South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-11-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

SOM rine hnd trouble win his eyes, II IL
said, l. now tbre.ten-d with total blindness
TEN inches of suow fell on Wcdues-
day of las week inNi'einia CRY, Nevada
....THE President has announced hiS sp-
pointment of .mmissiouer DriAno t. sue
ceed Mr. Cox A. Secretary of the Interior
Mr. Cox il TO retire about the middle OF
next month The Murmous preiict
civil war between them and the United
States within year THOMAS hiNRAlD.
f,rmer cf Meuard Comfy, L., recently
sold twelve head If ia, cattle for 81 900.
The average weight $500 p"u"d>
Tue Ohio Prniteutiary contains J..
006 prisoners ~ the present time.
SENATOR MoRToN Is the sixth gentleman
that has declined the Eugish mission since
the resignation of Mr.. Motley was request
cd LAND j. soid To colonies in Kansas
from twenty Eve Ca forty per cent. less than
to "A single individual, as al iuducement
for eInigrants 70 settle in large numbers.
TWELVE manufacturing companies
snld last year in this country 32U 600 sew
ing machines VERMONT contributes to
science by furnishing half the slate pencils
used IN The world " WM ADAMS. x
mayor of Allegheny city, Pa has h' en- con-
vicied of passing counterfeit $50 notes
purporriug to have heen issued by the Shoe
and Leather Bank e New York The
weulthi~st people IN the world are the o.
suge Indians, ia Kansas. The tribe nun
Der, Z 900. and hive, after all expenses are
paid. 100 acres nf choice land per capita,
and also So 100000 10 money -. The
town Of Crntreville. Idnho was totally de
stroyed by FIRE on the 24th of October. .-.-
/ THE best informed of ChirfJu~ticr CHASE :
colleagues Do not think he will ever resume
his official du'ies -. CHARLESTON, S c.,
according to the census has population
Of 4S,43l, 22,75S being whites $500 4
CoRNs from thc cork oak, sent from the pa
tent Office, have produced number of trees
IN California, one in the Stnoma Valley
now having trunk three feet in diameter.
The steamer "R. L Ice" made the
run from New Orleans to Ndchez Thurs
| day in Is hours, SO mnu'e., ~ seconds,
beating the time If the "Narchrz" by II
minutes, 43 seconds Distaure, 279 miles.
"a LADY Al Boston narrowly Escaped
serious injury few days since by having
her chignon set on FIRE while travelling ia
horse err. OUT in Illinois baby fell
/ from wagon the other day, and the wheel
/ passed over il, sinking il So deep in toe mud
that it was not injured . IT is proposed
! that every man ia the South contribute one
dollar To a monument fund for General
| LEE 49,. DURING he LEE obsequies in
| New Orleans on Yesterday week all business
vas suspended and all classes joined in the
procession, IT Is asserted that the French
! government has purchased in this country
7rms and equipments to the value of 20,
/ GOO, 600 francs. These purchases have
| heru made, u H. said, in rt,ir behalf, to a.
void sny violstion Of the neutrality lava,
| by private persons. The live stock trade
! 4 Baltimore amounts Ca nearly $40. 600,
/ coo year. TINS rcsignatinn of Srcre;a
! ~ Cox leaves hut one of Mr. Grants orig
NAL appuiute.s IN the catinet-Pn Postmaster
| General Creswril a MOVEMENT IL On
/ foot IN Louisiana 20 induce white farm Ia bnr-
era to imngrate into that State from Car
| ida 49,. CHICAGO }. the only city in the u
u,'-d States Inst has 81 nine story hotel
/ The Republicans of S"uth Ca,Oua have r.
/ .rcrct Tour nrgr"es 70 Congress PREs
IDEHT Grants favnritc saddle horse ~ no.
| njc black gclhiug named J,F Davis, from
.hr fact that he was captured on = p'anta
/ ion belonging o. j ffrr-on Davis IN bliss
/ i-sippi during the war $50 81 RGLARs have
robbed 4 R'ch'ran Il c. bankers. IN New
! Orleans uf so OO0O .THF Norfolk pa
prs annoupre the death IN thar civ 80 Fsi-
day Inst of VI VIM l. WULIAMsoN who
,vas chief Euglurrr of thr Confederate NAVY
duriaf che wrr Tins PHYSICIANS claim IN
have cnp rrei 32O.O)O prisoners no 10 the