South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-05-15
South a9raneh 9ntelli9enesr.
RoMNEY, FRIDAY, MAY Is, 1874.

s9- How true, we cannot say, but the
rumor is, that the Baltimore q Ohio Rail-
road Company is about to purchase the
Chesapeake aud Ohio Railroad.
EyI II seems that the negroes who have
been driven from their homes By the over.
flow of the Mississippi river, refuse oil of.
fers OF employment. from plan ters who wish
TO employ them, saying the Government is
to furnish Thorn rations, and they do not
want to work.
pd- IT is asserted that there ere about $50
Congressman directly or indirectly connect
cd with National banks
EN VICE President WILSON, owing TO
HE health, is about to leave Washington
for California, on tour.
cS- MONEY is reported "cheop" in Wall
street and adds the New York Herald ::
"This is the time for capitalists and bust
ness men to promote industry and com.
mcrce, and to afford assistance in the coun
try, where it is needed, instead Of fostering
stock gambling"
CATTLE DYING The Woodsou County
(kRnsas) Post says that the only real live
business in that part of the country is skin.
ming CATTLE. More cattle have died this
spring than during tho whole pas; FIVE
years. l: is estimated that three thousand
head have died in Douglass county alone.
At an average of only s25 head they were
worth $4,000
ACQUITTAL OF GENERAL HowARD. - A
Washington correspondent of the Baltimore
SIN states that the court of inquiry which
has been engaged 10 the investigation of
the alleged Irregularities Of General O. O.
HOWARD while commissioner of the Freed
mems Bureau, adjourned on the afternoon
of the lOih lost, after two days secret con-
sideration of the testimony aud arguments
thereon, the court going Immediately into
the consideration upon the conclusion of
the summing up Of the judge advocate
Their findings houorably acquitted him on
every charge. The papers are now in the
hands Of Judge Advocate General Holt,
and will be by him laid before the Prcsi-
dent for approval.
RoBBING THE NEGRoRs -Investigation
with the affairs of the Freedmon's Saving
Bank Washington, which recently closed
with prospective lJss Of one half, exhibits
more of The pfering ring work of the eli
Gals in that city This bank, the Clalks
burg Sun says, was worked by HENRY ID.
COOKE Of JAY COOKE x Co w S. HUNT.
INGToN, LEWIS CLEPHANE, ring contrac-
tor, aud L. r.. FUTILE, a Treasury official.
The money appears TO have been absorbed
to the amount of over n million, in mort
cages on the ''ring real estate in Washing
ton, to a large excess over It's value II
the poor duped negroes get ten cents on
the dollar, they iaay think themselves rich
There does not appear to be anything with
in reach about Washington that has not
been made to subservc the interests Of ,hc
ring plunderers.
STEALINGs.- Pomeroy's Democrat say
"An examination If the books at Washing
ton reveals the astounding fac. that the
defalcatioEs from the first Inauguration Of
ABRAHAM LINCOLN until The FIRST day Of
March, 1874 in the civil oereice alone, ay-
cragod $4,000 per day. What other peo-
pie than those Of the United States could
stand such long-conrinucd outrags.?"
FRANCE ASD GERmANY.-In a late speech in
Parliament Earl Russell called attention To the
relations Of France and Germany, and uttered a
warning that grave events are preparing beyond
the BRUSH channel. Ii is understood that no
English public man is more experienced i'm the
ways of nations than this venerable statesman
ard none can more quickly detect tendency
towards warlIke designs. His assertion that the
feelings Of France and Germany arc mutually
,mbitered' is obvious enough 90 all observers
%. public sentiment in those countries The OK
sting peace between them is rather truce than
permanent restoration Of amiCnble relations.
ON Motke has lately induced the Reichstag 10
surrender it's opposition TO the large military os-
Enlistment he proposed, and not only 10 make
iHc standing army over iOLr hundred thousand
men for the long period Of seven years but 10
's,ablish system OF reserves by which In eight
cars 'hc German force Of skilled soldiers will
ne still further increased by three hundred thou
sand. Forty thousand have been added 90 the
regular army, aud each year the same number
will be grated upon The stiiugcuuv disciplined
reserves. The army which Won Nolttc lrl Zoo
$50 was largely composed % volunteers. Dat
under the new military measures adopted Do IS .fl
have solid army OF regulars equal boz uumil
20 all tho regulars and raw recruits which lr
led Zoo The last war. AS to- rance her army Dos
been wholly rcmodclcdI and absorts The largest
Items iu the national budget Paris is about 'C
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