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

on the 9Th ult Mrs. Ann Boarman.
wife OF Commodore Boarman, of the u
nited States Navy, died Mt Martinsburg
on Sunday night last :. A Massachu-
sets company is making a thousand
dollar sword for General Butler :. Gen.
eral Ftzhugh Lee has been asked by
the khcdive to organize picked body
OF cavalry for him. On Saturday last,
Mt Culpeper {. H., Va, Hall and Ash.
by's livery stables, with nine horses, car
riages, buggies, harness, forage, &c..
were consumed by FIRE, supposed to be
the work ofan incendiary; no insurance.
-. Ten thousand Odd. + elbows took part
in the grand parade of that order ut In.
dianapolis Wednesday :. Paxton, the
absconding teller Of the Mechanics
Bank of Montreal, is reported to have
eDbczzlcd over 100000. A general
fight took place few days since in Polk
county, North Carolina, between two
sets OF negro laborers employed on the
Spartansburg and Asheville railroad.-
Pistols. sticks and rocks were freely u
sed. One negro was killed, another was
stabbed through the wrist, and number
OF others were wounded. >. "A poor luna
tic in Northampton, Mass, imagines that
he is married to Nellie Grant, and that
the President will take care Of him ;. :.
Shaffenburg. formerly United States
Marshal of Colorado. has vanished.
His stealings amount to 100000
The Democrats Of Nebraska, in conven.
tiop, declare i'm favor of coin or its e.
Quivalent -. Twenty two young gentle
men from Texas have arrived at Roa-
noke College, Salem. Va. The Balti-
more and Ohio railroad authorities have
decided to expend ten or twelve thou.
sand dollars in improving the Berkeley
Hotel at Martinsburg -. The Democrat.
ic gain in Maine on popular vote, is near
nine thousand. This is pretty good for
little Maine -. The women candidates
for county superintendent of schools in
California Jared badly in the late cleo
ton, only one having been successful,
so far ~ heard from "A Canadian
priest has given notice that he will re-
fuse the sacrament 20 those wearing low
necked dresses or pull-back skirts -.
Among the new centennial notions is a
project for the construction OF an end
less moving sidewalk around the con-
tour OF the entire area OF buildings -.
The newspapers give accounts of the
imprisonment OF q young lady in Chica-
go for stealing. She is the daughter of
n man with millions of dollars, bat would
steal a Kentucky postollice paying
salary of S23 per year, is sought after
by fourteen different men. They don't
want the money, but are after the big
feeling which every postmaster has,.
a girl of fourteen, named Becl>with.
daughter of the champion swimmer of
England, recently swan from London
Bridge to Greenwich, distance Of over
five miles, in one hour and eight min
.utes. This is believed TO be the fastest
swimming on record Able Joseph
Chabert q prominent Catholic ecclesias-
tic. principal ofthe government school
Of art and design, at Montreal. Canada,
was arrested on Saturday last on charge
OF rape, committed on girl named 10.
scphine Beauchamp, aged ID years, ut
his rooms :. james Foote, farmer liv-
ing near Fisher, Michigan, was fatally
injured by his dog on Saturday last
The dog was a savage bull terrier. and
had attacked valuable COW. Footc
was trying TO club the dog oil, when the
dog caught him by the throat. throwing
him to the ground. The dog had to be
killed to loosen his grip. Foote lies We
ry low. The Rev. Dublin J. Walker.
formerly school commissioner OF Chester
county, South Carolina, and now men,
Der of the State Senate. was convicted
in Chester on Friday last, in the Court
of Quarter Sessions, on the charge of is
suing fraudulent school certificate for
seventy dollars. The jury which rem
dered the verdict was composed of one
white and eleven colored men. Walker
is the leading colored preacher in that
section. Six of the jury that found him
guilty were communicates of his own
church. 1t is said that two brothers
who fought on opposite sides during the
late war met at Columbus. Pa, the other
day, after a separation of fifteen years,
and, neither being willing to bury the
Ratchet, they separated without speak.
ing -. A new field OF coal has been
found in Lincolnshire. England. 1t is
reached at depth OF seventeen hun.
drcd feet The Nevada, Missouri. De.
Prairie grass l0l feet high. The
Blackvillc IS. CO. Sun is pleased to- re.
cord oc the former slaves--now freed.
men-of DIR. W. II. Hagood, upon hear.
ing of his recent great loss--thc burning
of his fine mansion and its contents
that they. scattered as they were, vol.
untcered their services to cut timber for
him for the purpose of erecting n new
dwelling. and there are, to our certain
knowledge, about thirty OF them on his
plantation, working like faithful ser.
wants. without pay, helping their old
master. An engine 10 the south-bound
train on the Virginia Midland railroad,
which left Alexandria ut \ =. NJ, Mon
day. exploded at Rapid Ann station, Va,
killing the engineer Thomas Murtaugh,
and injuring n fireman o. Charles II.
Madden, aged 20 years. has been sen.
fenced in New York 90 the States pri.
son for 20 years for having broken into
his parents apartments and stolen there.
from EIGHT dollars in money The