South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-03-06
South arancll 9ntelligentet.
RoMNEY, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1874.
asHon. JouY S. MILLsoS the dis.

izen of Norfolk, Va, died on Sunday last.
For number of years preceding the war
Mr.. MILLsoN was member of Congress.
sB-Tho debt of the State Of Virginia
now amounts to about forty FIVE millions of
dollars, including the fifteen millions as
signed to this State.
cE- We are pleased to learn that Ex.
Governor HENRY A. WISE, of Virginia,
who has been very i'll, is rapidly gaining in
health.
Ep The Duchess Of Geneva, the famous
$40, 600 COW, died at the farm of the Hon
SAMUEL CAMPBELL at the New York Mills
on Friday last.
GS-I Ii is coming out slowly that ,be
Washington Monument fund has beer
scardalously mismanaged
sa1 The Kentucky Lunatic Asylum has
farm of three hundred acres and vege.
table garden of sixty acres The entire
work of CultivaiiDg is done by the patients.
The cooking and homework is done by the
female patients, who also mako all their
own clothing aud tho undertaking of The
men. Dances, gymnaslc exercises, lee.
lures, AMI games keep the minds Of the
inmates from melancholy.
EE-The Hon. JOHN NJ. FRANCIS. late
Minister to Greece, writes in his paper, the
Troy Times, about the drinking habits of
Europe He says that in Franco, Italy,
Spair, Germany, and Greece, where tho con-
sumption of wine is very great, there is far
less drunkenness than in Great Britain or
the United States. His opinion is that the
substitution of mild wine for the whiskey
so generally drank here would be reform
atory agency in checking intemperlncc. =
Ibe result of his personal observations in
spain was that wine shops met him at every
turn, but he rarely saw drunken man.
Outside of the English and American col
onlsts be knew of very little drunkenness
IN Paris. In Germany he witnesse ire
mendOus How of lager, but believes the pro.
portion Of confirmed inebriates there does
not equal one to twenty of the same class
here. la Russia liquor stronger than our
worst whiskey is used with bad results, and
IN Great Britain the evil somewhat an
proaches its extent in the United States
Glasgow was the most drunken city be
saw abroad.
ES' Very likely, when some of our pub.
tic thieves find what ingenious legal defence
Is offered their craft under the workings O.
trial by jury in Italy, they will be remoy
iog to that favored cline. A tax collector
at Naples absconded with public money a.
mounting to 100000 He was caught,
brought back and tried, but The Jury &C.
quilted him because the money he had sto.
len was the peoples money, and as he was
ono of the people he was part owner Of that
money, and of course it would be mons,rous
to convict man Of stealing what was his
own.
MURDER OF A UNITED STATES MAR
sHAL IN NORTH CAROLINA. The Asbe-
vile On. O. Pioneer says: Deputy Mar.
shall n. III. III. BURNS was shot and killed
about fifteen miles below Charleston, in
Swain county, few days ago 1t is tho't
that it was the act Of parties connected
with the band of counterfeiters, whom Mr..
BURNS has been very active in hunting
up, and helping to bring to justice One
o.; tho murdcrors has been arrested, and is
now in Webster Jail. His name is VIM.
r.. Oils
HTTnE "Woman's Crusade" in the
West shows no sign Of abatement. 1t isa
protest that sets people thinking, ond has
attracted more attention to the temperance
cause than it over before was able 10 CON-
m'nd. If 1t wakes up the apathy Of the
people 10 take this matter out of tho hands
Of sohemiDg and broken down politicians.
and place It under tho guidance Of better,
nobler, and more judcious men, it will
be one excellent result az least. In
the West the crusade has already, in va.
rious places done great good. IL is an
outburst Of energy that has startled thc
conservative East, which 10 sGll puzzles its
brains to comprehend it, Bqh Ge-cne.
r. JUDGE N. X. Hall. OF the United
States District Court, died Of heart disease
in Buffalo New York, on Monday last. -
JUDGE HALL was fellow student Of PFC.
sidont FiLLMoRE,his partner 10 the practice
Of law, and Postmaster G. onoral during his
Administration, resign;pg bis ofico 70 &C..
cent Tho oppoipf,nort q, & Tr.:..1 CO.., ~.