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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-03-28
WASHINGTON NEWS.
NOTES or MEN AND AFFAIRS At THE
NATIONS CAPITAL.
what the Public serv ants DO 10 Earn
Their salaries--white House whisper-
ings-An the Gossip u the City
Of Magnificent Distances.

WASHINGTON, March "a The chair laid
before the senate several memorials One
related to an obstruction Of navigation In the
Arkansas river at Rob Roy, Ark. one from
the Arizona Legislature praying Tor tho TO
turn of lands granted to railroads 10 the
public domain; ono praying for the enact
nent OF a law providing for mounted pa
troll for the apprehension Of criminals, and
for an amendment to the treaty Of relations
relative to the extradition OF criIniuals b.
tween the United States and Mexico
All these were appropriately referred
Mr. Dolph appealed to tho senate 10 consid-
81 his resolution authorizing the COMMITTEES
Of coast defenses TO set any where they may
ieep proper during the recess, but the senate
was apparently in no mood to further tho
consideration Of such resolutions fearing per-
aps that IL the question of employing clerks
for the committees during the recess should
DO reopenod at this TIMES Mr.. SherninnS
pending relation resembling all such orders
made since March might be passed.
Mr.. Dolph's endeavors were frustrated BY
Mr.. Miller IN. w, who moved that the SEN
ate proceed to the consideration of executive
business, which was carried The galleries
were cleared and the doors closed.
WASHINGTON, March 25 At q caucus *
republican senator's the matter Of providing
pinces for their committee clerks during tho
recess OF congress was the principal question
discussed. 1t Is understood that the confer
ance was called in order that there might DO
some general understanding by the majority
as to how Ear the senate should
go in creating such places The controversy
is based upon resolution recently submitted
by Mr.. Sherman, proposing to rescind 90
much Of all resolutions passed since March !
as TO contemplate the employment of sssp0-
cial" clerks during the congressional
vacation. The debate took wide range,
and it is evident from what
has been gathered on the subject that con-
siderable feeling was manifested. The sen
Ators are not having annual clerks to their
committees but having obtained authority
from the senate to carry them over during
the vacation period, naturally opposed
Mr, Shermans proposition and -somls of
them went so far as to state
that IL this resolution was passed, they would
insist on revision Of the entire commit ties
list Of the senate. Without reaching point
Of action ON Mr.. Sherman's resolution, the
subject was deferred. 1t is stated that the
general understanding was reached in the
caucus that all pending treaties should be an
intimation of the understanding TO take up
the remaining treaties
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WASHINGTON. March 10 The president
has nominated s. $. Cox to be minister 70
Turkey.
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New YORK, March 25. Edward J. Phelps,
the new minister to England, left the resi-
dence Of President Mccullough in the ST.
Catharine fats and went to New
Haven to fulfil lecturing duties
Us member Of the Yale faculty.
He tho ught that it would be impossible for
him to leave this country under three weehs,
and 1t was not unlikely that longer time
would elapse before he could settle up his
many engagements and sail for his post ct
the court of st. James
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-03-28

CANAJoHARIE, March lS.-Martin Van
Buren, Of Fort Plain is afflicted with cancer
Of the month, similar to that Of Gen. Grants,
caused by excessive smoking. His condition
Is critical. II
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NEW YoRx, March rs. A Warrington
special to the World says; "McLane's nomi-
nation h credited first TO Senator German.
who desired to got McIAne out Of Maryland,
70 that he would have walk-over for re-.
election. McLans was the only candidate H.
the senatorial field against him. Then, IA
addition to this, Mr.. Dayard was naturally
inclined to 1cLane en- account Of his belong
Ing to an old Delaware family which hasi
long been intimate and friendly with tbs
Bayard family. It Il hard TO describe TIE
panic among the odlce-ssek ing politi-
clans here Few Of them knew who Phelpe
and jackson were. Some Of the men about
the hotels were paralyxed by the statement
that Phelps was William Walter Phelps.
They are in such state Of mind that nothing
would have surprised 4hem altar the first
knockdoWn.n
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-01-08

