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

ton, such as cotton and cotton goods,
wool and wooden goods, metals, in
Guiding iron, &C., were all in turn
voted on and indefinitely postponed.
There was then a proposition made
to appoint q committee of five to
consider the whole subject of tariff
revision, but this was also post
pOned.
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like the celebrated bred Scott deci-
sion, mark an important epoch in
our political history, and make an
issue on which the coming Presiden-
tial campaign will, to great extent,
be fought.
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THE TAYLOR STRAUDER
CASE


The recent decision of the Su-
preme Court of the United States in
the Taylor Strauder case, has elicit
ed wide discussion. The case arose
in Ohio county, in this State, and
has been pending for eight or ten
years. Strauder, who is colored
man, was indicted and tried in the
Circuit Court of Ohio county for
the murder of his wife. He was ad-
judged guilty, and an appeal was
taken to the Court of Appeals of the
State. The Court of Appeals sus-
tanned the Circuit Court, and the
case was then taken to the United
States Supreme Court, on the point
that he had a right to remove his
case for trial to the United States
Court. The decision of the United
States Supreme Court reverses the
decision of the Ohio county Circuit
Court as sustained by the Court of
Appeals, which will give Strau-
der the right to have his case
removed to the United States Circuit
Court, where new trial will be had.
AS we understand it, the decision
of the Supreme Court of the United
States, in reversal, is based on the
point that any State law which eX-
cludes colored citizens from the jury
in case where colored citizen is
being tried, is denial of the equal
protection of the law guaranteed by
the Federal Constitution, as embra-
ced in the Fourteenth Amendment,
which provides, inter dlic, that, "no
State shall make or enforce any law
which shall abridge the privileges or
immunities of citizens of the United
States; nor shall any State deprive
any person of life, liberty, or proper
ty without due process Of law, nor
deny to any person within its juris-
diction the equal protection of the
laws" Congress shall have power
to enforce by appropriate legislation
the provisions of this article"
The decision, as we understand it,
turns principally upon these provi-
sions. A State shall not "deny to
any person within its jurisdiction the
equal protection of the laws" The
Jury law of this State excludes color
ed persons from the jury. Strauder
went up to the Supreme Court of the
United States on his petition stating
that by reason of this provision of
the Jury law of the State, he was
"denied the equal protection of the
laws" and asked for aremoval of his
case to the Circuit Court of the Uni
ted States for the District of West
Virginia, there to be tried. And
this the decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States grants,
holding that oar jury law is in con-
flict with the Fourteenth Amend
ment.
The scope Of this decision seems to
take in all cases, civil or criminal, in
which colored persons are parties to
the suit, and will greatly embarrass
legal proceedings in such cases, until
the jury law is changed to conform
to the decision.
Justice Field gave Il dissenting
opinion, in which he took the ground
that it was u virtual obliteration of
the rights reserved to the States,
completely obliterating every re-
naming vestige of State Sovereign
| ty, and establishing the proposition
that the States now occupy to the
General Government a position very
| little different from that of the coun-
ties to the States.
This decision of the Court viii,
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GONE GLIMMERING.

The celebrated Moffett Bell Punch
law of Virginia has been repealed
by the General Assembly of that
State, and a license system establish
ed, which goes into effect May 1st.
The vote for the repeating bill was
almost unanimous.
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X OHaRalnaWk.

Toe weather. is very fine, altho'
We bad tao light frosts this week.
The wheat is looking fiue, New
er Mas q better prospect for good
crop.
MIR. ). b. Jamison lost very
fine horse Wednesday night. Sew
eral others are sick, caused by
changing their feed.
The road il lined with wagons
going and coming, hauling ties
and lumber.
Business is reviving, and every
body appears to be busy.
Mr.. J. w. Wood and Samuel
Hedges are cutting and hauling q
large lot Of logs-scme of the fin
est poplar and oak in the county.
Business is surely reviving. 1t is
not all talk, but there is is cider
with il. MAHALlER.
For the best boots in town go and
buy a pair of the celebrated hand
made Monogram boots. For sale
only by II. N. Deatrick.
A tramp sat himself down in a
farmers house, saying, pm a
rootabaga, and this is the way L
plant myself" ave bile ourn,"
said the farmers wife, as she
calmly took the Kettle ofboiling
water off the fire, He was gone
before the cooking began.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1880.
ANOTHER "BAR'L.n

1t is said that Senator Blaine has
recently made a million dollars in
mining stocks. If this be true, the
Senator will be able to open a small
barrel, or at least keg, in the
Presidential scramble.
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CANDAHAR AND BELOO CHRISTIAN.
From the Spectator.

