South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-06-06
South 8:anrh 9ntelligenter.
ROMNEY, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1878.

81 GOV. MCENERY has issued an ad.
dress to the people of Louisiana advising
acqneAconce in tie KELLoG Government
unris Congress assemblies in Deem Der next.
GbIt is said that arran ge ments have
boon quietly made to couceu trate at a short
notice additional troops on the Banks of
tire Rio Grande.
Ec The divers, after hard labor, for tho
bodies carried down by the wrecking Of the
steamship White Star Line from Liver.
peel, OF the coast of Nova Scotia, on the
LIST Of April, have succeeded in raising four
hundred Aod thirty bodies, leaving one hum
dred und eighteen unaccounted for These
are supposed TO have drif,ed out to sea and
will never be recovered. The divers are
still at work and are turning their at,en-
ton to the recovery of the cargo.
1GssF Two whites, u man aud miss, have
been retired within a few days from he
Postoffice in Petersburg, Virginia, to make
places for colored man aud wnm4u.
s15- Boston was objected to another fiery
ordeal OH Friday morning last Commenc.
ing at o'clock, 10 HALEY, MORSE & Co.'S
immense furniture store, on Washington
street, near BoYLsToN, and burned until
noon. The loss is estimated at over a
million of dollars. Among the buildings de-
stroyed were the GLOBE THEATER, CHIcK-
BRINGS PIANO Works, and many other
valuable structures on Boston's principal
street.
Ras-The manufacturers of Wolverhamp-
ton, England, are importing iron from this
country, in consequence of the exorbitant
rates at which the native production is held
A TIN MINE IN CALIFORNIA. A mann
9th tin ledge, forry-6ve miles from the city
OF Los Engeles, on the San Antonio, has
recently been discovered. The ledge is said
to be mile long and 90 feet wide.
Gs- "A young man, supposed to be young
BENDER, a son of the Kansas murderer,
was arrested in West Liberty, Iowa, on Sa
turday last, and a woman thought to be
Mrs. BENDER was arrested at Oxford, Iowa.
There seems to be little doubt as to their
identity
ES- La his Grafton at the decoration of
the graves Of the Federal soldiers, at Ar
hDg'on on Friday last, Rev Mr. TALMAGE
administered the following well merited re
buke 81 am told that after a southern
woman had decorated the grave of q south
orn soldier, northern man, wearing a uni
form, took up the wreath and tore it to the
"iudS. lie may have had on the opauletts,
but he was not worthy the name of soldier.
Gs5-The Egypt recently landed in New
fork the largest number If passengers ev-
or brought by one vessel ,7O6 in the
steeragc and 80 in the cabin, making with
tho ships crew living freight of nearly
1000 persons.
E1y-The demand for the postal cards con d.
tinues to be immense. The orders receiv.
ed at the Postoffice Department aggregate
23,50O,0OO, while the supply only reaches
100000.
GF JUDGE FANCHER on Friday morning
last discharged GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN
from custody, the Sheriff jury having de-
clarod him sane TRAIN, it is said, will
cue the city of New York for false impris.
onment, claiming 100000.
18th Mexican minister 10 Washing
ton, according to announcements il said to
cypress The opinion that Pr trouble will en-
sac batwccu the two countries in conse-
qucrca IT Colonel Mackenzie's recent inva-
SION Of Mexico in pursuit ofthe Kickapoos.
INTERNAL REvENUE RECEIPTS The
" York HeyaH Of the md inst ates that
the Internal Revenue receipts for tho past
month were sl2,353, 10z, and tho total for
tho portion Oft fiscal year, so far, 51OG,-
Ol6,222 Wo may reckon, then, that the
income from this source will amount, for
the fiscal year, 10 little less than $4,000.
600 The probability is there will be an
excess of receipts over The estimates Of
nearly 3l0,OOO,O0O. So, also, with the
income from customs-therc will be large
excess over the estimates. This Is ius,
what We anticipated when the Secretary Of
the Treasury pretended to be afraid bis
fluids would fall short aud wanted Congress
to keep up burdensomo and unnecessary
taxation. Fify millions more Of taxation
might have been taken Of by Congress, and