South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-03-24

ROMEEY, FRIDAY, MARCH "a. 1876.
~ The director general or the Gen.
tennial exhibition has issued notice
to all exhibitors In the United States
section advising them that the buildings
are ready for the reception Of goods,
and orders them To occupy theis space
without further delay
~ A snow storm set in between
and o'clock on Monday morning last
and continued throughout the day, Gov:
cring the earth to the depth Of about
-four inches. .. ~.
The State deposits In the Mer-
chants Bank, OF Charleston, have been
transferred to the Kanawha Valley and
Mechanics Banks.
ITwo carloads or passeugcrs from
the Cumberland Valley passed through
Martinsburg on Tuesday evening of last
week on the Baltimore Il Ohio Railroad.
bound for the West. They numbered
nearly two hundred, men, women and
children.
VTotheir credit il is said that both
the National Banks OF Cumberland have
each 100000. The first has surplus
Of $4,000 anil 'other undivided profits
amounting to $45.l56.5O. The second
has a surplus OF $50, 900 and ..other I'm.
divided profits" to the amount Of $25..
25l.sl. The deposits Of the first tsub.
ject to cheeky are $2lO,544.69, and of
the second. 1881 .sOo.O3.
tyrhe Morgan Mercury. is to be con.
tinued by Mr.. Il. l.. Brady. a practical
printer, who, for some time past has been
connected with the Office.
vThe Republicans Of this State will
hold q convention at Clarks bury on
Thursday, May IL, 1876. for the purpose
of appointing ten delegates TO the Union
Republican National Convention which
- to assemble at Cincinnati on the l 4th
day or June, 1876, and to nominate five
Presidential Electors. Each county TO
send five delcgates-tllcse delesa tes to
be appointed by the County Executive
Committee, or by County Convention,
AS such committee may deem expedient.
1t is stated that the representa-,
tives OF the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
company have expressed their intention
to offer $4,000 to the families rcspec.
lively OF each victim Of the Narrow Pas.
sage Bridge disaster. This. the Staun.
tor PDginim thinks, will hardly he &C.
eepted 10y any. After the Jerry's Run
disaster in 1870, the Legislature passed
n law making railroad co npanies re.
sponsible to the representatives OF the
parties killed by accident. This law al.
lows 5000. aud If it is shown that the
accident was caused by negligence on
the part OF the company, it will doubt
ie's be compelled to pay that amount
in each case.
" The action OF tho House OF Re.
personalities, few days ago, in adopt.
ing the adverse report eff the Committee
on Patents upon the appointment for
he extension Of the Wilson patent used
ny the great sewing machine combina.
Hon, contemporary says, will he good
news TO almost every household in the
country. BY this monopoly patent the
price OF sewing machines has been kept
mp tn two or three times the sum for
which they could be manufactured and
soId. without that protection, under free
competition. Tie sewing machine men
have no right to complain OF the refusal
to further extend their monopoly, Ms
they have made enormou, fortunes nj
ready. and can afford TO retire and give
The public the benefit OF cheaper ma
ehines'
FATAL CAsrALTy.-We arc informed
That a most distressing accident befell =
little son Of Mr.. George Whiting. resid
i ing near Summit Point. in this county
on Tuesday last, The little fellow
aged about three years. lad been TEN
g porarily left in room in which an open
IRE was burning, and in some unknown
way the flames were communicated u
hls clothing. lie was first discovered by
"coIored man passing through tho yard
VII" found him standing at tho outer
door, crying, while the clothes were fall
ing from his person. Medical assistance
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