South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-06-06
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RoMNEY. FRIDAY, JUNE c. 1879

t"' PicsShI house OF Representatives.
Cen. JAMES SHIELDS, late United
States Senator from Missouri died sud
denly inOtumwa, lowe, OH Sunday last.
in the Goth year OF his age.
QUEEN VICTORIA. celebrated her six.
ticth birth day on the oath ult. She
has been Englands ruler for AZ years.
The Philadelphia mint coined during
May S7S9.soo gold. $1,000, 900 silver
and S4.7oS base metal coins.
Chicago pays 1924 per million gall
Ions Tor the water she uses, and dur
ing the year 1878, it was consumed at
the rate Of o0.5oo,ooo gallons per day.
1t IS estimated that there will be So. =
100000 available for the payment of ar
rears pensions during the month of
June.
1t IS rGmorcd that the King of Spain
viii marry the Archduchess Mary Chris
Una OF Austria sometime next fall. The
young princess is about 20 years old.
DEATH OF THE HEAD or TIE House.
OF REORGANIZATION Lionel Nathan
de Roshs child, chief partner in the
banking firm of Rothschild t& Co, in
London. died on the 3rd inst.
The two handsome gray Arabian stall.
lions presented to Gen. Grant hy the
Sultan of Turkey arrived in New York
last week.
A DISPUTE OVER ASA Packers LIE.
UACY 10 WASHINGTON CoLLr0r.-
PHILADELPHIA, June 3.-Asa Packers
will. recently probatcd. contained the
following clause: 'And TO the trustees
of Washington College, Lexington Va.
tue sum of $4,000, and also direct that
the bond OF the Washington College,
Lexington Va, for 81 900 shall be sur.
rendered and Cancelled by the trustees
thus making the legacy TO that college
$4,000 n letter has been received from
the secretary Of tho trustees of WashinO.
ton and Lee University ut Lexington.
Va, saying that is the institution which
Judge Packer really intended TO benefit,
and the one which issued the bond now
IN the possession of the estate. On
the other hand, the superintendent of
the Virginia Military Institute, a State
Institution, also situated at Lexington.
lays claim to the whole Of the legacy.
saying that it was intended for that in
sttution, inasmuch rs the 81 900 bond
referred 20 was in reality bond Of the
Virginia Military Institute, and not one
OF Washington College, which has been
known as Washington and Lee Uniycr-
sity since the death of its president,
General Robert f. Lee.
RAPID CoMSIUNIcArIoN.- a merchant.
sitting in bis Office in South St.. New
York, recently received an answer to hi
dispatch sent to Shanghoisix hours pre-
yiously, Thirty thousand miles in six
hours is good time, even for the tele-
graph. The charge to Shanghaiis $3.50
per word; Yokohama, S3.O5; but the
code, or cipher, is so well systcmatizod
by certain mercantile houses, that sin.
gle word serves for n dozen when tran
scribed.
The public debt statement shows the
increase for May TO be $G2.2jO. Cash !
in the Treasury, S43 ,O57,297 gold Ger.
tificatcs, $l5,4l3, 700 silver certificates.
723GG,9G0, certificates of deposits. |
$2G, 100000; rcfunding certificates,
S28, 1853 $50; legal tenders outstanding, !
$32C,G8l, 016 fractional currency out
standing. Sl5,S74.777; United States |
notes held for redemption Of fractional /.
currency. $6,40S,lOl called bonds not /.
maturcd, for which four per cent. bonds /.
have been issued, SlGg,77I,OGO
\ RAILROAD TRAIN SLOTTED ny Is !
sEcT one cricket would stand poor /
show trying to stop a railroad train; /
but millions Of them can DO it.. as was /
proved saturday night The western I
bound emigrant train No. met nm nr. 7
my @. crckcls at C!ark's station. about .
fi:lccn miles west Of here, that night. |
and was detained two hours and q halr .
trying 20 get through. 70 make the .
passage Of the train men were finally 7
forced TO take brooms nnd sweep the in. Z
scots OH tho rails The crickct4 cover.
cd the track for about three miles, and .
when Tine dhyiug-whcels of the engine
struck thom they would whirl around .
without going forward an ach-Ra2|
(Nc,.J Goeere My 10.
EErrTfoN or Nh. ErSA.-A despatch
from Mossina under date of Thursday .
last says thc volcano Of Mount E.ra IS .
in full eruption Three now orators
lave appeared near the town Of Randaz. .
~, Of tic northwest foot Of the noun .
tain. streams Of lava arc flowing down .
the western slope Several village a-e
threatened with destruction and there
Is GREAT alarm amono the inhabitants 49,