South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-01-16
SOUTH asranth 1aellieenser.
ajdSar. Fa JAY. IAN. le, 1880.

formally eiectcu UnUcd States Senator
by tho OHIO Legislature, to succeed Mr..
Thurman -
Gen. Walker. superintendent OF the
census. has over one hundred applica.
tions for every position he has TO fll.
Grant pleads guilty to thousand mis-.
tskes during his Presidency. Perhaps
he wants another term in order to recti-
~ them -or make thousand more.
Col. John F. Phillips, democrat, has
been elected to Congress for the seventh
Missouri district. in place of Hon. A.
NJ. Lay, Gee, ased. ever, ex.Gov. Me-
Ciurg, republican and grcenback. by g.
500 majority. -.
The national assembly OF France has
enacted a law which. virtually abolishes
the Christian Sabbath in that country
Uenceforth Sunday will be the same as
any other day of tho week.
Colorado reports . great increase in
her mining products over the year 1873
She has mined 10000. 900 more in 1879
than in 1878, the product for the last
year being Sl9,OO0,OO0. Colorado will
soon lead California in the productions
Of the precious metals.
Monday last was the one.hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of tie founding OF
Baltimore.
Ii is said that the school fund OF In
diana, founded and built up by Demo-
cratic legislation. amounts TO nearly
Sl0000,000, and is larger than any sim
liar fund in any other State. It cannot
be diminished for any other purpose,
anu the interest can only be used for
paying teachers.
A snow storm ragged in the Sierra
Nevada mountains. along the line of the
Central Pacific railroad, Thursday and
Friday last. The snow fell from eight
10 ten feet deep, and the wind drifted
the cuts full. The snow sheds in many
places were crushed by drifts 25 feet
deep. Some 500 feet OF snow shedding,
vest Of TamarOck station, has been de-
stroyed. The passenger trains east and
west were blockaded at Gold Run. but il
was expected would get thrcugh Saiur-
day night. A dispatch from Truckce
last night. reports the track cleared of
snow and Of the wreck Of the sheds, and
the trains running again.
EX-Gov. SEYMOUR ANSWERS \ CUES.
TIoN.-A correspondent, who recently
visited Ex-Gov. Seymour, says he put
the following question 10 him Sup
pose. Governor, when our convention
shall meet and The democracy of the
United States, after looking over the en-
Tire field and comparing views, should
fad that you are not only The choice OF
the democracy for President, but That
your nomination is necessity
you should be nominated unanimously
you would not refuse the nominationt"
To this question Mr.. Seymour is repre-
scnted as responding, without hesita-
ton, as follows: at would not do for
nomination under such circumstances,
for if die it might be claimed des-
paired Of the success Of my party in al.
vance, and thus an !ajury might be
done, should some one else be lomina,
ted
1t appears that the Indians have been
4 - l..
are entertained that they will declare
war on all citizens Of the Pecos Valley.
Gen. I'ope has ordered ell the troops in
Southern New Mexico TO march rapidly
against these Indians. Tue Apaches re-
Gently followed across the border into
Mexico have returned, and The Mexican
authorities have requested permission
TO assist in their pursuit on the Ameri-
can side. Secretary Of War McCarry
has granted she request
At Beallsville, Montgomery county,
Nd, on Saturday morning last, Geo. w.
Peck, colored. attempted an outrage on
the person Of little white girl, eleven
years of age, but tue screams Of the
child brought relief before the wretch
had accomplished his purpose. Peck
was arrested and taken to Poolcsvlle
Maryland, where in the evening.
he vas forcibly taken from an officer and
hanged n jury OF inquest rendered a
verdict that Peck came to his death
from strnngulation by the hands Of par
ties unknown to The jurors Peck ad-
mitted the attempted outrage.
The late shipment If cattle to Eng
land by Mr.. James p. Bell, Of Pulaski
county, Va, proved a disaster. His
late shipment, IL appears. comprised
378 splendid bullocks, but disastrous
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