South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-08-19


Invitation 10 command the troops Al ID.
yorktown celebration.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
lie nov running LIS engines. and BY ,hs
FIRST Of September will have Is9 on
the road.
The amount Of tai collected on spsr.
its last year vas ts7,i5s.sss. an in
crease OF nearly se.coo. 900 over that Of
she previous year.
The English authorities have been ss.
sured by Secretary BLAINE that effort.
are being made by the American Cow
eminent 70 discover ,be authors OF the
Internal machine plot.
For the year ending May 4, the net
increase In the sale of beer msnufactur-
cd in the United States. was I,s2i,5e6
barrels.
They are running railroad trains in
Germany by electricity at the rate OF
~ miles per hour. No smoke, no gas.
no cinders, and little noise.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
is said to be the greatest railway enter
prise on foot. IL begins at Denver and
passes through New Mexico. Texas and
Mexico. The main line will be 4. 900
miles long. 1t at present employs ST.
900 men.
1t Is said that SAMUEL j. TrLDES pre-.
diets that the Democrats will carry the
State OF New York by $4,000 majority
at the next Presidential election, II they
allow no factional divisions to disrupt
the party.
The receipts of the Patent Office for
fees amounted in July to s6O,l70, which
Is larger than the receipts for the same
month in any year for the past decade.
and S4,75O in excess OF the receipts
from the same source 10 July last year.
The most destructive flood in the his.
tory OF the country visited Cent raj CT
ty, Colorado, on the 9Th inst. The ac-
count says: Rocks weighing 500 or 600
pounds were rolled along the streets
like pebbles. Animals and everything
In the track Of the flood we're swept a.
way. At several points the debris is
piled 20 feet high. Joseph Gerry and a
girl years old were drowned. Nearly
all the houses in the business part OF
the town were flooded. The loss is put
down at $4,000; the flood was caused
by the bursting of cloud.
We observe that some OF the Repub.
lican papers Of this State represent Mai.
DANIEL, the Democratic candidate for
Governor of Virginia, as one Of the most
inveterate enemies OF the Free Schools
which that State has ever produced. In
reference to this matter Maj. Daniel in
q speech at Danville, Va, a few days
ago, denied the position attributed TO
him. He said he chad never registered
vote against the public schools. lie
favored them, first because it was one
OF the social institutions OF our age, and
was the cheapest system Of education
ever devised. The cost OF the public
school was only three cents per capita
oil You had TO do was TO take a child,
put postage stamp on his back and
frank him to education and knowledge.
All were invited to come and drink of
the waters of knowledge-free. lie
commissioned oil his friends 10 say that
IL any man charged the leader of the
democratic party with being opposed to
the free schools, to tell him ho uttered
malicious falsehood, that he lied and
the truth was not in him. TCheers 7
The white people had made public
schools glitter all over the State, and
had invited all to come and cat Of the
tree OF knowledge, and they had built
the only colored asylum in the country ;"
A LARGE INCREASE The Hon. Sam.
uel Calvin recently sold the timber right
on tract OF land in White township.
Cambria county, Pa, for $4,000. He
bought the land and trees some years
ago for 81 900.
The Indications are that Gen. Grant
has come into possession of the Jones
fund OF quarter of million, raised
FOR the purpose OF relieving him from
the Indulgence which, it was said some
time ago, was expressing him. He has
purchased an elegant house on Sixty.
sixth street, off Fifth avenue, New York
for 100000.
Importation Of Norman Horses One
hundred and twenty Norman horses,
including Sc stations and 40 yearliros.
the largest importation ever made. ar
rived on the steamer City Of London ut
New York, on the 18th inst. Their
weight Is from 1000 to 2. 600 pounds.
cost, from $500 TO 81 200 zach osho