South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-09-12
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ROMNEY, FRIDAY, SEPT. -, 1878.

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But they are put upon our market, says
Hearth and Home, under a French label
and sold as French goods, simply because
fashionable Americans ,oW hare foreign
goods to wear.
EY'Ex-GovERNoR FooTE, of Mississip-
pi, who has been engaged for several weeks
past IN writing southern "reminiscences, will
soon, according to current report, be ap.
pointed by the President to an important
foreign mission in South America.
EE THERE is some sense in the Radical
nominations of Mississippi. The ticket
consists of one military carpet. Dagger and
two negroes. 1t is truly representative.
ENTHE party Of engineers making the
preliminary survey for the proposed extern
sion Of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, we
learn from the Cumberland Nc,cs have reach
cd point on the Savage River, near Iona
coming. They are running one of the lines
up the Savage River from its mouth.
HD~ GOVERNOR JACOB has removed HEN
ny S. WALKER, as public printer, and Or
dercd the printing hereafter to be given to
CHARLES b. WEBB, editor of the Charles
ton Chronicle.
The TEXAS CATTLE DRIVE.-A Saint
Louis paper says; "The Texas cattle drive
Ut this season to Kansas is now nearly if
not quite all in. The total receipts will
reach about 100000 head, of which num-
Der 100000 were received at Ellsworth,
10000 at Wachita, 5000 at Coffeyville
aud Chetopa, and the remainder at other
points Sixty thousand have. been driven to
Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming 100,-
600 will be wintered in Kansas, about
10000 will IJo taken by packers, 10000
have been markete at Kansas City, SO 600
moro will be driven to the Territories,-
Tho remainder will be wintered in the va
rious Western States. The receipts at
Kansas City are estimated at 100000 head
for the year, against 236, 900 head last year
BIDS FOR ToMBsToNEs.-A Washing
ton correspondent of the Baltimore San
states that bids were opened at the Quar-
termastcr Generals office on the 9TH inst.
TO furnish headstones for the national mill
tnry cemeteries. There were quito large
number of bids received, mostly all of them
accompanied by samples of stone proposed
to be furnished. 1t is estimated that 253,-
OSS stones will be required, 147 ,694 for
the known and 105, 1874 for the unknown.
Congress at the last session appropriated
100000 to pay therefor, and the con-
tract will be divided among several of the
bidders, the elements of durability, decen-
cy and cheapness being considered in Sc
Letting the stones. The Secretary of War
will examine all the bids and award the
contracts in few days.
RE-A TERRIBLE fire occurred in Hava-
ia, Cuba, on Sunday night last. The square
of buildings known as Plaza Vapor was re-
duced to ashes The fire broke out stimuli
tanoouslyin the four corners of the square,
and is supposed to have been the work of
AN incendiary. The loss is estimated at o.
yer S8,000,000. 1t is reported % lives
were lost The scenes around the burning
square, it is said, were exciting and terri
ble parents threw their children from bal
comics to cave them from the flames.
Eg- Miss MARGARET HAMILL, of the
city Of New York, whilst on q visit to Mrs
MERRIGAN in Williamsburg, New York,
was murdered on the 4th instant Mrs.
MERRGAN has confessed that she murder
I'd Miss HAMIIL and that money was the
motive. The body was placed under bed
and remained there till Thursday evening,
when Mrs. MBRRIGAN set FIRE to the room
IN which tho body was subsequently, dis
covered naked and scorched.
be5-M THEIRS was lately asked bis opin-
ION Of a bill to prevent the use of insulting
language 10 the Legislative Assembly -
lie said "All the precautionary meas
ur5s which the Chamber seems to wish to
,ako resemble the straw which is laid down
before !bo door Of sick person, and vbich
docs no, prevent either tho carriages from
rolling or the patien. from dying"
GEW. PACE McCARTY, who killed
joins b MoRDEcAI 10 duel near Rich
mond, Virginia, in May last, it appears,
lies now 10 critical condition from tho ef
fecs Of The wound be received at the time
The ball has not been found, and any move
mcnt Of bis body gives bin great pain
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