South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1868-04-24
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-, 90" tchets IN Bug!anC - HE MO
pie Tribune pray. to be delivered from
sh"e'Peg civilization. This culture of
Tea IL about to be introduced in Jamaica
under the auspices of the English govern
ment.-A merchant of Chicago was recent
~ fatally shot by private policeman in an
ARRAY arising out Of dispute as to the price
o' snirt oosoms.-TuREE negroes were kill
e., eu oy lightning in Amelia county, Va, on
ihursday,-TnEc county courts of Vermont
are opened with prayer.-TuURLow WEED
c"nfesses to having sent "his mite" to help
the Kadical Is in New Hampshire. The
Unite was $4,000 OFrIcIAL documents
showEihat 1,743,491 men have been
Killed In battle, in the last fourteen
years -GovERNoR PATTON, of Alabama,
IN letter to Gen. MEADE, shows that 10
many instances persons recently elected to
once IN that State could not read or write
"A DISPATCH FROM New Orleans says an
attempt was made by negroes n few nights
ago, TO murder Judge OGDEN, formerly of
tue Supreme Bench of Louisiana. The
baby woman" only two years and seven
months old, fully maturcd aud developed, ,
Is on oxhil ition at Louisville re-
marked some years ago. that the last Dem
ocrat had been born. The late elections at
the North indicate that the women have
fooled him.-IIoN. L ID. HUBBARD, of this
State, is candidate for reelection to Con
gress-THE first shipment of green peas
was made from Charleston last Wednesday
Ihey were sent to New York.-TuIs is
pre-eminently the age of monuments. Tie
Sandwich islanders nre about to erect one
III honor of Captain Cook, as a slight atone
ment for the conduct of their fircfathers in
eating him The Memphis Bulletin says ::
at appears probable that most people in
this State who are in want of a situation
will run for Congressman for the State at
large. "A LITTLE Loudoun (Va } girl ask
ed her mother, the other day, while the lat
ter was working her garden, what she was
making, and on being told hot bed, naive
!y inquired who was going to sleep in it
john SHOCKEY, of jackson CO., this State,
was shot and killed on the 9th inst, while
attempting to eject a negro man and his
relate mistress, a notorious prostitute, from
a house on his promises The negro was
arrested.-TwENTY thousand dollars were,
on wednesday of last week, paid into the
sub-iroasury in New York, having been be-
queathcd to the nation by the late RALPH
,. FRETRY, of San Francisco, California, to
help pay off the national dcbt.-TuE B. K
o. r. Il. Company has just lost two suits
in Baltimore amounting to 50, 900, brought
for damages for injuries sustained bya rail
road accident TIE editor of the I.ancas-
ter (O) Gazette has seen fragment of
steel accidentally lodged III the eye instan-
taneously extracted by powerful horse
shoe magnet.-A YOUNG man in New
Hampshire has just been released from Jail,
after an imprisonment of three years for
the nOn-paymcnt of a tax Of three dollars
"A coLoRED member of the Virginia Con-
venton, named NoRToH, announces himself
n candidate to represent the first congress
sional district of Virginia, in the Congress
Of the U. s B. f. RICE and ALEXANDER
MCDONALD, both Republicans, have been
elected u. ). Senator's from Arkansas =
BONNETs have reached their smallest di-
mensions, and now there is an idea Of do
ing away with them altogether -SERGEANT
Bates on Saturday morning visited the White
House and had an interview with the Pres.
idont, who made him several presents. a.
mong them a portmonaie containing $50 in
gold -TwENTY-THREE crows, it is said,
were recently killed at one shot by sports
man in Maine.-THERR was a row AMI n
fight III the Mississippi Reconstruction Con.
ycntion on yesterday week, and the militia.
ry were called out. Many of the members
Of the Convention have Withdrawn on
Friday last, in Alexandria, shad were sell
ing at SO and $40 per hundred, and her
ring az so and Sl2 per thousand TIE
falling off IN the production from the Penn.
sylyonia oil regions last month amounted
10 about seven hundred and fifty barrels
OF twenty nsw wells struck during the
month, only ten pay for working. The to-
tai daily production isnow about nine thou.
sand barreis.-TnE body Of George Rode
hcircr, drowned in the Shenandoah River.
below Port Republic, on the 9th orJnpuary.
was recovered on Friday the Sd Of April.
just three months, lacking six DAYS. since
he was drowned GENERAL. GRANTS son
rides to school every day with General
Grants orderly behind bim-DURrNG two
days of last week no less than twelve aban.
doned infants were picked mp ia New York
Cuy.-IHE city of Charleston is to have
new Masonic Temple, Of great beauty.
ANu O"7''y Ills. I>D''Ah Wins VINO re-
sides at BiIlingsport, Pa, shot an eagle
the other day Of enormous dimensions.
The bird from tip to tip measures a little
more than twelve feet, aud had carried Of
great many Of Mr. Gibbs larnbs.--A Man
describing a church in Minnesota, writes to
q friend "No velvet cushions in our pcws.
We don't 90 in for style. The latest per
son bias tho softest seat. "A YEAH ago a
man paid s 900 for some land in Omaha.
lie has just sold it 70 railroad for SIG. 900.
The funniest incident that has lately
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