South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-04-09
Soutl, Branch Sntelligcntcr.
RoMNEy. FRIDAY, APRIL .. 1880.

kansas, are to sail from New York 20.
morrow for Liberia, in the steamer Mon.
rovia.
The General Assembly OF Maryland
adjourned sine die on Monday night last.
We observe that the. bin, authorizing
the Mayor and City Council of Cumber.
Ian l to subscribe for note over $1,000
to the capita, stock Of the West Virgin.
ia Central Railroad Company, passed
both Houses, and is now law. We
understand the road referred to is the
one proposed to be constructed from
Cumberland to Moorcfield.
The great whale which recently ex-
cited general curiosity in New York
city. says HUpe''s WceMy, was caugh:
in Cape Cod Bay, 10y the use Of an in
strument known as the bomb-lance.-
It's extreme length was sixty five feet,
its largest diameter fifteen feet, and the
month was large enough to adlni, q
ships long boat. crew anil all. The es.
timated amount OF oil it contsined was
forty barrels.
Mr.. George w. Palmer, of Wytheville,
Va, has just imported pair of Clydes-
dale horses from Scotland, the pair
costing $4,000.
The Legislature OF Kentucky has
passed resolution instructing its rep
roscntatives in Congress TO use their
Influence in securing q reduction of the
salary OF the President OF the United
States:
Wheeling Register: Farmers are
keeping an eye out for an Offer Of GO
cents for their wool, which will proba-
bly, be the market price for the next clip.
HEAVY GRAIN RECEIPTS. The re-
ceipts Of grain reported at the Baltimore
elevators on Tuesday last approximate
ed half million bushels. They include
pod 800 bushels wheat and 89,t6S
bushels corn. The settling price FOR
short wheat was S6i, and for corn
50i c;s bushel--a decline in the latter.
"e Nc" iOIh oc"TEut ~ commerce
feels obliged to advance it's subscrip-
ton rate from Sl2 TO Slj per year Oh
account Of the corner in paper. Con-
gress had better hurry up the passage
OF Hon. r. w. Townshend's bill and
take off the tax on popular intelligence.
Cbarlcstown Free Press: Hon. Henry
c. Davis is said 10 be the richest man
in West Virginia; but better, and more
TO his credit, lie has won ana mcrited
honorable distinction. His services in
the United States Senate, especially as
Chairman of the Appropriations Com
mittec, tho most important, and for
which his practical business habits and
ability adapted him-are attracting Ma
tional attention and admiration. and his
nomination for the Vice President by
The Democratic Convention is among
the possibilities.
A GRAND MIsTAKE.-Gen Grant has
spoken on numerous occasions of the
great acquisition OF knowledge lie had
made abroad Recently, in q speech OF
Galveston, lie stated what part Of that
knowledge is. Referring to the nations
OF Europe, he said:
With their dense populations and wornout
soils a takes great dsal of government to enable
people to get from the soil bare subsistence. -
This is q most unsound and anita
merican sentiment. It is an excess of
government which constitutes the bane
of the Old World. The enormous cost
of this excess OF government IS the heay.
lest burden The toiling millions have TO
bear.
The inference Gen. Grant has drawn
from what he has seen il precisely the
opposite of tho truth. lie seems to re-
gard government as benign parcn.
from which the people draw their SUP.
plies.
lie differs on This point from the opin.
ion Of the great author OF the Declare
ton Of Independence, who maintained
that the world is governed too much
just as he differs with the same illustri
Gus statesman on tho subject Of the third
term.-H J. SIN.
4 NoNTH CAROLINA RoMANcE.-At
Lumberton, n. c., last spring, Miss
Amelia Linkhaw shot and killed Ed
ward Hartman, the drummer for Ball
timore house whom she charged her
soducer. She was tried an1 acquitted on
the ground Of temporary insanity. Dur
ing her imprisonment Miss Linkhaw re
ceiyed many letters ofsympathy. Among
her correspondents was Charles Little
nm officer Of the custom-house a! Sui