to secure the envelope containing the pre-
cinct returns desired.
J.Schuyler Crosby, of the Pos;office De-
partment, is urging President Arthur to re.
move Alexander Q. Botkin from the mar
shalship of Montana, Notwithstanding the
fact that an investigation by the Depart
ment of Justice resulted in bis favor.
John Blades and his wife, living near
Carmi, H.. had quarrel, and she LETT him.
He wrote note declaring his intention to
kill himself, and killing chicken,
sprinkled the premises with blood. She
found the note and blood, was touched, and
q reconciliation followed.
The Senatorial Committee of the Second
(Mo.) District, met at st. Joseph and in
dorsed Hon. Waller Young. as the Demo.
cratic nominee for Senator, to fill the va
cancy occasioned by the resignation OF Hon
r. T. Davis. 1t is thought there will be nc
opposition, and that Mr.. Young will have q
waik-over.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-01-08

coupons will be met promptly as they ma
ture.
In pursuance with instructions from the
War Department, Brigadier General Anger,
of the Department of the Missouri, will
river, Indian Territory, with six troops Of
cavalry end one company of infantry, and
remove the unauthorized persons from Ok
lahoma and other points in the Indian Ter
ritory. Col. Hatch is now at Fort Leaven-
worth, making preparations for the expe-
dition.
cooking main between Missouri and
Kansas was fought across the State line IN
Kansas, near Kansas City, few days ago,
for 800 on each fight and $500 on the
match. Seven battles were fought, Kansas
| winning the first, fourth, sixth and seventh,
and Missouri the third and fifth, while the
second was draw. About seventy-tiye
spectators were present. The battle began
at noon and lasted five hours.
A dispatch from Spring Place, Ga, says:
The recent discoveries of very rich gold
mines on and about Fort Mountain, have
now been supplemented by the discovery
| of wonderful silver mines, and great ex-
element exists throughout that section.
The richest deposit yet found is nine miles
from Spring Place and eighteen miles from
Dalton. The ledge is about 1,500 feet wide,
300 feet deep and twenty eight miles long,
and is the same now being worked at Duck
ton, Tenn. The ore is only five feet from
the surface, and essays from $50 to s., 300
to the ton.
| A number of railroad managers met with
the Board of Railroad and Ware House Com.
missioners of Illinois, at Springfield, a few
days ago. The burden of their remarks
was to the effect that the railroads could
not stand further reduction in freight
rates, and if they were compelled to reduce
| they would have to cut down the wages o.
their employees. The matter of fixed rates
was informally discussed, and it was the
unanimous opinion that tie fixed rates
should not be reduced below the amount
necessary to pay the interest on bonds
keeping up OF repairs, and all actual and
necessary expenses.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-01-08
FOREIGN.

