South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-02-13
South 3ranrh anttl,i9rnetr.
RoMNEY. FRIDAY. FEB. 10. 1880.

Tor pensions than IS PAID by Cermauy,
France, Austria and Great Britain TO-
gcther.
In his will Ell .Sectary Of the Navy
BonIE bequeaths legacy Of $40, 0J0 to
General GIANT.
Tho baltimore and Ohio railroad
received from Allegheny county, Pa :,
a, Pittsburgh on Friday last, $50. 1882 in
full for damages resulting from the riot
e in 1877. Tie claim OF the Pennsylvan-
ia railroad, amounting to $l,GOo, 900 az
ter scaling. was paid on Saturday.
Gen. Grant and party returned to Ha-
vana Saturday from Matanzas. where
they were received with distinguished
honora. and visited the caves Of Bella
mar and the picturesque Surroundings
OF Matenzas.,
Hon. Samuel j. Tilden, being unable
to attend the frat annual reception of
the Iron City rildcn Club, Of pittsburgh b,
Pa, sent tue following sentiment: "Cbe.
dicnce 20 the choice Of tho majority as
Expressed in the election is the vital
principle OF sclfyovernment, without
which its forms are q sham, representing
only fraud or force
1: is computed from official statistics
that the number Of cigars smoked in
Germany during the year lS79as about
100000 or two cigars daily to
100000 smokers. But besides ci-
gars, the Germans Smoked more than
10000 tons of tobacco. The value OF
the tobacco consumed was more than
sS5.C0O,OOO.
On Friday night last three burglars
entered the bank at Knoxville. H., sciz-
ed and bound the president, +. c. Run
kle. who sleeps in the building. and af-
ter gagging and beating him aud burn
ing his feet in shocking manner to
compel him TO give up the combination,
departed, taking $4,000 which had not
been locked up. There was time lock
on the safe, and Mr. Runklo was unable
togive the combination
The laboring white men of Kansas al
ready begin to complain that the ne
groes aocking into that State arc crowd
ing them out Of employment, and rom
dcrins it impossible to support their
families.
The total coinage at the United States
Mint and branches for the last month
was S9.576, 500. or this amount So
100000 was in standard silver dollars.
At a session Of the cabinet, on Friday
last the sentence OF the court martial
which recently tried Major Reno, recon-
mcnding his dismissal from the service,
was affirmed
The Kansas Freedmen Relief Asso-
citation arc making efforts to divert the
tide of colored immigration from that to
other States. They and it impossible TO
maintain the hundreds Of immigrants
who arc constantly arriving there.
Ex.Governor Swan, Of Nd, has made
marriage settlement with his wife,
from whom he was recently separated,
The Pittsburgh Telegraph OF Saturday
says: ~ remarkable record is now be-
ing made by the new furnace Of the
Edgar Thompson Steel Compay, at Brad
docks, near this city, known &c the A
furnace, 1t is onlyIl3 feet in diane
ter OF bosh and 65 feet high, and has
only been in blast little over four
weeks, yet last week 1t made $50 tons
of iron, and the fuel consumption is said
TO have been only ono ton Of coke to
the ton of iron, an economy never be-
fore reached, we believe, in this country
We believe, also, that no other furnace
in the world Of only IS feet bosh has G.
yer made 500 tons of iron in week.
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and
Ireland, and empress OF India, gives
$4,000 10 the relief of her starving SUBJ
jects, and one American citizen, James
Gordon Bennett. OF the New York Her.
.aid gives 100000.
The New York Journal of Commerce
puts the balance Of trade for 1879 in fl.
vor of this country to the amount Of
about sl30,00O,000.
Recently Lewis Browning, one of the
Commissioners of Bedford county, Pa,
dropped dead having ruptured blood
vessel near the heart. There was q
fight going on between q school teacher
and three scholars, and Mr.. Browning
attempted to separate them. Subsequent.
ly the quarrel spread and a score Of per-
sons became engaged in it. After the
trouble Gained down Mr.. Browning fell