It il almost useless to discuss further
the retention OF Candahar. The decision
now rests with the Cabinet, aud it is not
probable that the Cabinet, set free as it
has been by the victory Of General Roberts
and the failure of the Wall to keep his
part Of the bargain, pledged to the lips to
the constituencies, and aware, as the public
ia not aware, OF the true feeling of the
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once again within our ancient limits.
which the Afghaus, even in the Mutlny,
showed themselves incompetent to pass.
The new arguments produced are such as
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with statesmen. England does not con-
quer unwilling provinces 10 the centre OF
Asia, and hold them with costly garrisons,
in order to .%''foster trade" even if the trade
were likely to be important, which it
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whatever. The mass of tine people OF
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istan, and the fighting classes of the North,
SO far from wishing US to stay, refuse to
enlist while the occupation is going on.
They do not regard it as our business, or
theirs, to rule beyond the Indus, and
decline to enter regiments liable to be SO
employed. We :never pledged ourselves
to conquer Or dismember Afghanistan.' but
on tho contrary. proclaimed everywhere
our intention to make that country
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PRESS OPINIONS
Upon the Election and the I.esu

Upon the Election and the Result. Pittsburg Teiegraphl
 The battle is over. Much time, much money, much energy was ex- pended in it. Now let us give poli- tics the go-by and put the tune and money and energy remaining into work that the happy era of prosperl- ty upon us may continue. We have all been working for our ideas. Let us turn in without further delay and work for our material interests. St. Louis Post Dispatch.J
 A more peaceful and orderly presi- dential election than that of yester- day was never held in the United States. As the thing IS settled now beyond dispute, there will be no necessity for trumped up stories about outrages in the southern states. So long as we can vote with out killing each other and smashing up ballot boxes, self government is something better than theory. Galveston Newg.T
 The democratic party has been un- fortunate in a canvass which, while evading specific issues of policy, left room for sectional appeals against a solid south, and provoked a conserv ative apprehension of change. Hencefortk, it is probable, things will ripen for split in the solid south and tho solid north, and 1t is to be hoped that in new alignments on live issues the bloody shirt will be buried with all the old parapher- nalia of sectional politics, and that the south and the whole country will realize the benefit of healthy diyis- ions and rational and reputable com blnations.
 yieksburg Herald.l
 We must stand firm, face the situ ation and meet it like men, We must not commit the errors in the future that our extreme men com mittcd in the past. When we make platforms we must live up to them. We must accept the amendments in good faith, or give the bourbons the reins, and prepare to receive another dose of reconstruction. We still have the senate, but we will not have it long unless we drive the fire eaters of the south to the rear and keep them there. Even the control of our local affairs is endangered by the criminal blunders of the idiots, who rely on bulldozing, fraud, hypocrisy and perjury.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11
X CARD.
J. HOMER SCoTT.

J. IOMLR oCOII.
 Dear me! Wait till we recover breadth Scott is after us.
 The old colonel is gallant knight of the quill but thIs time he talks very much as if he had been hearing the Gazette talk. Does OUT old friend sneeze every time the Gazette takes snuff? He talks about "fanat ical parsons Winfield and Withers." How many more will yelp when the '.old start opens? When Col. Scott's memorial slab speaks only a birth, name and death, grateful public will erect pile of honoring stones over Dr. Winfield's ashes, marked from top to bottom with sen tentious and eplgrammatic euIogy.
 The above article headed in large letters "J. Homer Scott' from the October, 1880, number of the Tenn perance Banner. published and edi- ted by H. R. Withers, at Little Rock induced me to address the editor q note desiring to know of hlm wheth- CT the same was intended to person ate and reflect upon Jno. R. Homer Scott, and receiving no answer there to, although he verbally stated to a friend that he would do so and would see me next day, or in day or two, and having awaited therefor and being disappointed therein, it becomes necessary, in self defense, to reply to said al tic!e.
 I could not believe it possible for sometime that it was intended for me, fully satisfied that never had upon any occasion either verbally or in writing said anything to give of fense, having always been an admi Ter of the talents and ability of both Drs. Winfield and Withers, and be- ing fully conscious that "Scott was net) after" him; that "the old colo nel a gallant knight of the quill' has not for considerable length of time had the pleasure of hearing the Ga zette talk" that his 'old friend" does not "sneeze every time the Ga zette takes snuff" that he never talks about "fanatlcal parsons Win  field and Withers," and that it is not within his power to inform him ''how many more will yelp when the "old start opens," whether this term is
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11

The Senior editor must apolo gize to the readers of the DEMOCRAT for his reply over his own sigma ture to an assault made upon him personally, which appears in this is- sue, by saying that if the DEMOCRAT has at any time assailed Doctors Winfield or Withers it was done in his absence and without his knowl- edge and did not justify the per sonal reflections made upon him in. dividually, and for which the editors of the DEMOCRAT were jointly respon sible if such was the case which the Banner does not indicate, thereby making it altogether peronal mat ter,
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11
THE NATIONAL ELECTION.

