South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-07-23
ENTELLIGENCER.
Romlnep:
SATURDAY, JULY %, 1886.


" The communication of "t4oLMEs'
will be attended to in our next number.
We hope he will continue his fayours.
u We notice in some of our exchange
papers the statement that Gen. McCAR.
tn of Indiana and Senator Morals of O.
hio. have espoused the cause of Genera
Harrison.
u A contemporary says-The Ohio Gil
ty Gazette announces the sudden death
OF Professor Jarvis Gregg, of the w es-
tern Reserve College, on the 9ath ult.,
of scarlet fever. He was a young man
OF great promise, of ardent piety, and
superior abilities and Accomplishments.
He had just married a young wife Ia
niece of the Hon. Daniel Webster) and
his marriage notice appears in another
column of the same paper in which we
find this notice of his death.
Gy The ESTE ,ishment of the Winohes-
ter RepubliT a, is to be sold on the goth
of August next.
T Gov. DUNCAN of Illinois purchased
two years and halfago piece of land
in Michigan City. for $50 dollars, and a
few days ago, in the City of New York,
sold tho same for $50 900 dollars.
81 On the subject Of Banks, the Rich
mond Enquirer thinks "the Banking Ca
pltal should be increased to certain ex-
tent. and paper medium should be em-
ployed within certain bounds"
Is not that new the case We know
OF no banking institution in Virginia is
suing notes LEGS than Ave dollars; and a
Ave dollar note is much more convent.
ent in mans pocket, than Ave dollars
in specie. 1t is true, more specie may
be FORGED upon the people by RESTRICT
ing banks to ten dollars, but with it will
be forced at the same time, a real moon
vsnience upon them. IL 1t could be
shown that limiting bank paper to ten OF
twenty dollars, would be a convenience
or would in any way promote the inter-
ests Of the people. then it ought to be
done. But really we cannot perceive
Aow the people can be benefited by lin
ting the banks to issues Of ten or TWEEN
ty or any other number of dollars. We
think five dollars very good limit, and
a very great convenience +; and oandialy
we see no reason why that limit should
be disturbed, unless indeed IL may be 10
please Col. Benton, as Is would be sort
of prop to his gold humbug.
ty An attempt to deliver a lecture,
says the Washington Metropolitan, on
the expediency Of abolition. in church
in Washington county, Pa. was few
days ago defeated by very emphatic OK.
preston of popular opinion. The people
required, by note, the lecturer to desist,
The message was disregarded-they then
commenced shouting, throwing stones,
sc. until they succeeded in dispensing
The audience. They intended to have
;aught and maltreated the lecturer. but
ne managed to get off, in the confusion
,fthe crowd, with whole bones.
Certainly such decisive demonstrations
If public sentiment on this exciting sub
ect should be considered worthy Of res-
'ect by all lovers of peace and civil or
yanization.
W w u nave received LAe ADDRESS OF
The Harrison Convention" 10 the peo-
pie of Virginia, and will present it to our
readers in our next number. There are
particular measures of the present Ad-
minis tration which ought to be duly de-
liberated on by the people before they
to vote for Mr.. Van Buren,; as be
las said he will carry out the measures
Of Gen. Jackson but, in fact, il viii be
carrying out his own measures. The
people cannot do justice TO themselves, If
hey take the measures of the present
party in power, indiscriminate ly as good.
merely because thew have ostensiblvsem.