South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-05
South alranfls 9ntel!igeneer.
RoMNEY, FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1874.


E%IT is said President GRANT has dc.
termined to veto the vilRigb5s Bill should
it pass the House.
EJ MEXICO has appropriated SIC. 900
to pay the expenses Of her exhibitors at the
Centenniel exhibition in the city Of Phila-
delphia, Pennsy lvanin, in the year 1876.
sD-I IT appears that the National Con-
ventiOn of Stock Breeders, held at Indian.
npOlis,a few days ago, decided that thorough
bred and fnH-Jloo3ed meant the same thing.
EE Hon. WILLoUGnBY NEWTON, one
Of the distinguished public men Of former
era in Virginia, and known throughout Tie
country as successful scientific ogrcultr-
rist, died at his residence in Westmorolend
county, that State, on the morning of the
23rd ult., after lingering illness.
EFTHE Secretary of the Treasury has
directed the assistant treasurer at New York
to sell 81 100000 gold on the frs, and third
Thursdays each, and 100000 gold en-
the second and fourth Thursdays each, or
$4,000, 600 during the presen, month.
sY- Hon. CHARLES DooLI.TLE, Judge
of the Supreme Cour. of the Utica, New
York, district, was los! overheard from the
Abyssnia on the Dist ul, while en- route
from Now Y ork to Europe.
EE WE are Informed that The Method
ist Conference, South, recently in session
at louisville, Kentucky, adopted resolu-
ton requesting the Bishops 10 pastorals to
express disapprObation Of operate music,
now so common in churches.
On the temperance question the confer,
ence adopted by very large voto-325 to
80, being moro than the necessary two
thirds-a minority report that any per-
son making, buying, selling, or using as
beverage intoxicating liquors shalt be,
upon conviction, dcbarred from member
ship in the Church "This action will be
sent round to the local conferences, and if
tho majority of three-fourths concur it will
become law. As test Of the feeling in
tho conference, one of Tie most prominent
members, Rev. DR.. REGISTER, Of Bllti
more Conference, declires himself in favor
of this special legislation, even if it struck
$4,000 members from the roll This ac-
tion of the Methodist Conference will pro.
badly have more permanent effect in behalf
of temperance than the moro demonstra-
tive crusade movement"
The CIVIL MGnTs BlLL.-In the House. ON
Monday last, General Butler proposition was to
take the Senate bill from the Speaker table and
refer it to the judiciary committee, with leave to
report at any time. Pending this motion, as
stated by the Washington correspondent Of he
Baltimore San, "there was Il motion made to adj
journ, which was not carried because the demo-
Gratis only desired TO delay the subject until half
past four, when recess bad to be taken by or
der OF the House made few days ago. Its be-
lieved that this ends any prospect of the passage
OF the civil rights bill for the session"
The ship British -1dmirIE, from LIVERPOOL
for Melbourne, Australia, went ashore on Kings
Island, in Bas5s strait, on the 30th ult, and be-
came total wreck. She had on board forty
four passengers and crew Of thirtyeigh per
sons, all of whom were lost, except four passcn-
gers and five seamen. Kings Island is uriuhab-
tied very dangerous TO shipping, several vessels
having gone ashore there and become totally lost.