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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-02-26
HON. JOHN W. GRANTHAM.

The Fayetteville Enterprise in
dulges in very abusive criticism of
this gentleman on account of his
vote in the House of Delegates for
u. S. Senator. 1t seems as if the
Enterprise is made the special vehi-
Gle for cowardly and unjust assaults
upon prominent men of the State.
1t is a kind of sluice-gate through
which the private piques and venom
of disappointed politicians finds
vent. Its attack upon Mr.. Grantham
will do him no harm whatever, es-
pecially among his own people, where
he is known as straitforward, hon.
orable gentlemen.
A correspondent of the Wheeling
Register, signed Third District, !"
replies to the Enterprise as follows:
Hon. John w. Grantham, who is
a member of the House of Delegates
from Jefferson county, is the recipi-
ent of very abusive editorial criti-
cism in the Fayetteville Enterprise,
of February Is, 1881, which, | am
glad to say, receives the condemna-
ton of every member Of the House,
regardless of party.
Mr.. Grantham is in possession of
information that the article referred
to was written in Washington and
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mailed to the Enterprise, with SIS
bill enclosed) demanding its pubIica-
ton. Who the author Of the edi-
torial was, we leave to the readers
of the Register to draw their own
conclusions.
Now as to the fact in the case:
The county convention that nomin-
ated Mr.. Grantham voted down a
resolution instructing nominees of
said convention TO vote against lion.
j. N. Camden for United States
Senator, and hence he was in reality
pledged by those voting in conven-
ton to vote for Mr.. Camden which
he did.
The petition spoken of in the arti-
Gle contained some four hundred
names, out Of Democratic vote of
two thousand. Mr.. Grantham know
ing that the people Of his county
were divided between the different
candidates for Senator, with much
the largest number in favor OF Mr..
Camden, voted as he knew the ma
jority of his constituents desired him
to do.
lie did not come to Wheeling as a
Hereford man." as the Enterprise
states, nor did he ever pledge him
self to Hereford or any of his friends,
as it would have its readers to be-
lieve.
Mr.. Grantham is heightened
Christian gentleman, and one who
would spurn to do a wrong to any
body, and the attacks of this paper
upon his private character will fall
far short of its mark and will recoil
with double force upon the man who
was base enough to pen such an
article.
The Enterprise seems to have been
selected as the cesspool, by the enc
mics Of Mr.. Camden, in which to
gather all the filth and venom OF his
opponents, and through that medium
to spit it out at intervals best suited
to their tastes and when it suited
their convenience, to do Mr.. Cam
den or some of his friends personal
injury.
l know well that the first abusive
article that appeared in the press Of
this State against Mr.. Camden, land
that before the Oct5Der elections
was published In the Enterprise, of
which Brazie claims to be editor (?).
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INAUGURATION OF GOV. JACK.
SON.

Preparations are in progress at
Wheeling looking to grand affair at
the coming Inauguration of Cover
nor j. B. Jackson on the 4th Of
March. The legislature is acting in
connection with the citizens of
Wheeling and other portions of the
State, and besides the regular inaug-
ural ceremonies, the affair will
wind up with grand ball at the
Capital at night. On committee of
invitations from this county we no.
tice the name of r. p. III. Staub,
ESQ.,, and on committee of reception,
Hon. f. b. Faulkner.
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OVER THE WIRES.
NEWS Oh THE WEEK SIMMERED DOWN
Home Intelligence.
GENERAL NOTES.

