South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-09-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

ted States Senator, Is now pastor OF a
Methodist church at Holy Springs, Mas
sachnsetts -. The appointment OF coll
ored professor OF mathematics in the
boys central high school at New Or
leans has caused the white boys of the
senior class to decline TO attend The
Grand Duke Alexis Of Russia, who in.
Cured his fathers displeasure by Sc
cret marriage. has been divorced from
his wife, and is now happy in the imperial
forgiveness. During thunder storm
in Denver, Colorado, on Sunday last,
lightning struck carriage in which were
Major X. G.. Peabody and Is. Reed, tenn
porarily paralyzing both gentlemen, kill.
ing one horse, manning the other, and
demo!ishing the carriage :. "A man in
Iowa has applied for a patent for pillow
to be worked by wind power In the
Supreme Court of Brooklyn, New York,
Judge Gilbert has rendered a decision
that a State may prescribe separate
| schools for colored children, on the prin.
ciple that public schools are charity
that benefits conferred by them are
free gift from the State, and like every
other donor the State may prescribe in
what manner and upon what terms and
conditions the gift may be enjoyed.
Benjamin r. Butler has made his speech.
lie says "the Republicans are going mad
on hard money, and need defeat to
put them right" 5. b. The great race horse,
Planet, died e: the " ood5urn farm i'm
Kentucky, on Friday last :. The sum
paid by the British Government last
year in the way Of pensions amounted
to 81 ,O80,7l5 :. Half million OF coin
of Mexican coinage was shipped to En-
gland from New York, few days ago.
Nv. A. Cumming & Co., flour and
grain dealers, of Baltimore. suspended
on Wednesday. Their assets and liza
bilities are not known. Hon. Alex.
Stephens, Of Georgia, is now declared
to be in better health than he has been
at any time in the past ten years -.
Europe has over 100000 soldiers un-
der arms, for which she spends nearly
S700,000,000 per annum. &. =. The Impe-
rial Oil Works, at Oil City, were struck
by lightning on yesterday week, and 49,
600 barrels of oil were destroyed to-
gether with the works. machinery, &c.
Loss 100000; no insurance .. Cali.
f'ornia imports bricks from Japan, as
better and cheaper than those made in
the State, Notwithstanding twenty per
cent I'D Uaiorem duty. -. A New Haven
boy would have been killed by the kick
of a horse had it not been for stolen APP
pies in his pocket The only republi-
can papers published ia Virginia arc
the Iodiey Tirginiom, published at Staun-
ton, and the Day Book. published at
Norfolk An Australian Eucalyptus
tree, recently measured, was found to
have attained the height OF four hun
dred and eighty feet. Weston, who
engaged at New Haven, Conn, TO walk
one hundred miles in twenty two hours,
accomplished the feat Saturday in TWEEN
ty-one hours, thirty minutes and fifteen
seconds An Iowa farmer has invent
ed a continuance that is fashioned to
buggy dash TO hold the lines. Counting
couples are delighted with it. :. .Macad.
emized Roads nave been i'm use in Chr
ma from time immemorial, our Cele stial
brethren e1celling us in this particular.
80. Nevada expects to produce this year
bullion to the value of S25,00U,000 -.
The Indian Territory il now sending
large shipments of prairie hay to st.
Louis The crime Of placing obstruc-
| tons on railroad tracks, which is so sell
dom punished, is to meet its just deserts
in one case at least. John Lee Powell,
convicted at Bridgeport, Conn. of plac-
ing distractions on the Housatonic
Railroad, has been sentenced to twenty
years in the State prison. They arc
making things lively in Ohio just now
The big political guns arc firing or their
pieces all over the State The Coron-
er's jury, in the case OF Ralston. late
President OF the Bank OF California, re.
turned averdict Of accidental death from
congestion Of the vital organs and
drowning :. FIX Governor Letcher and
w. II. +. Leech, have been nominated
| Ivy the Conservatives in Rockbridge for
the House Of Delegates. Mr.. w. ~
McYeig!i, who is living in Alexandra,
has recovered ten Of his houses confs.
Gated during the late war, and has TWEEN.
! ~ yet TO get back. 1t is said that a
hog is 20 he exhibited ut the Petersburg
fair, weighing 500 pounds, feet long
and 81 high, and halls from North Caro-.
| lima An Illinois judge has decided
that neither teachers or directors can ex-
pei child from n public school for alb.
sence -. Milton Wachter, young, un.
married man, OF Frederick, Md. brake.
man on the Cumberland and Pennsyl-
vania railroad, while switching cars
west Of Frostburg, Nd, Tuesday. was
knocked down by n train on an adjoin-
ing track and instantly killed. His head
was completely severed from his body.
-. The propeller Equinox was lost on
Lake Michigan on last Friday morning,
with crew Of 10 and passegers-all
were lost .. General J. C.. Vaughan, Of
/ Tennessee, who commanded Confede.
rate infantry brigade during the war,
died at Townsville, Ga, on Friday last.
-. Mr. a. ID. Venable, well.known
resident Of Appomattox county, Va.
was shot in an alteration with some ne.
groes on the 4th inst, and his injuries
are of a very serious and probably fatal
character The riotous demonstration