South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-08-18
soesh Branch Jnte.ligcnter.
RoMNEY. FRIDAY. AUG. 10, 1882.


ton OF this Congressional District met
at Keyscr on Friday am, ,crmin;s,cd on
Saturday Fast in split, when tho mem
bcrs met in separate conventions, one
+ nominating DANrEL Il. LucAs, ESQ and
the other Judge JouN BLAin Iloog,
both parties contendins that theirs was
the regularly nominated candidate.
We are without the official proceed.
ings o. eli! aer OF these bodies Presume
however, VIC will receive them i'm time
for our next number. We regret a split
should be made 10 our rsrty-that q
compromise had not been consumm atcd
In unity there is strength.
In this matter we stand as announced
in our columns heretofore, il Judge
iloge did at the Fairmont Convention
in July, lSS0,agroe 10 receive the nomi,
nation al the hand or Mr.. Lucas frie Eds,
upon condition and pledge. on his part,
not TO ask reconciliation in 1882, and
shis emanatInc, rs asserted from him
OF his friends. we say, this ought to have
rrscluded Judge IIoge from being n
candidate for denomination. and that
Lucas was entitled TO the nomination.
We have bad no opportunity TO con-
verse With any one in attendance at the
Convention bat Lucas men. They rep
resented that it was most unj Istly
and unfairly conducted meot:ng-every
move IN opposition to the interest of
Nr. Lucas and his friends. So thew
expressed themselves.
The earliest slip rent Of new corn
ever received at st. Louis arrived Sat
urday. There were five carloads, rails
ell near Waco, Texas. 1. brought 81
IS per bushel.
TEc army or West Virginia will hold
reunion at Parkcrsbu-g on the 18th.
18Th aud 18th OF September. A wig
wan, with Ca .acity for seating ten
thousand persons. has been erected for
The occasion. A large number Of dis
hrguishei soldiers are expected to be
present, including Gems. Mcclellan,
hancock, sherman, Sherida0, Rosccrans,
and many others Of lesser note who
conducted campaigns in West Virginia
during the war President Arthur and
,x-Secretary Blaine have also been ia
vHed. Col. Robert G. Ingersoll heads
Tie list Of orators Excursion rates on
rail- DAD lines have been secured.
Texas has $4,000 acres OF school land
rapidly increasing in value, aud worth
probably Sl00,0o0.0C0, and is expected
10 have in the not distant future school
fund of quarter Of n billion dollars.
Pittsburgh, Pa, from 1870 to 1880.
received an increase Of population Of
over 100000 people.
Mr.. CHARLES A. VoeELEH, of the well
known proprietary medicine firm OF A.
Vogeler tS Co., Baltimore, Giet, at his
residence in that city Saturday morn
ing the 9TH inst. The fatal disease was
typhoid fever, OF which he had been III
Tor several weeks. Although but 81
years Of aye Mr.. Voscler had built up
an enormous business and identified
himself with many OF the ccent enter
priscs OF his native city.
The late Alabama election returns
show majority of 81 on joint ballot
for the Democrats in The Legislature The
next election will be held in Arkansas,
September 4tb, Vermont, September
9Th and Maine September llth.
Judging from accounts The wheat
crop will be one Of the largest and the
eat ever known in tho north west.
DANGER OF HANDLING DOMESTIC
PETs.--Dr. MCCALL Anderson. in
paper on The Diagnosis Of Diseases of
The Skin in tie MEDICAL TIMES AND
GAZETTE traces the development OF the
disease known as favus (ioyiyo Gacosa)
In human beings 10 mice suffering from
she disease. Cats, which cat the mice
catch the disease, and have been known
to communicate it 10 the children who
handle them. Fowls have also bccu
known 70 suffer from it. Tho danger
Of allowing children to handle domestic
pets Which are suffering from skin dis
cases is probably often overlooked, and
deserves to be mhdc known morc wide
ly than il is nj present.
Mrs. REBECcA WLIrAMs. cclorcd.
the Fros.burg, Nd, JoVrual states, has
just received q pension Of 81 per month,
the arrears amounting to 50, G35. Her
husband, Benjamin. lost leg at tie
battle Of Sugar Loaf mountain, N. c..
from The effects OF which he died since