South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-03-10
South a,taneh Jntsliiseneer.
RoMNEY. FRIDAY. MAacu 40, 1882.


West Virginia according 10 tho CEN
sue bureau, manufactures 81 per cent.
CT sll the nails CT this country. She
stands seventh in the list Of S,ates and
Territories which produced iron or iron
and steel ia 1880.
1t has 5oen sscortaiaei thas ifty Of
tho SHgRaASs are in the present en-
jos ment OF Government salaries. il
mus, be 3 fine large family with al o.
vcrfowing loye Tor Uncle Sam.
Mr.. CoNKhISo's nomination as asso-
oistc justice OF the Supreme Court Of
the United States waa confirmed by the
Senate on the End inst. by vote OF 80
yeas 20 II naye. Mr.. CoNKLISo, since
his confirmation has advised President
ARTHUR that he cannot accept the Of
fee. His reasons for declining have
not been made public.
Three additional indictments were
found on Saturday las. by the grand
jury Of the Criminal Court in Washing
ton In the Star route cases, the princi-
pal being against e1-As7ietant POST
master General Thomas J. Brady, who
is charged with conspring with w. II.
Turner, cleri, in his Office, and John
w. Dorsey. Stephen w. Dorsey. John
+ Miner, ~. NJ. Vail, j. L. Sandcrson
and John NJ. Peck. contractors, 10 in
crease tho service upon certain mail
routes in the Wet upon fraudulent rep
resenta,ions, hy which the compensa-
iion Of the contractors was largely in
creased.
The Baltimore SUa OF Monday Last
says q report comes from Boston that
General Butler is TO take charge OF the
defense in the Guitcau case also that
new evidence OF Cuitesu's insanity has
been discovered, upon which a motion
will be made for new trial.
The FLooDs. - Saturdays reports, as
noted in the Baltimore Sun, from Yari-
Gus sections Of the country show great
carnage 10 have hcen dono by the floods
and that the waters we're s.ill rising in
many of the rivers. Az Helena, Ark ;,
the Mississippi hsd risen two inches
within twenty-lour hours, and tho ST.
Francis and White rivera were also ria,
Ing. It is estimated that the number of
persons left destitute by The foods in
Arkansas will reach twelve thousand.
Twenty thousand head Of cattle have
been drowned. The river on SATURDAY,
was reported to lie falling at Little
Rock and ct Arkansas City. At River
ton, Miss., whers the leyee gave way
las: Tuesday, eight or ten person, were
drowned, and thirteen buildings were
washed frCn their foundations. The
town was still flooded % Saturday. Al
Rossdals, two mites from aIvefton, the
'.'ss ssizs Fs-sss----s.s 81 rs washed away
sEd the women and children had to be
carried off In boats. AZ Coscordia. az
ter this break in tho levee, tberewas a
boat sn acre Of dry ground, The only
dry spot to he seen between Helena and
Arkansas City. Great damage is re
ported in Tuuica county, bliss, aud
great suffering among The co!orel PEG.
PIE. The water on Saturday was repor-
ted as nearly reaching Vicksburg. Miss, !
covering nearly four hundred miles of
territory. Capt. Richard Sinnott, Who
has recently returned from trip on The |
Red river, reporLs great distress along
the line OF that stream, and all the low.
lands below Alexandria, La, overflow
ei. Many o. the peopl. here are new
settlers, mho were just beginning to ge- |
their pIscos in running order, and viii /
lose or suffer great damage TO their
crops. At Memphis there Was fall OF
about one inch in the Mississippi W. TO
Saturday morning. Gen. Sherman has
been ordered by the Secretary Of War
10 send officers into the devastated re-
glons along the Mississippi to obtain
Information and distribute suppies.-
Hickman, ny, and Loconia, Ark, arc
IN need Of food, and one thousand des,
iitute people are reported ia Mississip.
ri county, Missouri in the East the
dreams were falling slowly on Satur-
dry.
Judge MAXGUM, relief commissioner
for Arkansas, reports that tAere are
$4,000 sufferers by tho food in that
state Who need assistance Commits.
Toner Iltmm.newsy estimates the nun.
Der in Mississippi at twenty thousand
and there are not less tban Eve thousand
in The river counties Of Tennessee.
r'1u''i.ion for ono hundred shelter tents
has been male on Gle Secretary otWar.