South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1877-10-19
soutl, aIrantl. antclli9eater.
RoMNEY, FRIDAY, ocr. 10, 1877.


business. we understand, has been trans.
'actednp to this time, Thursday evening.
0We regre, that we are unable to
give to-day our Baltimore letter also,
several communications.
GVW VIM. II. Wilson. formerly Of this
place, has been appointed by the Y. NJ.
{. A., of Cumberland. delegate to ut
tend the State Convention, which meets
at Annapolis on the 25th, to remain in
session four days.
TIE dryden SUIr.-The suit OF w
"A. Dryden Us. the Baltimore AMI Ohio
railroad company, removed from Allie
gany county TO Howard county. which
has been on trial for two weeks past,
was settled for the present by the dis.
agreement of The jury, and they were
discharged on Friday last. The Cum.
bcrland Cfcilim is Informed that the Jury
which was composed of ii members,
stood eight for $4,000 and three for
nothing.
On THE llIGnwAY.--On Monday the
S;h inst, Mr.. w. S. Miller, a huckster
OF Cumberland, the same paper states,
was accosted by two men. one white and
the other colored, near the old furnace
about four miles from Cumberland. i'm
west Virginia, the colored man asking
him for q chew Of tobacco. Mr.. Miller
drew up and stated that Le did not use
tobacco, whereupon, the white man, who
was on the opposite side Of the wagon.
called him a liar and drew pistol. Mr..
Miller then leaned over and grabbed the
pistol, which was discharged, the ball
passing through the huckster's hand
AT The same time the negro made an un-
successful attempt to grab his watch,
anu cut Mt him with n knife, ripping q
great nole in his coat. but fortunately
missing his body. The horse attached
to the wagon, being alarmed by the ex.
piosioa Of the pistol, ran away, and thus
probably savcl his master from death.
The miscreants are unknown.
BALLoU's MAGAZINE FOR NOVEMBER.
The November number of Ballou's
Magazine is marvel of beauty and in.
tcrcst. The first article is an illustrated
subject on Chinese Life and Character.
hy the author of The Gold Hunters"
and then follows some ten or fifteen
stories Of great interest, and several
pieces OF poetry of much merit. The
Child of tho Wilderness is continued.
ana increases in interest as il NJ proaches
completion. The humorous department
prepared by Nj. Quad. tue great wit and
genius OF MichiSah,is unusually brilliant
and attractive, and will be read with in
ferest by all lovers Of the good things of
this country. This Magazine is one of
the best and cheapest publications of the
Kind in the country, and it ia only Is
cents single copy, or $3.50 per year,
postpaid. Published bv Themes & Tai.
bot, % Hawley Street, Boston. AMI for
sale at all the periodical depots in the
country.
LOCAL RAILROAD RhTEs.-The Cum.
berland AleJanian of Friday says:-
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com.
pany have promised to adjust the local
tariff of rates, which will inure TO the
benefit ofthe people along the line rs we'll
rs to the company, thereby having ten
dency to cement the friendship of the
community at large to the company"
GV'Col. ID. ID. Johnson. chairman OF
the West Virginia legislative committee
appointed last winter to investigate tho
freight and passenger charges made by
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com.
pany in the State, gives notice to all con.
cerned that the committee will sit in
Wheeling on the 10th inst, for the pur.
pose of taking testimony on the subject.
The question TO be determined is, wheth-
or the company has been charging the
public in excess Of the rates prescribed
in its charter.
TIE Man VINO STops Ills PAPER.
Philip Gilbert Hamilton, in his adj.
mtrablc papers on intellectual Life"
thus talks TO the man who stopped his
paper: newspapers are TO the civil
'zcd world what the daily house talk is
iothc members Of the family-they keep
our daily interest in each other, they
save us from the evils Of isolation. To
live as a member Of the great white race
that has filled Europe and America and
ooIonizcd or conquered whatever terri
tory IL has been pleased to occupy, TO
share from day to day its thoughts, its
cares, its Inspirations. il is necessary
That every man should read his paper