South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-07-08
NE VS. OF THE DAY,

the month of June is said to be eighteen
million dollars.-The wheat harvest for
Southern Illinois is about completed, and
Is pronounced the best crop for many years.
4 The cost Of taking the census, it is esti-
mated, viii be about SIX cents for each per-
son enrolled, or 81, $4,000 altogether
Eighteen hundred and forty three divorce
cases are now pending in Indiana courts.
The Internal Revenue receipts of Friday
last were eleven hundred thousand dollars.
Orders are said to be pouring into New
York market from both France and Prus-
STA, for all manner of warlike supplies
quarry of black marble is worked near
Williamsport, Pa.-Thosc spots on the sun
that were recently charged with making
the weather cold, are now accused of the
hot spell.-Poverty must be like a woman
1t is so fond of pinching person 1t
is estimated that 900 emigrants per day
are settling in Minnesota. Virginia
Legislature has so amended the Code as to
allow no compensation for serving on Ju-
rics. Speedy verdicts, it is thought, will
be the rcsult-A young lady in New
Hampshire took pinch Of snuff the other
day, and was conyulsed with five hours
continual snecziug Last year the Terri
tory Of Montana yielded over $4,000, 900
in gold and silver; this year the estimate
is $50, O00, geo. The population is esii-
mated at IS goo The wool clip of South.
ern Indiana is said TO be the heaviest ever
yielded in any year in that section of the
Statc,-An ungallant Congressman propos.
es a tax of twenty-five per cent on corsets
Hon. JAS. *. GIBSON returned to his
4 . h. Ell T.. r
BILE health.-On Saturday last, daughter
of Samuel Nauman, Esq, of Honeyville,
Page Co, Va, fell from a cherry tree and
was killed instautly-The statement is
confirmed that Andrew johnson will ap
pear as a candidate for Congress pref
ty girl who talks incessantly, may proper.
! ~ be called a ding dong belle.-Bulletin
boards are suggested for churches to do away
with pulpit announcemeuts.-Apr ecocious
boy In public school out West, who stands
high In geography, was recently asked by
his teacher, where Africa was located He
promptly answered "All over the United
States. The terrible story which has
been going the rounds of the press, taken
from the Middletown (Mo.) Banner, to
the effect that three of the musicians at
tached to james Robinson and Co.'s Circus
had been destroyed by the lions belonging
to the show, into whose cage they were
violently precipitated on the 18th of Nav,
turns out to be hoax.-Charles Dickens
attained by far the greatest popularity ev-
CT won by an author in lifetime Sarah
Beelcr was burned to death at Wheeling,
/ West Va, on Wednesday of last week by
the explosion of lamp which she attemp-
ted to flfwhile burning Spotted Tail bel
came wid5wer duriugabis trip to W.
ington, and attffS9 ting = ~ to
his absence, Put All his presents in ier
gravc.-Nermont has the champion nation
nj bank president, who is ninety six years
old, and yet rides seventeen miles n day.
The coin in the Treasury on the 1st inst
was $50, 600, and the currency near
- $4,000, 000.-A vein of lead ore has
been discovered in Bedford county, Penn
sylvaujl.--Crcam of Tartar is said to be
occasionally made up entirely of plaster Of
Paris, (sulphate of lime,) starch aud sui
pburic acid A quantity purchased recent
y Of New York grocer was composed of
the above ingredients, and contained not
even n trace of real cream Of tartar or BIZ
tarIrato of potash. This is certainly adul-
teration oxtraordinaTy.-It is finally set
tied that there is to be a colorcd cadet at
West Point, az james William Smith, the
colored boy from Columbia, S. c., has pass
ed the examination and gone into camp
with his white comrades RED CLOUDS
OPINION Dad rum, bad Indian-good
rum, Indian feel good" Red Cloud should
be Judge The Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company will carry freight from
Baltimore to the Ohio river for twenty cents
a hundred weight-dis;ance 3S3 miles
Seven hundred aud sixty-seven Cinnamon
arrived at San Francisco on Friday and Sa-
turday last, making s, 40 since January
lst.--J. S MARTIN, n cattle dealer from
Texas, was robbed on the steamer Olive
Branch, at St Louis, Thursday night week
Of about So 900 in drafts and $1,000 in
currency, the proceeds of lot of cattle
he sold at ObeliD, Kansas One million
Of Government gold will be sold in New
York during each week in this month, and
the proceeds will be applied to the purchase
Of Government bonds The Cuban plan
tors, at 4 recent meeting 10 Havana, ap-
proved Of the abolition Of slavery by the
Spanish Cortes The London Spectafor.
in an article ertieising the Indian policy
Of the United States, anticipates an imme-
date Indian war, which shall result 10 the
determination Of The race In blood 3
fight in a Missouri harvest field, The ether
+ day, ono man ran his scytho directly
through tho body Of another, the blade
entering bis back, passing through his
heart and out through the breast--A Yves
tern lady Is writing 10 favor Of limited mar
riagcs, for given time, ranging from one