South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-05-13
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RoHNEY. FRIDAY, MAY 10. 1891.

revenue receipts for the current hsca,
yesr will exceed those of last year by
more than sl0,000.00o.
President Garfield, according to re-
cent statement, does no, sanction the
order Of the acknowledgement modifying
The order prohibiting Intoxicating Ii.
qnors at the military posts by allowing
wine, beer aud cider.
Five hundred delegates from all parts
OF the Unitcd States. week before last,
were present at tho thirty -second annu-
al session of the American Medical as.
ISOLATION, held in Richmond.
The Wheeling inte1liycnccr justly re-
marks' The star route stoalings add
their lessons TO the other facts which 20
TO show that honesty is all That is need.
cd TO give the country ,wo-cent letter
postage.
Tue smallpox is still raging at Hunt.
ington, this State, more than thirty ca.
sos having been reported. Auditor Mil
Ter. of Wheeling. received a telegram on
tho 18th inst. asking for hospital tents.
-Four thousand seven hundred immi.
grants arrived at Castle Garden, New
York, on yesterday week Attic close
OF business the recording clerk, who has
to listen to each name and guess at its
spelling, said no felt as though he had
copied the directories Of a half dozen
German towns.
1t "a stated that large amounts OF
money are Being loaned in the East at
u per cent interest. The Pcnnsylya~
MIA Company's new loan is being taken
at that figure.
The decision Of tho Circuit Court OF
Aanawha county in the case Of the State
vs.. The Merchants Bank of Charleston
If 1t be good law, remarks the..Wheelinc
Sunday Leader, is likely to enable some
Of the sureties on the bank bond TO tal<o
advantage of their own wrong. 1t will
ho remembered that this bank was one
OF the State repositories which figured
prominently in the Observation-Disclosures
investigation, and was shown to have
entered into corrupt agreement by
which an undUo share of the State de-
posts We're TO be furnished it in con-
aideTation OF certain payments to the
then State Auditor and Treasurer. In
this way, is absorbed about $40, 900 he
longing to the State. and the sureties Oh
tho bond given by the bank as State
depository, when called upon to replace
tho money, plead that it was placed with
the bank unlawfully, and that they arc
not, for that reason, bound. And vet
several Of the sureties were officers cf
the bank at the time Of tho transaction
referred TO, and were shown in the iu-
vcstigstion TO be cognzsnt of the cor
rupt bargain by which the excessive de.
posts wero secured.
Should the decision Of the lower court
tie affirmed, it is understood the State
Will Jose every cont Gifts claim, the bank
having been pretty clfectUally Sreciiod
by lts managers, and its few remaining
assets being claimed under liens Of for.
mer stockholders. The whole transac-
ton, as it now appears. is an exceeding
ly ugly one.
Mrs. Charles MGury died ct Canton,
OHIO, on Friday night last, from a mis-
take iu taking medicine. Morphine
pow@era had been prescribed for her
twice day and quinine pills every three
hours. Sac reversed the orde, with
fatal result. Mrs. Mlury had been
married but two weeks.
Uneasy lies the head that ue1rs o
crown. There is not more pitiable
creature on the face or tho earth than
Emperor Alexander III, Of Russia. In
his magnificent palace. says contempo-
rary he is guarded like q convict; when
he goes out he is in dread OF bis life
when ho lies down at night, he does not
draw the dIspery Of his couch around
him and lie down TO pleasant dreams,
but he is guarded by eighty armed cos
sackr, and his sleep is q nightmare
Of nihilist plots. and assassiDations.-
The fear Of death hGuuts him in day time
and In night time. And this is glory.
The humblest citizen Of America, who
10 not convicted criminal, can walk
the earth and enjoy the pure air OF hea,
ven with q lightness Of hoatt that the
car ofall the Ru3sias may we'll envy
There Is not q healthy clod-hopper or
rOsstabout in the United States who
>annot II he viii, have moro Of real hap
piness than Alexander III.
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