South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-11-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

N-NJVNV VI Aut LuOucl eAOlGu lIOul
the train first robbed on the Pacific road
has been recovered from the captured rob-
bers. Doors are BACKED by machinery
in London. =. NEW corn sells for % cents
per bushel in Illinois. OVER 900 900
acres of land IN South Carolina are to be
sold for taxes. A WELL executed coun-
terfeit twenty dollar note on the Oneida
National Bank of Utica, y. Y, has made
its appearance in Boston. THE total
population of Lexington, Kentucky, is A.
$40 .CINCINNATI houses refuse to con-
tract for Hogs at Sc so, delivered in the
latter part of December. THERE will
be at least eight colored members in the
next Congress. ATLANTA, Ga, hotels
provide a toothbrush for every room
The next thing will be set of false teeth
for every guest that is minus molars -
Il. NJ. Kelly has been elected Mayor of
Richmond by about 200 majority.
HELMBoLD, 1t is said invests nearly half
a million year in advertising His sue
cess shows what printers ink will do. 49,.
THE Kimberly suit in Baltimore, against
General BUTLER, on which be was caught
when he was passing through the city, has
been abandoned. -. DURING an election
riot at Baton Rouge on Monday evening,
the 9Th inst, four persons were killed and
twenty were wounded. The female
member Of the Iowa bar advertises herself
an "attorneyess- at law" She has not had
a case-ess. -. J.. Bishop PINCKNEY, AS
sistiant Bishop of Mary land, is sixty years
Of age, and his wife 50, she having made
the clothes in which he was christened as
baby. No class put more real feeling
into their vocation than the pickpockets
WESTERN Iowa has caught agrasshop-
per that measures an inch across the back
In fight at Stanton, Va, on Satur.
day night, JOSEPH NJ. BLACK killed GEO.
w. SMILEY and then made his escape.
EN-SECRETARY of the Interior j. d. Cox
Is already named as an anti-administration
candidate for President or Vice-President
IN 1872 THE winner of the $4,000
prize in the San Francisco lottery was II
w. THOMAS, Nevada county miner, who
canneither read nor write. MAJOR JOHN
HAGAN, Jr., Judge of election at Richmond,
Va, was arrested on Saturday last, charged
with violating the Fifteenth Amendment,
in refusing a colored man named George
Roam to vote at the late election ONE
clothing firm in Boston employs three thous-
and hands. =. THE New York Sun denies
by authority that CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE
has any idea of resigning. .. FORTY in
dictments have been found in the United
States Court at Memphis against persons
holding Offices contrary to the Fourteenth
Amendment in Tennessee. LAST year
the cotton exported from the United States
amounted to 100000, 900 in coin. THE
barn of Mr.. WILLIAM COCHRAN, near
Stanton, Va, with 800 bushels of wheat,
and a number of valuable agricultural i'm
plcments, was destroyed by FIRE few nights
since. Loss $1,000. THE Virginia
Legislature has adjourned, to meet again the
18th day of December. AT the recent
fair at Helena, Montana Territory, farmer
took the premium for producing eighty-fve
bushels of wheat to the acre. LEWIS
TRAVIS, colored, was arrested in Nashville,
Tenn, on Saturday, as fugitive from JUS
tlcc, he being accusedsof having committed
at least half dozen murders in the State
OF Georgia. &c.. a SEVERE winter is prelc-
ted because the autumn feeces of the sheep
and lambs are found to be unusually close
and heavy ...- BIsMUTH and copper, the
latter IN large quantities, have been discov-
cred in Texas. In Vermont the average
salary of Methodist ciergymen is 5000. 10
1850 It was $3.50. The Court of APP
pcals Of Richmond, Va, on Saturday grant
ed writs Of error in the case Of ex-Mayor
CAHooN, who was recently sentenced for
forgery. 49, lT is said that the Prussians
IN front Of Paris have trained hawks to car
ture carrier pigeons. sent outtof Paris with
dispatches. The tender mother who
lately gave birth to q double. headed infant
IN Ohio has sold the privilege of exhibit
ing the same to one 0. c Brown.for S10,-
OOO.....THE majority for HOFFMAN, dem
ocrat, for Govcrnorsof New. York .isaabout
2,OOO... ONO promises a great hog
crop. An Iowa. Dutchman has startoda
wooden hoe factory TIE people had to
pay half million Of dollars for the bayonets
semitic New York for election purposes.
----EOUB seed cucumbCrs was a clergy
mans fee for marrying couple in Iowa
DENVER bias a fish with a head like a
cat, body like O lizard, short legs and fms
TWENTY FIVE persons met their death
by their devotion % base ball during the
past season. ... IN costs 500 TO 90 up 10 q
balloon in Paris. TIE Texas farmers
arc sowing more wheat this year than at
any time since the close Of The war. "A
LARGE needle factory is about to be cstab-
lishcd iu Newark, Now jersey, which will
turn out 100000 selfthreading needles per
day .IHF only counties ia Mary land
which gave Radical majori,ies were Anne
Arundel, .3Ss Calvert, 80 .CharIes, 30
and Prince George, The whole Couscrv-
ativc majority iu Mary Iaud is near 10000.
.TnE druagis, HoImbold has brought
suit against tie Ncw York Herald for ono