South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1867-03-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Fair There is a mania for arson in the
Southern cities. STURGEON is going to
Paris to preach during the Exposition.
Ex-Governor CURTIN, of Pa, called for Eu-
rope on the 18th inst. $3.50. Miss HARRIS, the
American prima donna, is creating a sem
sation IN Paris......JoHN STUART Mill has
written another letter in favor of giving
suffrage to women.....An exchange avs the
pleasantest tumble is to fall heir to large
fortune......A Among the distinguished arriv.
ais in Havana, lately announced, is "Jules
Vaillard, Maximiian's French cook"
a gentleman IN South Carolina recently
sold tract of land for 500 which he re-
fused SIS 900 for before the war. Madame
PATTERSON BoNAPARrE, now in Baltimore,
lives in boarding. house She is lively
and elegant, though 70 years old. DIR.
JOHN Is. DAVIES, a well-known physician
of Petersburg, Virginia, died recently ......
There have been thirty three cases of small.
Pox in Norfolk during the present month
a Rembrnndtengraving, "Christ Healing
the Sick was sold at auction in London,
recently, for 81 $50. Fashionable crino.
line IN Paris now measures round the larr-
est place only two yards or two yards and
haif.......The negro troubles near Williams
burg, Va, were adjusted by the shipment
Of three pieces of artillery to the scene.
Opium TO the amount Of SO 900 900 worth
has been seized in San Francisco for an at
tempted fraud upon the revenue A Pa
risian journal admits that there is more
genuine gallantry towards women in the
United States than in all the world beside.
IA coquette in Ashland, Ohio, was made
to return $4,000 worth of presents and paw
six cents damages to the blighted object
that she had Tilted. The clerks in the
Third Auditors Office of the Treasury Dc
partment, Washington, have started sub
scrpton for the benefit of the destitute of
the Southern States. San Francisco claims
to be the second city in the Union as res.
poets dignity and wealth 1t moreover
boasts that ONLY eighty four policemen are
required TO keep the peace. Rev. FRED
ERicK STARR, OF st. Louis, has written
paper to prove thatall the wood on this con.
uncnt will be destroyed within the next
century and half. The London Times
has four correspondents at Paris to attend
to the Exposition. They do attend to it by
writing 1t down most savagcly. EpwIy
BoorH has bought a house in Thirty-ffth
street, New York, for S75, 600. The wheat
crop around Bonham, Texas, is looking un.
usually well Old farmers predict the
greatest harvest ever gathered. The dog tax
OF Mississippi produced twenty five thousand
dollars for the State treasury last YEAR,.
The Fredericksburg (Va.) Ne,os is iubilant
over the prospects Of the fish, tobacco and
wheat crops......WM. Nj. WmIrMoRE. one
&c bn
died few days since, Of the result of an
accident There ~ forty feet of snow at
several points III Bridgcr's Pass, Utah.
Mrs. Polly AsHFIELp, lady of nearly
100 summers, living in Bullitt county, XIV.
has 233 descendants living 1.-The Boston
Transcript says Gen. Butler has not made
the profound impression in Congress his
friends confidently predicted "A IN alignapt
cattle disease has broken out at Montana.
Illinois. 1t usually commences by swell
ling in the TANKS, extending forward and
literally until the creature dies, which gen
orally takes place in two or three DAYS af
ter the first symptoms of indispostion are
obscrvable......A letter dated Houston. Tex.
as, 18th inst, says the season thus far has
been remarkably favorable for planting
Corn in some places is above the ground.
In 1877 Captain PERRY placed at School
Point, IN Spitzenbcrgen, "a depot Of meat. }
some beef III tin boxes, which was taken to
Stockholm and eaten recently, having been
found IN perfect state of preservation.
Napoleon managed to extract twelve mill.
ions in specie from the Mexican mines and
got it safely home. The New York Tcj.
b"nc says Mr.. STEVENS is not likely To
have much success IN urging con6scation....
During the past three months more murders
were committed by females than malos. ......
Lead worth S7,7OO 900 has been taken out
from two sections Of land in Grant county
Wlsconsn.-.Thc Americans arc the thin.
nest Of ak the European races The Phil.
adoIphia Ledger detects indications Of dan.
ger IN the loose management and irregular
ltics of many Of the national banks......It is
said the pressure upon Chief Justice Chase
for appointments under the bnnkrupt law
IS almost without precedent Thus far ne
has received three thousand applications for
the position Of register ..... Hon. HFyRY 4
WISE Is named for the presidency Of the
James Rycrand kanawha Canal Compapv
Greeley says there are 100 600 pcoplc
IN New York today who, if they had been
placed in the garden Of Eden when Adam
was, would have soon starved 20 death there
for the want If some ono to pluck the fruit
and put itin their mouths
INTEREST ON THE VIRGINIA. DEBT The
following Is the bill to provide for the paw.
mcnt Of part Of the interest on thc debt Of
the state Of Virginia, as it passed the lie.
Cislaturc-
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