4 French torpedo boat was sunk in a
squsll at Toulon.
Gladstone will sue St. Stephens Review
A demonstration will Re made by all the
idle workmen of Paris on the 18th of Janu.
ary.
Six persons were killed during an cleo
ton Of burgomaster at Nagarroszi, Hun
gary.
The seventy-fifth anniversary of Glad
stones birth was celebrated with great fes-
tivity at Hawaiian.
Socialists and Anarchists attempted to
hold joint meeting at Paris, and the re-
suit was free fight.
Russia will trunster ner naval headuuar.
tiers in the Black Sea to Sebsstopol. The
cost will be 81, 10000 <l.
Two violent shocks of earthquake were
felt in Spain. At one place two persons
we're killed by falling walls.
1t hes agaic been found necessary in
Germany to make an official declaration Of
friendly relations with France.
The Gar of Russia, Czarina and Care.
WlLIAs SOAA6 O1 . SOut buIOuRu liz
country of the Cossacks of the Don.
A mountain landslide in Spain killed
| numbers of people, and caused one place tc
be almost entirely abandoned.
The liabilities of the sBohemian Credit
Company are $4,000, COO forms. Meny
small. banks are involved. and some arr
| ruined.
1t is rumored that France has taken thu
| last decisive step in severing her relations
with China by calling home the French
| Minister.
The Fifth French brigade will embark
| for Tonquin Jan. Is, and on arriving viii
occupy Pakoi, while Admiral Courbet at
tacks Canton.
A rupture has occurred in the Congo
country between the French representative
and the African Internationa! Association
and fight is imminent.
An official denial is made by the Spanish
consul general in New York of the reported
landing in Cuba of a filibustering expcdi
ton under Maxine Gomez.
Further earthquake shocks were expert.
enced at Velez a Malaga city of 5000 people
The shocks were violent, and many houses
were destroyed. The city is almost entire.
ly abandoned.
The Pail Mall Gazette says France con.
| templates issuing large loan January Is
and unless the difficulty is settled by Ferry
will declare war upon China Immediately
| thereafter.
"Jones," the American accused of hav.
ing robbed a Montreal jewelry store of $iO,.
600 worth of goods, is an extensive owner
Of real estate in Chicago, where he is known
as Jimmy Carroll.
Facts about the recent earthquake in
Spain are slowly reaching US. Nearly 8
| thousand persons were killed in the prov
inces of Malaga and Granada, and many
towns destroyed.
The London Times, in commenting on
the Nicaragua Treaty, says that England
held position of impregnable strength
and will protest against any policy that vic.
lates the rights covered by the Clayton Bull.
wer treaty.
A dispatch from Shanghai says that 5,
| OOO Chinese troops are massed at the Pei
Ho fort, at Port Arthur, Gulf of Pa Chi Ii
The works are mounted with heavy guns
and the entrance to the port guarded with
torpedoes.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-01-08
Kansas City Produce Market.

