South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1868-03-27
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cgates to the Chicago Convention from the
District cf Columbia -TnERE are 50 900
lawyers in the United States. whose aerre-
gate annual earnings amount TO SG4. 600
VoU.-1HE damages OF the late storm In
Chicago are estimated at S250,OO0. Over
forty houses were blown down.-A VERY
poor ''article"--any one Of the impe,ch
mont ar;icles.-TuE Ways and Means
Committee has determined to retain the
tax of 81 on whisky.-THg interest on the
National debt is said to be $50, 600 an hour.
--CouNTERFETT tens on the Marine Ma
tlonal Bank OF the city of New Ynrk, are
IN circulation --IIoN DAVID Wlf.Mor.
Judge of the Court Of Gains, is dead
GENERAL GRANTS income il said to be
S3O,0GO per num.-TuE Government
supports 1000 revenue officers DRUG
GIsr is on trial in New York for. poisoning
woman through care lessness -TuAp.
STEVENS says the military will rule this
country for twenty-five years II EyRY
DERnINGER, the inventor Of the pistol
which bears his name, died recently in Phil
adelphia, aged eighty-one years -TnE Su-
rreme Court Of the United States has decided
that no State can impose capitatinn tax
on passen gers.-PRgNrIcE says of a charge
against GRANT that ''he won hold water"
that 1t Is only Justice to the General to say
that be doesn't often try-PAUL Pills
BURY, the inventor Of shoe pegs and the
machinery for making them, died at George
town, Massachusetts, some days ago -THE
Virginia Convention are trying to negotiate
a loan for 500, 000-WHiLE speaking at
Sheibyviilc, Illinois, fcw.eycnings since,
FREDERICK DOUGLASS was h0oted and iecr-
ed by the crowd.-A LITTLE boy about l3
years of age, one Of the pupils of public
school in Baltimore, hung himself few
days ago. lie had been punished by be-
Ing "kcpt in. "-TnE report on representa-
il"n made to the Virginia Convention on
Saturday. adds II to the present number
of members OF the Legislature. Sec
rotary Of the Hope Insur nee Company OF
louisville, Kentucky, has been arrested,
charged with embezzlng 81, 600 One
thousand dollars per minute is said to be
about the amount Of taxation which the
people of this country are now pay ing
PARIS numbers 10000 walters who serve
in its restaurants or csfns -TuERE are o.
yer twenty-five thousand postoliccs in the
United Sta.es -THE Internal Revenue re-
ceiptS only average quarter Of million
DAY row.-'BEIIE Born" is giving '.read-
inSs' in Nar;insburg -REv GEORGE Il.
tlErwoRTnsproaehed in Buston, last Sun-
day night, scr:ron On tic aLSriuic yi,yhf-
couSHoSS Of impeachment lie Is a bild, we
have no doubt .-THE music in many Of
the churches in Boston costs hundred dol
lars per Sunday -1HE election in Conuec.
';cut takes place Oh The 5ih Arril.-A
RADICAL paper says HAT SUMNER, WADE.
WILSON, CHANDLER, SGIVENs, BUTIFR
aud others, are the Lords Jewels of Con
gross. What beautiful set Of ornaments
The elect N on tie Georgia Constitution
IL ordered FIR April 10Th THE HJnlc
JouRW goes in for so rcvolufionizing snci-
ely as To allow women to propose. '-TuE
nine counties embraced in hc Shenandoah
Valley raised in 1860, 3,J3S,5 ISL bushels
Of corn, or twenty four bushels to each in
haLiiaut.-AN Ohio boy married we'll
preserved widow Of Sky, and his father a
eenged himsclfby Wedding The grand. daugL
ter Of lis new daughter iG-law On, that
The nation could get one fair lick at Con
gross No SECOND would be needed says
PRENTIcE.-THE Confederate cavalry gen
cral, \. j. FORREST, il extensively cngag-
ed in life Insurance business. -THE discou-
solatc sheriff of Randolph county, Alabam-
a, offers a reward Of $500 for a handsome
young friend Of his, aged twenty-five, who
has cheated him out of his money aud ran
away with bis wife, an arllcss female o. for.
ty.-A fRENCu scientific antiquarian has
published work in which he attempts to-
prove that Solomon's Temple was furnish
ed with Lightning rods -TuE attempt 10
start IN asy lum for useless young mcn has
beer abandoned, as no building could be
constructed large enough To contain the
crowd.-MR. LEHMAN, of Ohio, has sold
for $500 a lot in Des Moincs, which lie
got for an old clock worth seventy FIVE
cents when ho moved back from that place
twenty years ago -GENERAL X II SCoTT,
Of the Frecdmeus' Bareau, has received the
Republican nomination for Governor Of
South Carolina.-TmE keeper OF a store for
the sale Of second hand goods in Bridge
port, Connecticut, recently had an applica-
ton from forlorn woman for an old cof-
nm. TUE real meaning Of The words Min
ne ba-ha Is waterfall" word Min
nc is water" and LA ha j. Falls, the act
ct falling and not dangling water. -
TIE Bangor Wing mentions that there j.
an abscnl-minded gentleman in that city,
who met l,is own son in the street the 9TH
or day, shook hands with him, Inquired az
ter his health, and then asked When his "a
Their was xpecicd home 80 ONE If the prin-
cipal hotels ia San Francisco has 500 b
200 regular dodgers, 1900 10 1900 daily
boardcrs, and n library Of nearly 5000 vol