South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1866-05-25
ITEMS OF NEWS.

GU postmaster ut Woodstock, vice Conrad
LIchlitcr, removed. .... Five thousand per-
sons are awaiting shipment to the United
States from Ireland. The funds belong
ing to the New Orleans banks, captured at
Shreveport by Sheridan, arc about to be re-
storcd.......A new steam wagon for common
roads has just been tried at Quincy, Illinois,
the papers say, with fair promise of success.
.......Thcre is Il man in Cincinnati taxed on
an Income Of $50, 900, who eleven wears ago
exhibited monkey III the streets for liv-
ing: The present negro population of In
diana Is estimated to be one hundred. How
that State is blessed. The military force
now on duty in Virginia consists of forty.
tour companies of regulars, numbering in
the aggregate about two thousand men.
The Nashville (Tcnncsscc) Cnina asserts
mat the Radicals in that State arc organic
ing secret societies, the members Of which
pledge themselves under oath to be true to
the Plrty.......Thc Washington correspond.
ent OF the Philadelphia L~lgcr says, in
very quiet way, that a number of the mem
! hers ct Congress are 'as green as onion toas.
.A....Advicrs from Mexico con. firm the death
ALLEN, of Louisiana. Six
| persons persisted in fire in New Orleans
last Saturday hi ght week. .......A New Or
leans dispatch says that the accounts from
K"d river arc gloomy. Most of the river
cotton lands are under watcr...... The cotton
rrrorts from all the Southwest are gloomy.
l'rnad"cs have made fearful havoc with all
the crops. Nashville papers complain of
| rust IN oats and wheat i'll Tennessee
he disease has also appeared in northern
Alabama and III some places in Kentucky.
...... In the United States District Court mt
Louisville, Kentucky, WILLIAM p. JouS-
son, indicted for treason, against the Uni
TED States government, plcadeda pardon from
the President, and was DISCHARGED. ..A
woman ninety years old was before the Bos-
ton police court on Thursday of last week,
Tor aiding in an assault upon auothcr wo-
man. She said she WAS defending the hon
W OF her family......A Richmond paper says
there is steady tide Of emigration of blacks
from that city northward ..... The 500
ono dollars appropriated by the Legislature
OF Pennsylvania for the relief Of the Cham
bcrsburg sufferers has been awarded bv the
commissioners. The aggregate losses suf
frrcd from the burning of the village hv the
C"ntcdcratcs is set down at 81 ,624,I14 IS.
...;..A fashionable party is now called
'daughtcrcultural show" ..... The salary of
the Governor Of California is S14 900 rcr
annum in g"d.......Thc annual revenue of
the established church Of England is equal
to $500 ,oo0, 000........Thc Maine Farmer
states that the manufacture of printing pa
per from poplar wood is being carried on
very extensively in that State. 49,. The Dos
tim BHti'fn states that five or six careocs
pf Il, al.
country-Scnt out, not because it is pnrtic-
gtllS. gr"'if8 .bGrGcIult lS5,, sRcylaidiyc SYll
ing ut grade corresponding to medium and
good wcstcrn-will readily command $40
per barrel, "r upwards, in the American
market; at which figure it will net Il profit
OF D: sterling, or about 81 % per barrel, to
fhe importer, after paying the custom house
duty OF 20 per cent, gold premium. frcish,
charges, &c....... Blackbcrrics, as large rs
wa!nnts, have made thcirappcarancc in New
Orleans. They are only in bloom about
here yct.......Thc Locomotive power OF the
Baltimore and Ohin Railroad is estimated
at S3,OOn,000, in which is embraced over
three hundred engines. The LONGEST rail.
road in the world is the Central Railroad Of
lllinois-I30 miles long. and which eos,
Sl3,no0, o''0......Two hundred sacks of corn,
branded 'Pcacc,' arrived in Memphis,
Tenn, the other day, FIR the destitute of
Alabama. 1t was hauled by the dravmcn
free of charge. beats or vibrations
of a watch are al SIP 900 in Il vcar
In 1880 there were in the United States
one thousand two hundred persons living in
the E"public over one hundred wears DID,
or these, six hundred and lightweight were
black, four hundred and forty white, forty
six mulatto, and twcntv-six Indian. Thus
it seems that the negro race exhibits the
greatest number of inst ancrs Of extreme
longevity than treble that Of the white
race, nsllcring the relative number Of the
two races, there bcin. twcn,y->ix millions of
whites to four or five millions of blacks
Of the very aged people, the females OK
coed the males in number in Ill conditions
OF life. New York had iftv-thrcc white in
habiiants over one l;un,l.'cd years of agc in
1860, of whom the oldest, female, was one
kundrcd and twenty six years old Penn
sylvania had thirty nine Ohio th;riy:scv-
Ct Georgia aud Tennessee thirty-two each.
The Oldest white person in the Republic is
| Gained for South Caroimn-a female aged
ono hundred aud forty years. .....Thc IA
nous "Cromwcll' sword, believed TO have
been used by the great Protector, was TAX
Gu from the Masonic Lodgc, at Columbia,
nj the time Sherman occupied that city.....
PEAcnY X. GEATTAH, Esq, learned and
distinguished member Of the Rchrn"nd Bar,
has been chosen Reporter for the Virginia
Court of Appeals. Louisville J,ur-
""i has been shown, by Il gentleman Of that
city, sample of plug tobacco Manufacture
ed from brown paper and tobacco STEMS