South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-02-14
LyVTELLIGENCER.
FEBRUARY IA, 1895.
u We cut the following from the Phi
ladelphia Reporter of the 3rd inst.


W We cut the following from the Phi
ladelphia Reporter of the 3rd inst.
Stocks Of every description have been
somewhat depressed during the last
week, in consequence Of the undecided
state Of the FreDch question. CAPITAL
lists hesitate with regard to investing
their funds, and this hesitation will in
all probability exist until we have def
mite information as to the course of the
French Chambers, in relation to the
American Treaty. This information
will reach US, we may presume, by the
Havre packet Of the eighth Of January.
u A correspondent thus writes to the
editor of the Fredericksburg Arena from
Richmond:
"There is a report in circulation,
which is believed very generally,
though some affect incredibly. 1t is
that the Governor, Immediately upon
the unanimous reelection of the 1st
Auditor-wroie letter 10 the Legisla-
tufe resigning his Office and giving the
reasons which impelled him TO the act.
Friends interposed, and prevented its
transmission but, it is said, bis pur-
pose is only deferred, not abandoned.
The discrepancy between the state.
ments Of the Governors message and
the Report off LIST Auditor in rela'
ton to The Finances-a discrepancy
applicable in way that involves the
correctness or integrity Of neither-is
fresh in the recollection of the reader.
The unanimous reelection of Mr..
HEATH, under these circumstances,
and before the Committee, which was,
we think very unnecessarily, raised on
the subject, had reported, is the fact at
which the Governor took umbrage.--
How the matter will end is uncertain"
We perceive by the latest English
papers tina, in Tonquin and Cochin
China religious persecution is carried
on to dreadful extent. M. Gazelin
and country priest were recently con-
demned to death and strangled for hav-
ing preached the Christian religion
tive neophytes also shared the same
fate. M. Jaccard has likewise been
condemned to death, and waits in
chains the execution of his sentence
The other missionaries are dispersed
and wandering about the country in
distress, sometimes taking refuge in the
woods, mountains or caverns. The
churches of their religion have been des-
troyed, and its professors pursued and
imprisoned, and scaffolds are raised 10
all directions for the execution of these
prosecuted men.-Naf. Gas.
The friends of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal will no doubt be highly
gra,ified to learn, that one of the great.
e S, obstacles on the whole line we
allude to the projected tunnel Of up.
wards Of three miles in length may be
partially obviated. Recent explora-
lions in the vicinity Of the summit by
by persons qualified to judge, have
them that but short distance
from the present site OF the tunnel, and
at about the same elevation, the waters
east and west Of the dividing ridge may
be connected by tunnel net over
mile in length, having all the advanta-
ges with regard to the proposed feed
ers which the present summit has
Should this on actual survey and mea-
surement turn out to be the fact, Of
which we are assured there can be but
little doubt, the greatest obstacle to
continuous water communication be-
tween the Chesapeake and Ohio will
be removed, and give further stimulus
to the friends of this national improve
msnt to persevere in the grand under
takiug.-Somsrset Wing.
Many FIRES have lately occurred in
the City of New York. The New York
Commercial Advertiser, of the 9Th inst.
thus introduces an account of Fire
which took place in that city on the eve"
ming preceding;
ave believe that no city in the uni.
verse, not even Constantinople, is so
severely flicted by conaagradons as
New York. 1t is true, that in the
Turkish capitol, larger numbers ofhou-
ses are occasionally swept away by
the flames but fires are by no means
SO frequent there, and one Of our build.
ings is probably worth ten or twenty Of
theirs. At a quarter before seven,
last evening, fire broke out in Spring
street, which, used as we have been
f.. manu- yaara IN witnessing tho rauinu