South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-08-22
South 3ranth Snteiligeneer.
RoMNEY, FRIDAY, AUG. %, 1878.
-CUMBERLAND, it appears, from re-


The earnings of the Baltimore and o.
MO Railroad and branches for July ..erc
sl,375,449 10, an increase over the same
mUnsh las; year of sl7S,S23 OF.
IT is said that on to-day the Presiden,
will celebrate at Long Branch his silver
wedding. There will be present the mem
bers Of tho Cabinet, aud friends from New
York aud elsewhere
Tho latest estimate of the number
lost by the burning of the steamer Wawa-
set on the Potomac river, near Aqua Creek
on the 8th inst. is that il will reach seven
~ at least.
Hon. WILLIAM NJ MEREDITH, a pro.
minent lawyer of Philadelphia, ard Secre-
tary Of the Treasury under President TAY-
LoR, died in that city on Sunday last, a.
ged II years.
Mn. GEORGE LUNT, Jr., of Boston, a
son of the poet, politician, and journalist,
is to be one of Professor WIsE's balloon
companions to Europe.
The trotting stallion, "SENrINEL,'
was found dead in his stable at Ash Grove
Farm, Kentucky, on the morning of the
18th inst. His owner, EDWIN TnoRNE, of
New York, recently refused an offer of thir-
ty thousand dollars for him.
Color IN TIE ARMY.-According TO a
statement made by the Washington CORES
pondent of the Boston Post, Secretary BELK.
NAP will assign colored graduates of West
Point exclusively to commands in white re-
giments. The secretary explains that the
law leaves no option he is required TO
officer colored regiments with white men,
aud, therefore. he must assign colored West
Pointers to duty in white regiments. If
the law really leaves, the Baltimore Sun
remarks, no choice to the Secretary but to
place white officers 10 command of colored
regiments, then it follows of course that
the colored officers must 20 into white re.
giments if assigned to any regiment what
ever, and illustrates the absurdity of hasty
legislation and tho inevitable returning of
the chicken into his roost
The largest farm in England is 5000 a.
ores in extent, and in its cultivation the "four
course system is adopted, $50 acres being
devoted to wheat, $50 to barley and oats,
100 to seeds, beans and peas, and $50 to
roots. The live stock is valued as follows ::
Sheep, SS5, 900: horses, SIS, 900; bullccks,
$4,000, and pigs, $4,000. The artificial
fertilizers used annually amount to 49,
and the entire cost of manures is SIS 900.
Tho oil cake and corn produ ced annually
amount 10 $4,000. The yield of the sheep
sells for $4,000 and this animal is the
most profitable stock kept
FEARFUL RAILROAD ACCIDENT. -Aro-
Their awful railroad disaster occurred on the
Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Railroad ON
Saturday night last, Is miles from Chica-
go and % miles this side of Lamont, by
which twelve persons were killed and thir.
ty or forty badly injured The victims
were passengers on the night express which
left Chicago at nine o'clock on that eve.
ming and few employees on the coming
freight train. The passenger train consist
cd of an engine, baggage car and three
passenger cars, including Pullman coach.
There was about two hundred passengers
on the train, which was running about %
miles an hour, and When 20 miles this side
Of Lamont collided with freight tram 1uu-
hing at the rate of 20 miles au hour. The
collision, the account says, was terrible
The engine of the passenger train ran clear
over the top Of the freight locomotive, cre-
atipg mass of wreck such as is seldom
seen. Six persons were killed outright
The explosion is said to have shaken the
country for miles around, and the escaping
steam enveloped the passengers in binding
clouds. The scene was horrible Passengers
were thrown a distance Of over one hun
dred feet; others were jammed 10 tho
wreck and fearfully maDgled. Report says
the responsibility for the accident rests with
the conductor Of the freight train. who
started his train from Lamont 3 minutes
ahead of his time. Just how many were
injured by the collision and how many from
the effects Of the steam is rs yet unknown.
CHICAGO, August 1S.-CoroDer STE
PHENs has commenced an inquest on The
bodies Of persons killed at the Lcmont dis
astor. The agent az that point testified
that he urotostnd etronoiy ogainet a.. c..:.L,