South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-12-16
N E VS. OF THE DAY.

ShVvV'VOU.-ON Friday last resolution
was introduced into the House Of Repre-
sen'ailTe' OF North Carolina, having for its
ooJect the impeachment Of the Governor
OF that State FIFTEEN members Of the
n'soatna Legislature are colored men,
NE democrats have two majority in the
we" 1ork Assembly VIZ have thus far
I'm ported about 100, 900 Of the Chinese.
IHE Central Railroad has 400 miles Of
ienee along Its line in Illinois The great
est river IN the world is the Mississippi.
Tour thousand one hundred miles long -
bEEcHER thinks it will never do "to preach
cream and practice skim milk The deep
est excavation iu the United States il a
copper mine near Like Superior. /, is
thirteen hundred feet deep AN owl was
shot few days ago in Ross county, Ohio,
which measured Eve feet from tip to tip Of
wings 1T = thought that the total popu-
lauon of the United States, by the new
census, will fall below thirty. nine millions
we all IKE gold, bu, dread the digging.
The eat loves fish, but will not wade TO
catch them-THE Richmond Wig ex-
plains that General Maboue gets only s25,-
OUO salary as President of various consoli-
dateG railroads extending from Norfolk,
Va, to Cumberland Gap, Tenn -THE
BloomingdAle, New York. Deaf aud Dumb
Asylum, having Eve hundred inmates, has
recently lost one huudred and sixty.two by
death from typhus feyer-TIGuT lacing
caused the sudden death Of young lady
10 Springfield (Ohio) ball. room last week :,
An LING, hea'hen Chinese, who was
buried recently, 3; Belleville, n. j., had
placed in his grave, for lunch, a barrel Of
rice and some bref~eak "A FARMER in
( Orange comfy, Florida, during the season,
realizes Sl25 month from nine banana
I plants Coop wheat can he bought in
Scott county, Va, at City and sixty cents
/ per bushel-THE Missouri, Kansas and
j Texas rairoll Is now completed from Sod
ALA, on the Missouri Pacific, IN Fort Scott,
IN Kansas, ard Is being pushed south at
the rate Of two miles a day -THE Nor
mons predict civil war between themselves
and the United States within vcar.-TuE
, complete census Of toe State of California
shows an increase in ten years of 1868.
The increase in the city of San Francisco
IS 95, 40, or nearly 200 per cent-SEvEN
/ counties in Kansas work coal mines The
army Of smokers in the United States keep
/ l,OUO cigar factories running --THE
/ household furniture of FIX Mayor Chahoon
/ was sold at public auction in Richmond a
few days ago, as we understand from the
/ State Journal, to satisfy a claim of his law.
| yers.-THE dry goods store of Mr.. j. NJ.
/ STEWART in Alexandria was broken open
| by robbers and robbed of $500 worth of
/ silks, on Friday night last-AT College
/ TILL Station, about fifteen miles from Chi
c1go, on the Northwestern railroad the night
| of the 1th inst, JAMES SNOW was murGer-
ed by bis wife. Mrs. Snow has been affect
/ ed IS insanity and last summer was sent
away for treatment She returned evident.
| y improved, but last Wednesday she be-
/ gan to rave again. Mr. Snow, her hus-
band laid down on a lodnge near her apart
mcnt at night and fell asleep. About
twelve o'clock Mrs. Saow arose and beat
his skull in with some implemcut-M Mrs
/ ANNIE Il. CAMPBELL was on Monday last
appointed deputy collector Of internal rev.
enue in the ninth Chic district, vice her hus-
band, deccased.-IN San Francisco the
weather is unusually fine, with strawberries
and flowers abundant and cheap in the
markets.-EIGHT thousand dollars worth
of presents were handed in at n recent we'd
ding occasion in Heading, Penn.--"PRIzE
/ candy" is said by an Indiana chemist to
consist mainly of zinc vsriously favored -
/ CHIHICOTHE, Ohio, has had 5000 cases
| Of chiils the past scason.-A RHODE Is
! LAND mother has saved money enough by
washing To buy her daughter . piano On
| the 10Th inst, train Of nineteen cars Ia
/ den with tea, direct from San Francisco,
passed through Harrisburg, Pa, on the
way to New York The cargo, it is stated,
/ is worth near $500, 000.-THE shock e an
earthquake was felt at Goldea City, Colo
RADIO, on Sunday morning last, which cx-
tend, ! southwark to New Mexico. Col j.
. II Cur, has been elected Delegate 10 the
Legislature from Richmond citg to supply
q vacancy by majority Of $40. He is q
worthy Canscryafigp..-TH Democrats have
q majority in the Nevada Legislature Of
five 90 joint ballot One year ago II was
forty two the other way.-NR CHARLES
BEAR, son OF Jacob Boar, living near Con.
RAIDS Store Rockingham county, was found
dead 30 his bed ON "Wednesday moroir
the 3O,h u.timo.-THE Gye bundled cas-, !
VI American guns seized by .ae Govern.
mcu. Of Groa. Britain O.. london, aavc been
released -iW health Of tho Emperor
NAIoLroN, Is said TO have greatly improy-
% "A CuCioo lawyer, named Coon
RICH entered goo less than 2i3 divorce
suits boo tho courts of thar city during the
p4s' seven uuufha-lr b. rcaiHrmcd that
'l. Iil.i.H Government hes oricrr! from
Am.u.. one hundred mltrliIIruses and ono
million %. m.a..,. clrirlgcs --THE blind
.aGl.r D. making sad havoc among tho
hor iu ia.hfc.un'y, Mi, mony of 'hr
igrH.r having .-f valuable animals by
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