South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-09-29

Among the latest counterfeits in circulation are
So bills on the Ninth National Bank of New
York. They are very good limitations and are
very likely to deceive. They be readily de-
tected by careful examination of the engrav-
ing Of the face Of the female figure upon the left,
which is scratchy and out of proportion There
are several counterfeit issues of United States
treasury notes the most prominent being $50
bills of March 10, 1862 A third fraudulent plate
of $40 United States treasury notes has just come
TO light, but it does not come up TO the second
plate, though the imitation is good. There are
numbers Of $40 United States treasury notes of
the second issue, so well executed that the beet
experts hardly tell the difference between the
counterfeit and the genuine. A large number of
$50 treasury notes well executed in several in
stances have passed ms genuine. Twenty dollar
bills of the same denomination of March g. 1853
extensively circulated. There are also a mum
Der of 81 and 81 bills.
The following is a list of the counterfeit bank
notes which are also said TO be freely circulated
$40 bills on the First National bank of Boston,
Massachusetts, $50 on the Fourth National Bank
| of Philadelphia, $50 on the Fourth National
bank of indianapolis, So on the Peoples Nation
al bank of Michigan, $40 on the Farmers and
Mechanics bank Of Poughkccpse, the Albany
city National bank $40 bills, SlO and 81 Win
chester county National bank. There are a num-
Der Of well executed counterfeit notes on the Ma
tonal Union bank, Linderpart Utica city Ma
tonal bank Oneida National bank and Central
National bank, for $50, $40 and So Wheel Int.
"
One day last week at Mr.. Touchstone's house
several miles from Winchester, the careless han
| ding of a shell, picked up in the fields, caused
it to explode tearing the house and injuring the
! furniture. Fortunately no one vas in jured
In vicksburg, FIVE deaths from yellow fever
occurred in the twenty four hours, ending at
noon Sunday last.
In the Circuit Court of Rockingham SLAM
der suit, Loeb Clnpp, was decided on yestcr-
day week by the jury giving the plaintiff E 900
damages
THE Local PArER. "A local newspaper Is q
travelling agent, taking his weekly round to the
families of all their customers No matter whe-
Their times ARE good dull, no matter whether
trade is brisk otherwise, no business man can
afford to take down his sign, nor withdraw the
pleasing influence of weekly chat with his Gus
toners through the newspapers For a business
man to stop advertising, would he equivalent to
! his saying. 81 have stopped business, and ask
no more favors Of the people ~ N71teHo Er
A wel-informed writer says that more than
! 80, Ooo acres Of the best timber in America are
cut every year to supply the demand for railway
| sleepers alone In q single wear the locomotives
| in the United States consumed $50 600, 900 worth
| of wood
Webster county, this State at the late cleo
st tyyo nj
! Convention and but six against
! FiSE CoRN-Mr j. w McNErLL has shown
the editor Of the Moore6eld AiOeri,er n fine spe-
cimen of corn raised on his farm, by r. VI. Stick
/ ley, Esq Each stalk contains four ears, and each
ear is very near foot in length, and the grain
well developed Mr.. Mcneil says that most Of
the crop is like the specimen.
Mrs CLoE FLATPoRp died at her residence in
| Prince William county, Virginia, on the goth
inst aged ll6 years, for many years pension
err her husband being soldier Of the Revolution
Young McDoSALD CAMPBELL, son Of Dr.. f
/ NJ Campbell, of Abingdon. Va. on the 24th inst,
while hun ting with party Of young boys his
gun was accidentally discharged the contents
entering his forehead blowing his brains ovt.
PoisoNED.-Severa families in this town dur
ing the past week became quite III from eating
Custard as it is supposed baked in an earthen
dish, while others onend that the sickness was
caused by something Of poisonous nature be-
ing in tine ingredients used in the Custard How
ever, whatever caused the sickness should be fer
rcted out by some Of our Physicians and be made
known for the benefit Of the community -Siep-
hcydso'ra Regis',r
-"CaIumny," says Archbishop Leighton,
would soon starve and die Of itself If nobody
took il in and gave it lodging." There would
not says Bishop Halt "be 80 many open mouths
II there we're not so many open ears
-Ahcrnethy being called 20 patient who
fancicd himself very ll told him iugcnuousIy
wh attic thought and declined prescribing think
ing 80 unnecessary. "Now you are here said
the patient, 90 shall be obliged to you, Mr.. Alb
erncihy y sou will tell me how ! must live
what may eat and what not MY direc
lions as 90 that Toiut' said the physician, who
abomina.ed This sort Of question ''will be few
and simple. You must not cat The poker, shov-
\ q or tougs, for they are hard Of digestion nor
the bellows because they arc windy bat any
. thing else you p.ease
a Boston lady declares She ls guilty Of down
7 right faischo0d q dozen times DAY by saying
! 20 people She meets, clam glad 20 see you and
cannot free herself from the habit Of so lying.
"A newspaper is ,he literature Of the million
One man 10 O hundred reads a book ninety
I nine in hundrr reads newspaper
/ We direct attention 90 the card of Dr. J. O.
/ FARRsR Dentist on the 2nd page The Doctor
viii bee in this place on tbo 2nd Of October and