South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-01-17
PrrrsBuRG, Pa. Jan. 6

| PITTsBURG, Pa. Jan. 6.
| We understand an order was receiv.
ed at the U. S. Arsenal near this city
to ship at the earliest period for New
Orleans near hundred cannon Of the
largest ealibre. The required number
were brought to the wharf; but the
sudden freezing Of the river prevented
| their transportation. Democrat.
o. We copy the annexed para
graph from Bicknel's Counterfeit De-
tector, Of the 9Th instant:
Look out for counterfeit, $40 notes on
the Commercial & Farmers Bank, Bal.
timore. Several ofthem have been pass.
| ed in this city since our last. They are
made payable toJ. Patterson, letter B.
dated July 4th, 1884, George Il. Dun
bar, Cashier W. W. Taylor, President.
Well executed; paper thin and greasy.
o. A writer in the Boston Medical
Journal states that it is notorious a.
mong physicians, that many young la
dies Of the Northern States are addict
ed to the very pernicious habit Of eat.
ing charcoal, and that when this habit
has once been established, they UNDER
60 as much apparent suffering if de.
prived Of their accustomed stimulus, as
the inebriste or tobacco devourer, who
feel that life Is Invested of oil its ra.
tional value when their quan,um is by
any circumstance diminished, or as
they would generally consider I, unfor-
tunateiy withheld. Ia the factories,
particularly, it is said that the female
operatives actually consume so much
Of this article as to astonish those who
have taken the trouble to make an in-
vestigation. The vice is by no means
exclusively confined to this class or the
circle at first adverted to. School
misses and house maids have also in
many instances contracted the love of
charcoal eating, which 10 seldom re-
linquished by means Of persuasion or
1 arguments.-Ib.
Fine Cattle.-A late Cincinnati pa.
per :-"Mr. Samuel Beresford
has now on his farm, lot of the finest
beef cattle that has ever been in this
market. They we're raised and fed
by Robert Cunningham, Esq. Of Clark
county, kestucky. They were pur-
chased Of Mr.. Cunningham at the price
Of sixty dollars per head-thirty in
number. They are four and five years
old, and are estimated to weigh from
thirteen to sixteen hundred pounds nett
beef. They are all of English blood,
but mixture Of the Long Horn and
Patton Stock, with cross Of the Dur
ham 10 some of them"
Singular Coincidcnce.-A gentle.
man of this town put up three hogs, Of
one litter, reared and fattened them in
one pen, which when killed, weighed
each 222 pounds-there was not a
ssraw's difference 10 the weight.-Ha-
gerstown Courier.
i We casually heard yesterday--and
we do not see why we should not state
it-that in the Committee on Foreign
Relations, 10 the House Of Represen,a-
.ives, on Tuesday, the question was
taken upon reporting a bill conforma-
BILE TO the Presidents recommendation,
to authorize contingent Reprisals a.
gains. France, and decided IN the neg
atioe, by six votes to three. We have
! all along said, that, in the present pos
ture of affairs, such measure would
not receive the assent of Congress-
Nat. Int. Of Sth inst.
4 Melancholy Shipaoreck and Loss of
Lives.-By an account at Charleston
from Nassau, we learn that the schr.
Marlborough, Capt. Garfield, from ST.
Thomas, for New York, on the 9Th
Nov. lat. 80 N. lon. 90 w. was cap
sized, and sunk 10 6 or 8 minutes, all
hands perishing, "a in number) ex-
cept the Captain, who saved himself
in the boat.
. On the 7th day after the disaster,
} Capt. Garfield arrived in Maysguana,
which be traversed all around Without
finding either food or water, and sleep.
ing on the sand beach for that night,
, steered away next morAing for the mex.
land 10 sight, (French Key) where,
finding only a barren sand beach, kept
Ion to the Westward, and landed on