The friends of prohibition in
North Carolina, presented to the
Legislature a petition containing
10000 signatures.
Three hundred miners are on a
strike at Salineville, Ohio, against a
reduction from recent advance of
seven cents a ton.
The Chicago Times estimates that
the extra expenses of Western rail-
roads caused by the savere snow
storms this winter will fully consume
the net earnings of January and Feb
ruary.
The whipping-post question is
exciting much discussion in Ken
lucky. Candidates for legislative
honors are frequently called upon to
"defne their position" on the sub
ject, and in several counties instruc-
tions to vote for or against the bill
will be decided at the primary cleo
ton.
West Virginia has seventeen
volunteer military companies,
fully armed by the state, and uni
formed at the expense of the sol
diers.
DR.. John Minor, near relative
of Mr.. John B. Minor, professor
Of law in the University of Vir-
ginia, dropped dead at his resi-
dencs, near Rapid Station, on Sun
day last.
There were S94 postoffices in
West Virginia by the report at the
close of January, which is an in
crease of Ga over same time last
year.
A bill has been introduced in
Congress donating all the land
and watsr-power rights OF the
federal government at Harper's
Ferry to West Virginia, for edu-
cational purposes.
Col. w. f. cambridge, formerly
of Winchester, and for some time
a civil engineer on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, has been made
an agent at Cincinnati of the four
companies-Ohio and Mississippi,
Marietta and Cincinnati, Balti-
more and Ohio, and Louisville
Short Line.
The public mind seems to be a
little uncertain whether Garfield
or Conkling will run the next adj
ministration. 1t is hardly worth
while TO get excited about it how
| ever.
1t is announced by the Lake
Shore management that, until
General Garfield leaves for Wash
ington, all passenger trains will
stop at Mentor. Just what grudge
the Lake Shore folks have against
Garfield does not appear.
The bent of reports about the
new cabinet is again that Cover
nor Foster will be postmaster gen.
eral. He told a commissioner OF
the New York World on Monday
that he had been unofficially in
formed that he would be rendered
cabinet position, and he felt it to
be his duty to accept it.
Professor Billroath, OF Vienna
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The Census Office announced
the following approximate dis
tribation Of lhe total population
ofthe country among the several
classes: Males, % 500, 5S2; females
"a ,632, 2S4; natives of the United
States, 43, 495, SOC; foreign born g.
GIG 800; whites, 43, 404, S77; colored
6,567, I5l; Isdians and half.breeds
not in tribal relations, on reserva.
tons under the care ofthe Govern.
ment, 65,122; Chinese, los. 463:
other Asiatics, 255. The number
of colored persons to each 100. 900
whites is 10, 1853, against 14,52S in
1870. The number of females to
each 100000 males is SIS $40, against
97'S0l in 1870. The number of
foreign born parsons to every 1OO,-
600 natives is 1889, against 16,-
875 in 1870.
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Mr.. E. p. EMERSON, of Bloom
dale, Ohio, renews his subscription
to the INDEPENDENT, and says /,
Gam well pleased with the paper:
particularly with your Independent
manner of discussing political topics.
Go on, it is to the independent press
that thinking men look for the
truth"
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-02-26

A GREAT MANY states announcing
the make up of President Garfield's
Cabinet have been going the rounds,
and probably not one of them will
prove correct. The only certain
member of the Cabinet yet known
to the public is Hon. James G..
Blaine, to be Secretary of State.
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A RESOLUTION extending the
present session Of the legislature un-
til March II, and an adjournment
until February 1, 1882, has passed
both houses of the legislature.
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THE Harrisburg Senatorial con-
test has been finally decided by the
election of Mr.. Mitchell as a COM
promise candidate. He is anti
Cameron,
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Those who prove anything by
experience can speak intelligently;
ana the unanimous testimony of
all who use DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup is that it more than fulflls
all that it promises. Price 25 cts.
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THE new three.per cent. funding
bill, passed by Congress, is long
step in the right direction.
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SATURDAY, FEB. 26. 1881.

SENATOR MAT. CARPENTER died
at his residence in Washington, on
Thursday,
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WAsHINGToN's BIRTHDAY was
properly observed in many Of the
cities of the United States.
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CRIMINAL BULLETIN.

