South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-05-21
By Yesterdays Mail.

nesuay last.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad
Company on Tuesday last paid over TO
the State Treasury ofMaryland thesum
of i,229.Si under the Judgment Of
the United State supreme court.
THE CAPITAL QuEsTIoN.-At Charles.
ton States Attorney Colo moved this
morning, the 18th inst. in the Circuit
Court, that the injunction agains. the re-
moval of the capital be dissolved. At
l o'clock argument began sustaining he
injunction. There is no telling when
the argument will be closed. although
it is n one-sided fight, as no attorney will
appear on the other side. The Cover.
nor pays no attention to the Injunction.
Ferguson and Quarter occupied the
18th on the injunction. The case was
then submitted to the Judge. who was TO
render an opinion on the following
morning.
FAST TINE.-l esterday morning Mr..
James t. Hill made trial trip up the
river with his steam canal.boat alpha,
and succeeded in attaining n speed of
seven and one-half miles per hour. The
Alpha will be despatched east with q
load of coal in few Cumbericpld
Ne,cs, Nay 20.
lSThe death of Gen. Breclinridge
leaves but four gentlemen living who
have been elected to the second highest
office in the United States. They are
Hannibal Hamlin, Andrew Johnson,
Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wilson.
I-v Between the months of May and
October, last year. 1889 Russian con.
victs were banishod 10 Siberia. and 2.
$40 women and children accompanied
the exilcs.
tTThe Hon. Montgomery Blair is
out in 4 letter favoring the nomination
of John w. Garrett rs the next Demo
cratic candidate for President. Mr.. Gar
rett would make a good President.
IV Ex-Attorney General Williams and
eX-Commissioner Douglass have taken
rooms together in Washington for the
practice of the law. Mr.. Williams says
that he has already been retained in Sc
veral important cases - come before the
Supreme Court.
JEFFERSON DAyIs.-A special to the
Tribune from Houston. Texas, furnishes
the following report of the remarks OF
Mr.. Davis with regard to the old flag:
''On the Fair Grounds. jefferson Da-
Wis and Braxton Bragg reviewed a splen.
did display Of military, composed large
iy Of old Confederate soldiers. The
10th United States Infantry furnished
music. Mr.. Davis made q speech refer
~ 70 hat. L. ~ !
diers. and said they owed the same de-
yotion to the flag under which they now
live IL occasion should ever come The
sentiment wa, received with tremendous
applause 10y at least 10000 present.
Governor Coke said the greatest man
OF the North, Horace Greeley, and the
greatest man OF the South, jefferson
Davis, had now spoken from the same
stand. advising the same sentiment
that the war between the Blue and Gray
was forever ended, and henceforth they
would march-s shoulder to shoulder under
the same flag. He paid the noble com.
pliment to Mr. Greeley, and Mr.. Davis
for once seemed to forget his lofty Dig
nifty, and cheered heartily with the rest"
q There is 70 be baby show in
Memphis, Tenn, at which prize Of $50
is to he given to the ugliest baby. with
the understanding that the award will
not be mnde without the mothers appro.
val. The prize will probably never be
called for.
IL The Cumberland, Md, Times states
that the peach crop Of that State will be
good this year. all reports to the contra.
~ Notwithstanding.
E.p~ The coal area of the United States
is asserted to be sectioned Off i'm square
miles about rs follows: Illinois Largest
Of all, $4,000; Missouri Basin, &c. a87:
Iowa, 1900; Kansas, 1900: West
Virginia section. 10000; Ohio section.
10000; East Kentucky section, s. 983:
fcnusylvania. II. SOP Pennsylvania an.
tlracite, Az; Now England Basin, 500;
Maryland section, $50; Tennessee. s.
100; Alabama, $3.50; Indiana. GAO:
West Kentucky, 1888 Texas. $500:
Michigan Basin. e, 700 Nebraska. 5000:
Arkansas. ".O43; Virginia. lS5. and
North Carolina, $40 The great bulk OF
the general coal deposit il the common
s''t on bi,uminou5 coal, tie exception
being The ssui.b.tuminors. the anthra.
cite and the camel coal found largely
in tie hauawha coal Eel Is Of West Va.
IT'Nhcat crops IN great Britain dur.
ing th' last nine year, have Welded. il
IS a,sert, 2. ON IN aya-ats twentv-nine
and q half bushels per acre.
- Tie brooklyn Eryls fgu-es IL all
ONT, .n1 say The verdict in the Feerhcr