South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-09-02
NE WIS OF THE DAY.

OUT OF foTty-fve State officers in Arkan.
sas thirty-six are carpet baegers.
burkesyille, KY, lives man 1l6 years
oid-at least that is tho age he returned TO
the census iaker.-NoRTH CAROLINA tax
payers are praying the Courts to restrain
Holden, by injunction, from robbing the
Treasury TO pay his bandit militia.-THERE
are now th'r'y -three hundred employees in
the Treasury Department at Washington.
The saddle that took the premium at the
Texas State Fair has been presented TO
General LEE.-FoRTY THOUSAND Texas
cattle are now congregated in the vicinity
OF Council Grove, Kansas -Four dollars
month and board is the wages Of batch
of Cinnamon ia Georgia.-THE pork crop
OF Ohio, II IL estimated, will be $4,000
bead greater than last year.-GREAr BRIT
AIN has one hundred aud forty.si six differ
ent religious denominations - Negroes are
now selling IN Cuba at seventy five dollars
each.-AN English firm has received an or
der for 20 600 nose-b bags for the horses in
the French army-DURING the last four
teen years the New York and New Haven
Railroad has transported twenty million
passengers without the loss Of life or limb
to single passenger. ALL able bodied
Frenchmen, between 20 and 50 years of
age, are to be enrolled for military duty
without liberty to procure substitutes
IT took S97 % to send telegram from the
Germans Of Cincinnati to the King of Prus-
STA. THE sale OF lager beer in this coun-
try last year amounted to sd 900, 900
4 NEVADA man shot himself The other day
because he could not pay his debts. Ifev-
- .h oil
the example Of the Nevada man, the I'M
dertakeTs would drive a brisk business
for awhilc.-BoTH French and Germans
are now buying breadstunfs in New York
for shipmeus.-A JAVA granlee is coming
to this country with his eighty-onc children,
aud wants 10 secure beard in some quiet
family.-IT IS announced that "out Of re-
spect for the Slbba;h," the New Jersey
camp meeting adjourned on Saturday night.
TIN use Of flies has been discovered ut
last. They were sent on earth to keep
church congregations awake in warm wealth
er. "All things have their uses. Mn.
HART, who died a few days ago in St.
Louis, was worth one hundred thousand
dollars, all of which was made in the oys-
ter trade. His friends say that fifteen
years ago he began trade by purchasing
two cans of oysters on credit A CORES
PoNBENT styles ANNA DICKINSON 'Ihc
warm, tropical creature The Nathan
mansion in New York has been sold for
sc, 000-GowA plants forest of $780,
600 trees every year.--IN Troy, n. Y,
thirty housekeepers have united to import
Chinese servants.-AT the greet pillow fac
tory Of b L. AVERY, Louisville, Ky, they
turn out 500 plows a day IS thought
the price of provisions should decrease
MISSISSIPPI is to have no less than forty
agricultural fairs during the coming au-
tumn-which is pretty fair for VI Mississippi.
At Resonvile the French lost %, 900
mcn.-THE actual capital employed in the
white lead manufacture in ST.. Louis alone,
is 81 300, 000-THE manufacture of salt
in Michigan this year shows an increase
upon the manufacture of last year Of 81, 731
b,rrels A COLUMBUS (Ohio) paper tells
of brave girl who pawned not only her
boots but her stockings, and went home
barefoot all for money to buy n new CHG
non. -"METHUsMEH," the largest of
new grove of big trees recently explored in
Toulumne county, Cal, is eighty-four feet
in circumference at the roots .-MACHIN.
cry has recently been invented in England
which wcavcs from the hair Of cats aud rab-
bits a sort Of velvet tissue, distinguishable
from silk, but not inferior III iuoncss and
beauty BLANK forms ofproposals are US
cd by Minnesota girls when the young men
are slow iu coming to the point.-CoLoRA-
DO has a community Of Humanitarian
Pioneers" one Of whose laws prohibits
colbacy above the age Of % IN man aud
above the age f2l in woman.-TuE cen
sus takcr has discovered in Michigan n
young lady named Luna Aurora Borealis
JEROME BOSAPARrE, Of Baltimore, has
been promoted to a Lieutenant Colonclcy,
aud is in command at the Tuilcries -TuE
chief Of the Medical Department of the
French Army Of the Rhine, DR.. Leroy, has
just killed himself because ho was inform.
ed lie must resign his position or give up
Bis carriage, which could not be permitted
TO follow the troops Twelve hundred
dollars was the bill Of one Boston florist
employed to furnish h,wcrs for tho Ames.
Butler wedding AN indianapolis woman
only two weeks married, gained her hus.
bands ear by biting it off, "A FRENCH
editor has been sent 10 prison for five years
ior making pun at the expense Of Govern
mepL-MH L VI CLARKE, special a.
geo. Of the Pension Office, has been sent to
tennessee 20 assist in the prosecution Of r.
Is Butler for forgery .--TuE Warrcntop
Sentinel says that the cattle disease is max
ing al havock 10 that county 81. UENDRICKs
county, Indiana, has the champion heavy
w.i gbts-a brother and sister who weigh
to2elberover twelve huudred pounds. The
Ircuoh aro about to try the plan Of bospi-
Ga. tents, which were SO successful during
.rr Tor L.. Il