Two years ago, at London, Ohio,
Mrs. Samuel Armstrong was ar
rested for numbering her husband
who was found in bed with "a pis-
tol-shot through the head. She
was discharged on account of in
sufficient evidence. Two weeks
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-08-01

The whole people may be said to be
taking care of the President. Men of
science in almost every department of
the Government have made contribu-
tions to his comfort and progress. the
soldiers stand guard over him, and men
of all grades of official life besiege the
White House. The outpouring of sym
pathy and suggestion from all parts of
the country is something the like of
which has not been seen before in our
history. The single incident of DR..
Hamilton's lightning journey to Wash
ington, simple as it is, is eloquent of
universal sympathy and eagerness to dc
anything for the President. It is briefly
described elsewhere. 1t was just nine
minutes after DR.: Hamilton was intro.
duced to Superintendent Watts, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, that the special
train left the depot in Jersey City, and
all the way to Washington the road was
cleared to let the train fly by that was
carrying the two surgeons to the Presi
dents bedside. The journey took jus
four hours and forty-two minutes, will
some inevitable delays owing to the sud
denness of the start-Ia1bu,ae.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-08-01
YORKTOWN CENTENNIAL.

Quartermaster-Genera Kingsley an
nounces that vessel has been chartered
and arrangements perfected for the trans
portation of Vermont's quota of troops
to join in the centennial cele bration of
Corvallis surrender at Yorktown, Oc-
tober 10. The event is some time ahead
and there will be abundant opportunity
for the local managers to fill the only
requisition which General Kingsley
makes on them, to wit, a supply of pure
water. It is said that individuals or
parties can avail themselves of this
means of attending the celebration at a
total cost of not more than forty dollars
each. The occasion will be memorable
in the highest degree, and will revive
"reminiscences of the olden time which
can hardly fail to strengthen national
ties between the sections of our common
heritage. In the life-and-death strug.
gle of that day there was no waste Of
strength in sectional or party chickering's.
We needed all our resources with those
of our noble allies of France superadded
The combined forces, French and
American, were about twelve thousand
exclusive of the Virginia militia, anc
the latter were summoned into the felG
by Governor Nelson on pledge of hi
private fortune, as security to obtain ;
loan. the state treasury being quite bare
On the side of the British, besides tn
marines, Corvallis surrender mad
seven thousand men prisoners of war
These numbers seem meager when com
pared with the forces set against eacl
other in the subsequent wars in our an
nails, but the country itself was in tn
germ; three millions then to fifty mil
lions now is mighty contrast York
town, however, can never be made t
assume small proportions in history. an
more than Bunker Hill.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-08-01

and Potsdam sandstone. The audience
room will seat five hundred The church
has cost $35, 900, the existing debt being
nominal sum. The structure is hand
some one, and is creditable to the archi-
teet, Mr.. L. J. Sweet
The Vermont Teachers Association
meets at Mortified August 10th, 18th and
18th. Rev. w. S. Hazen of Northfield
makes the address of welcome, and Prof.
Cilley the response. ''How can the quail
ification for teaching be raised?" will be
discussed by Prof Dole and others.
President Hamilton will speak Thursday,
followed by Superintendent Dart on
''Ungraded Schools, and President Buck
ham on 'sThe Moral Hygiene of the
School" Other well-known teachers
will speak, and the meeting promises tC
he a. success
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-08-01

The Emperor of Russia is to be form
ally crowned in a short time, it is an
nounced. The ceremonies will be mag
nifcent and imposing, and millions of
dollars will no doubt be expended on
the occasion. Then, after all this is
over, the Gar will 60 on with the rigo-
rous policy of his predecessors. his sub
jects will smart under oppression and he
will hide from their wrath in fear of his
life-and by-and-by, doubtless, will
come the news of another assassination.
The royal family of Russia. while in
constant fear of nihilistic attacks, dc
not seem inclined to vary the programme
by extending to the masses the priv
leges which will tend to alleviate theil
condition and make Russia more civ
ilized.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-08-01

