South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-10-27
GLEANINGS BY LATE MAILS.


George l.. Seaton, colored, and Allen
Pearce, have been nominated BY the Alex
andria Radicals for the House of Delegates.
1t is now said that cundurago not on.
ly does not cure-but it kills
Fifty million bushels was the amount
of Pittsburgh's export of coal last year.
"A learned Hindoo lady who is lectur-
ing in England, says that the vice of in
temperance was unknown in India till the
English introduced it there.
Sand storms from the Colorado and
Majavo deserts extend into Eastern Califor-
MIA, and over so, 900 sheep have been scat
tered and lost
ADULTERATIoN OF CLOVER SEED.-A
confidential circular from an enterprising
German in Hamburg has lately come 10
light containing an offer to sell several tons
OF sand suitable for mixture with clover
seed, the grains of which resemble the seed
so closely that 1t is almost impossible TO
distinguish them by the eye. The writer
OF this circular announces that this sand is
IN great demand, especially in Euglund, for
purposes of adulteraton. Two colors are
supplied, one for red clover and one for
white
Japan numbers nearly thirty.fve mil.
lions of inhabitants, according to the last
census.
AMOS l.. KNAPP, of Northumberland
owns an Alderuey COW that has averaged
ii pounds of butter week during the
present season.
The last luuacy of fashion is the rage
for gray hair. Middle aged ladies are fall
ing into the habit of appearing in public
with venerable locks, and white powder is
in active demand.
-Advices state that severe snow storms
prevailed last week at Santa Fe and Wyo-
ming, the snow in some places being four
feet in depth
FRANK MAY, negro, was condemned
to death, at Grenada, Miss, last week, for
poisoning his wife with rat exterminator.'
lie is also reported to have tied one of his
children 10 stake ard burned it to death
-Tea-growing is now carried on in some
parts of the South with considerable sue
cess. A gentleman 10 Wilmington, n. c.,
has successfully raised plants aud cured tea,
which he claims can not be cxcelled by
the imported article. He obtained the
plants from the Agricultural Bureau Of the
Patent Office, previous to the war.
MAMMOTH POTATO Joseph Roop, of
Paradise township, raised this fall potato
of the Early Rose variety, which weighed
- pounds. 1t is one of the finest speci-
mems grown in the county this season.
Lancaster (Pd.) hlHyeacer.
Fire and. Birthstone BRowNLow. of
Tennessee, the whlom fighting parson and
rowdy, wants martial law proclaimed 10 that
State. FORNEY backs the suggestion with
glowing tribute to the worth Of the old
reprobate. Twelve years ago he would
have consigned him to a pcrdition deeper
than that to which even the Ku-Klux
would now do-"where the hand of resur-
rectlon would never reach him."-U.
AT Baltimore, on yesterday week,
General Richard ~ Bowerman, ex deputy
collector, convicted on the 7th instant in
the United States District Court Of em bez-
zlemeD, was sentenced to a fine Of 81 ,346.
y and costs, and imprisonment for four
years IN the Baltimore City Jail. Colonel
Thomas j. Wilson, ex-deputy collector, al
50 charged with embezzlement, has been
found guilty, and was sentenced TO three
years in the Baltimore City Jail, aud fine
of So, $50 and costs.
The Pittsburgh Post puts forward the
Honorable THOMAS A Scorr for President
OF the United States, as a man to carry
Pennsylvania against General GRANT BY
an overwhelming majority.