South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-10-08
South Branch 9ntelligearer.
ROMNEY, FRIDAY. OCT. s. 1875.

or rates.
tVrIt appears that the negotiations
with the Sioux Indians for the purchase
OF the Black Hills has come to an end,
without anything having been accom-.
plished. The Sioux wanted a rental of
$500. 900 peranBum, while the com.
missioncrs offered $500, 900, or to buy
the hills for S6,25O,O0O.
" The public debt statement, issued
the 1st inst, shows the total debt, princi-
pal and interest to be, 90, 255, 749, 500. 90 !;
less the cash in the treasury it is S2,l22,
ACC, 227.09. The decrease during the
past month was S3,342, 562.6l, and since
July /, $685. 1929.
To The report of the comptroller Of
the currency shows that the national
bank currency outstanding on Monday
last was S347 .S6S, ZAP, or 81 900, 900 less
than on January IA, 1873,
V The Order of Odd Fellows in the
United States. according 10 the returns
made ut the last session of the Grand
Lodge at indianapolis, has reache very
large numbers. They had at the begin
ming of the present year 5,965 lodges,
with membership aggregating 437,719,
there having been an increase of over
$4,000 during the last year. Pennsyl-
vania contains the greatest number of
Odd Fellows, more than twice as many
as any other State, there total being Co.
S44. The second State is Ohio, with
Al ,343, and the third New York, with
3s,429. The aggregate receipts of all
the lodges during year 1874, were So
9SS,442, Of which Sl,37l.3l4 WAS ex.
pended for relief
Iv Private information received at
Washington on the 5rd inst, from Mis-.
sissippi is 10 the effect that Governor
Ames is taking the advice Of the Attor-
ney General with vengeance. He is
said to be arming and drilling as rapidly
rs possible, the negroes, offering them
with the most abandoned and desperate
of their own class, and that his plain OBJ
ject is 10 bring OH conflict of races.
The PROPOSED EQUESTRIAN STATUE
OF GEN. LEE,-There was a meeting in
Richmond, Va, on Wednesday OF last
week OF the Governor, treasurer and au.
ditor of public accounts of that State
who organized themselves as n board of
commissioners TO provide for the cree.
Of ri et,
the capitol grounds. Circular letters
were ordered to be addressed to the
Judges, clerks, &c, and other details de-
termined. The Governor was named as
president, Hon. r. NJ. T. Hunter, trea-
surer of the commonwealth, was appoint
ed treasurer, and Colonel s. Bassett
French was appointed secretary to the
board. In addition to the 1000 which
the Ladies' Monument Association have
on hand, which can be used for the sta.
tue enterprise, it is understood kindred
associationsin the South have about 81
600 more. The cost of the proposed
statue is $4,000.
tV'We learn, says the Wheeling Re.
9tster, from parties who have been at
White Sulphur Springs, that Henry $.
Walker, Esq, has closed negotiations
with a New York company, for sale
of the coal lands owned by him in West
Virginia. The price paid for the prop.
erty was S250,OOO. That's better than
running newspaper.
TIE COURSE FOR YoTERs-There is
one plank in the Massachusetts, repub
lican platform the soundness and appro.
priateness ofwhich are equally palpable
1T is therefore declared that the re-
publican party of Massachusetts will
support no man for official position whose
personal character is not an absolute
guaranty offidelity to every public trust.
and they invoke the condemnation ofthe
ballot.boX upon any candidate for Office
who fails Of this test, whatever may he
his party name"
These are noble words, and arc in cf.
feet exactly what we hcye been calling
for in Baltimore. Truly, rs n contem.
porary says, they deserve TO be inscrib.
cd "a the golden rule of politics upon
MI the public buildings Of the country.
just as heather emperor inscribed the
golden rule Of the New Testament upon
NIL the palaces and halls Of the empire.
We fear it will be q long time before q
convention Of either party in most oftho
States Of the Union can thus frankly call
on the people TO vote against its candi.
dates if they are not tho best mon for
The places they ere nominated for. But
the people need not wait for the call, but
go and vote against unfit men wherever