A regulation has just been made
against throwing banana skins on the
sidewalks and cross-walks. 1t is sur
prising what a number of accidents, and
many of them serious ones. are caused
each year by this petty outcome of self
ish Indifference to other folks welfare,
on the part of perhaps peaceable and
well-meaning citizens. The ordinance
is good one, but will of course soon
become dead letter. Some poor cul-
prits will fall victims to the zeal of some
ignorant policemen. and then we may
break our legs again without let or
hindrance. There are regulations
against allowing passengers to stand in
cars and stages, but they have never
been enforced to my knowledge. If we
had fewer laws and less severe penalties,
but an memorable infiction of punish
ment In every case where law is broken,
without fear, favor or excuse we'd have
less crime and fewer petty annoyances,
which go SO far in the aggregate to dis
turb ones enjoyment of things.
There is quite fuss over the extra
dition of an alleged Italian bandit who
was kidnapped in New Orleans, and
brought on here by New York detect
ives. If the prisoner is the man he is
claimed to be he is pretty hard case
but we needn't look with such utter hor-
ror on Italian bandits. We can dis
count them right here. The other day,
as the bookkeeper and an assistant from
one of our largest breweries were driv'
ing to the bank with $4,000 to depos
it they were chased by an express wag
on, driven to the curb and robbed il
broad daylight in Lexington avenue
right in the view of perhaps 10000
people. The affair occupied but min
ute or two and the robbers got away
there wasn't policeman visible within
blocks of the place there probably wer'
dozen fortifying the inner man il
cool saloons hard by, and as the rein
of the brewery buggy were cut, the I'm
fortunate bookkeeper who, like mos
Germans of anything of a literary turn
was near-sighted, and whose spectacle
fell off his nose, couldn't do much i
the way of keeping his assailants i
sight. The moneys gone, and that
undoubtedly the end of it. 1t was Gel
tainly very bold robbery.
RADIx.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-08-01

In London every incident of Presi-
dent Garfeld's illness is watched with
keen but mournful interest. Had he
been British statesman it would have
been hardly possible for the English
people to have manifested truer SEN
tlment of sympathy than that which
they have extended to his family and
his country. In no part of the United
States will the news that Mr.. Garfield
is out of danger be more thankfully re-
celved than in England. In no part of
the union will tidings of death, should
that melancholy event occur. excite
deeper or more genuine feeling Of sor'
row than they would produce through
out her Majesty's English-speaking do.
minions. London Standard.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-08-01

ANOTHER CoMET.-A new comet,
known to science as Sch@berle's comet,
is visible through the telescopes of the
observatories. 1t is now seen in the
northeast from about a. m. till day
light. In the first week in August it
will be discernible to the naked eye, and
even now may, to those who know the
use of an astronomical atlas and will
take the already published data for gui-
dance. be seen through an opera glass.
After it becomes visible to ordinary OBJ
servation it will appear in the northwest
horizon in the evening after twilight,
and will doubtless increase in bright
ness from evening to evening as it makes
its apparent progress toward the west.
1t will on no evening be visible much
more than an hour, and in the first week
of September it will last be seen at a
point in the horizon about due west.
Thereafter it will be visible, with dimin-
ishing brightness, to astronomers and
others in the southern hemisphere.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-08-01

1t is common remark that elections
in England are just as corrupt as here.
This may be true in some cases, but in
England when corruption is proven it is
a very serious affair to the constituency
whose vote is affected by it. If the
British parliament finds charges of
fraud and corruption sustained. it dis
franchises the constituency, and also
compels it to pay the entire cost Of the
investigation. Inquiries lately made
into charges of fraud in the elections at
Gloucester and Oxford have resulted in
the imposition Of the extreme penalty,
including the assessment Of 500, 00S te
pay the cost of inquiry in the first case,
and $19,375 in the second. When 9
community understands that such judg
ments for fraud and corruption will b.
pronounced against it, it is safe to say
it will do its best to prevent them.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-08-01

the shock of the operation that his
condition was not such as to warrant
the use of anasthetics. and that with
out them the shock incident to the oper-
alton would have been practically equiv
alent to another wound. DIR. Hamilton
quite agrees with the attending surgeons
that the conditions were not such as to
warrant heroic treatment. If the pres
ent opinion as to the location of the
ball is correct, that it is in the right
lilac fossa, there undoubtedly will be an
attempt to extract it. as it is practically
in the region where operations are SO
often performed for strangulated hernia.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-08-01
THE ASSASSIN.

