South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-09-16
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-OHIEF JUSTICE CHASE is now reported BY
bis physician out of danger.-A KANSAS
gardener asserts that he has raised sweet
potatoes three feet long WASHINGTON
Market, New York, does daily fruit bu-
siness Of $50, 900 JONES, the Repubi.
can candidate, has been elected to Con
gress in Wyoming. The ladies' voted gen.
orally throughout the Territory.-THE wo-
man questionable is to set the fashions
now that Eugene is dethroned tine tea
plant IS being successfully cultivated ut
Auburn, Placer county, Cal.-MRs. MARY
CLARK, of Cincinnati, was killed on We'd
hesday of last week, by the explosion of
coal oil can she had thoughtlessly left on
the stove-A LUXEMBOURG correspondent
writes that the garrison of Metz is starving
Beef Is two dollars a pound. -LEMONs are
extensively raised in Lower California, and
yield about $1,000 an acre.-A LARGE
mandatory, for the manufacture of straw
paper, is about to be established near Win
chester THE trottiug mare Lucy was re.
Gently sold at Hartford for SIG, 000.-TnE
principal portion of the town of Port Wine,
California, was burned on the 1t inst
hAGERsTowN, Nd, has population of s..
500 SAILORS in the Uuitod States navy
are to receive dollar and halt per month
additional pay Instead Of grog Two men
named ARNAUD and GRANT, the latter an
American, have been sentenced in Hayti
to be shot, for passing counterfeit money.
WOODSTOCK, Va, contains n population
Of 900, and Now Market COZ -WM.
BENSON of Preston county, this State, on
the I'D ulhmo, shot, bird which meas
ured seven feet from tip TO tip of its wings
Species unkuowu.-KtNG WILLIAM orders
that NAPOLEON shall be treated as the SOW
reign Of France. -PHILADELpHIA has de-
cidcd to spend one million of dollars upon
a house Of correction for boys and girls
IL Union county, Y. & f., the census taker
has discovered HANNAH COLEMAN, aged
800. She Is bliuG-REV. Dr. NATHAN
LORD, for more than thirty-Gve years pres
ident Of Dartmouth College" died in
Hanover, \. H., on Friday last, at the al.
ganced age Of seventy seven. TIE oldest
pcnsouer in the Uuitcd States is ELIZA
ARGoWsMiTH, Of Somerset county, n. Y,
aged TO- She gets a pcusion of 5000
year. AN illinois husband lamcnts the
loss of several bushels Of apples, shaken
promatureIy from the tree on which his
wife hung hcrsclf-TuE export IF gold
from Now York to Europe on Saturday last
reached 81 Bis 000.-A II. H. STUART is
spoken of as the Conservative candidate
for Congress from the Augusta, Va, dis
trict.-TnE horse Is curious feeder He
eats best when be hasn't bitin his mouth
WAsHNGToN CITY contains a population
Of III, 900 TIN great Virginia State
Fair will be held at Richmond, commcnc-
ing on the lst Of November, aai holding
for four days Ar Auburn, n. Y, each
convict, in the State prison costs the State
for his support but 151 cents day.-A
MAN in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, has invented
parlor grindstone. Now what will he
do with it TIA FARMER of Menard couu.
T., III, recently sold twelve head of fat
cattle for 1000 The average weight was
$500 pounds The talcst tree yet meas
ured is an Australian, of the myrtle family,
and Of the gerus E'uciypiUs. 1t is four
hundred and eighty feet high but in La
meter it ia Inferior to the larger Califjrniaus
--iloN Ben WooD, &C Now York, is 10.
ve~,ing largely in Virginia lands. lie
owns 20 .O00 acres in one OF the tidewater
counties. -THREE lives were lost at Sui
phur Springs, Ohio, OF Friday, by the ac-
cidcntal explosion in store of three kegs
Of powder The building was completely
destroyed THE census returns for New
York show The population Of the city to be
less than go ,00G Chicago, according to
the census, has 297 ,0O0-PARIs is proVis-
toned for two monthsfor 1000 900 of men
Tue Brooklyn Union says tho next Re-
publican candidate for Vice President must
be a negro -CHILI has spent 80 100000
in an attempt to conquer the Indians in
that country and given itup as failure -
GEN. ROBERT + LEE has returned from
the Hot Springs to Lexington, cured Of his
northumberland is treated in
Prussia more like an honored guest than a
prisoner -TnE Catholic Bishop Of Liver
pool forbids wakes on penalty Of forfeiture
Of burial riics.-M NRTINsBURG rejoi,cs in
the possession Of rev steam Gre engine.
TIE Norfolk Journal says that all fish
taken out Of the water should be killed AZ
once and not left e. die It further says
that fish killed will keep longer and that
they are better for fool, in every way
Troubles continue CD be reported in the
Georgia Legislature population Of
Petersburg Va, is 1Sa14.-ON Friday
las', 100000 Of Behu'ui city NVaJ
eight prr cent bonds were sold 40 eg3 so
The bonds ar coupon, payh. .n dirty
four }car-, auI we're ali lbon iv two gcu
t.emeU # Richmond The bonds arc issu.
Ell f.r tbo purpose Of ooeiiue iu.L.uc- for
,hc public schools -OvH eighty Frsnel-
men sailed from New York j. % for Europe
ON Saturday % AID in 'hc defense ol Paris,
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