South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1868-04-10
NEW $ OF THE DAY.

KANSAS has been carried by majority Of =
te.--lr will require nine;ees votes n the
Senate to defeat impeachment. The num-
Der Of Democratic Senators are eleven
lIiE value of the coinage a. The Z. 3 Mint
last month was 1891, 69l A FIRE In
Nadesboro', " c., on the Goth ult., de-
s'royed the courthouse, Jail, and seven
stores .-QUEEN VIcToR1A, poor woman,
has only something over thirty tons Of sill
yer and gold plate -I.ouIsyILLE has a
trotting mule which has made q mile in
-. IA BosToN match manufacturer
Laid the Government, last year, SlO0,OOO
Tor one cent stamps. "A MAN who plays
sixteen drums with forty ight drum sticks,
All ut the same time, is exhibiting his skill
IN Berlin, Prussia-DURING the last ten
months, upwards Of 1900 persons in Yir-
ginla have been declared bankrupts.-
JUDGE SNEAD, of Accomac, is out against
the negro Constitution, though ne is Re
publican "A GRAND niece Of BENEDICT
ARNOLD Is said to be employed as 4 clerk
IN one OF the departments AZ Washington.
-IuE st. Louis artesian well has reached
depth Of 2906 fcet-PARIs is fcas,ing
on eggs cooked in two hundred ard TWEEN
,y-scven different ways.-TuERE is hap
py family IN Illinois, consisting OF the old
mao, seventy-tour years OF age, his wife,
seventy, and twenty-five children, the youn-
gest an infant at the breast -GLYCERINE,
equal TO the best brands Of the imported
article, it is stated, is now extensively man
uiactured in the United States, the domes.
TIC article being sold at half the price of
the foreign. One Of the largest manufac-
tories in this country is in Cincinnati
RHODE Island voted for Governor on Wed
nesday last. The Republicans carried the
State by about the usual majority. BURN
SIDE was elected Governor Mourn Pleas
ant, Iowa, has charming preacher, Miss
CuAPIN by name. She is pretty and but
attempt to fire the residence of
Dr. WM. \. McCORMICK, in Winchester,
was made few days ago. Fortunately the
fire was discovered before Il had communi-
Gated itself to the wood work 4 lot of rags
10 a barrel under tie passage steps, had
been fred In the Jumel will case, lately
decided in New FORK Mrs. JUMEL having
been the widow Of AARON BURR Mr. o.
EoNOR received, it is said, fee of $780,
O0O.-FEE Pleura- Pneumonia has made its
appearance in l4oudoun county Mai WM
BERKELEY, of Adie, has lost nine head of
fine cattle, with this disease, within the last
few wcyks.-WENpELL pnlLLIrs proposes
that, after JOHNSON is removed, the prop
crty Of the South shall he taken possession
Of and divided among the blacks.-SoME
Of the newspapers report" that friends
have brought about reconciliation between
Z ! Z
VILE, Ohio, pays GTS eco a year for lis
religion, and $4,000 q year Cor its grog
-EIGHTY fixtures in New York last week,
involving about 10000, GOA pIsvIL-
LERY costing 100000, will speedily COM
mence operations at Martins burg A NEW
"Chicago Bible" now in press is t. con-
tain, in addition to the pages ordinarily de
voted to births, marriages and deaths, sew
eral leaves for divorces.-THE Government
expenditures last month reached $50 000,-
000.-OuIo has II 900 acres devoted to
grape culturc.-THE Wabash (Minn) lie
raid tells of man there who recently went
to the river stripped himself, cut hole in
the ice, and took bath After houudering
for a while in the water, he sat down on a
cake of ice and cut bis coris-MR STAN
TON still Tiers in the War Department, night
and day.-A CONFEDERATE ghost sent the
cd ors Of the North Albanian a,Ku-Klux
order, and enclosed twenty dollars in Con
Tolerate money, to pay the printing lie
says it passes in the moon at par-TuE
Alexandria Radicals have declared for
HAwXuU2sT for Governor -DU CuAILLU
SAYS the Niger cannibals won't eat a man
who uses tobacco What phy.ic ng these
men aud brothers would get il they yGt
hold Of a mouthfu Of Ulysses Uc would
pizen half the nation, and give delerium
trcmeus to the balance-lT i SAID to b.
probable that a mail route will be establish
ed on the Chesapeake and OHIO Canal -
\ BEGGAH won The 100000 prize in the
last Havana lottery ON The railroads Of
Ncw Jersey, last year, l0l accidents took
place, Gl of which terminated futally.-A
MAS named EMASCEL Caoss, was murder
ell In llcurico county, n few miles from
Richmond, on Thursday night of last week
The deed is supposed to h V, been done By
purity Of four siroling negroes, who were in
the vicinity about the timo The crime was
committed Miss MARY 4 LEVERS, Of
Jackson township, Wood county, Ohio, j.
twelve years OLD, and weighs two hundred
and twenty-five pounds She is still grow.
ing -JOHN WmTE, a respectable citizen
Of PDwhatan, Va, was found dead To- that
county, on SUNDAY, with fge bullet holes
in lis boiy.-DR HOLMES, says "Iu-
scribe your names 90 your silver, tl,. will
last" Unfortunately for BUrLEg, ths -.l-
rcr ho has is reported to b. inscribed with
other peoples names TUE Richmond Rad
iea's prophecy tiat SHERIpAS viii super
ccle ScuOFIFLD in command Of the First