South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1867-04-12

~ EWS OF THE DAY.

millions during tho month of March. lit
costs SlI92 TO carry q ton OK letters across
the Atlantic..... Twenty counterfejters were
arrested on yesterday week, in Western New
York. A large haul......A freedman in
Pulaski county, GA, employs his former
master "a ovcrsecr.......Tbe New Workers
are looking out for the cholera, and urging
the adoption of quarantine regulations.....
They have been enjoying strawberries in
San Francisco for month. Fifty thou.
sand Swedcs are expected to come to this
country during the present ycar..-..It is
said there are more than 5000, 900 head
of cattle in Tcxas........A son has been
lately born to JEFFERSON DAvIs......In
England Fcniansm is called the "Amcri.
can Nightmare. 500. There are about one
hundred and fourteen millions of gold in the
United States Treasury at this time ..At
Evansville, Indiana, few nights since,
little boy was playing with a marble, and
1t got into his throat and choked him to
dcath.......T There has been a decrease in the
receipts of internal revenue in New York
city alone of more than a million of dollars
in the last two months. ..... \ young lady in
Louisville attempted TO hang herself but
was fOilcd, and then tried the virtue of lau.
danum, but that was pumped out other. She
had misplaced her affections ..... Secretary
MCCrLLocH has officially stated that the
new tariff bill went into operation the day
of It's passage, March Dc. Gen. LEE has
sent a donation of s25 to the ladies' memo.
rial association of Petersburg. THE sum
If SlC0,5 has been subscribed in New
\ DIRK for the relief of the sufferers in the
South......Thc Mobile Tribune calls the re-
construction and supplemental acts "The
Hammer and the Spike. The Augusta
(Ga) HroHjcIe and Sentinel estimates the
number of the DISTINGUISHED classes in that
State at S,112.....Thc assessed value of the
real estate in Richmond is so, 4ll,350 5S.
In China the roses have no fragrance and
the women no pctticoats. ...... Georgia rail.
roads src all transporting, free Of charge,
corn and supplies for the destitute in the
South......A separate Episcopal Church is
proposed for the colorcd people, with an
Episcopatc of their own. The President.
OF late, has been issuing but few pardons..
The fisheries on the Potomac have not done
much yet. Shad at the wharf are sold at
SIS to $50 per hundred, and herring atSl2
to SD per thousand. IA man IN Mount
Holly, y. j. killed his horse the other da,
by striking him on the head with his fist.
he Agricultural Bureau is about distribu-
ting the 500 900 worth of seed voted To the
South by Congress. AN Australian sheer
grower has gone to Texas to keep sheep
lie wants to show Americans how to 60 IL.
will commence with small flock of 10 900.
and work up. Probably ho will be worked
up......By the best calculations made, it j.,
ascortaincd that the average duration ofhu.
man life is greater in the United States than
IN any other nation. Sixty buildings in
Carboudale. Pa, few nj hts ago, were con.
sumcd by fire. Out Of 100 conyicts in the
California State prison, only three are fc.
malcs.....lt 10 announced by the authority
Of one of the officers Of the Bank Of Eng.
land, that ''in all it, dealings with the Unit
ed States the bank hts never los; cent by
an american. ......A writer says that Spain
retains less of the real spirit Of Christiani-
ty than any other country. There are go
Baptist Churches in Massachusetts,, with
37,94S members. The churches in Pitts.
burgh, Pa, are rejoicing in "A powerful re-
ylyal......Ihe merchants of Staunton, Va
are purchasing no goods for the spring trade.
In view of hard times ana contingencies, the
people of the Valley are determined to re.
ly on homcspun.......IIcl ltown, Ohio, is az
itatcd by proposition to change its name
to Cumminsyillc......A Mississippi paper
says that emigration passes through that
State to Texas mainly on account Of the
lack Of brcadStufs GEORGE w. RAN
DoIrH, formerly Confederate Secretary Of
War, died at the residence Of his brother.
1hoS Jcf. Randolph, in Albemarle coun-
ty, Va on yesterday week ...... -Four hun
drcd and nineteen deaths occurred in the
city Of Now York, last wcck......Tn Utah
and Colorado the month Of March was very
cold, numerous horses and cattle being froz-
On to dcath......A federal soldier named
DAVID TRUsLER and horse, which he was
driving were both drowned in the river near
Fredericksburg, Va, rcceutly......A Ger.
man girl, who died in Cincinnati the other
day, after living on charity for year, was
found to have had 81, 900 hidden away in
her room, s 800 of which was in cold. .....
10 get round the prohibitory law in Massa.
chusetts, they sell mincc pics with dots"
OF brandy ~ thcm-about one drink to
each mincc pie. The opposition are yet
ting up What they call anti .brandy pics.
There is a colorcd theological school. with
thirty scholars, III Augusta, Ga...... Nilsson.
n owes debt Of over thirty millions and
is not able To pay interest ON it....Intc
news from Montana says the mining opera.
tious this season will be- extended, and csG.
mates the yield of precious metals at s3G..
OOO,OOO-....Onc Of the fashionable cooks
in New York gets $50 q week, board and
pickinss....A new counterfeit ten dollar
LILl. on H. Nnliunal Eank nf Ch.n.....--