South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-06-17
VS. OF THE.DAY


54.-Sinec the 1st inst the Iuterual Rev
enue receipts have aggregated nearly ST.
100000 per ay.-Philadelphiaus boast
that they deyour Que hundred tons of straw
berries day.--WuITTEMoRE has been re-
elected to Congress from South Carolina,
after being expelled for selling Cadeiships.-1
The citizens of ST. Joseph, Mo have
made handsome subscription to eudow
Missouri professorSbip in Gen. LEES col
lego in Virginia Eleven thousand eight
hundred and Dinety-two emigrants arrived
IN New York last week, 5000 of whom
went West or 10 the interior. Dreadful
ravages are being made by the cholera in
different parts of India.-Mr. DICKENS
made $50, 900 by bis last series of London
ings.-Reports of ladies under the sur
geon care for injury to the feet caused by
wearing high beeled shoes, are becoming
very common throughout the country
10 the British army soldier gets pen
sion alter II years service.-Four George
Nashingtons, six Andrew Jacksons, five
Henry Clays, aud two james X. Folks, re-
side in the Louisiana penitentiary Pa
per fabrics in imitation of leather are cx-
citing much atieDtion.-Onc marriage out
Of every nine and fraction in Connect.
cut, last year, resulted in divorce. Bergen,
\. J., has colored woman, named Nancy
johnson, aged III, who "sews without the
use of glasses" and earns her own living
"A man at Atlanta, Ga, recently, who
sleeps with his mouth open, had his false
teeth stolen by an adroit thief-It is said
that Kansas will more than double her pop.
ulation this year. The immigration is We
ry great.-Don't eat unripe fruit-Thc
total number of youths attending public
schools during last year in this State was
80, 6S4.-JouN STEWART, a brother of
Hon. a. Stewart, of Uniontown, Pa, died
at his residence in Fayette county on the
29th ult.-Erysipeas may be relieved or
cured by the application Of the Garth treat
mcni.-it will cost woman just thirty
dollars TO withhold her age from the Gen.
sus taker-Gen. GRANT has beer suffering
from too many strawberries and cholera
morbus--Some one says he saw strawher.
ries in California as large as Yankee lump
kins, and that to ascertain when they are
ripe, they plug them rs we do watormelons.
Wood county Republicans appointed
three colored men delegates to the State
Couveutou-Prof Robt. Simmons, Robt.
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deaths from relapsing fever last week in
Phlladel phia.-lt costs about 100000
to collect our internal revenue-A South
ern editor having boen sent 4 barrel Of W his.
ky, thankfully acknowledges it, and says
be is now fortil against snake bites.-
Pittsburgh furnishes forty-six per cent of
all the glass made in tho United States.
DR.. LANDON q. RIvEs; leading ply
sician Of Ohio, and brother of The late VIM.
G. Rives, OF Virginia, died in Cincinnati
on Saturday last.--Texas has over five hun.
bred miles Of railroad, and is rapidly build
ing more The Commissioners appointed
to assess the value Of tue properly of the
Blltmorc 4 Ohio R.iIroad, in this State
have concluded their labors The value
was placed at 81, l25, SH-CHARLEs Dick
EMS, the great novelist died at his residence
IN London, Of paralysis, on the evening
of the 7th inst, in the 59th year Of his age.
-Four hundred and sixteen thousand dol
lars have been expended by the War De.
partmeut for artificial limbs for disabled
sodiers.-The wheat fields Of the South.
ern States are ripe, and the harvest is in
progress. The crop in Georgia, Mississip-
pi and Alabama il said to be good The
the late raid gives ] killed and 7 wound.
ed, 8 ally.-KaDsas is estimated to
have 100000 square miles Of coal fields
The stick that stir5 the people the
wrong way-the toddy stick In Oregon
the Democratic Governor is elected aud the
Legislature is said to be Democratic by 6
or majority. latest New York cx-
trayagance IS to have diamonds set into ones
teelh.-Santa Fe reports say the crops Of
that territory are suffering from drought
-JEFFERsoN DAVIS was sixty.two years
Of age on Friday last.-"Trying to do bu.
sincss without advertising is like wioking
through pair Of green goggles. You
may know that you are doing it, but nobo.
dy else does The Columbia g. c.
PhOcBi1 says that South Carolina contains
ut present two distinct parties, 'tbe rob
bers and the robbed The New York
Tribune begs Congress to "havo done with
reconstruction and give the South time to
rccupcTate aud become quiet." DANIEL
w. VOORHEES, has been rcnomnated for
CONGRESS III lndSPpa. Agricultural papers
IN England say that the-powiDg wheat
crops look finely everywhere, and a crop
larger than the average is ezpccicd.-C Crops
IN North Carolina are-repoT;cd to be bad.
y damaged by the recent rain storms
LopEz had an afIeclionate mother When
she heard Of the death Of her dear son she
said, Thank God" She had more sons.
just as bad as ho waffle is robbed of
IFS sweetness by bursts Of angry passion, as
milk sour5 in thunder storm.--A man
may have much Of the world and not be
much Of a man. The Nova Scotia cold
mines produced about 1926, 900 last year