Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-06-26
News Gleanings.

News UIeaMiHSSs
The salary of the. President of
the United States is $50,000 a year;
of the Vice President, $4,000.
n. P. Catlet, Esq, cashier of
the Augusta National Bank died
at his residence in Staunton last
Monday night.
The exact date of the manufac-
ture of the first violin is not fixed.
Violins were in use as far back as
the twelfth century.
Indiana will vote In October this
year; the Supreme court of that
State having decided the amend
ment deferring the election until
November unconstitutional. The
Hoosier State will therefore have
the honor of leading the van as
in 1876.
Madame Louisa KOssuth Rutt-
Kap, TIE only surviving sister of
Louis Kossuth, who presides over
his home in Italy, is the guest of
Miss Charlotte w. HAYES, of Bos-
ton.
A recent traveller in South Afri-
ca has placed in the hands OF DR..
Cameron, M. p, a whip, more
formidable than the "cat' of the
British navy, with which he says
that the missionaries near Lake
Nyanza are in the habit of fog
ging refractory converts. The SUBJ
ject will probably be officially in
vestigated. lllar
Blondin says in a letter: II an
ticipate revisiting America at the
close of my European engage
ments, and propose to cross direct
ly over Niargara Falls at a height
of 100 feet above the cataract and
nearly $50 feet above the bed of
the river. l have studied we'll the
difficulties and dangers of the at
tempt, and feel confident l can
meet and surmOunt them"
Father Marcelline, Catholic
priest,at the Six Portages, Ontario,
had his skull fractured on Sunday
last by stones thrown by two
drunken men, while endeavoring
to prevent them from destroying
the property of a member of his
congregation, who kept temper
ance hotel. Marcelline is not ex-
pected to live. a.
The house that Tweed built at
Fort Washington, on the Hudson,
adjoining the estate of James Cor
don Bennett, has been purchased
by Mr.. Libbey, a member of the
firm of A. t. Stewart & Co. The
late Mr.. Stewart took it from
Tweed TO pay for furn ishing the
Metropolitan Hotel, when the
Boss was about establishing them
in bookkeeping. 1t cost Mr.. Stew
art about $275, 900, but has proba-
bly, been sold at less than half that
sum. The house is perfect cas-
tie in the midst of a tract of 20
acres.
Hon. James Barbour, a former
prominent Virginia readjuster,
who is a delegate elect to the dem
ocratic national convention. has
written letter, ia which he says:
II shall go 20 Cincinnati with the
single view of rescuing the coun-
try from the present political re-
gime. Twenty years of power has
brought misery and degradation.
A change must now be made or the
facile decent must be uncoutrolla-
bly, accelerated. Until this is effect
ed minor issues must be postpon.
ed"
Lizzie French. a white girl of
New Orleans. a few days since left
her home and was married to
Frank Skillman, bright mulatto.
While she was concealed in an
apartment rented by Skillman,
and her parents were searching
for her, not knowing of the mar
rage, a white woman who had
been living for eight years as his
wife made her appearance, and
telling her story, the unhappy girl
made her way back to her parents.
Her father::and brother went in
search of Skilman, and pistol
shooting commenced. Que of the
bullets from French's pistol passed
through partition into another
room and gave a fatal Wound tn