South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1868-04-17
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whcatin portions Of Rocking ham county =
Four distilleries in Augusta county, Va,
were seized last week 10y tho internal rev.
euue officers -SoME citizens of high stand
ing about Vicksburg, who tried emigration
TO Belize, Honduras, have returned to re-
main In Mississippi-TnE majority against
negro suffrage IN Michigan is about;
26,OOO.-THE OcEAN QUEEN. arrived
at New Orleans, from Aspinwall, brings
81, us, geo in treasure -XiruIN the last
week twenty negroes have died IN and a
round Lexington, va. Too much "liber-
ty"-A FOLD thief in Philadelphia, the
other day, yalked into jewelry store,
threw red pepper into the eyes of lady
clerk, gathered up three gold watches, and
then decamped .-IT is proposed In the
Massachusetts, Legislature that all land de-
voted to growing forest trees shall be free
from taxation -GREAT Britain used more
than 70, 600 tons of sugar last year in the
manufacture Of beer.-TuE Negroes of
Madison, Ga, falling to get the land and
mules promised, ran radical elcctioneering
agent out of town the other day.-TuyRE
arc already sixteen countries on the CONT
ncnt of Europe which have accepted horse
s M article of food and III Paris alone are
twenty-five shops opened for the sale of
horse beef-ruERE. are 1910 cOnviets
IN the Ohio PcniteptiaIy at this fine
TWELVE counties in Missouri, through
which he main line of railway TO the West
runs, are reported to have increased their
valuation more than Sl35, 900, 900 since the
roads were built In Texas cattle are sell
ing at 81 % per head, horses al ten dol
Is, sheep at Fifty cents, and good lands ut
from 90 cents 10 81 per acre. \ good o.
PENN 2 for men OF small medns.-A YOUNG
man was poisoned few days ago at Hud-
sou City by his sweetheart, who, requesting
mouth, npcd therein candy ball con-
taiaiug 80. ncxious substance. -REY.
HERMAN NJ, JOHNSON. y. D president of
Dickinson ColleA Carlisle, Pa, died snd-
denly on the Sth ,.'st-GENEBAL LEE has
teen quite i'll, and l.is general health l.
said to be declining ~ FELLOW named
SMITH was tarrcd and fea.hei t In Denop-
oils, Ala, last week, for having .1arrIed II
negro woman.-GOoD mutton Is old IN
Melbourne, Australia, at two cents = pC nd.
-CnLoRIDE of copper is now extensive q
used in Germany against the cattle plague,
or rather as preventive. 1t is burned in
the pens, or stables, and given internally
in soiution.-A BOY was lately left alone
N a confectionery establishment at Mound
City, Illinois, where he had just begun to
learn the business, and on the return Of the
proprietor WAS found To have eater four
pounds of "gum drops" by the prompt
use Of remedies his sweet life was saved =
The iron-clad ticket of Alexaudria embra-
ccS but three negroes, who are nominated
for hc counci!-TnE DIVE ling of WIN G.
HARRISON, Esq in the vicinity Of Harri-
sonburg, was entirely destroyed 10y fire on
the ;jrd inst. Loss heavy JONAS GOCH
LNoUR committed suicide, on the 2Sth ult.,
near Columbia Furnacc, in Shenandoah co +,
by hanging himself No cause has been as
signed for the rash act.-GENERAL SHER-
MAN IS reported to be opposed to the con.
yiction Of the President AN exchange
says the people are the supreme power. \
great mistake That was under the old or
der of things. Perjury, theft, corruption,
dcspotiSm, &c are the controlling power;
in this country nnw.--ONE New York cler-
gyman is paid $1,000 per aunum. His
piety should be first rnte-Tug dwelling
house occupied jointly by Messrs JosErH
y. RIDDLE aud PHILIP kENNoN, near
COOTEs' store, in Rockingham, was destroy
ed Iy fire on the 3rd inst -THE coin in the
L. :. treasury on the lst inst was over
ninety-nine millions Tins years sugar
season in Wisconsin is sud to be the best
known for many years.-OLD things be-
come new. Blue coats and brass buttons
are once again thefsshion in England -
Two hundred new houses will be finished
in Marlinsburg this summer HARRISON
county has six Democratic Clubs, all in ac-
tive opcrariou.-CoLo1ED people are being
arrested IN Cuba for practicinc witchcraft.
AN eminent French physician attributes
many diseases aud deformitics &C the feet
and ANGLES to thc custom of wearing high
he lei boo's.-DURING the G,ol Friday
services III Catholic Church IN Chicago
an alarm If fire was raised and in tho hur-
rs Of the congregation 20 get ont three wo-
men were killed and Others injured -TmE
excise llw is cyaded in New York by taxi
ing whisky under the name If Sunday tea
-GEORG1A pays a tax on but one gold
watch, aud that belongs TO a colorcd man -
IIENRIco county, Va, has voted a subscrip-
ton Of 500 shares to the stock # the Chcsa-
pcakc and Ohio railroad New YoHK s
new po,tofIirc is TO cover two acres Of ground.
-Tng largest nail mandatory 10 The Uni.
ted State, is located az B1ou'on, y i
THE buiiliug covers six acres of ground -
Tins uc5mc of Louis Napoleon is 1920
per d1y. Francis Joseph las sl0.oj0 per
day In Woonspckei, Mass. u few nights
since, just after JOINS y BrRNs and lis
flmily bad retired, bis hthc sou, xix years