South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-12-19
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SATURDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1885.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1885.
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aJ Late papers speak confidently that
Mr.. TANEY will be nominated as Chief
Justice to the Senate, and Judges Tuck.
Err, BARBOUR or Mr.. DANIEL, in the
place of Judge Duvall.
GT A company of gentlemen in Phila-
delphia have recently purchased conside-
rable property in Beaver co. Pa, for the
establishment of silk mandatory.
" The Governors Message which we
give to-day. will no doubt be read with
pleasure by all the friends of correct prin-
cples. We would have preferred. howe
yer, more decided demand on the gene
raj government for the protection Of SOU
thern rights-the RIGHTS of PROPERTY
against incendiary publications.
His views relating TO the currency of
the Union are such as must be approved
by every man who handles money at all.
A great portion off the Presidents Mes
sage relates to this HuMBua about the
currency. 1t is truly ridiculous. We
therefore recommend to our readers Sc
cond, aye, and third reading Of the Go
yernor's Message.
u Gov. E. D. WHITE of Louisiana,
has issued Proclamation in consequence
of the movements which have been made
by the citizens Of that State, in favour of
the Texan revolution, denouncing such
conduct as contrary to the law of the
land, and calls upon the Magistrates and
other officers to assist in bringing to pun.
ishment those who may offend against it.
" BY the Fort Wayne (Indiana) SEN
tineI, we are informed that Gen. TlproN
U. S. Senator from that state, is not in
favour of Gen. Harrison for the Pres.
dency, but a true Van Buren, and john
son man.
o. A Cincinnati paper of the 5th
inst. says, that on Wednesday morning
last about A O'Clock, the Lady Franklin,
on her passage up to this city, was run
into about two miles below the Yellow
Banks, by the PORTSMOUTH, and sunk
immediately, when FROM FIFTEEN TO
EIGHTEEN PERSONS WE'RE DROWNED. a.
mong those that persisted wera family
OF nine persons, Dutch emigrants--the
husband only escaped; of the crew, one
fireman and one deck hand; ofthe cabin
passengers, there was gunsmith from
Nashville and another person, names I'M
known, who also perished. Capt. Horne
and the Clerk were both taken up adrift,
the former speechless. Among the deck
passengers drowned were three women.
The Lady Franklin left this place for st.
Louis, but could not get up the Mlssis-
slppi tor the ice. She discharged her
cargo at the mouth of the Ohio, and was
In ballast. The stern of the boat was
just to be seen above water when left.
O. Gen. DUFF GREEN, has again
resumed the task Of editing the U. S. TIE.
legraph.
" Flour is selling stRresent at from
THIRTEEN to FOURTEEN dollars per bar.
rel in Chicago.
O. From the WILLIAMSON! paper
we learn that the time for receiving pro-
posals for contracts on the Canal be-
tween Cacapon and Cumberland is ex-
tended to the 9Th DAY OF JANUARY
NEXT, the surveys on that part of the
line being not yet completed.
Mr.. BELL says-''It has been said,
that pledged myself to the interests of
MIR. Van Buren, in 1884 and, it was by
the artful insinuations of this charge. by
two of my colleagues in Congress-. last
winter, that some of the friends Of Judge
White were induced to call the meeting
OF the Tennessee Delegation, which took
place on the 92d of December. This ia.
nous meeting, then SO far from being a
caucus for the nomination of Judge
White, was actually trap designed to
catch alleged inpostors, yet, the very
men who had laid the ground work of the
meeting by the insinuatlon of falsehood,
were the first to denounce it, both to the
President, and to the public, as caucus
got up by me, to nominate Judge White
and whenever the Globe is accredited,
1t Is SO taken and understood-a rare ex.
ample of lmpudent and successful polltl-
cal knavery."
E This we suspected from the begin