South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-08-01
RONNEY, FRIDAY. AUG. 1, 1879.

'A"e ohittu states nintsLeE welsh has
resigned. aad will sail for hone abou,
August 20.
Butler announces his Willingness &c
stand again for the Governcrsbip oil
Massachusetts. His adheren,s will hold
Convention at Worcester, Sep. 2nd.
The receipts at the various pos.ofiices
throughout the country for the frs, quar-
ter Of the year have jus, been footed up,
ant reach the enormous sum Of 81 $780,
200 being the largest quarters receipts
in the history Of the government.
Another exodus OF Negroes from tie
South is anticipated, AMI an attemp,
will be made TO locate them in Illinois.
Indiana and Ohio.
Mr.. Dennis keaFney. who himself en- d.
joys n most beautiful command of Ian.
guagc, will doubtless appreciate the fol.
lowing gentle comment upon him in a
Massachusetts paper, which was his or
gan last year: No lie is too bar eface,l
for ntterance by the cowardly sand-lot
whifet.'
Suits aggrcgating s2.lOO,OO0 have
been brought against Allegheny County,
Pa, for losses incurred during the riots
two years ago.
The smallest craft-so says report
that ever started on trip around the
world is the Golden State, which sail.
ed from Boston July Z. She is schooner
rugged, nineteen feet in length, two feet
and half depth Of hold, and one and
one-seventh tons burden. Her crew
consists Of Captain Herbert f. Burrill
and First officer Andrew b. Coon. both
OF whom are experienced navigntors,
are confident Of making a safe voyage.
Gen. JOE HooKER's political platform
is very brief and comp, chensive. 1t is
simply Reconciliation & honest money.
1t is said that the greenback party in
Pennsylvania will have no organization
in one-third Of the counties OF the State.
this year.
During the month of. jane Is, 929 i'm.
migrants arrived in New York, against
1861 in June, 1873.
On July 10, it was stated in Among
the Clouds'-the little journal published
on Mount Washington that the amount
Of snow in TuckermHn' Ravine was
much greater than at the same time last
year. There was a single drift fully Sc.
twenty-five feet deep and thousand feet
long.
Martin Defoor and wife. both nearly
so years of age, were brutally murdered
in their beds, near Atlanta, Ga, on Fri
day night last their tEroats being cleav-
ed with an axe. On The 2Sth, negro
man was captured, in the bloodhound
hunt for the murderers, and he confess
ed 10 the murder being done b. himself.
q white man end another negro. Asa
Morgan, the captured negro, says he
held the lamp while the white man killed
the old people Two officers are after
the other two. Morgan is in Jail. lie
was badly bitten by the. hounds. lie
says n large amount Of money was OBJ
tanned by the murderers.
1t appears that six million people find
their living in France from agriculture
upon an area less than the State Of
Texas, of which about, one.tenth was
specially fertile by nature, another tenth
ia absolutely sterile, the eigh:teuths be-
ing land reclaimed aud cultivated up to
the present productiycness.
The prominent republican leaders have
resolved that 100000 shall be raised
for the campaign in OHIO by assessing
the employees Of tie Government.
The President has appointed Chas. Z.
James justice OF tho Supreme Cont Of
the District OF Columbia, in place Of Jus.
tice Humph,cys, lately deceased. Mr..
James is native of Ohio. hat has resi-
ded in the district TOR the past ID years.
According TO late estimates, Grest
Britain is not tho wealLhiest country on
earth, ~ has been believed. France
values her private property, real and
personal, at $43, 10000, 900. AMI her
navy places, public buildings and other
public property, excepting highways At
$1,475, 600 600, making S44, 900 600.
Tho aggregate estimate for England,
Scotland, and Ireland, without reckon
ing public highways, IL $40, 500 100000.
Real estate in France greatly exceeds
in area that OF England, while in the
latter there is Il great excess Of person
81 property over the former.
A MERCHANTS HUMLIATIoN.-Wil-
liam n. ChuTchhill, n respectable New
York merchant. was arrested on Monday
aud taken to the Tombs Police Court