South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-08-27
By Yesterdays Mail.

By Yesterdays Mail.
SUPREME COURT OF APPEALs.-The
argument in the case of John Slack. ST..
and others, as. John j. Jacob and 9th.
ers. Commonly known as the Capital
Case" was commenced yesterday
Counsel for Appellants-Messrs f.. will.
lis Wilson, w. A. Quarter and Hon. j.
IL. Ferguson for Appellees-Hon. Dan
lei Lamb, Col. w. w. Arnett and Hon.
Henry II. Mathews, Attorney General.
-Chdrlesto,cn Spirit Of JeF, dug "a.
~ The colored troops held q State
Convention st Richmond last week.
Much wrsngling and hubbub ensued
during the sessions. The negro evident
ly begins TO feel that he has been ONLY
the tool heretofore of carpet-baggers and
scalawags. Whether the acceptance of
this fact will affect his political allegi-
ance remains to be seen.-MutinsJur
Statesman.
10 1t is stated that the Great Fall OF
the Potomac have been surveyed with n
view 20 pl.nt fishway there, and that
Professor Baird and the Maryland and
Virginia commissioners decide its estab-
lishnent practicable.
VEx-Governor Holden is the only
man now in North Carolina debarred
from voting or holding office, he having
been impesched by the Legislature a few
years ago, and as it is claimed that his
disabilities can be removed only BY = con-
vention Of the people, the Charlotte De-
mocrM urges upon the members of the
approaching convention to restore the
Ex-Governor to citizenship.
WASHINGTON, August 24.-The posi-
ton of first assistant attorney general
has been vacant since the 18th of Nav
last, notwithstanding the fact that many
anxious aspirants have been solicitous
to fill it. The President having conced.
ed TO the Attorney General the right to
make the appointment, Mr.. Pierrepont
has taken his time in the matter, because
lie wishes to select gentleman tho
roughly acceptable to himself lie states
now that lie has offered it TO a lawyer Of
New England, whose name will not be
given until it is known that he accepts.
WHAT MAN Cor BY FooLIsG WITH
4 WnIRLwIND.-A farmer who lives "A.
bout Eve miles Of Faribault, named
hamusl Johnson, Was going along the
road Saturday last, when suddenly a lit
tie whirlwind, which described circle
apparently not more than three feet in
diameter, appeared in the road in front
OF him. 1t took up the dust pretty live
ly and buzzed like swarm OF baes, but
AIR. johnson kept on his way directly
toward 1t, thinking it had no great g.
mount of power. In fact he did not
think it worth while to step on one side
and let it whirl past, but kept straight
on and metit square in the road When
they came together the whirlwind seem
ed To drop everything else and take hold
Of 4r. Johnson, and in less time than it
takes TO tell it, Dir. johnson had lost his
hat and his shirt, and wac pitched about
twenty feet into the gutter, feeling as
though he had been shocked by bate
ry. Mr.. johnson will never fool with a
whirlwind again.-Fairta,dt Mi,.neSott.
Democrat.
~ The "Bev." W. +. Copeland, q
| clerical imposter, managed to ingratiate
| himself into the affections of d respec-
table young lady or Knoxville, Tenn.
he being a boarder at her fathers house.
A few days ago. his character becoming
known, the young mon Of the city treat
cd him TO coat of tar and feathers.
" Mr.. VIM. Ripley of Groenbrier
county, to save his wheat, in spite Of
the wet westher, had the sheaves put in
to stable, in the middle of which he
built fire to dry them. lie succeeded
IN drying them, and can now use az a
fertilizer the ashes OF both wheat ani
stable.
~ A lead mine, discovered several
years since, in Frederick county, Va, is
about to be worked by Messrs. John
Iroxell and Charles kunkle, 1870 acres
OF tho lcad-beariug land having been
leased by those gentlemen.
20 Some fleeces Of wool clipped in
Jefferson county. Texas, this year weigh.
Cd a5 high IS thirty-two pounds eight
ounces. twenty mine, twenty seven, TWEEN
ty-iive, twenty-three, twenty and eighteen
! pounds each. AMI the wool ia said to be
fine. almost silky"
Ia Professor Joel Parker, the cmi.
nent jurist, died at Cambridge recently.
aged eighty years.