South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1889-07-19
NE WIS OF THE WEEK

AFrRR bic term as Governor Of
Virginia expires, Gen. fitzhugh Lee
win become Superintend emit of the
Military Institute at Lexisgson.-
TIE granite for the new Congress.
ional Library building at darlington
will be cut ut Concord. New Hamo.
shire. 1t will require LEGO mem foor
years TO complete tho work.-TuE
Williamsburgh (Va.) Gszette, estab-
lisbc6 in 1879. and the first paper in
which thssDec1ration OF Indcpeu.
dsncs WAS ptiuted, will suspend pub.
'iicatiou with its next issue. i 10 q
weekly paper -PREsIDsNr HAaRIsoN
spends part OF each week with Mrs.
Harmon ri Deer Park, Id. Il 70
probable that cabinet meetings will
DO held there instead of 1t w aching
ton. --FHs Yumos that >Secretsry Of
State Blaine has resigned 10 denied
In Washington. He IL said TO be IN
good healtb.-RicHAuD rHxwss. who
was sentenced'to be hung ct Birming.
ham, Alabama, on Friday hast for tie
murdar Of bis little daughter, Nav
Halves, was not executed, owing to
bis sppeai'to the Supreme Court OF
Alabama. which will not meet until
Deceuber. The accused 10 also
enlarged with killing his wife. Nine
men were killed 10 IN attempt to
lynch him some months sgo. Coz.
DAN LAMONT, who was CT President
Clevelsnd's private secretary, is ma.
king his mark 10 amanager Of line
OF street railroads IN New York city.
THE latest thing in trusts. and al
so the biggest. 10 the proposed combi.
nation TO bring the leading railroads
Of the country under one centralized
management. 1tis thought that the
movement will be successful. JOHN
L. SULLIVAN has fought 20 prize
agAts and has never been whipped.
He was arrested on requisitioa of
Governor Lowry, OF Mississippi, at
Nashville, Tennessee, Thursday, but
Was Immediately released on hsbeus
corpus. Gov. Lowry says he intends
yet to arrest and prosecute Sullivan,
Kilrain ard all who In any way aided
'or Allotted the recent prizs-Gghtin his
State. --NATURAL GAS Is thought to
have been discovered at Terra Alta.
this State, where the gubernatorial
contest Committee is now sitting.
No more census appointments will be
made until Septomber.-THE author
Of Home, Sweet Home Jobn How
ard Payne, died without q home. and
now the author Of the HON est cad law,
George w. Allen, Ct Ohio. has no
homestead OF bis owr, and is about
to die ia abject poverty.-MR. JET.
FERsoN DAVIS has received an off,r
from o northern publisher to write q
history Of the Confederate States
TIE Wyoming constitutional con-
vention will be republican. -TKE
announcement is made from II,
White House that Congress will be
convened in advance Of the regular
time Of meeting. -Mns. JOHN TYL RR,
widow of ex.President Tyler, died in ,
Richmond, Va, on Wednesday OF
last week.-AT Grundy, Va. Safer.
day, William Keiser. an attorney,
was shot and killed by Frank Philips.
one Of the notorious Hatfield Mccoy
gang.-fcEBER6s in large numbers
are daily seen by shipmasters on the
Atlantic ocean.-C. 8. SENATOR j.
K Kenna, OF this State. is building q
$4,000 residence in Washipgton.-
PENSION COMMISSIONER TANNER as
serts that the administration dare not
dismiss him. He says the old sol.
diers would not stand it; tina. he is
tue friend and ideal OF the veterans
and they would resent his dismissal.
Tanner says he is criticised for liber.
atty to the soldiers and he intends
to continue it. Meantime Secretary
Noble has lead down rules for Tanner
TO follow in conducting the Office,
with the plain intimation that If ne
departs from them Ire most get out.
Gov. BEAVER, OF Pennsylvsnia,
says that SO far 81 SEQ. 900 has been
distributed among the Johnstown
food sufferers. The people of Johns
town say this is not so, AMI ON Sat-
urday they held an indignation meet,
ing and protested against the Cover.
nor's circulating such reports. They
demand Of the Governor an itemized
statement OF his expenditures for
thcir relief, bu; this be refuses to
make. -EvEN as the fsraelites hung
their harps on willow tree, so did
John Tick Ter hang himself at vii.
nioston. bel, Saturday.-WM. FISH.
ER, OF Bass Saginaw, Mich died on
Monday from having been hi ten on
the thumb by another man in @ fight
q few days belore.-A CONVENTION Is
now being held IN Paris France, by
the French Federation Rationale for
the purpose Of forming an in.erna.
tionSl union OF al tho labor organiza.
lions of she wo.id.-GEN. NATHAN
Corr has gone to assist in the re-
publican campaign in the new St,tes
Of Montana. Washington, and North
and South Dako,a.-A handsome
cane and Billie have been sent TO
Mrs, Jake Kil'Ain for her husband,
the pugilist who was whipped last
week by John l. Sullivan.-LEADINo
Virginia republicans are confident
that Gen. VIM Malone will receive
the nomination Of their party for
0overnor.-THB Wheeling Register
publishes encouraging crop reports
from nearly every county In this
State.-SoME disabled members OF
the New York National Guard have