South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1867-12-06
@An immense meeting Of citizen, va.

10th ult., for the purpose. Of demandiag
mat Congress and the Executive dem and
that all tho Americans arrested in England
on account of their supposed or actual sym
pathy with Fenianism be released. Reso-
lutions to this effect were adopted, aud a
committee appointed TO take them to Wash
ington- Speeches were made by Judge DA-
III, HORACE GREELEY, JouN MITCHELL,
A. OAKEy HALL, and others .ilst.1
THE MErEoRs.-Professor III. A. NEW
TON, of Yale College, recently explained to
the Connecticut Academy of Sciences that
the meteors which some people sat up
few nights ago to see, are in stream five
Thousand miles thick, at leas, thousan mil.
lion miles long and of unk uown breadth. In
the thickest portion of the stream the indi-
ylduai bodies are twenty-five miles part
This stream runs around an ellipse once in
thirty-three years. and the meteoric displays
occur at the end of these periods.
sy-Col. NJ. G. HARTMAN adver,ises in
the Staunton papers ten farms for sale, To-
Gated near that place, varying in size from
10 to 800 acres. He also offers for sale 4
| hlit dozen residences in Staauton, the Nat
ural Bridge property, besides houses,
building sites, &c. Very few men have as
much or as valuable property to dispose Of
ES-A diiapidatcd old darkey in Mont
gomcry, while watching the monkeys in a
mcnagerie in that city few days since,
spoke thasly: Dem children 70, too much
sense to come ou,en dat cage; white folks
cut dar tails Off aud set 'em to yotiu' and
maxim considerations
G.e- We learn from the Chillicothe Gazette,
that Mr.. II r. SEYMOUR, of that county,
sold last week, 10000 bushels of new corn
at 50 cents bushcl. Eight thousand five
hundred dollars is nice little pile for the
corn crop of one farm.
E1- The Kauawha Republican tells of
man in neighboring county who has been
elected school trustee and who could nci-
Their read nor write. 1t ''was incum bent
IN him 10 take census of all the children
in his district he could not write-how
should he do it? Their names he could
not give, but he could give the number and
the SIX, by ali ingenious method of his own
lie filled his breeches pockets with red and
white beans, and when he came to boy, he
| registered him by putting red bean in one
side pocket of his coat, aud when to n girl
by putting a white one in pocket on the
other side; ST., when he got through. he
could thus tell the number of gals and
boys" in his bai,iwick Ingenious man, that
UNITED STATES Court AT RICHMOND,
FA.-Among the cases before this tribunal
On Friday last was the following: The
! Merchants Bank Of Baltimore vs.. The
Bank of the Valley of Firginil. The plain
titfs in this case pray for an Injunction a.
! gaiust Henry u. Brent, one Of the officers
of the Valley Bank, prohibiting an forbid
ding him from henceforih intermeddlinr or
interfering with the assets of said bank, and
that the court appoint receiver to take
charge Of the assets OF the bark, &c The
motion WAS partially ar-ucd, and continued
The lMPEAcHMENT.-Ihc Washington
correspondent of the New York Express
writes :-"There is such change of heart
going on among the radical sinners in Con
/ gress, that several of them, who haze been
bounding the President for year, are now
ready to follow any motion to lay all the
reports and resolutions upon the table, and
thus to stop all further agitation ani de-
bate. There is tornado of remopstrances
coming in from the republican business men
of the country, and the most of them are
from New England, which is suffering in
trade jpst now"
FS-We notice ia our exchanges from
different parts of Virginia that the people
are making movements in the way of pub
lie meetings, to substitute wLitc labor for
that Of the black, the latter class having
shown themselves so decidedly hostile to
those who have heretofore been their fsends
and employers
GREATNESS or CHINESE WAEEs.-A
vessel recently arrived at San Francisco with
a urge amount Of goods from China. pur-
/ chased at prices So remarkably cheap that
! the custom house officers at that port would
not believe in the veracity Of the invoices.
and seized the goods as falsely valued by
I the purchasers. The probability is, h we
yer, that The invoices arc correct, it takes
so little to sustain life in China and wages
arc 20 low IN the importation were hand
some setg Of porcelain boa ht for four dol.
lars the set Beautiful fans, PAINTED by
hand in brilliant colors, with figures of dri.
CONS aud Chinese BEAUTIES, purchased AT q
cent each. Spades for garden use bought
at the cost Of few cents each. Straw hats
Of a COOL quality invoiccd at a cent each
. Nice baskets, in sets of four, costing in tho
. Celestial Kingdom but four cents set, and
other articles equally low
METHODIST CnURcH CAsE.-This case
that has excited go much interest in our
community was called for last Saturday -
II WIS continued, however, until next term,
one jenkins, a tadpoic lawyer, having swo. n