South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-05-06
South alyaata a'aleiligeseey.
RoNNEY, FRIDAY, NAY s. 1881.

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Tic Uaitsd States treasury now con.
taips sl75.oO0,O0O in golA and So, 600,
600 in silver.
In The United States Senate, OF yea
terday week Mr.. BurLER inside speech,
in which lao introduced seventeen indict-
ments to prove that there was = bargain
between Mr.. Malone anil tho republi-
cans in the proposed distribution OF The
Senate Offices.
VIRGINIA AND WEST YiRG:NIA.-Se
a.or DAVIS. OF this State.it is said. made
an interesting speech in tho Senate on
Tuesday last in review of tho question
is TO the proper appor.ionment OF The
debt Of old Virginia between the mother
State and West Virginia. lie showed
that West Virginia had always indicated
disposition 10 assume the payment of
whatever was decided by proper authori-
" to hc her just proportion of the debt,
but he did not regard tho arbitrary al
lotment of one-third Of il to West Vir-
ginia by Virginia as equitable.
IL is stated that EDIsoN's electric
light shares arc up TO 1900 aud arc
scarce at that.
Eighty three thousand buffalo hides
were sold at Niles City, Montana, alone,
during the past fall and winter at This
rate the butfaces will become extinct
before long.
The Geueral Post Office Department
at Washington has furnished list Of
what are known as ''star>route" mail
contracts, showing that on ninety three
mail routes, originally let FOR 1929, ll9 n
year, sn increase of pay to contractors
to tho amount Of $2,075,095 had been
allowed by the Post Office officials un-
der the late administration. A gigantic
fraud is apparent. and severnl'in high
position are implicated.
LOOKING UP.-Tha Kauawha Valley,
in this State, is looking up quita deci-
dedly. Immigrants arc coming in
mostly from Ohio-and Buying land and
laying it ont into good farms This is
especially the case in Cabell county, in
the region around Barboursville, but
obtains also in other counties. The 90
ing price Cor land has been five dollars
per acre. but there is an upward tenden-
cy and lands are on the advance.
Col. HEC9Ep, the German revolution.
ist. diod recently at Belleville, Ill, lesv-
ing will containing tho following ai-
rections: "My dead body shall be open
ed, the heart taken out, embalmcd, put
ina metal case, sent TO Mannheim, Ger.
many. and buried there by my friends
or relatives in the vault OF the cemetery
where my father & three children rest"
Judge WICKEs, at the Kent Cours,
has decided that where farmer hires a
hand for specified time, and the hand,
without cause, leaves before tho expira.
ton OF tho time, lie cannot compel pas =
nent for his partial service.
In the Supreme Court OF the United
States, Christopher Oscsnyan, consul
general of Turkey, cndeayored TO secure
ten per cent. commission on rifles Of tue
value of 81 100000 sold to his govern
ment by the Winchester Arms company,
but was defeated on the ground that q
public officer had no right to sell his
influence
The statue of Gen. Stonewall Jackson,
erected in the Metairo Cemetery, New
Orleans, will be unveiled on tho after
noon of Tuesday next. The committee
Of arrangements declare that the statue
exceeds their snticipations as to work
manship, lifeliko appearance, &c. The
members OF The armies Of Northern Vir-
GINA and Tennesse, The Lee Monument
Association, end the Veterans will pro-
coed to the cemetery in body where
appropriate and impressive ceremonies
will take place.
EEoRMOUs IMMGRATIoN.- More than
$50 immigrants arrived at Castle Gar
den, New York, on Saturday last. The
total number for last month is over Co.
600, nearly 500 more than arrived there
last April. The arrivals 50 far this year
amount to about l05 1000, an excess Of
$4,000 over the same period last year.
nv ESCoURAGISG EXHIBIT The
March report Of imports and exports
shows balance in favor OF the United
States Of nearly S2j,OOOOOO. Instead
Of falling OF in the exports, az had
been feared, remarks the Baltimore SIN,
they seem 70 be steadily increasing, as
for SIX years past. Tie excess Of ex-
ports over imports for tie fiscal year
ended June 80, 1875, was $40 .G43,48I.
In The next year the excess vac nearly