South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-06-09
South asyaaels aatslliasnses.
ROMNEY. FRIDAY. JUNE 9. 1882

IL is said that GRANT 10 heartily in
favSr OF ARTHUR for second term. and
still there are some people who believe
that GRANT is strongly in favor of him.
self for q third term.
Mr.. HENRY ID. FAnSAyp:s, OF Har-
ford ccuaty, has been elected president
OF the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. vice
Hon. A. y. German. resigned.
Leading Senators and members Of
Congress say that il is impossible in any
event for Congress 10 got away from
Washington before the middle of July.
The blooled cat,ls sale OF aIessrs. Pre-
KEREL, THOMAS & SMITH on yester-
day week ut Harristown. H., resulted
in an aggregate of &c. $50 for GO animals.
an average Of $2i4. Some OF the Rose
of Sharon breed cold for $500 and Con.
stance Ninth for $1,000.
Pnrkersburg Sentinel: The bolt in the
Republican party In Pennsylvania is La
bio TO entail more serious consequences
than wcro al first anticipated DoN
CAMERON smiled Significantly aud iudif.
ferently when The break was made, but
since then he has veered his course and
is now threatening ire disaster 10 bis
opponents if he is oYerihrown. Tie re.
cord. OF that party in Pennsylyanie
would iue,tt a belief that CAMERoN
will win in spite of opposition, bnt The
evident fright Of the Boss coupled with
his threatening attitude toward tho lead
era CT the indepcnde movement in
elmo Us to the opinion tina. there are
breakers ahead.
Dir. ChRs. II. Reed. counsel for Gui-
teau, on Tuesday last made a motion
before Judge Wylle, III the Criminal
Cour. at Washington, asking tic cor
rtction OF The record OF the trial with re-
ference to to The errors alleged to exis,
in It as to the place o. President Car
fields death, in order 10 enable him to
take Ctlcr steps which he had in view.
The motion was denied Mr.. Reed said
that though embarrassed. he was not cut
eft from further action.
Wheeling Loader: Missouri is Ger
tHinly the land Of violent deaths. DO
tween murders, suicides, cyclones, fall
ing trees. foods and so on, tho proper
tion OF unnatural deaths ranks higher
than that OF any other etato il TIE u
Mon.
destructive hail and wind storm
occurred On Sunday afternoon last in
Halifax county, Va, extending to Ga
rysburg. N. c., 4 distance Of ten miles
Several houses wcre blown down. Ma.
tlidG Gary. colored, and hertwo dau2h-
terra, and Is years old. living near
Garysbnre, were killed by the blowing
down Of her house. The other members
OF The family narrowly escaped alive.
Tho hailstones we're as large 80 a mans
hat. Trains from the south have been
delayed by blockades of fallen trees.
a STRAw.-Tho Atlanta Combination
says more wheat reapers have teen sur.
chased in Georgia this yeur than the
entire cotton bit possessed one wear
ago. This means more grain aud lees
cotton, snd is a step Il The right ditec-
ton.
On Saturday lac, contracts for the
extension Of tie West Virginia Central
and Pittsburgh Railway we're awarded
as follows: JoHN HuMEmD, thirteen
miles, CADMAS, CoGwIsE & CO.. FIVE
miles, snd ADAMS & KENNEDY, milss
The completion OF these contracts will
bring The road into the Upper Potoppc
ooal-helds. WENDEL BoLLNAN. Of Bal.
timore, has been awarded the contract
for the iron bridging.
y portion Of Doe Gulley tunnel. on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, east
Of Cumberland, csved in on Monday
afternoon last. No one was hurt, but
passenger and freight traffic vas consid-
erably delayed.
Our attention has been called TO the
fact that great many apple trees 10
this neighbolhood arc putting forth
second crop of bloom This is song
thing out of tho usual run, AMI as it is
generally iho early apple trees il is
probable that nature is providing q crop
for these trees, whose first bloom was
Killed by the frosl--SA C11ruiR ohio.
Ciyonicic.
a lottor from Eufok Spring. ARK
received at Augusta, Ca, on the 9Th
inst, states that Hon. Ben. HItL is
slowly bat surely improving. lis gen
eTal health is very much improved, his
appetite and digestion good and ne
sleeps well. The ulcer il ina bctlor