
flashy ones are want to stream along |
the drive to the Soldiers Home
The Cincinnati Gazette has finish
ed its canvass of Ohio Republicans
on the presidential question. In all,
1850 were interviewed with the fol-
lowing results: Sherman, 1881;
Blaine 96s; Grant $40; Garfield 1874;
Hayes IS; Washburne 10, and the
remainder scattering. 1t is notica-
BILE that Mr., Sherman falls little
short of a majority of the whole
number.
After survey Of the field, the
Cleveland Leader concludes that Mr..
Tilden's wires are so we'll laid in
Ohio that he is tolerabl5 eare of cap
turing the vote of the state in the
Democratic National Convention.
Another indication of the business
boom stands out boldly in the an
nouncement that the national banks |
increased their circulating notes
nearly million and a-half dollars
during the first mouth of the new
year.
Col Eaton, the Kansas member of
the Democratic National Com NIT
tee, is positive that the nomination
will not go to Tilden, Seymour, Bay
ard, Thurman and Hendricks, but
to a man who has not as yet been
named in this connection publicly.
Parnell says that Victoria not
only did not contribute to the help
of the suffering people Of Ireland in
1847, but went 80 far as to intercept
money sent by the Shah of Persia.
"However could she do 1t %
The proposal to erect a house Of
ice in imitation of the palace of ice
built in the time Of the Empress
Anne has been carried out at Mos
cow. The building is Of smaller di-
mansions, having but two doors q six
| windows, but 1t is, like its prototype,
built wholly Of ice, blocks of that
material having been employed in
stead of stones and bricks. 1t is sit.
uated in the Geological Gardens.
Two architects and 800 workmen
have been employed in its construc-
tion.