Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-11-27

have the effect of checking it.
The American says, Baltimore and
Ohio sold on Monday at $50, or so
per cent. above par; and, from the
indications at the close, it is doubt
full if FIVE hundred shares could be
purchased without forcing the price
up to 100 or higher. When the books
closed October Goth, for the dividend
sales were made at 10 ex-dividend,
and few shares changed hands at
1859. In just a month it has risen
eleven points. The annual report
has been published meanwhile, and
later intelligence of the Bound Brook
coup d'etat. 1t would have been a
a perfect impossibility to have kept
the price down. Never before was
the road in so magnificent a condi-
ton. And now comes the news of
the closing of water navigation, the
consequence OF which will, of course,
be large increase in the grain traf-
fic over the trunk lines.
That the Land League agitators
anticipate serious trouble in the near
future is indicated by the report,
which seems to rest on pretty good
authority, that they have invested
the entire amount of their funds in
foreign securities and lodged them
in a continental bank. "All their
books and papers," it is added,
(which might perhaps be Of i'm
mense service to the government in
securing their conviction, have been
removed to place of safety, but
whether this place is in the British
realm or on the continent is mat
ter of conjecture. From all this it
would seem that, in certain contin-
gencies, they are prepared to take
steps which might expose their prop
erty to confiscation and themselves
to serious danger, and that they re-
gard these contingencies as likely to
arise at any time all of which bodies
serious trouble for the British gov
eminent and the landlord interests.
The annual report of the Postmas-
ter General shows that our postal
establishment has not yet reached a
self-supparting basis, the expendi.
lures during the last fiscal year ex-
ceeding the receipts by So ,227 ,324 "a.
The people, however, will not be in
cllned to grumble as long as the de-
partment gives them a good postal
service system. The enlargement of
the service goes on from year to year
necessitating increased facilities and
conseq lently increased expenditure.
The Postmaster General p rides him.
self that our postal service is unsur-
passed for efficiency by any other in
the world, and he is doubtless right.
Our railway, money order and letter
carrier systems especially have GER
tainly reached point closely ap-
proXimating perfection, and it would
only be necessary to deprive the COM
munity OF their benefits for a brief
period to secure their general in
dorsement.
Governor Jas. d. Williams, of In
diana, died ON Sunday last. BY his
great simplicity united with great
shrewdness and force of character, he
was one of the most picturesqe fig
ures in American politics. In per-
sonal appearance he was strikingly
original, and when member of
Congress at Washington was the OBJ
ject of much good-natured criticism
and curiosity. 1t was, however, i'm
possible not to respect him for his
sterling honesty and worth, and one
of the highest tributes to his charac-
ter that could be paid is the fact that
enemies as we'll as friends conceded
his staunch integrity. His popular
soubriquet, "Blue jeans" was OBJ
tanned from wearing, while in Con-
gress, a suit of home-spun known as
''blue jeans" He was farmer by
occupation, and after serving several
terms in the State Legislature, was
elected to Congress in 1874. In 1876
he was elected Governor of Indiana,
after an exciting contest, his compel
itor being Gen. "Ben" Harrison.