South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-07-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The tea traffic over the Pacific railroad
promises to amount during the first six
imonths to nearly 100000 pounds.-- JE-
TEB PHILLIPS, Of Riehmend, convicted
sSme time since Of numbering his wife, and
who has been twelve times Tospited, is 20
be hanged today Tennessee State
debt is now nearly SH 900, 000.-"JoE
LANE Is candidate for senator from Ore
con. Since he ran for Y ice President on the
ticket with BRECKINRIDGE he has not un-
IA now appeared in politics Cinctnnati rs
the fourth manufacturing city in the Uni-
ted States, only New York, Philadelphia
and Boston exceiling it.-Thc hog cholera
is very extensive in its fatal effects in the
southern part of Illinois Oae farmer has
lost sixty porkcrs recently from the disease.
j. j. WALL (eolorcd) is brigadier-gen-
eral commanding the Florida militia
\ negro man confined in Jail at franklin,
Tenn, charged with committing an assault
90 n white woman, was taken out on Fri.
day night last by disguised men and hang
ed.-Ihe estimates of the present wheat
crop in California falls twenty million cen
tails short Of the last In 1868, 203, 100
children died in England under five years
Of age looks and other servant girls are at
q premium in Colorado, getting twenty
five to Fifty dollars month and board =
White men are now eligible to Office in l.i-
IBERIA. An American Colonization society
should at once be organized for the ben
eft of Southern carpet baggers. prac-
tce of Kentucky distllery hands Of bath
ing after working hours in the watts of
whiskey not only refreshes and clcaUscsIhc
men, but adds to the ''body" of the liquor.
"A Minnesota school board, by vote of
two to one, declared lightning rods Danger
Gus, as they attracted lightning, and or
dered one ell the building over which they
presdod.--A man was convicted in Hen
rico County Court, Va, recently, Of high
way robbery, the robbery consisting Of Ia
king pocket knife and 20 cents from Il
citizen, and sentenced TO seven years in
the Pcuitcn;iary.-Mr. FRED. HARRIS, of
Mercer county, Ky, has a COW that gave
birth to a calf, few days ago, which
weighed l22 pounds when only one day
old.-lu o!den times our Saxon grandmoth-
crs called carriers Sh0HHJGndS. "A young
man in New York bet that he could drink
six glasses Of ice water. He did and he
jicd.-Ohio county, Indiana boasts of a
-
famed the enormous weight of 2S2 pounds
When women come to sit in the jury
box, possibly infants may get to be criers
in c1urt.-Ihe Treasury Department bu-
reau olcngravinga and printing employs near
~ ,0UU crsons.--Iho Rev. Dr. CLARK,
who was recently ticd before his Presby-
terry, at Pittsburgh, Pa. for breach of prom
i.c Of marriage, IS row to be tried for hay-
ing made lie alleged promise prior to the
Joccase Of his wifc.-Bad for the rats
the coming OF the Chinese A man in
Orange county, Florida, is said to measure
8 feet inches in length. The Mormons
Of Utah have turned their attention to the
production of gloves that rival those Of Par
is in delcacy aud workmanship. The
gloves are made from. genuine kid, raised
In tho vicinity Of Salt Lakc.-It seems
That tie report Of The massacre Of Euro
reans and native Christians in PekiD is
un;ou0ael The Gux ia prevailing in the
ncigL5orhoal Of Toms Brook, in Shonan-
dJIh csua ,y.-On Tuesday Of last week
negro roviahcd white girl in St Louis,
Mo md the citizens on the Thursday night
fJIlowin. took him from Jail and hung him.
A girl e ] ! committed suicide at Port
Jorvis ca the 18th She adopted the usual
me;hol--of kinlling a FIRE with coal oil
Zen Starr, recently convicted OF viola
ling tho neutrality laws in the recent Fe-
Man rail into Canada was on the llth
ia-t sentenced to , years imprisonment
IN the hyLurn Jail, aud to pay fine Of
$40. Several -tLer Fcnan leaders were
also sentenced to Irisonment -JOHN
PATTr, o negro, for burglary, Los been
sentenced by The County Court Of ShcnaD.
daah 20 the pcnitcniiary for eight years
Senator SpHtGUg, rumor says, intends try
ing Chinese labor in bis mills in Rhode Is
louj.-It Is laid that there have been ono
thousand houses built within the last two
years. on the York Road, within three miles
of Baltimore Tie steam communication
between Europe and tHc United States now
cost more tban q 81 600, 600 a week.
Now Hampshire takes the premium for ear
iy marriages. The census there shows that
woman aged thirty has son 2S years
olG.-Thc census man says there are a
great many girls in town who are only
"swcgt sixteen There wcrc twenty ca
-as Of suu stroke Ia Baltimore on Monday
last. af which were iatal-Thc late IIcgis-
.lture OF NireInia wng in session 80 days,
at o cost Of little over $3.50, coo On
Monday morning JAS, the steamboat Right
way exploded au lbc Mississippi Ninc
persons were killed and a number wound
Ell The population If Lecslurg, accord
ing To- tlo fr 90 census, is ,JJ7-On
Monday afternoon last o train from phiIa-
d.'rLIa 90 Capo May ran into a carriage at
Woodbury., n y Two ladies and gen
,lcmau were in tho carriage two Of whom
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