South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-04-25
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SATURDAY, APRIL IS. 1885.

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SATURDAY, APRIL IS, 1885.
GT The Secretary Of the Treasury has
directed the Deposite Banks, not to res
ceive for public dues, after the 3o.h Sep.
TENDER any bank notes of less denomina.
tion than five dollars.
The Liverpool Standard states that
the British ship Linton made her passage
from Savannah to Liverpool, a distance
of 1850 miles, in twenty.one days, which
was 203 miles day.
U JAMES BRowN, Esq. late Minister
Of the United States to France, died in
Philadelphia on the 18th.
Dun FRENCH CLArMs.-The Journal
of Commerce, of Monday, says-"We
understand on good authority, that the
Committee of the French Chamber of
Deputies had. at the last dates, passed
unanimously upon various items of the
American Claims as not liable to any OBJ.
jectien, which items amount to over
twenty-seven millions of francs ~
The Paris Correspondent OF the
Courier and Enquirer, under date Of
the 18th March, writes: "The Min
istry Of the Duke de BrogIie has adopt
ed the recognition of the American
treaty, as a Cabinet measure, and there
can be no doubt that it will outlive this
first shock with which ii is threatened.
In yesterdays sitting of the Chamber
Of Deputies, NJ. Guizot, the Minister
of Public Instruction, in answer TO the
renewed interpellatiyes of M. Mangin,
announced that the prosecution of the
State trials was also to be Cabinet
measure. Should the new administra-
ton meet with equal success, 10 pass
ing this second ordeal, they will still
have severe trial during the discus
sions on the budget" The writer says
nothing farther upon the subject of our
claims, but gives an account of the
j-s---;--- ---i .:--ishiP existing pe-
tween some of the French Ministers.
Nat. Int. April II.
u The first emigrants to Ohio, en-
eamped at Marietta on the 18th April,
1888. Forty.seven years have not yet
past and Ohio contains white popula-
Ton of million!
D1sGRAcEFUL.-T Boston Trans
cript Of Tuesday says;--"The friends of
good order will feel Inundated at the
knowledge that the American Flag was
floating yesterday over the Ruins of the
Ursuline Convent at Charlestown ~
The Steamboat President, Captain
Bunker, arrived al New York on Sat-
urday last from Providence, in fourteen
hours and nine minutes !-being the
shortest passage ever made between the
two places with the same tides, by
more than two hours. Y. Paper.
We can give an achievement, here.
away, in the same line, which Gas our
worthy friend Col. Crockett says is a
small circumstance ahead of this crack
performance of the President. The
Steamboat Chesapeake, Capt. WILSON,
on her last trip from Norfolk, ran from
Old Point Comfort to the wharf of this
city in just fifteen hours. By the Post
Office books Old Point is distant from
Washington 213 miles. New York
from Providence 1873 miles. l. Nae Int.
l! is officially announced, that the prop
or authorities of the States of Virginia,
Maryland. and Pennsylvania, have signi-
fed their acceptance of the portions of
the Cumberland Road within those States
respectively. agreeably to the provisions
ofan act of Congress of the last session,
authorizing the expenditure of the sum Of
S346, 1876 for its final completion. The
. Road ID thus SURRENDERED TO THE
4 STATE GovERNMENTs.-Ib.
$3.50
Caucus.--The term is said by some
= Ingenious gentleman TO be derived from
Cacus the robber. This is not at all
4 Improbable, seeing that the monster Of
Y ,he present day, is quite as apt in s.ea'
iog away the liberties of the people
as was his prototype, in secreting the
cows OF Hercules. The appeal.