Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-04-18
GENERAL MEMS.

The Russian 1orces occupied Penj.
deb on the End ia Aph
Orders have been issued to the
French forces ID Chinn ana Tonquin
to cease hostilities.
General Grant was bright and
cheerful Monday and did some writ
ing, bat the cancer is spreading and
causing him increased pain.
There are unconflrmed rumors Of
q battle IN the Canadian Northwest,
IN which so men were killed. Troops
are Fastening to the front.
General Komarofss explanatory
despatch OF the battle of the Kushk
River rs to the effect that the
Afghans provoked the attack and
fred first.
The Russian advance in force on
the borders Of Afghanistan is con-
firmed. England awaits the reply
Of Sir Peter Lumsden to the state
ment of General Komaroff in regard
to the battle Of Penjdeh. The En-.
glish and European press give little
hope Of q peaceful settlement Of the
Afghan dispute.
Twenty thousand unemployed men
met in Hyde Park, London, Sunday.
Five platforms had been erected,
from which speeches were made.
Resolutions were adopted asking the
Government to reduce the working
day to eight hours, and to provide
public works for the unemployed.
The Excelsior Knitting Mills, Sun.
day, at South Bethlehem, Pa, were
burned. Loss S25, 900; partially in
sured. j. Henry Shaw, another
Democratic member of the Illinois
Legislature, is dead. This increases
the complications over the senatorial
question. Mapp & Co.'s stove and
tinware establishment at Norfolk
was burned. Loss $4,000.
Hiram Foulks, an elderly and &c.
centric bachelor, who lived alone on
a farm near Independence, KS, was
found murdered. The thieves who
murdered him had ransacked the
house and found nothing, but in a
little bag concealed in Foulks' clothes
was 81 200. The town of Lee Sum-
NIT, Mo-, was swept by fire. TWEEN
ty-eight buildings were DESTROYED.
Losses about 100000, Monday.
A San Francisco dispatch says
California farmers are anxious to see
war between England andRussia, as
this is about the only event which
will make last years wheat crop pro.
fitable. The greater part of the
crop is still in the farmers hands.
they being unwilling to part with it
at present ruinously low rates.
There is also a big surplus of canned
goods in California which would
find ready market in case of war.
WASHINGTON, April 1O.-The re.
turns Of April to the Department Of
Agriculture indicate a reduction Of
over ten per cent. of last years area
in winter wheat. The aggregate
shortage amounts to three million
acres. A decrease is reported in
every state, except Oregon. 1T
twenty two per cent. in Kansas and
Virginia, ten in Maryland, eight in
West Virginia, six in Pennsylvania
and Delaware. The present condi-
ton of wheat, as reported, is worse
than in 1883. 1t is seventy seven
per cent, against ninety-six last
year, and eighty in 1888.
Secretary Lamar acknowledges he
made mistake in having his depart
ment closed for a day, the flag dis
played at halfmast and the building
draped in mourning, the other day,
on the death of Jacob Thompson,
Secretary of the Inferior at the out.
break of the war. Thompson betray-
ed the secrets of Buchanan's cabinet
to the rebels, and became notorious
during the war by his plots while |
safe in Canada to do our people dam
age by burning Northern cities and
steamboats,. Many were the pro-
tests received here from all parts of |
the North, particularly from Demo
Gratis, in regard to the affair." Wash
ington Letter.