South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-05-12

5!li,y, and one OF he leading debaters
IN The Senate, and VIII BE sadly miss /
&C Notwithstanding the popularity re-
;errea 70 abOrc, which is due &c con-
stltuaoua excitabili;Y- PGogo.
a Terrible Crime . Dublin. !
Lord Frederick Cavcndish, the new
CHIC secretary for Ireland. and Thom-
rs Haviland Burke, under secretary,
were murdered. while walking IN
Phenix Park, Dublin, q few minutes
before seyeno'clock on Saturday even,
IN glast. lord Fred CaYend.sh stroll.
cd out into the par!, aftee;aking dinner
NJ The chief secretary lodge, near by
and WAS soon Joined by Mr. Burke,
who came 10 the park in carriage.
aud alighted, when he saw the chief
secretary, ana Joined him IN his walk.
An IRISH iaulting car containing four
roughly dressed men drove up behind
;hom and stopped. The four men
lett the car aud Immediately assaulted
Lord Cavendish and My. Burke witk
daggers and blUdgeons, and when
they had completed their muyderous
work ieapeJ into the Ger and were dri.
ven RAPIDLY away. The lifcless bod.
les Of the two secretaries ~ ere found
soon afterwards and carried 20 the
Stevens Hospital Up to the latest
adylces none Of tho assassins had peen
arrested.
This assassination will destroy, in
MI probability, the success of the poll
cy ofconciliation from which the Irish
people had everything to hope. Those
assass;na have done for Ireland what
j. Wilkes Booth did for the South
when he assassinajcd Lincoln. The
lrisA people, though Innocent, will DC
the sufferers, Just IS toe Southern peo.
pie were taa&c the sufferers by the az
s4sainatlon Of Lincoln. Several ar.
rests have Dccn made Of persons SUP.
posed to have been concerned In The
nssassiua.ions. hr. George Otto
TreYclyuu has been appointed chief
secretary Of Ireland, TO succeed the
murdered Lord Frederick CGyendish.
Il gentleman from Chicago went al
oy1y the Western territories, &c be Gays.
ha4 iug vacant Lana, sad 10 reports it
ysry scarce eZoept su.h "a Is OF 10
earthly ass. Us makes the following
comments OF tie situation;
The cheap lauIa OF tho United
St.te5 arc nearly Ill taken us, ana
yet We are etill inviting and urging
al the people Of the world to come to
this country and establish homes IN
our far West because there's land e.
nough and room enough for all. The
corners vii! fad presently that there
IS neither land enough nor room c.
noueh for aEy more Of them, unless
they shall have plenty OF money to
start 0i!h.' And be concludes by ask
ing tiis conundgam: what viii wo
do, BY and by, with ali these ho:dca
OF pcor immigrants who come here
expecting to drop right down into q
Garden OF Eden, When Oh arriving,
l0ey shall Gnd thas there is 30 land
% be bad except by paying Toundly
for il, auG with every department OF
"age-earning labor over crowded.
The General Conference Of the rs. |
T. Church South mot in Nashville,
Tenn, on the Ord inst, BioLop Paine
presiding Bishop McTyeire read The
pastoral address OF the bishops. Ill
gave review Of tie church tor four
Jears Easj and statement OF tue
present condition and prospects, and
causes for gratitude. Il shows al In
crease Of 247 itinegaut ministers, aud
ln increase OF membership to 33J,G87. |
Thirteen thousand wcro added 10 the !
communion last year. The mission
10 four years has increased Gill, |
30 there are over five thousand |
members in the Indian mission onc |
.houlaGd ii the NcE:can border u.is- |
lon, aud the same number in the Cen,
.ral Mexican mission. There has !
been Cn iucrcnse in Sunday schools |
10 tWcnty-seyeu thousand pupils, aud |
he circulation ofSlnda7-suhool ijtetu (
ur9 Is now over four hundred /
thousand Il Is not known who will (
be elected bishops Esv. j. {. Gran.
Jerry, j. D.. OF tue Virginia Confer
gnco ond now professor iu the Van.
lcrJilt Uniyersity, Will moot certainly /
be elected. Is is believed that TIC /
committee on episcopacy will report
Ia favor Of the election Of four or
Eve new biahops instead Of three, as
-ecommcnded ia the Bielopa' address /
Great interest BE- f8lt in the election Of
secretary. Kew. Alpheas
Wy Wilson, - D., Of ths Baltimore
Conference bias filed that Office for
ha 'lst iaar years. JIG be IS Iaala
JishoT his place vi!l have TO De filed /
5y another.
WAsWroroH -. O.. sIsv l5'h, 1880 I