Sufficient returns from the several states participating in the National election on the 2d inst, have been received to enable us to approximate with tolerable accuracy the general result. As stated Tn last week S DEMOCRAT, the democracy, although united and successful in carrying ev- cry southern state, met with reverses in the north which lost them the Presidency. The result created wide spread astonishment among democrats every where, for with an exceptionally strong ticket they thought the defeat of the besfhirched republican candidate q feat easy of accom- plishment. But in this the democrats, usually sanguine and over confident, nder-estimated the potency and power of the united capital and corporations, the office holding army and the money aristoc- racy of the republican party. To the enormous power of these agen cies the republican victory is due.
 Notwithstanding the over-power- ing advantage of our opponents their victory is not so complete as they would have the country believe. The democrats have given their Presidential candidate popular ma. iority of over hundred thousand votes; they have elected very nearly one half of the House of Represen. tatives; retained over one-half the Senate, and carried one-half of the States of the Union. Considering everything this must be regarded as a remarkably close fight.
 The following table shows the electoral vote by states as reported to this time:
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11

comes to the rescue in the following sensible manner:
 "Now that the elections are all over, and the political status of the country fixed for at least four years to come, let us stop talking about politics, and address ourselves to the more practical and pressing concerns Of our social and business life. Al. though Mir. Garfield has been elected president, we have no doubt but that the government will go on as quietly and peacefully for the next four years as it has for the last four years"
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11

towards to suffer such evidences to pass without searching lnquisition. Let the committee, therefore, push forward vigorously, confident in the support of honest men of all parties, and assured beforehand that q demo- cratic senate and house of represen- tatives will do full justice in the premises.
 The country has not been advised as to the character or abundance of testimony in the hands of the New York investigators, and we opine it will take unwearying diligence and dextrous management to oyertake the enemy in their rascallties.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11
THE VOTE OF NEW YORK.

For several days vague rumors of a contest of the vote of New York have been ahoat in our midst, but, we believe they were not generally accepted as true. Latest advices from New York, however, indicate that there is some foundation for the reports, and show that both the na tional and state democratic commit tees contemplate complete and searching investigation into the al legged republican frauds in the late elect ion.
 The New York Star commenting upon this movement has this to say
 The question at hand is not par tsan question. It concerns the in tegrity of the American political system, the very stability of our present form of government. Whether Garfield or Hancock shall be declared President is of small ac count compared with the vital ne cessity of so guarding the elective franchise that the will of the nation may be freely and fairly expressed through the ballot box. There are unmistakable evidences of gigantic Republican frauds perpetrated in this and Kings county on Tuesday last;, frauds of sufficient magnitude to wipe out the rapidly dwindling republican msjoriOV. It would be the crime of
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11
DEMOCRATIC STATES.
 ElqctOral NCte.
REPu BELGIAN STATES.
 Electoral Vote.
Total 2

Doubtless there have been mis- takes committed and blunders made in the cahvass just ended, of which it will be the duty of the press to speak in the future. For the pres ent democrats will accept the situa- tion with all the grace at their com mand, and prepare for a vigorous and aggressive warfare in behalf of constitutional liberty and the eter- nal truths of democracy four years hence.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11
". c. FORD, Attorney.
LAND SALE.

Notice is hereby given that by virtue of an order of the probate court of Pope county, made on the 20th day of october, !ss9, of the lands of stephen c. Crow, dec'd, subject to the dover of Jennie Crow, widow of stephen c. Crow, for the purpose of paving the debts of said deceased, will sell, during the hours pre- scribcd by law for making Judicial sales, on the 20th day of November, 1880. at the court house door in the town of Dover. at public out-cry to the highest bidder on credit of three months, the following described land lying in the coun- ty Of Pope and state eff Arkansas, to-wIt.
 The % of the " h of sec. 10, T 9 N k 20 W-4o acres. The purchaser will be required to give note with good and lawful security. This Oct. 22. 1880. W. J. SHERRILL,
 Adm'r of the estate of stephen c. Crow, dec'd.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11
Notice for Publication.
LAND OFFICE AT DARDANELLB ARK, l
 OCTOBER 18th, 1880,

Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim be- fore the Register and Receiver of the U S.. Land office at Darianelle, Ark, on the 27th of November, 1880, and secure final entry thereof at the expiration of thirty days from the date of this notice, viz: Molie C. Winfield. Homestead entry No g20l for the W k s E < and N Wk E4 Sec tion IT, Township B. N Range 20 w., and names the following as his witnesses. viz: J. NJ. Berryhll, J. K. Harkey, l.. D. Bryant, and J. G. Colburn, all of Rus selyille Ark.
 T. NJ GIBSON, Register.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11
If 'turn about is fair play' how

If turn about is fair play" how would it do for the democratic senate and house of representatives to ''count in" Mr. Hancock and leave Mir. Garfield to the quiet contem plation of the "coanting out" policy of which he was so ardent champion four years ago? The precedent was established by the re- publicans themselves.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11

As an offset to the democratic claim of fraud in the New York cleo tion, the republican national com mlttee claim that Florida was stolen by the democrats.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11

Perhaps no political campaign was ever so fruitful in genuine sur prises as the one just closed. The most recent was the least decent so to speak.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11

Out of the dismal gloom of our surprising defeat comes the refresh ing thought that President Garfield will hold his office by the suffrages of the people, and not by ths lniqui- tous decision of an to ' commis- sion.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11

Tho electoral college, without further change, will be divided as follows Garfield and Arthur, 213; Hancock and English, 156.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11
cnMMrssInNER,s SALE.

In obedience to an order of the circuit court of Pope county. Arkaneas,made at the Septem- Der term, 1880, in the matter of the partition of the lands of wm. N. Cloar, dec'd. the under signed will. cn the s0th day of November, 1SsO, between the hours of 10 m and o'clock p, m. on that day sell on three months credit, the following lands, to-wit. The northeast quar- ter of the north west quarter Of section one t1) township six (6) range twenty lsO) containing forty (S0 acres, and the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter, same section, township and range and containing forty t40) eeTes- Sale to take place on the premises, and pur- chase ploncy. essiytnc commissioners will also retain U ifon on iard to secure tho purchase money. J. NJ. HENRY,
 LEMUEL HUGHEY,
 J. l.. BoGGAN.
 Commissioners. " C. FORD AttornGy.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11

California goes democratic by a plurality 96. Rather small, we ad- nit, but large enough for all practi cal purposes.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11
For Sale.

we'll improved place with six lots, situated in suburbs of Russellville. the most desirable portion of town. Bed of 5000 strawberry piants apple, peach and pear trees. House has good rooms; stable and all necessary out houses. Good well of water. Terms reasona- ble Apply to w. D, LIVINGSTON.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11

Judge Boles can now we'll ex- claim. "The ballot-box moves in a mysterious way its wonders to per form,"
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11
The latest returns indicate the

The latest returns indicate the certain election of Hon. Jordan E. Cravens to congress from this dis lict by handsome majority. In the first, second, and fourth districts democratic congressman have been elected also, giving to Arkansas an unbroken democratic delegation in Congress for two years more.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11

According to the latest re- ports the Forty seventh congress will be composed of 152 republicans and l34 democrats and gresnbackers.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11

The Dardanelle Immigrant, our sprightly over-the river cotemporary, will be issued lIenceforth on Thurs days instead of Saturdays.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11

-Galena, H., the home of Grant, rolled up democratic majority the other day. The old commander promised to go home and vote, but hs did't do it, and this may account for the perverseness of his neigh- bors.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11

FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN: The undersign- cd offers for sale the following property sitnat- ed in Rnssellvilei A good house with five rooms and splendid we'll Of water which never goes dry; six lots with picket fence around them. Thls property is about q quarter of . mile south of tho depot. O. ROC FRS,
 Loudons Arkansas.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11

The sreenbackers are not hap py, having suddenly discovered that they are not sufficiently numerous to count.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11

Hon. l.. c. Cause, member of congress from the first district, died sf consumption at his home in Jacksonport last Thursday, the 4th inst.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11

--Mr. Rutherford B. Hayes in & speech just after Mir. Garfeld's 8 election spoke as follows for the President-elect:
 "He will say to the mistaken men of the south: You will be treated precisely as the citizens of my own state of Ohio are to be treated. All that we ask of you is, that you shall faithfully obey the constitution as it now is, regarding the new parts as equal parts, and as equally sacred with the old"
 Whether Mir. Hayes spoke by au- thority or not, if the new President pursues the policy indicated above he will do more for the south than Mr. Hayes ever did. The require, ments are so simple that no one need err Tn their fulfillment.