South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-10-01

tVThe New York Mall states that on
Wednesday, eight shares OF the Chemical
Bank were sold at Sl,O75 each, the par
value being 800. This is the highest
premium ever paid for bank stock.
CAPTURE OF SUPPOSED BANK Ron
pER.-The sheriff OF Fentress county,.
Tennessee, It is stated, captured on Sun
day last, man answering the descrip-
ton Of Cole Younger. lie had S4,49O
and offered it all TO be released. He is
now in the Jail of Fentress county, and
10 believed TO be partner Of Jessie
James, who was killed at Pineville, Ky,
last week. James and Younger were
both concerned in the late Yves. Virgin.
ia bank robbery. lo} n
~The Democratic candidates for
State Offices in Maryland are: John
Lee Carroll for Governor Levin Wool
ford for Comptroller, and C. j. NJ.
Gwinn for Attorney General. The Ma
ryland Republicans have endorsed J.
Morrison Harris. S. Teakle Wallis and
Edward wilkins, candidates of the Re-
form Party Of that State for the Offices
OF Governor, Attorney General AMI
Comptroller. The election takes place
on Tuesday the 2nd day Of Nov. next.
The Interior Department, it would
seem, is to be turned inside out in adj
vance Of the inevitable congressional
investigation. The resignation Of Mr..
Delano has at last been accepted, and
he goes back to Ohio with parting
blessing from the President. Along with
him goes his solicitor, and it is said that
several other prominent attaches of the
department will move in the same pro.
cession.
GREAT SALE OF PRINTS 1T appears
that the greatest sale orprnts evermade
In America was concluded at the estab.
lishment Of Ii. b. Claflin d CO., in New
York, on Friday last In connection
with some sales which were made on the
previous day over 200 cases ofthe most
celebrated brands were disposed of Mt
prices lower than ever made before. ran
S!nS from 81 to g. cents, the terms be-
ing net sixty days, or two per cent. off
ten days. Every State in the South and
Southwest was represented at the sale.
IL Glass, Medley & Co., proprietors
of the Keystone Iron Works, at Pitts.
burgh, Pa, have suspended. Liabilities
S35O,OOO; assets, chiefly mill property
and real estate, not available ut present
$4,000. Cause of failure, stagnation
of the iron business and the difficulty of
realizing on outstanding Indebtedness.
Three hundred hands are thrown ont of
work
tv The gold value Of exports into the
United States during the month of Au-
gust, 1875, was S4I,435, 13l; August,
1874, $40, 2i7,361 eight months ended
August 81, 1875, $500, 554,4 3S do, 1874.
S396,3S4,27O.
80 Jacob Ben amin, n well-known and
wealthy pawn.broI<er of Philadelphia,
died few days ago from erysipelas.
which was produced by the use Of hair
dye. The deceased used the hair dye
on his whiskers, and it irritated his
throat. He then shaved the whiskers
off when crysipelas set it. That was n
die not bargained for.
BREAKING OF A FIRE LADDER.-By
the breaking of q patent fireman's lad
der machine in the city Of New York.
during recent drill Of the fire depart
ment, three men lost their lives. The
machine consists of n combination of
ladders, which, by the turning of winch
es, are quickly elevated to an angular
or perpendicular position, the ladders
sliding out one beyond the other. The
unfortunate men were on the upper lad
der, 90 feet from the ground, when one
of the lower ladders gave way, and they
were precipitated to the pavement. Cause
bad material and bad workmanship.
IS'An inexhaustible bed of yellow o.
chre Of the best quality il now being
worked on the farm OF James Bujack, on
the Frederick road, near Gainesville,
Baltimore county. Specimens have been
pronounced by competent judges to be
Of unsurpassed excellence.
!V'Tho Horse Disease is spreading
in localities in the North Dispatches
state that it is rapidly increasing in
Poughkeepsie, New York. and the ada.
cent couEty. IL not only affects the
head and throat, hut seems TO also af.
feet the heart. All ofthe Poughkccpsic
street railway horses are affected. and
to-day the cars will run there on half.
hour time only. In New Jersey the
disease whichis pronounced to be Of the
cerebro.spiual men nights type. ia max