Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-05-14
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the business, and their tenants boy
cotted them, as 400 empty houses
testify.
A special dispatch from Cincinna-
ii says there is strong movement
on foot among the Democrats of
Ohio to bring out ex-senator Thur
man as a candidate for Governor.
1t is not known whether Mr.. Thur
man is willin' or not, but it is pre-
sumed he is.
A relentless fight is to be made
against the reelection of Senator
Cameron, land judging from the com
bination reported as already formed,
lie will be defeated. The initial
struggle will be over the chairman
ship Of the Republican State Com
mittee. The Cameron candidate is
John NJ. Pomeroy of Franklin coun-
/ ty, and the anti-Cameron candidate
Chas. s. Wolfe, who, it is thought
will be chosen.
One Of Brady's useless mail.routes
has been discontinued. 1t was from
Memphis, Tenn, to Wittsburg,
Arkan sas, by water, and cost the
government $4,000 a year. The
service was put on at the earnest re-
quest Of ex-senator Dorsey and 9TH
ers. An investigation disclosed the
fact that the service could be much
better performed by rail than by
water.
The London correspondent of the
New York Tribune says the success
of the American horse is a genuine
surprise to the English turf, and
that rivals are cropping up in anoth-
er quarter, two high-class two.year-
olds have landed last week from
Australia.
Secretary Blaine is an enthusiast
tic believer in West Virginia's great
future. He declares that the Noun
tain State has greater possibilities of
development than any other terrific
tory On the continent.
In Oregon one has to obtain S.
license to drink whiskey straight at
a public bar. The saloon keeper is
subject to heavy penalty if he sells
to an unlicensed topper. The news
papers have taken to publishing the
SIS men, which is very .discouraging
to the saloon keepers.
Senator Camden has gone to Hot
Springs, Ark, to bring home his
wife and daughter, who have been
some time at that great health-re-
storing resort. Mrs. ca health has
improved in very gratifying man
ner during her stay.
The Car recognizes the critical
position he is in, by issuing a ukase
cutting down the tariff of rents paid
by the peasantry. This looks like
a fatally weak move, while an act
Of tremendous autocracy. The Gar
might free the serfs upon the moral
ground that slavery should not be
permitted. But in raising and low
ering of rents, he takes the absolute
control of property. He alienates
the mobiles and landowners, without
conciliating the peasants. eff the
Gar can remit any rents" these
will say, "why does he not set us
free from all rents ?" And they
will be sure to carry to its logical
extreme the communism thus init.
ated by the Emperor.
A shoddy factory in Chicago, it
appears, not wishing to incur the
opprobrium of making cloths to
seem what they are not, has shred
ded up 5000, 900 pounds of filthy and
polluted street rags to make stufings
for cheap mattresses for the people
to sleep on. Talk of specializing in
hotpital sponges and yellow fever
rags, after this ! The Chicago firm,
being demonstrated with, consents
to fumigate its rags, but not to give
up its business. Do the Chicago
hotels buy these cheap mattresses :?
Senatot Voorhees, put the case in
a nutshell when he said, in reply to
a Washington Star reporter, who
asked him what he thought about
the Robinson nomination. 81 can
only look tO & he DprSon uoroino+ed ~