South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-09-23
NE VS. OF THE DAY.

enuo stamps Mas. SAM Corr, of revoly-
or fame, Is the richest widow in America
"A NATIONAL baak will bo in operation
IN few days in Mobile, with 81 000, 600
capital -IHERE has been no rain in the
vicinity OF Richmond for seventy-two days.
II HERE arc now about $50 vessels In the
navy OF The United States, not one half OF
which are Ia active service. -SPANISu fc-
yer prevails among the Illinois cattle
ne first iron steamboat for the waters of
Mississippi Is building at Cincinnati, and
OF st Louis iron.-THE Grand Jury Of Bal
tmore, have reported base ball as cone of
toe gradations of crime IT Is nearly
settled that tho total population of the u
nlted States will be found to exceed forty.
one miIlions-s gain of about ten millions
within the last ten ycars.-AN Ohio youth,
ten years old, has been lodged in jail for
whipping his mother and little brother-
TWENTY dollars worth Of siIrer plate is
to be given to the mother OF the finest baby
at Tennessee fair.-CIDER apples in Mas
sachusetts are quoted at only fifteen cents
bushel.-Milford, Pa, has seven times as
many women as meu-A YOUNG lady has
been elected oae of the directors ofan Ohio
bank.-FIETEEN dollars Is the Saratoga
price FOR washing a dreSs.-A New JERSEY
baby died receouy from eating painted
candy. "A LITTLE boy out West burnt some
/ pretty papers. They were two-hundred
/ dollar United States bonds In Western
/ village COW of remarkable trotting powers
| Is training for q race.-MRS SuELLENBER-
GER, Of Michigan, is no more. She would
/ light her fire with kerosenc.-A New
| YORK women considerably took laudanum
She said she wanted to die so as to make
her husband happy.-DR. S N. DoLD,
died very suddenly of diesase Of the heart,
at his residence, in Harrsonburg, on Thurs
day morning, the 9Th inst. He was lying
on his bed, alongside of his wife, when his
death occurred. He was an intelligent
| gentleman, aud a well educated physician
The potato. bug is committing great ra-
wages in Ohio.-TuERE is an intelligent
1 dog at Mud Piue, Indiana, that whenever
Methodist minister comes to the house
proceeds at once to catch a chicken, thing
be will not do at any other tmc-TuE
Court journal St. Petersburg tells of the
awful death Of MADAME PALEsKoFF, Of
! CHAMBERS contracted from carriage horse
-TnE number Of dolls sold in New York
city annually amounts, it is said to nearly
four millions Olive LOGAN intends lee
turing in Cumberland, Md, this season.
n HORSE collar stuffed with cork has been
invented. Tue cattle plague has attacked
tue cattle Of the Prussian army.-BEVER.
LY Boon, prominent citizen of Botetourt
county, Virginia, committed suicide on
Friday by cutting his throat-IT is said
the receipts of the Chicago Post cficc are
sufficient to maintain the entire postal SER
vice of the State of Illinois.-TH2 popua-
ton of Chicago is 3lS,7G9, gain of 2O3,-
1915 since 1860 -HIRAM KETCHUM, a
celebrated New York whig politician during
the existence of that party, died last week,
aged 10. He was an emiueot lawyer, aud
conducted the prosecution in the famous
trial of Bishop Ohderdouk. -THERE are
nineteen distllcries 10 operation 10 Shenan-
doaL county-Ir appears that Berkeley
county has 2,270 registered voters this
year, against 1857 last year. gain of
SOB chiefly due it is presumed to the 18th
amendmeut.-A bronze statue of AGRA
HAN LINCOLN WAS inaugurated in Union
Square, New York, on Friday last, with APP
pTopriate ceremonies TWENrY- FIVE hun
drod barrels Of -four were shipped from
Gsorg- ID c., last week to northern
ports a PENNSYLVANIA company has Of
cred sl,gO0,OyJ for a nowiy discovered
BED Of coal located near Alamo, lad. The
VEIN IS SAID to De irst.ciass block coal, and
Is tor!y-sevcn feet ;hlck -WM. j. HuN-
TER, of the Firgjni7 Conference u. Il
Church, South, died of drop-y at his home
near Emmaus, Bedford county, on Sltur-
day last. IIc was in charge Of the Bedford
. lNa) circuit-TuoNAs EuBANK, Esq,
formerly C9iteI a.a,es commissioner mss, .7 OF