Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-12-11
NEWS JOTTTNGS.

in value to ST, 032,600
Speaker Randall comedies Re-
publican majority of one in the next
House.
The receipts of Booths Theater
during the Bernhardt season of twen-
ty-four nights, closed Saturday were
$4,000.
Jay Gould, it is said, will lead the
railroad lobby in the movement in
Congress to secure the opening of
the Indian Territory.
Judge Gresham's withdrawal from
the senatorial race in Indiana is an
undoubted addition to Gen. Ben
Harrison's chances.
A ragged old tramp arrested at
Buffalo was searched, and found to
be in possession Of S3,242 in bonds
and money. His treasure was sewed
up in his clothing.
Mr.. E. d. Ludwig continues to
locate an occasional Swiss colony in
this State. He has been lately Sc
Letting a location for a new colony
up in the wilds of Nicholas county.
The Georgia papers are publishing
statistics to prove that the assertion
of Mr.. A. ii. Stephens, that the
State is growing poorer and poorer
year by year, is mistaken in his po-
sition.
Representative Acklen, of Louisi-
ana, promises to go to Europe at the
end of the present session of Con-
gress and to remain there some years.
For this relief, many thanks.
The Presbytery of Philadelphia has
forwarded to Rev. DR.. J. S. McIn.
tosh, of Belfast. Ireland, a call to the
Second Presbyterian Church of Phil
.adelphia, at a salary of $4,000 year.
There is considerable excitement
in the coffee market in consequence
of the announcement of the suspen-
sion of B. G.. Arnold Il Co., of New
York, with liabilities estimated at
$l,50O,0O0.
The results of the census will not
be tabulated until the Goth inst.
Something is the matter with the
Iowa districts. Mr.. Cox expects the
total returns of population will be
about 100000.
Bogus Charlie, the accomplish of
Captain Jack in the Modoc war and
the killing of General Candy, is re-
ported as having died at La Grande,
Oregon. He was on his way to visit
his sister in Lewiston, Indian Terri
tory.
A conductor on the Panhandle
Railroad stopped his train on seeing
"a naked man kneeling in the snow,
with the thermometer at zero. He
proved to be crazy, and said that a
strange voice had commanded him
to hang his clothes on a limb and
pray.
An English divine has recently
married at the age of eighty-two to
a girl of seventeen. He is wealthy,
and has grandchildren already mar
ried. The girl, when an infant, was
baptised by her future spouse when
he had numerous grandchildren run
ming about.
The Washington Post is kind
enough to catalogue, for the benefit
of intending applicants, all the fat
official positions that will be at the
disposition of Republican House of
Representatives after March 4th. 1t
will make many patriots heart
beat faster to read the list.
In Ohio the senatorship contest
wakes in vigor, and very much the
same means are being used to defeat
Mr.. Sherman that were successfully
employed against him at Chicago.
Nevertheless, he is in the lead, and
the majority of the Republican press
and voters are for him.
Mr.. Gladstone's withdrawal from
the House of Commons is demanded
by his physician, who breads the eff
feet of such an arduous session as
the forthcoming Parliament will
prove. 1t is supposed that after the
budget is reported Mr.. Gladstone