Kansas City, January 8, 1885.
The Daily Indicator reports
FLOOR-The market was firm and unchanged
| Sales of 60 barrels of extra fancy at 80 . bar
rel in sacks go barrels of choice at 20 in sacks
Quotations.: Xxx, 10; Xxx, S5II9O; fa,ot,v ~.
| l is choice, POOP 10; fsaoy SOP barrel IL
sacks; patent IS 81 SO Rye, 81.
WHEAF-Cash about steady; futures weaker
No q red. cash, soc; December, 55hc January
| 54H@55Ho: February, 56Nc bid, SIC asked April
| $50 May, 61ssc ssked. No. red sic ssked. No
4, 44c; rejected, 27c bid. No. SOFT 64c bid. GO
CORN-The market was shade lower
No. Q cash. 27Ao@2iAc; December, 27A@2sc
January, 26Nc; February, 2sHc; March. 26s4c bid
PIG asked ed May 2s1zc; No 4. 271zc asked. No
Cash, 2sc bid, 2415 asked.
NddS-ln good demand and higher; &c 2
CHEEsE-Fun cream. lac: fats, TO-; Youna
America, 14c.
HAY-Unchanged
Fancy sn9 oaao 1 "a 1850 large baied II co.
BUTrEK-Fancy creamery lower, others ur.
Quotations: Creamery, fancy. 2s,: good, &c
good, 1St@14c: medium, 500. store packed, fl
for table use, 12@l6c; sour and poor, 4G6c
GAME-Frozea stock of game and poultry hard
Prare e als Ss4 90
doz: rabbits, over supplied 36@5Oc, no sale ex-
cept for drawn rabbits; teal ducks Is: mallard
90; Plovers' SOC; dressed wild ducks, s@'oc per
DRESSED PoULTRY-Turkeys steady. chick
ems slow.
Quotations: Chickens, dressed 4@5c; turk .ys
fair to choice, 5000: ducks 10c; geese, 608c.
CORN MEAL@Green, Toe; kiln dried, 90.
DRY SALT MEATS-Shculdeu So; clear Sides
81; long clear sides, 615: clear RIB sides, 7ho.
SMOKED NEATS-ShoulderR. &c; long Glea,
stdee. nc, NIB s;des TIC; clear sides s.
HAMS-Sug8r cured liz.
BREAKFAST BACON--12Lc.
DRIED BEEE-12.
BARREL MEATS-POrk, boneess, IA 90; cleai
pork, II 90; mess pork, II CO..
LARD-ChOice ieroe, 80: half barrel, 80.
CORNMEAL-Green. Toe, kiln dried, 90.
SRAN-Bulk, 36o; sacked 44c . 100 lbs
FLAX Seed is.
TALLOW-No. 1, 611sc; No. 3 SC.
SORaHUM-20cpe per gallon.
BROOM CORN-2L 1a1zc; self workins ,324Le
short and crooked, Z@111c.
WOOL-Miss0ud, unWaahed-heavy fine, l5a
I7c; light fine, l7@Alc; medium. i80AOc: me
dunn comhing, l8G2Oc: coarse combfng, 1792se
low and carpet. 12@15c. Kansas and Nebraska
heavy dneI ll@15c: light fine, 15Sl7c; medium
H919c; medium c0mhing, -; coe,se cOmbing
11G14c; low snd carpet, 9012c. Tub washet-
choic .2s93oc: medium. 260Ac; dingy and low
HIDES AND PKLrs-Hides: dry Gin, No.
b, Ice; No. 2 p 13c; dry salted p b 12c. Green
sailed, No. p b &c; green salted No. . b &c
Green No, p &c; No. 2 p b SIC; calf p p lie
sheep pats, dry, b Loo
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-01-08
CHIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Fire destroyed the Blake Opera House
Block at Racine, Wis.
The loss by the Indianapolis cotton nill
FIRE is placed at $1OO,OOO
| An explosion in the oil works at BROOKLYN
caused loss of between $500, 600 and $500,
600.
| Judson E. Pearce Postmaster at South
Otsetee, Chenango county, committed sui.
eide.
| Horace Lawrence, a we'll known citizen
of Isaquena county, Miss, has been assassin.
ated.
| Pat Ganham, a coal miner, was killed at
Springfield, ILL.,, by premature discharge
of blast
Seven prisoners in Cincinnati were SEN
fenced few days ago for violation of the
election law.
Dan'l E. Strickland tells startling story
| in reference to the poisoning of the Koran
family in Wisconsin.
William Taylor died in St. Joe from the
effect of q wound inflicted by Nathan Par
low Christmas day.
The building ofthe Perseverance, Worsted
SOAp0Ay, dt w OOuSOCAct, D.. ls, OuIUSO,
Loss, So. O0O fully insured.
Capt. David N. YEA General superinten-
dent of the Northern Pacific Coast railroad,
dropped dead at Frisco.
Calvin Dale shot, and probably fatally
wounded, his business partner, Henry Hol-
land, at Piedmont. Mo.
For the first time in several years, Mil
| ~ro,, boo hoe q 90 Ofc yv>
of the patient has been auarantined.
Lewis Lucas, sheriff in the Choctaw Ma
ton, invited Squirrel Hoyt to spend the
night at his house, and then quietly shot
him through the heart.
Plummer's plsning-mill, at Jackson,
Michigan, was blown to pieces by boiler
explosion. One employe was killed and
six others received serious injuries.
A special from Burgin, KY, says: Daw
instantly killed Jerome GAY. Gay and his
brother forced the fight on McGinnis.
J. Henry Hobart, the civil engineer who
built the famous loop on the Southern Pa
ciic road, was frozen to death in the street
at Omaha after becoming intoxicated.
The German Bark Lie vessel was wreck
ed near Petrolica, California, December IS.
Two officers and three seamen were
drowned, and the cargo was q total loss.
A map found on the person of q counter
feiter arrested in Chicago enabled the secret
service officers to unearth q number of
plates in the woods near Saylesville, Wis
corsin.
A special from Steubenville, O., says:
James Collins, ticket agent for the Pmhan-
die road at Cediz Junction, disappeared with
SIC, Go, borrowed from friends and belong
ing to the company.
The body of Henry J. Hunter, one Of the
owners of the Beverage Brewery, who dis
appeared few days ego, and who it was
feared had been drowned, was found in the
river near Newburg.
Pleasant Anderson, of Blakesburg, near
Ottumwa, Ia, was hung by eight masked
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-01-08
STOCK s0UIBs.

