South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-12-02
N E VS. OF THE DAY.

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Aenla, Ohio. IT is computed that ev-
cry wild Indian within our limits-man.
woman or baby-cOsts the United States
e9oV year THE President refused to
receive Hon. CARL SCHURz, as visitor,
while on recent trip to Washington. 49,
I'm or twelve full. blooded Indians have
/ applied for admission to Highland Univer-
sity, Kansas, with a view to enter the Pres
oyteTlan ministry. A LARGE portion Of
rue louisiana cotton crop is still out. 1t
Is feared that much of it will be lost. -.
Two Old Rhode Island women have had
year having about the right to n pet cat
- THOMAS JAY, president of the First
National Bank Of Kokomo, Iud BACKED
the boots Of John w. Kern, a Democratic
lawyer, of that place, on an election wager.
give My Button-string 10 My Sis
ter Is the title of the last idiotic popular
,ong.---- Miss FANNY RUTHEaFoRD, of
Hrnnd Rapids, Mich, is city physician
y hen the Rutherford goes feeling young
fellow pulse and finds it beating like all
/ possessed, how does she know whether its
fever or Fanny :. a JArASEsE prince,
with suite II ten officers arrived in New
York on Saturday last Our cotton
export last year was 5000 GOO, 600 in coin
One hundred bushels If wheat will
buy, in Liverpool, 700 ibs. of blankets; in
New York, they vii exchange for only
o9o lbs OVER Fifty persons were kill
ed recently by an explosion Of gun cotton
at AIexandria, Egypt. BALTIMORE in
SuIes the HE of every member of its fire
department. SoUTHERN journals say
that Il VI. GuGER, who killed Col. CRANE,
in jackson, Miss, several years ago, las
had a second trial, and being found guilty
was sentenced 10 imprisonment for life
--- OR y gallon Of beer, young mau in
Akron, Ono, swallowed live mouse.
\ GOLD dollar will buy twice as much salt
10 England or spain as in the United States.
TIM peanut crop of the United States
this year will exceed 100000 bushels.
JOHN ARMSTRONG and CHARLES Jolly,
ihe butchers Of the I4apine family, near Po-
'oSi, 10 Missouri, a few days ago, were cap
turcd on Il e 23rd ult., and are now in Jail.
CALIFORNIA acorns, when dried can
hardly be told from chestnuts The la
test thing in funeral professions in the
West Is wagon to prccede the hearse,
bearing bell, which il toled en- route 10
the grave. APPLES arcs selling at ten
cents per bu,hcl 10 some parts Of Pennsyl-
vania lr is stated that during the past
four weeks fully 1000 recruits-600 Irish
and 100 FIcnch--lcft the port of New York
TO battle for the French against Prussia
The Frsnchmen went by the steamships
direct to llayre, and were provided with
every thing necessary for the winter cam
pligu. Mr.. and Mrs SAMSON, of Chi
cage, filed cross bills for divorce. He .tes-
titled that she poured a painful of boiling
water over his head and then sscraped the
HAIR of with the pan, he submitting "to see
how far she would 60" A CATHOLIC
priest with thirty monks is on the way to
this country to found a monastery at
Washington. e = NINE steel manufactur-
ing establishments in Pennsylvania employ
81 900, 900 capital THE we'll known
hymn, GLOW firm foundation, ye saints
of the Lord, was Gen. LEES favorite and
was sung over his remains 49, A FAMILY
Of children in GAINESVILLE, Ohio, have been
awarded three hundred dollars damages a.
gainst a saloon keeper, who soldi whskey
TO their father. PREsToN county con-
taiEs population of l4,621... APRON
festivals are the latest approved arrange.
mcnt FIR raising money for religious or
charitable purposes. MEssBs PEYTON
( Il Co.. lessees Of the Grcenbrier White sui
phur Springs, who send no children to free
schools and who are not allowed even to
vote, though their seTvents are, were assess
ed this year Sj44, and last year 5000, as
their quota Of the tax, for free schools, in
Greenbrier county, this State THE
CIarksburg Ttiegroph says that there has
been about eight thousand chickens shin.
ped from that depot during the months Of
September and October, to eastern cities.
.THE recent census shows a decrease.
10 the negro population Of ffty.two coun.
ties Of Eiciuin, since 1860 e II .O24 In
fourteen counties of this State, the negro
population, IN 1860, was 1916, while the
/ last census only show l347-a decrease Of
100. Ncrily, The negro is passing away.
IAN old negro, called Moses, who ran
away from BIS m SER, Mr. Absolom Hum.
pH'cys, nearly f.ty-Gye years ago, return
cd 10 his old Kcutlcky hoBe IN Cadjz the
other day. expressing himself ~ "sho' duff
tired of dem h1brliiouist fcllcrs. Mr.
GEORGE w. PAiNER, near Saltville, Va.
aa- fourteen COVE, which, during the past
yc.r added twDDty nine calves 10 the gen.
erHI stock. thirteen Of the number having
each contributed tH0.anj the remaining one
three IOe a.t.t returns OF the Arizona
election -.se Priy, democrat, a majority
tI congress Over 500 fraudulent votes
i.r ai.Corn b, publican, were discover.
0i.... ON Monday of bust week the BODY
Ola yuuur mln, named JoUN CUNMNG.
was uud drowned BOZ tbe Potomac, six
miles below NI'am-par', Nd JULIUS
AVERY. Democrats raud fdafp for C.u0rogs