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

j ''Nh - P'Ihtt INSIDE oil the U1lfA.
,,M Mrs SUSAN Crow, died recently in
Georgetown, aged one hundred and two
years THE North Carolina tobacco crop
Is better than usual. THE property Of
New Orleans Is assessed at Sal, 800, 162.
AN Aiabamian has ordered for him
self marble cofhn.. ONE hundred and
thlrty-tbree car loads Of Texas cattle were
shipped from Kansas City, Mo, a few days
ago The standard of our gold aud sill.
yer coin IS one part alloy, and nine parts
pure metal sixty. ONE per cent Of the
people OF Mississippi can neither read nor
write. The French have only 2l00 pris-
oners In their hands. MILFORD, Pa.
has seven times as many women as men.
OVER five hundred assistant assessors
have been diSrensed with, ,uainy in the
South and West, owing to The consolida-
lou Of districts. e.. TnERE is to be n to-
tai eclipse OF the sun on tho DIST of De-
cemorr, visible only in Europe TUE
French have completed an iron-cal loco
motive, armed with heavy ordnance ...
lT l. claimed by the germans that The sup
/ ply Of meat IN Paris is Insufficient 10 meet
the actual necessities Of those within the
walls Tor nno'b'r fortnight -. THE Dem
ocr'tic majority on toe State ticket in To-
diana -, Bis . NINE new steamboats, are
now being bni!t at Pittsburgh, Pa THE
tota! population Il the State of Ohio is 3
632 BOZ. 49, IL is said The owners of Gold
smith Maid have been offered and refused
eiU,uOG Tor her -. French agents are re-
ported to toe buying cattle in Iowa.
MANUFAcTUBlNG tubIceo raised in South
ern Illinois j. said to be worth five cents
pound more than that grown in any other
portion Of the west. There have been
one HUNDRED and sevcuty,three deaths from
ye!inw fever IN Mobile this season A
CoNFLAGRATION occurred at Frankfort,
h""iueky, ON yesterday morning week,
causing loss of over quarter million dol
lars The cpnsns shows that the hog
population of Illinois is , 2l2,970 -.
uFNRY MILLER, Of Tay lorstown, n. J.,
died on the night tot the Goth uIt from the
effects of food poisoned by his wife, and,
during the Post-mo, ten examination, she
took poison, which caused her death the next
m''ulng.. LAKE Superior silver mines
are sand ~ he working successfully.
NAToLGoN head is to be taken off the
French postage stamps MRs. LINCOLN
Is paying visit in Scotland -. IT j. said
there l. no evidence in existence Of NnpO
Icon having accumulated vast private
fortune ONE at he objects ofeurosity
at tie Nmeiuia State Fair was steam
road engine, to run on the common high.
ways \ PIECE of land fbr sale in Lon
don Is advertised as equally suitable for a
church or tavern." a FATAL ARRAY &C
en- red at a show ut Dawson, Goo, on the
27th ult., growing out Of a question Of sd-
mission. Two men were killed and wo-
man was wounded. -. The B1va.ain MI
tra;lleuscs FIRE 800 bullets a minute. and 20
f,;ol at 1000 PAGES Distance ExTsEMEs
meet in Mnnesoto. Professor NoYEs has
charge of the deaf an|. dumb there.
CHINESE domestic servants decline 10 90 10
New Englaad GREECE was devastated
by terrible hurricane in the latter part of
August. Il destroyed The entire wine crop.
Coy. SENTER, of Tennessee, offers a
heavy reward for the arrest Of masked ma
RAIDERS in Ru'heTford county, in that State,
UHo have killed three persons, conserv a.
tjvcs, during the past week ALoNZo
DAVIS, n lad under , years Of age. shot
aud killed an Indian girl in Napa, Cal and
the Jury acquitted him on the ground that
he was loo yoGug 10 know right from wrong.
... KcL'u-ky grows swec. potatoes weigh
ing ten pounds each. The tobacco
chcwer is like q goose in n dutch oven-al-
ways on the spit. .TuE arrest of Mar
shall Bazaine and staff has been ordered by
the French Government. Tue business
IN Writing paper and envelopes is reported
To- be- much larger this year than ever before.
....TmGTEEN car loads Of Tennessee cat
tie were shipped Saturday from Lynchburg
90 Fauquier county, Va. AMONG the
features Of the recent fair in Georgia was a
COOKING match in which young women were
jhc rmpe,itors Miss Black, girl aged
only ID years, took the premium for the
best cooked dinner Of twelve dishes.
ONE Of the Democratic Congressmenin In
diana was elected by a majority of four IN
vote Of 25ll6.. An Old maid de-
Dounccs matrimony because, she says, there
Is something chih}-ish in it,. THE color.
ed Blp'ists Of Kentucky are TO bavo a the
ological s.hool 70, Frankfort, aud have
bought GC.y acres Of land for The purpose
&C.,. BRIGHAM lOUNG regrets the million
aud q half OF women that are "wasted =" as
be terms if, in thi+ country, by being IN.
married. IL is sad Cons doctors say
Let the ladies keep up the fashion IF high.
heelei boots II brings va more custom.
crs than al, the other causes combined.
AS enormous OK, weighing i,5lj lbs va,
exhibited at the Petersburg Fair. Thn
hugo mountain ofAesh was raised in Ken.
lucky, and is said tu b, the largest Of thr
species ever seen in tic world. .TNvEv
rIoN and folly sometimes travel 10 compsny
An Albany undertaken has inveu cd a cofir
which "lod- down" and exposes the bod,
a. full length, making it appear as If rccliu
ing on a sofa IL IL designed 10 save pco