South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-08-26
SOUTH 3raneh 9ntelli9enter.
RoMNEY. FRIDAY, AUG. 2s. 1881.

37S, or silver S29s,264.
EXPORTS OF BREADsTUFFs.-Thec chief
of the bureau or statistics at Washing
ton reports that the total values of the
exports Of domestic breadstufs from the
United States during the month of July,
1881, were si9,9Sl,792, and during July,
1880. s31,229,677. For tue seven
months ended July 81, 1881, l3l 1862
700, and for the same period in 1880,
Sl53, 566,362.
The latest official information con.
corning the operations agains. the hos
tile Apaches is 10 the effect that Lieut..
Taylor. OF the ninth cavalry, struck
them on the 10th inst. and captured
some OF their horses. He is pushing
them towards the Black range.
Mr.. BURNHAM WARDwsLL, who was
the superintendent of the Virginia pen
itentiary during the republican regime
IL that State, who has returned TO his
New England home after being deprived
OF Office, gives sorry picture OF the re.
formatory schools in Massachusetts,
BE says that 80 children we're sent to
Tewksbury state almhouse in II months,
and that in the same periol 20 OF them
entered paupers's graves; that $4,000
lashes were administered a. Westboro',
(Mass.) Reform School in tH elve months
on less than 800 boys, which is an ave-
rage OF nearly 225 lashes for each boy,
many of whom, Mr.. Wardwell declares,
were driven to insanity and suicide"
He adds that another State institution
Mt Monsoon "has most distressing re-
cord" Mr. Wardwell claims 10 make
his statement on reliable data. If corr
rect the keepers of these reformatory
institutions would seem to stand sadly
in need Of reformation.
Colonel Corbin, master Of ceremonies
at the Yorktown centennial, has issued
circular regarding the arrangements
for the celebration which is to take
place October l8. 70, 20 and 81. Pre-
sent advices promise 4 military repre-
sentation from nearly every State in
the Union. Above ten thousand troops
have already signified their intention of
being present, and it is believed the
militia alone to take part in the celebra-
tion will exceed thirty thousand. Many
States will send full regiments, together
w IF 80 a.
accompanied by their STATS For the
reception and proper comfort of the lat
ter building is To be erected. Ad-
jutants general of States and command,
ing officers Of troops intending to par
ticipate are requested to call for any
Information concerning the celebration
that may in any manner aid in render
ing the occasion worthy The great event
1t is designed to commemorate.
1t is asserted that there is but one
war-ship in our navy, the Trenton. that
can steam more than twelve knots nm
honr. We have not one ironcad that
can make ten knots even in smooth wa.
ter for six hours consecutively. We
have not one gun ahDa. that cohld PEN
citrate ten inches of armor even Mt the
c'osest quarters.
Ex Coy. BISHOP, OF Ohio, who is now
in New York. says that he is confident
that Mr.. Bookwalter, the democratic
candidate for Governor will be elected
by handsome majority on local issues
Captain EDWARD TRELAwNEY. the bio.
grapher of Shelly and Byron, it is sta
tel, is still living in England at the age
OF about 90 years. For ffty.six years
no has carried in his body q musket.
ball which was fred at him from be-
hind, entering between the shoulders
and lodging under tho breast bone.
The Ho"r, weekly paper published
in New York, makes the positive an
nouncoment that the Hon. SAMUEL J.
TnDES is in the field as a candidate
for tho Democratic nomination for Pres.
ident in 1884.
The latest enkec industry introduc.
cd into the South is the selling Of lex.
animation papers for the next war" TO
the ignorant negroes. This class Of
carpet baagers aro playing quite q traffic
and ieaping harvest Of 81 to IS Der
head from the ablebodied negroes La
ble to be called out to 90 a soldering
IL the next war.
The fine six.story warehouse erected
toy the Johns Hopkins estate on Della
ware avenue, near Arch street, Phila
delphia, IN 1872 was totally DESTROYED
by Ore on Tuesday morning last. The
bulIdIng was occnnind hv NInssra- W..