South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1867-11-08
VS. OF THE DAY


nessse-Georgia boasts Of corn ffty bush
els TO the acre.-An old negro man and wo
man, near Lynehburg, were robbed of $50
, in silver the other night by three men dress
ed IS soldiers 1t is n fact which people
don all know that over forty millior gal
!ous of sorghum syrup are made in this
country annually .-John Eastman, (whi,e
radical elected TO the Virginia convention
from Louisa county, has sent in his resig-
nation 70 General Schofcli.-A New York
Sunday paper gives list of men in that
cry, who have made large fortunes by the
war 1t occupies four columns.-Thore
are eigh. thousaSd eolored children 10 BAL
umoTe.-Mr. Preston Hogshead, of Angus
Ia county, was drowned in Middle river, on
Monday last.-A merchant in Indianapo-
lis, accostcd an old German gardner with
the inquiry If he would have any sour krcut
20 sell this year. The old gentleman re-
piled that he didn't think he would, as cab
bagcs were scarce, aud be had only pat up
two barrels to use in case Of sickness
Judge Il. Il. Pitts was beaten in Nor:hamp-
:on by an imported white man who acted
as negro leader there, and who was tried last
spring before tue Judge for feloaious hog
stealing, bat acquitted on the testimony Of
negro who was suspected of the same
crimc.-A most destructive fire occurred in
DiuwiJdic on Sunday las: on the farm OF
Maj. Daniel Malone. His fine grist and
saw mill was entirely consumed by fire
The Mill was valued ri So, 0G0, and no in
surance MIR Oliver Deirne, a wealty ci;i-
zen of Monroe county, West Virginia, SAYS
that ifhis county refuses 20 subscribe S209,-
coo TO the capital stock of the Chesapeake
aud Ohio Railroad company, be will sub
scribe it out OF his own resources -The
continued heavy rains have nearly destroy
81 the cotton crop in South Florida. --NuI-
hers OF the Alabama negroes called fog for
" acres and mule, after they had "yut
The thing ia the box. Fifteen Sisters OF
Charity have gone from New Orleans to
Memphis, 20 act as yellow nurscs.--A mum
Der OF Pennsy lvanians are buying tarIa3 in
Tennessee, especially III the neighborhood
of Chattanooga Thurman, the recent
Democratic candidate for Governor in O.
bio, is a Vrginian by birth-Thc Teunos-
see Legislature has passed law giving
blacks equal privileges with whites in all
public conyeyances.- man at Manches-
ter, n. II, totally blind, earns his living
by saving and splitting wood Jackson,
Illinois, has 10000 inhabitants, and not
single liquor store. "A stroke of Lightning
blasted about twenty tons Of stone Esom
quarry IN s,up Claire, Wisconsin, . few days
! sinco.--3he marriage of his Majesty King
George of Greece and her Imperial High
Iess the Princess Olga took place ct ST.
Petersburg last week w!h great pomp aud
gieplor "A voting machine la: recently
been patented. 1t will be found Of great
use under tie military Lills.-Iu portions
Of Sweden aud Norway the people are suff-
lrinc from famine, caused 10y LAD harvests
last ycar.-~We learn that lady in Rich
mond, Va, gave birth 20 an infant feS
days since, with well-dcfncG water fall on
the back Of its head. >Th;s singular ETea&
is accounted FOR by the fact thata few months
since the lldy's mind was very much exer-
ciSed on the subject Of getting one Of these
fashionable articles of head-gea We
doubt whether Hunnicutt's brains are in
danger of rebel bullet, but some consid-
crate friend would do well to stuff his
mouth with hot po!ato.-Ogcrcoats TO the
knees very tighS pants like those worn
thirty yoar5 ago, and silk hats with low
crowns and broad brims such arc mems
flshions Tor tho coming season Statistics
recently collected In France show that but
one-ihird OF the married population car read
and wri;e.-Thc Cincinnati Times, enlarg-
( ing upon theprosent dimenson5 ofour land,
and peering into the future, says: cit must
some day be said thai the sun never sets
on the American Republic, and that orr
. drum beat can be heard all round H. earth,
aud then when cur present slow rates Of
travel shall be so improved that one can
s.ar, from Cincinnati at l. o'clock Fl, 90
round the globe and find is noon all tie
wnv, we shall have achieved some mcmorl-
( bic rcsul's."--A correspondent at Luncn-
, burg e. II, Va, gives the Richmond Des-
path m account Of the execution last Fri
lay of Isaac Yarbougb. n negro, who muir
daTel SImuei $. Rowlcts at Mehcrrin D.
pot, GA the @Sth Of December last The
murderer died as he had lived, hardened,
asserting bis innocence. But few Wit
messed the execution, though large and
c&citcd crowd of negroes were in attend
ance outside thrjailyari Rescue was an
'icipltc1 bat al passed OF quictly.-J)-
,cph Worthingiou succeeded in escaping
F from the Frankli1 county jill, Pa, a few
evenings since, by decciyiug the jlilor with
stuffed "Paldy"-At a celebration al
Newark, Ohio, few days ago, there was a
Uomln one hundred and iao years old -
She was born in Culpepcr county, Va, and
in 1890 went on foot al the way 20 Ohio
rith her husband and children "A Chico
20 dishilery was so ingcniously arranged
that by touching n secret spring Tie dis
charge pipes could be made % deliver eth
or high-wines or vincgar--always offering
the latter 70 revenue inspectors "A we'll
known minister rcpuliates the received The
Org that they have music in Heaven lie