South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1867-10-18
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of wheat in that city the past week am ,n,-
ted to 1854 iS bashcls-Tt his bac,A d..
moustrated III Chicago tina, comfortable
house can be b tilt for S3jo.-Ex.ensivc
operations IN grain hive reduced the bull
liou IN tue bank of France Gl,O0O.OJJ =
Wlges in France have increased forty nor
cent. within the last fifteen years.-Pris,.
ners have recently escaped from the Inii-
ana penitcniiary through tunnel sixty feet
long. The latest story about Mrs. Lincoln
l. that she IS about tn write a book clllcl
Five Years in the White H,use." A We
ry delightful story % at of903 negroes reg.
is.ered in Co,umbia,S S. G only eight could
write their names. Sach are the soyer.
eisns -Loaisiana planters say that coolies
will not take the place of negroes.-A new
printing PRESS has been invented at Mr.
walk, CT, that viii print 30, 900 papers an
our.-The Rev. DR.. Burrows of Rich
mond has SJ7 COMMITMENTS in hi, church
"A very severe hail storm passed over the
lower end OF Augusta county las, week d.
lug immense damage Window glass were
broken, and much of the fruit vet ungath
cred was knocked of, AMI injured. Ben
WADE says "thc prou lest period of his If.
was when he worked on the canal rs a
common laborer. "-probably he wasn't
digraclng himself at that timc.-E ,rninss
OF Atlantic cable last year-Sl 6 900
sold.-Somc fifty lalies in Linn county
kausis, have adopted short skirts, which
fall about to the knce.-.A new lin,
OF steamers has been established Lc.w,en
Savannah AMI Charleston. I'll. hs,
reports from the cotton crop OF Miss
issippi are more cheerful. The sur,r
cr'p OF Louisiana this year is estimated at
10000 hngshca Il. -Cal.fjrnia promises
three and onc-half millions gallons of wine
this yoar.-Petrolcum is now used AS fuel
by the steam fire engines of i Jst,n.-Tle
Democrats gained about 500 in Mid lleton
county, Oaio, Mr.. NAllaudingham' home.
although hundreds of soldiers were sent
there tovote.-A statue ofTmoMAs N&r.sox
Governor Of Virginia in 1851, ha> lust b ,cn
raised to is pedestal in Hchrs IN |, between
those of Marshall AMI j cff.rson-Thcre
were sent from and received at the NV
York pnstofi;e 1925 letters during the
week lag September lth.-It i.rtp,rt-
ci that party of negroes tore mp the track
"f the South Carolina railroad last nigh, n,
Hopkins. near Columbia. Tl, train WI,
thrown oil tho track AMI the cars robbcd
-Pumbagp has been found in llr.e a,an.
titles in NV Brunswick Tie Baltimore
American, OF Friday las, the lcalin. "a IL
ral paper in M,rylani, hpists the name Of
Il rant for Prcs lent in lSjS.-Tho 18th
coiorcd troops, the last volunteer regim nj
IN the service, has boen ordered to proceed
To Louisville, Ky, whore they will bo in
m. ,II ,t,.ly Il
sheep, it Is sail, in OIio county, thi. Srlte,
than IN the whole Site Of low THE - M
ocrits of Wheeling have npminltcl VI ssrs.
J. w. PARKER w. w. MILLER anI \ NJ.
JACOBS IA their candidates for the next
Legislature sweet potato at klnsa
City 5hs five pounds an | is foot l1n,
by six inches in diameter Tho G. ,ycrn-
mont Is mixing arrangem - have the
Davis trial evidence AMI ars,Im ,nts rep ,rt
e By stcn)graphcrs for preservation in book
form. a nun nam ID Jennings recently
stole m5loJGpn from a church in Wiscon-
SIN, AMI afterwards returned AMI lectureJ
IN the simi cLlrch, representing him self IA
IN A1dsrsouville prisoner S lMU2L BAR
Ron, ex-c)mm,1orc Of the Confederate ma
~, has been plr1)nel by the President
MINSIE HuGdgs, daughter of R.v. Mr..
ii ishcs, deed of Mirtiusburg,a sw ,et, ia
tcrcsing girl Of I, died six days after her
fathers death, AMI was laid by his side on
the lst iast.-Thc fruit trade Of one c1nn
ty III North CIrOlina this season amounted
to more than one hunlic1 thouslnl d 4
lars. This was due almost exclusively 10
the labor Of women and children -IRNvK
lIDDGES AMI A. f. WESTON, both V.rsin-
ians, (thc former from Washington county,
wre killed by the Indians about the 2ItlI
oi August while prospecting for gold in
Montana On Tuesday Of last week Miss
MARY DAVIS, re / ling in Petersburg. Va.
aged about twenty-five years. dicl from
excessive corpulcncy. She had been con-
fined to her bed nearly nine IN nth utterly
helpless, aud suffered much during the sum
MGR weather. Her appetite was god to
the last, and she had no apparent disease
save thIt Of an excessive accumulation Of
tcsh.-A singular case il pending in one Of
the Police Courts Of New York city. 4
womtn claims that man who Is defend
ant IN tho case, l. her hu<blnl /, is sail
that her two children look very much like
bin her sister positively ilcntifs him
his name is confessed q be the sam, as
hers, and the woman herself swcaTs posi-.
lively that be was married 10 her eleven
years ago in Montreal, AMI is The father Of
ter children. Ga the other hand. the de-
icnd1nt stolidly protests that lac docs not
know the woman OF the children; that h.
never vas IN Montreal and brings witness
c' to prove that he was in Norway at the
time tn mrrilge Is alleged 90 have TAX IN
place IN Montreal. The Judge has not
yet been able TO decide the disputed qncs-
ton. @ 5. McFAppEv, Superintendent
Of the West Virginia Pcniten larry. rsports