South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1885-05-29
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RoMNEY, FRIDAY, NAY %. lssA

ROMNEY, FRIDAY, NAY %, 1855
A great rush has com neaced to-
wards the newly discovered silver
mines Of the Rosa mountains, in Mex
leo, about the great richness Of which
wonderful stories are told.
Our National debt has been decreas-
ed during the last year 1t the rate of
about 800 . minute.
A FATAL ARFkAY AT LYNcuBuRa.
During baseball match at Lynch.
burg. Va, on the 2tth inst, young
white mau, Samuel Meredith, for some
offense slapped q small coIored boy,
for which he was at once attacked BY
.anumber OF oolored men. Az the ex
element increased his assailarts grew
in numbers. lie took to fight, with
fifty or more excited negroes in pur-
suit, aud finally turned at bay in the
doorway of q house, when Louis A.
dams, barber, attacked him with q
knife. Meredith shot tho barber dead,
entered the house and escaped the
mob. When the excitement had sub
sided many of the negroes who had
followed Meredith admitted that the
killing OF Adams was done in self.
defense, and declared it was justifia-
bic.
Ex-Secretary of State Frelinghuy-
sen, died on the Goth inst.
Prof. Odlum, q well-known swim-
mer Of Washington, jumped from the
great Brooklyn bridge on Tuesday OF
last week into the water beneath. The
feat was fatal one, however, for he
died few minutes after he was taken
from the water.
The institution Of agricultural learn
ING established by Aessrs. Moody and
Sankey 81 Mt. Hermon, Franklin co..
Mass., occis piss several hundred acres
OF exceuenA land, and is now in sue.
cessi~. 'psration. It has cost already
$250.c0V amt much more is needed
TO compplste it on the plan contempla.
ted by it's founders. A new building
was dedicated last week. tho cost of
Hhica. $4,000, was betrayed entire.
ly by the royalty on Mr.. Sankey's
Gospel hymns.
Mr.. r. N. I. HUNTER, the new COL
lector Of customs for the districts of
Tappahannock, Va, has had q re-
markable history. Forty years ago
be was speaker Of the House Of Rep.
resentatives, and was subsequently,
elected to the United States Senate,
where he served for fourteen years,
until July, 1851, when he was expell-
ed on the ground Of participation in
the civil war. lie was Secretary Of
State Of the Confederacy. and mem
Der Of the Confederate Senate. He
was afterwards elected treasurer of
the State of Virginia, which office he
held until about the year 1880, since
which time he has been living in re-
tirement on his small farm in Essex
county, He is now about 76 years of
age. In 1860 he was candidate for
the presidency before the Charleston
convention. The Office to which he
is appointed pays $3.50 a year, with
fees and commissions, amounting in
all to lees than $1,000. Mr.. Hunter
was very much impoverished by the
war, and was appointed to tho office
on his own application.
Lightweight removals and appoint
ments in fourth-class postmasters in
Virginia were announced on Monday
last. At Winchester we observe, that
Bruce Gibson takes the place of John
Ii. Dean, and at Harrisonburg, VIM.
IL Ritenour that of James Sullivan.
The latest discovery OF gold dig.
giDgs is in the Santa. Rosa mountains
OF Chihuahua, Mexico. an almost in
accessible region, surrounded by arid
deserts and infested by rattlosnakes
and hostile Indians. Fabulous re-.
ports of wealth, however, have start.
ed the usual caravans of adventurous
mon to the locality from Eagle Pass,
New Mexico.
Rev. 1. w CASTER, OF Lecsburg,