Guiteau has been placed in solitary
confinement IN the Jail by order of Dis
trict Attorney Corkhill. He is to re-
ceive neither visitors nor communica-
tions, and the guards are not to talk
to him. He will be thus held to await
the result of the presidents injuries.
He seems perfectly eontented to have
nothing done in his case which will
make it necessary for him to leave the
Jail. He stands in constant fear of
violence, and has an abiding conviction
that he could not now appear in public
except at the risk of his life. He is
very cool in his demands for comfort
and liberty within the prison. He has
asked to have the rules modified in his
case. and proposed to apply to the act.
ing chief justice of the supreme court
of the district for modification of the
rules. He says he thinks he has done
nothing which should call for vigorous
enforcement of the rules. He has ask
ed to be allowed to exercise about tht
| Jail at his own convenience to hav,
three daily papers, which he named
sent him; to be allowed to receive al
visitors freely to have his letters mail
ed and all addressed to him delivered
and to be allowed to receive his meal
from outside. He still insists that il
shooting the president he was actuate'
by proper motive. that is, the safet
and deliverance of the republican party
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-08-01
THE PRESIDENTS CONDITION

The change which took place in the
presidents condition on the 23d, and
from which he is now recovering, was
great and alarming, but not more serious
than the surgeons in charge have from
the first regarded as possible. 1t was
caused by the accumulation of suppress
ed matter within the wound, which was
quickly relieved by an incision which
allowed the matter to flow out. There
was no blood poisoning, for the accumu-
lated matter had not remained in the
cavity long enough to become unhealthy
and be absorbed into the system. DR..
Agnew, who performed the operation,
says that another pus cavity might form
within the next ten days, but that it
need not cause alarm. The operation
has weakened the president, but he
bravely endured it and his condition is
now highly encouraging. He is very
weak and sick man, and such set backs
as that on Saturday, occurring in the
most unexpected manner, may be looked
for perhaps for several weeks to come
The criticisms of the method of treat
ment pursued, made by jealous doctors
who have not been called to the case
need not disturb the public. They are
justly or unjustly recognized as charac
teristic of the medical profession. Ths
public is much more interested in tn,
successful result than in any real o.
fancied violation of medical ethics.
The four surgeons in attendance are en-
titled to confidence. They have proba
bly, among them seen, and intelligent,
examined more gunshot wounds thar
any other four men in America. DR.
Bliss had charge of the hospitals a
Washington during the war and has hat
an enormous experience, both in tn
field and civil life; DR.. Barnes is th
surgeon-general of the army DR.. Wood
ward is the most famous and accomplish
ed of that staff which has given tn
Medical Museum and Library at Wash
ington SO high place in the scientii
world, and is the most skilful microscor
ist in the country; and DR.. Reyburn j
a physician of high standing who ha
had a large and successful practice
Judge Adds, who lives in Washington
bears testimony to the eminent skill c
these doctors, and says that outside {
their professional rivals there is no on
; in Washington who questions their abb
ity to do everything possible, with th
aid of the consulting physicians, D
Agnew of Philadelphia, and DIR. Hunt
ton of New York, for the ultimate reco7
+ cry of their illustrious patients
, AL6anS MESSENGER.
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parties are SO evenly divided that nei-
Their will dare. after this demonstration
of the evils of the spoils system, to evade
the duty of reform. Sectionalism had
already pretty well disappeared, and
this great blow, calling forth the united
sympathies of an entire people, in a
strong, deep. steady current has ban
ished the last vestige of it in politics.
The times, the disposition and division
of parties all favor reform, and the event
of the year has demonstrated, if he shall
recover, the man who can exert the
most ifluence in the direction of civil
service reform"