South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-04-07
sssat'i 1gaatE anteliigeacer.
ROMNEY, FRIDAY, April :, 1879.

from over $50 diHoren, points in Kan.
sas, Missouri, Illinois. Indiana, Ohio and
Michigan are quite favorable, snd rem
resent the wheat in an advanced state
and The prospects Tor good crop to be
very fac.
According 70 the astuse editor Of the
wheeling htell,yencer, Grant, Cameron
ana Logan seem 70 be running things
at Washington.
1t is stated that the water will not be
turned into The Chesapeake and Ohio
canal until The trouble between the coal
companies and the miners is It an end
Forty thousand acres Of land in Ar
kansas have been secured for an Italian
colony. The immigrants are TO come
from the Tyrol principally, and will be
agriculturlsts. About . thousand ItsI.
ians have already settled in that region.
An exchange states that curiosity
has been discovered in the Gulf of MAY.
ice. II is harbor in the open gulf.
some fifteen miles from land A kind
oil OIL is thrown mp, anu resting on tho
eurface OF the water forms thick scu,n
the effect Of which 'ie stated TO be so
great that even in the most severe
storms the sea is comparatively smooth
IN this spot. This is SO we'll known
that when storm approaches small
vessels run for this "oil pond" as il is
called and rido out the gale in safety.
EX-AUDIToR MAeeEY AND GEN. MA
Notwithstanding MASSEY spoke for
an hour and thirty minutes at the court
house in Charlottesville, on the after
noon OF the 3rd inst, giving an expose
OF the designs and methods of the Ma
hone government in Virginia, and an
nouncing his Intention of canyassinq
the entire State in opposition to boss.
lem and nutocrGcy. lie denounced The
attempt to blacken his character by the
charge OF corruption aa infamous, and
IS coming from those who had never
been elected Themselves without fraud.
lie said that Malone had 3 boundloss
ambition, with an intinilesimal sense of
gratitude, who never forgot IN injury
ami never remembered q Iindness.-
The audience WAS composed OF all par
Ties and were thoughtful and impressed.
BOLD BUReLARY.-Onc Of the boil.
iest burglaries that we have been called
upon 20 chronicle for many years was
committed in Rainsburg, this county, Oh
Wednesday night OF last week. Rev.
q. IL. MCFADDEN, the Methodist min
lster stationed in Rainsburg, retired to
lbs room in George Morgart's hotol
shortly before eleven O'Clock on that
night. Discovering that the kes to his
room was miss,ng, he instituted search
Tor it, but without success. The cir
cumstances did not excite his suspi.
cions and he retired without making any
inquiries Of the landlord. On arising
in The morning he found his room ia
great confusion, and sn investigation
revealed the fact that burglar had
been ut work during the night. a coat
and two vests, two complete suits OF
clothes, three new shirts, Il silver watch
and thirty-three dollars in cash we're
missing. A pair of pants, vest, hat
ana an overCoat we're not carried Off,
but the hat and oyercoat were cut into
ribbons. When the reverend gentle
man WAS about TO proceed down stairs
to inform hr, uorgart of the affair, he
discovered that his door was locked and
The key gone. lie succeeded in attrac.
ting Morgarts attention and descended
from his room by means of ladder
that was placed TO Lis window.-Bed-
ford, Pa, Gazette.
Mrs. CARNEAL died on the lst insl. ,
her symptoms and other evidence indi-
eating that che had been poisoned with
strychnino by her husband, G.. N. Car
neal. Constable 4. II. LUNsFoRD ar
rested Carneal on the afternoon Of the
Pad a. his house, about four miles from
Narrentou, Va, bat while bringing Linn
10 prison at lonely point on the road
Carrenl drew revolver, fred upon
Lnnsford aud made his escape. Car
neol IS the same person who several
years ago STACKED District Attorney
Lewis at Culpeper Courthouse with
hatclei, dangerously wounJing him. 4
woman is supposed 20 bo Ito cause Of
the tragedy.
KILLED WHITE RonBiNG Hrs Owv
HoUsE.--Ou the 5Olh ultjuo two men
visited the house Of Sheriff Wa Estes.
OF Stokes county, North Carolina. and
demanding Gle safe key OF the sherff's
wife, threatening 70 k,li her If she re-