South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-07-04
South a,raneh 9ntellissnter.
ROMNEY, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1878.
:-TnE total amount of back nav .retnrn.


tors and Representatives who declined to
receive it is forty-six E /.
TIE people Of ihe United States con-
sumo annually 100000 tons Of susar-an
average of 40 pounds for each man, woman
and child, and 10000 hcgsbead of mo-
lasses.
UNDER ruling of Judge BLATcn.
FORD, 10 the United States District Court
Of New York and through defect in the
statute under which the indictment was
framed, Woodruff, CLAFLIN and BLOOD
have been acquitted.
DEATH OF PRESIDENT GRANTS FA
THER.-HoN. JESSE Il GRANT, father Of
PRESIDENT GRANT, died at bis residence in
Coyington, Kentucky, on the night of the
10Th ult. The PRESIDENT, although ex-
pectod, did MT arrive in time to be present
at his death. e.,
"A duel was Tough, between ex-Judge
WILLIAM III. COOLEY and r. b. RuErT,
Jr., of The city of Now Orleans, on Tuesday
last, in which Cooley was killed at the Sc
coud shot Col. RHETT was not touched
The difficulty grew out Of en- article pub
iishcd in the Pic0yune, edited by RHgTr,
headed Hawkins We. Picayuac' and re-
ply of Judge COOLEY published in the
Times of the 9th. 1t is understood that
RHETT was the challenging party. They
shot with double barrc'cd shot guns loaded
with ball, at distance of forty PAGES.
1t is the opinion of many that the pre-
sent bankrupt law will be repealed by the
next Congress. Movements to effect this
are already being made 10 several portions
of the county.
THE Atlanta, Goorgin, Herald states
that GENERAL LoNGsrREET will publish
vindication of himself from the charges
of misconduct at Gettysburg. He only
waits until he car collect tho facts and fie.
ures that are necessary, when bo promises
TO fix the blame Of the miscarriage on the
parties really at fault.
-REsoLUTIoNS have been offered in the
Legislature of the District of Columbia
asking Congress to assist in extending the
&. Il y. canal TO the Ohio river. Whom
that shall be effected the canal will be one
of the most important works of inland nav
igation in the whole country, and of i'm
meDso value to the district cities and 10
,Alexandria.
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FicERs.-Haunting up Ku-Klux in South
Carolina was pretty profitable business,
even If some innocent persons did suffer
with the guilty. The Charleston Ne,cs and
Courier says the General Assembly appro-
priated s35 900 to pay the rewards offered
by Governor SCOTT for the apprehension
and conviction of persons engaged in Ku-
KIux conspiracy; that S21, 400 of this a.
mount was paid to Major LEWIS MERRILL,
of the United States army, who was III
command Of the counties under martial law,
and that the remainder was distributed IN
this way: To the arbitrator for their
trouble, 50, 500 THOMAS NJ. WILKES ST..
600; II. II. d. BYRON, 81 200; JAMES
CANTON, $1,000; w. b. Brown, 81 600
Grand total, s34 900; balance lef. in the
treasury, 800.
-HIRAM PowERs, the great American
sculptor, died at Florence, Italy, after lin.
gcring illness, on Friday last. Mr. Powers
was born in Woodstock, Vermont, on the
20th July, 1905. The first work by which
he acquired fame as n sculptor was an EVE
in marble. In 1851 bis GREEK SLAVE
was placed in the Great Exhibition of Lon
don, when it became an object Of popular
l'y to most remarkable degree. From
that period his fame become European, and
he was everywhere admitted TO be a high.
ly gifted representative of American art
Among other we'll known works by him are
the "FIsHER Boy" Of which three repeti.
tons in marble have been produced ala
PENsEBoso )" "PRosERpINE" a bust: "CA-
L1FoRNIA" "AMERIcA," modelled for the
crystal palace at SYDBNuAM, England ;
and portrait statues Of WAsH1NGToN for
The State Of Louisiana, and Of CALHoljN for
South Carolina. The latter, bis hest work
Of the kind, after suffering sbpwrcck Of
The coast Of Long Island, was safely de-
posted in Charleston Ofhis busts, which
comprise by far the greater part Of the pro-
duc'iops Of bis chisel, those Of ADAMS,
JACKSON, WEBSTER, CALHOUN. Chief