South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-02-20
SOUTH alranels 3ntelligenter.
RoMNEY, FRIDAY, FEB. 20. 1880.


completion OF the Washington MONT
ment has been adopted 10y the Dist,ict
Of Columbia committee
The Lower House OF The Iowa Lezis-
lature, by vote OF 70 to 81, has agreed
upon constitutional amendment. for
submission TO a popular vote, prohibit
ing the sale or manufacture OF alcoholic
liquors in that State. -
In Chicago, on Thursday OF last
week an overloaded elevator fell 10 the
ground. bringing nearly zoo. 900 bushels
of wheat with ii and hlocka,ing the
street for two Gays.
The Ohio river al Louisville, KY. on
Monday last WAS ~ fee. above low-wa-
Ter mark, and at Cincinnati 52t feet and
rising. The Cumberland river at Nash.
vile. Tenn, was 43 feet 4 inches above
low water-mark. but falling. No seri
Gus damage has been done al either OF
tue cities named, except in lower locali-
ties from Hooded cellars, etc.
ALL RIouT.-Thc Supreme Court Of
Ohio he's decided that it is illegal 10
dun debtor on postal card, as such
is liable to injure the credit or reputa-
ton Of the debtor elsewhere.
New York San Be slow to believe thu.
the movement in favor of Gen. Grant
is TO be abandoned without q prolonged
and fierce struggle. A man
who until lie was over 40 was never
known 10 decline glass OF whisky is
not going al at once to take to decline
any good thing that is offered to him.
Returns 10y counties from Ireland show
$3.50 persons slowly starving, and
the outlook for the coming months is
gloomicr than prediction has yet painted.
LTHcH LAW IN YIRoISIA.-A cor
respondent or the Baltimore San, writ
ing from Point OF Rocks, Md, under
date Of the 18th inst. says: Page Wal
lace, colorod, % years OF age, who com
mitte6 brutal outrage On January rs
on the person OF white woman named
Mary Marmon, 40 years OF age, living in
Loudoun county. Virgins, near the Po-
tomac river, while she was returning
from Point of Rocks, was day taken
from the officers Of the law, at the point
where he committed tie outrage, by a
body of armed men and hanged. Wal
lace was arrested near Shepherdstown,
on February 2, and committed to lIa-
gerstowB jail. Yesterday Sheriff CaTu-
Tiers and Deputy Sheriff Nixon, OF
Leesbnrg, Va, arrived in Hagerstown
with requisiiion for Wallace from the
Virginia authorities, and left with him
by the $40 L. NJ. trcin. Wallace seem
ed rather nervous when he boarded The
train, but afterwards recovered bis COM
posure and smoked cigar.
Carutbcrs and Nixon arrived ut Wash
ington junction, one mile from tue Poin,
OF Rocks, this afternoon, at $50 O clock
with Wallace, Jailor Nixon being hand
cuned 10 the prisoner, and on the way
from the depot to The ferry they were
followed by large crowd. On arriving
ut the ferry the officers and prisoner
were rowcd 10 the Virginia shore, fol-
lowed by half-dozen boats containing
about thirty or forty persons. AS th'
officers stepped on shore they were me
by about So or more men with handker
chiefs tied over their faces. The GROVE
then seized the officers and disarme(
them, procured the key and unlocked
Nixon from the prisoner The o!licer
did everything in their power to protec
their prisoner, but it was Of no avail
lie was seized aud taken to the spo
where the outrage On Mrs. Marmon wa:
committed. a rope was put AROUND
his neck. lie was allowed TO get on BIZ:
knees, and made short prayer. The
rope was then thrown over limb of {
small sycamore tree, and in the twink
ling Of IN eye lie was launched into G.
ternity. Just at this moment woman
rushed through The crowd, pistol il
hand, and fred three or four shots in
TO his body. This was the signal fol
the crowd to commence firing in rspit
succession and his body was filed Will
bullets. The crowd then quietly dis
perscd Sheriff Caruthors and Jailor
Nixon soon after were released, and de.
parted in n hack for Leesburg.
IL was Mr.. Hull m indianapolis Re.
publican, who testified before Voorhees,
Exodus Committee that he believed and
bad been told that the object in coloniz.
ing the negroes in Indiana was 20 use
their votes to overturn the Democratic
snsjority.