Points and Items About Kansas Stock.
Charles William, a White Cloud stock
man accidentally shot and killed him.
self.
| A Wichita butcher killed thorough
bred barren heifer weighing 200 pounds
for Christmas meat.
Twenty horses and six mules were
sold at Fort Riley last week, at prices
ranging from twenty to seventy dollars
| each.
Half million dollars worth of cattle
are being fed in Butler county at the
present time.
Ere many months have come and
gone Wichita will have stock yards. A
movement is now on foot to organize
such company.
This is the kind of weather that stock
of all kinds need good warm shelter. See
that they are kept warm and it will save
much feed.
Miller & Jorden, ranch fifteen miles
from Garden City, have lost only one
head of sheep the past season out of
seventeen hundred.
Ihere ls more money to be made In
the raising of chickens in this state at
the present time than the growing of
wheat. There is money in the raising of
any kind of stock.
Watervile Telegraph: One of the finest
droves of hogs we have seen in long
time was brought into town by Jackson
Thomas last Friday. There was almost a
car load and they averaged about 800
pounds.
The proposed national cattle trail
fifteen miles in width, from the Red
River in Texas through the Indian Terri
tory, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming and
Dakota in British North America, is en-
countering very determined opposition
in every state and territory named.
Medicine Lodge Cresset: Stock still
continue to wag, but "as there is an end
to all perfection" 30 there will be an end
to stock living on wind and scenery, but
it will terminate THAT is the cold snap
although perhaps in the sweet bye-and-
bye. Sheep are doing finely, in fact
fewer of them die now, except on the
Guillotine, than when they were worth
something.
Stockmen, as rule,
Don't 60 to Sunday school;
Few of them aspire
To MARBLE in the choir;
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-01-08
WASHINGTON TOPICS.

Lobbyists are gathering in great numbers
at Washington to work for and against the
treaties pending.
The Fredericksburg (Va.) Masonic lodge,
of which Washington was a member. will
attend the dedication of the Washington
monument.
the differences between the Senate and the
House on the Naval Appropriation bill is
not favorable.
The President has approved the act de.
taching Grundy county, Tennessee, from
the Southern division of East Tennessee
and changing it to the middle district Of the
State.
At Washington, on New Years Day, the
weather was disagreeable. The reception
at the White House by President Arthur
assisted by number of prominent society
ladies of that city, was largely attended.
Representative Laird, of Nebraska, met
with a severe accident while out riding
His horse slipped on the pavement and fell
| throwing him to the ground and falling
upon him, breaking his leg above the ankle
The physicians say that he has sustained q
compound fracture of the limb.
The Secretary of the Navy received q
cable message from Rear Admiral Davis,
commanding the Asiatic section, dated
Nagasaki, December 9th, saying: 1.-The
Trenton has returned to Nagasaki from
Konea, where she left affairs quiet, and re
ports that japanese are the only foreigners
immured in that country
1t is estimated there has been decrease
of nearly $500, 900 in the public debt during
December. Receipts have been light and
disbursements heavier than usual. Pay
ments on account of pensions amount to
| over 100000 The United States Treasury
in one day mailed checks in payment OF
| interest due January LIST on Government
securities, amounting to 81 900, O13.
The Christmas Club of the Benevolent
and Charitable associations, of which Miss
Nellie Arthur is President, gave Christ.
mas dinner to 600 poor children, in the Ma.
tional Rifle Hall. Miss Nellie was herself
present, and was assisted by Miss Waite
daughter of Chief Justice Waite, and q
| large number of other members and ladies
we'll known in Washington social circles
Among the distinguished invited guests
who witnessed the children's jubilee in the
upper hall, were President Arthur and
several members of his Cabinet.
The members of the Senate Committee
on Public Lands express the o inion that
the House bill to prohibit the fencing of
public lands will be reported back favora-
bly, to the Senate, with amendments, soon
after the reconvention of Congress. The
House bill makes it lawful for any citizen
or settler to remove such fences at will.
This, in the opinion Of some of the men,
bers fthe Senate Committee does not 20
far enough, siuce but few settlers would be
willing to incur the powerful enmity of the
cattle men and cowboys. 1t has been pro-
posed to amend this bill by re-enacting an
old law on the subject, requiring the re.
moval of fences to be done by the United
States Marshal and the military, when
their services are required.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-01-08
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.

POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.
Thos. Van Vain died at Syracuse in hi
105th year.
Miss Hattie Lemasters of Decatur, Ill. re
ceived injuries while coasting which causet
her death.
Baltzer Gerr, q resident of Crawforl
county, Pa, for eighty-four years, died il
his 104th year.
A resolution was passed by the Demo
cracy of Nashville welcoming Samuel
Randall to Tennessee.
William Mcknight, who died at Contra
liza, Ill. Christmas foretold the day of hi!
death a month before it occurred.
Henry Ward Beecher told his congrega
ton, in effect, that his course in the politi
cal campaign left him nothing to regret.
Judge ]. H. Brown, formerly of the su
preme Court of West Virginia, received
fatal injuries by fall in store at Charles
ton.
A young Englishman, claiming to be the
Earl of LinwOOd, was married at Dallas
Tex, to the daughter of Belle Boyd, the
rebel spy"
Hon. Samuel J. Randall and party visi.
ted Gen. Harding's celebrated farm, Belle
Meade. near Nashville, and also the Wander.
bilt university.
Henry A. Burr, millionaire hat manu-.
facturer, and DR.. William Darling, the
possessor, of famous anatomical collec.
ton, died recently in New York.
Secretary Frelinghuysen has addressed q
letter to Senator Miller, Chairman of the
Committee on Foreign Relations, in refer
ence to the Spanish-Americsn Treaty.
Jas. G. Huntington, son of Bishop Hun
Order of the Holy Cross at recent pri-
vate celebration of the Holy Communion
in New York city.
]. N. Ballie, formerly a book keeper in
the National Bank of America, at Chicago,
where he embeXled s., 500. has been ARES
ed in New Orleans, and will be brought
back tor trial.
Governor Hamilton states that he offered
the vacant Judgship in the Sixth Illinois
Circuit to Scott Wilke, q prominent Demo-
crat, who declined it because of business
engagements. A. c. Matthews was then
appointed.
Governor Cleveland has rented residence
in Albany for two months, where he will
reside until he leaves for Washington. He
has decided not to visit Chicago as q guest
of the Ircquis Club before his Inauguration
as President.
In the Chicago election fraud, Arthur
Gleason hiss definitely decided to take the
witness-stand for the Government and give
the names of persons who approached him
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-01-08

The new anesthetic for theeye, by
drochlorate Of cocaine,is very expensive.
1t cots $1,000 pc: pound.
A Bridgeport. Conn, woman to pay
an election bet will publicly kiss male
friend March 4th.
Two local pedestrians of Pough-
keepsie, N. Y, are about setting out to
walk from that city to New Orleans.
A Newberryport, Mass, painter, was
surprised, day or two since. to receive
from a boy an order for ''three cents
worth of paint the color of a frogs eye"
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-01-08

Stockmen, as q rule,
Don't 60 to Sunday school;
Few of them aspire
To MARBLE in the choir;
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-01-08
Kansas City Live Stock Market.

Kansas City, January 3, 1885.
The Live Stock Indicator reports
CATTLE-Hecept, 1887 The narSe, today was
steady and fairly active.
Exports, 20S5 40. good choice shipping
steers cO35 Is: common TO medium, 10 "A 90
feeders. 8 60 81 co. cows, 2 S0A3 co.
HOGS-Recetpts, 1862. The market friday
$40 lbs sold a,3 75@4 80: bulk at 1G@4 Is.
SHEEP-Receipts ,74S. The market Owas firm
Kansas sheep, averaging SO bs sold at 2 y. Fan
to good muttOns, 2 5O93 so