South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-04-24
South 8raneh 9ntelligeneer.
RoMNEY, FRIDAY, APRIL "a, 1874.


ry in'15 years
sa5lt is now denied that the Rev. Dr..
MUNsEY has been appointed 70 the leading
Methodist church in Augusta, Georgia, at
largo salary.
EElt is said that Holland with only
$500, 900 inhabitants, holds sl6O 600 600
OF American securities. This speaks well
Tor Dutch prudence and economy.
ES- Miss Bessie STEWART, the Nevada
Senator's laughter, Fo,neys Press states.
drives 10 Washington M odes, basket pha
ton with liveried tiger, and palo.g,oe
streamer floating from her whip, in adni
rable contrast to her piquant brunette facc
GI ANOTHER shocking explosion occur
red on the 18th in coal mine near Ian.
cashire, England, by the use of naked
lights. Fifty.thrcc persons were killed.
and about one hundred men, who were left.
IN the mine alive after tho accident, have
been safely rescued.
@'How a railroad opous up new
country Is demonstrated, says the .Sc;en.
f!tc american, very remarkably by a com
pariSon of the Un;ed States census of1S7O
with the territorial census Of 1878 This
shows that between those years oil the
counties on the line Of the Denver and Rio
Urando have either trcbloI or quadrupled
IN assessed wealth aud population.
HE North CAROLINA Volcano.
counts from western Carolina report severe
and heavy rumbIing7 in Bald and Stone
mountains on tho 14.h inst, and that tho
tremblings Of tho earth were fel. for moro
than ono hundred miles from the noun
tains. The shocks are moro Severe than
before and it is firmly believed by scicn-
lists that an eruption is imminent.
RAILROAD DIFFICULTIES ADJUSTED
The Alexandria Gazette announces that
tho war which has been wagng between
the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio
hAlIroad Companies for months past is pow
ended. Ii has been agreed that the New
jersey lines controlled by the Pepnsylvo.
MA Company, and the terminal facilities in
New York for passengers and freight, are
extended to the Baltimore snd Ohio Com.
pany upon exactly the same terms as are
enjoyed By the Pennsylvania COMPANY it.
self. The new arrangements went into eff
tecs on Monday last, and carry with them
restoration Of through passenger and
freight rates between NIL points with which
the rival companies compete for business.
EFOf l25 members of the lower braacb
Of tho Legislature of South C1rolins. 95
are colored, and three fourths Of the Senate
are colored ; 70 of the % can neither read
or write, and that few of either branch nos
sessed taxable property when elected. l.
appears from a communication in one Of
our exchanges that the annual lcgishiive .
expenses previous to the war were $40
900; whereas they arc now upwards ef
S3Oo,OOO. The stationery bill of the Leg I.
islaturo before tho war was $500 it isnow
$4,000. Formerly tho cost OF the puhlic
printing was $1,000; it is now $3.50 900 .
and the contractors, clerks Of tho e.pec,ivc
houses, have purchased gu nptuous estates
IN Charleston. The average total expenses
Of the State Government previous to 1860
we're 100000. For the current year the .
appropriations for the same purposes aggra
gate SL032,2lO. Oppressed South Caro-
lima "It is evident that tie condition of
the State must continue deplorrbla so long
as ignorance and incompetency exercise Tie
si'latiyo and judicial functions"
TIE MASSACHUSETTS, SENATOR .ulp-
ELECTION OF Gov. WAsuuunN.-Oa Fri. .
day last, the 18th inst, The cou,.s. in The
Massachusetts, Legislature FOR tie United
states Ssnatorship was ended by tho elsc-
% n Of Gov. WILLIAM b WAsmrRv.
ne 53rd aud final ballot stood 90 follows
Whole number Of yo.es 2G7 necessary to
choice l3l WN y. WAsurrny 1871.
CURTIS O., DAWES 20, ADAMS -. Lon.
lNG 4, BANKS a. WENuElL Putbps I.
STEPHEN n. GFFoRD ], joins @ Wmr-
TIER / The president stated lLas d, ap-
pears that VIM. e WAsuBunN IS chosen
Senator and dscllrsd tho convention adj
Jourued The 81 cGon Of Governor WASH
BURN causes tho duties Of The Office 20 De.
yolgc upon Lieut.. Gov TALBOrr, WHO'S AT
present on o tour for bis hoaIth 10 Texas.