South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-05-23

III, Honor Judge j W. r. Alien, presiding.
m, Grand Jury were in session two days and
s,od. we understand, great many Indictments.
=, The case Of the S.ats %. William Hughes, for
t,e,sing into aud robbing the store Of 8. D.
,ory Esq, in Piedmont, was found guilty
.,a sentenced to the Penitentiary for two years
arj six months.
The census of Cumberland has just been
,oo,ple,ed The population Of the city 10 IL ,325.
It's now the second city in the State.
The Supreme Court of Appeals meets in
Wheeling on the 4th Of June IL Is said now
,ba, the Peuiten,iary controversy will not be
,sken into the Circuit Court ut all, bat will be
carried directly to the Supreme Court of Appeals.
.peedy decision of the matter we hope, will
soon be attained.
We are under obligations to our young
freud Mr. E. q. Yandiuer, for catalogue Of
Randolph Macon College. The institution under
,be charge Of DR.. DuScAs assisted by an able
corps OF professors is in prosperous condition.
Daring the present session, there were two hun
irei and thirty -four students, OF whom nine were
from this State, three from this section, Nessrs.
l. r. Markwood E. G. Vandiver and G. o. Ho-
man No, less than three hundred students are
expected at the opening of the next session. Sep
tember 18th, 1873.
INDIAN REEcs.-Johu Daley, Esq, proprietor
Of the Glades Hotel, at Oakland, on Monday last,
we learn FROM the Cumberland Ntus, receiv we'd
from his son-iD-law Gen. Crook, commanding
the United S,eres forces operating against the
Apaches, ri les and other hostile Indians, a
pouch captured from an Indian lodge, and con {.
,sniug some arrows, the tip Of one of which ap-
pears to haze F;erced somebody or something.
as it is covered with blood and lot of feathers.
supposed TO have formed part of tho former
owners head dress.
The vsriablcoess ofjurics has just been er-
cmp!ihed in case the heirs OF Dorilas Martz
the Executor of the Estate, tried before the
Circuit Court of Rockingham. An effort was
made year ago to set aside the will Of n sane
mau. Eleven were for admitting it to record
but one hung the jury. Last week the case was
again tried, and the jury set aside the will
B4LLou MAGAZINE FOR JUNE.-Balou's Maya
nline is one of the best publications 10 this couu
try Of its class. IL is full of just such readins
matter as the public delight 10 get hold of, and
We do not wonder here Is u magazine that al
ways has "A sea story, eight or ten love stories
an historical article, lot OF curious matters
nice illustrations, comic pictures aud poetry Of
The best description. 1t is just such a magazine
as delights an inteligen; hon sehold, for there is
so much In it Of stirring nature. IL is chcaI
too being only s. 80 per year, or Is cents sin
gle copies and is for sale at all the periodical de
pots in the country. The great fire does no
fccn to have injured the prosperity of Ballou',
Magazine in the least, for it looks better and
brighter than ever. Address Themes Il Talbot
SO Bromhcld Street Boston, for a year's sub
sciiption, and you will never regret it.
Scar Book .-'Evcry farmer should kee,
a scrap book in which TO paste agricultural
scraps. Every one, in reading paper, will see
4" numbev OF things which he will wish 10 re-
member. He will perhaps see suggestions, the
value OF which he will desire to test or hints
which he wants to be governed by in future ope-
Tatious. And yet, after reading the paper he
valuable articles will be lost To prevent such
a loss every reader should clip from the papers
such articles as he desires TO preserve and re.
member and paste them in a scrap hook. Such
book, at the end of II year or two, will be We.
r. interesting and valuable"
Some Of our farmers have finished cora
planting.
The T s o. this State claims to have 5 900
inhabitants
III a man stands on a corner in Oswego Eve
minutes without any thing TO do he is fined ten
dollars II such penalty WAS enforced in Rom
n'y, what revenue We would have to improve
our town.
In the Berkeley Circuit Court, last week, in
teo'se Of the State 49, X, c. Johnston, indicted
Tor iorgng will, removed from jefferson couu =
y, was found guilty and sentenced to the Psni
tertiary for tWo years.
There is "orIing like plain English for plain
s4faaiaT IIea Batter says Brownlow is an old
''e' ant RroVnlow rctalietes by saying tina,
ot'er an than Batter have been hanged
'o-'on pnpcrs report The price OF refined
''la-. lower taan % ANY time during the past
Gee as
of ceNrdays mail, through the courtesy
%. '.'. -rserd. We received very neat catalogue
OF ..' "i~ers and st1dents Of the University Of
Virginia i1th session, ls7g-53 The number Of
s'la.as 10 a.:endaocc 34t. of whom six were
''. 'as state TIE next session commences
90 ."' -rsi q tietobcr, and continues, without
interruption rrt.l The Tbsrsday before the fourth
Day ofJuIy.
'fl'eN1NoN Last sabbath, says the Mar