South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-09-01
N E VS. OF THE DAY.

United States last year from British Amer
lea. Many OF these were Europeans, but
the majority were Canadians THE yield
OF fruit 10 all parts of Kansas is reported
as abundant, and the corn crop unusually
large THE cost per mile of the London
Underground Railway is set down at no
less figure than 81 900 900. :. The spe-
Gle shipments from New York on yesterday
week, were sl2S,00 in silver. RAIL
WAY Investments in England which, three
years ago, were unproduciive if not ruinous,
nave gradually become highly profitable.
-. -hEADY-MADE houses are an important
article of manufacture out Yves d. THERE
are seven churches in Richmond, Va, be-
longing to the colored people of that city.
49, EIGHT to ten million gallons Of wine,
are the estimated figures of the next Cali
fornla wlne-crop, brandy being left out of
the account "A BOY killed a rattlesnake
in Washington county, Va, few days a
60, which was six feet 10 length, four inch
es IN diameter, with twenty two rattles.
THIRTY years ago these we're not twenty
wood engravers in the United States Now
there are four hundred = a SAN FRAN
sIsCo doctor advertised for "good office
cal" He has already received 243 felines,
with the southern counties yet 20 hear
from. AN African giaut, eight feet high,
Is on his way TO America. - The steam
ship "Lodona" has been wrecked 10 miles
south ofSt Augustine Fla causing the loss
OF twenty lives. THE Khedive of Egypt
has the greatest private purse of any indi-
vidual in the world. His personal wealth
is said to amount TO $500, 900 900.
The steam ears Of New YORK State carried
2l,55O, 1853 passengers last year, and the
horse cars of the cities l54 ,59l ST.. Only
fifteen Of the number were killed. AN
Ohio Judge has decided that the ladies
not be sued for SANDER, because their phys
iological propensiies to find fault with ev-
erybody and everything render them NOR
ally not accountable for their words, no
matter how slanderous they may be ga
second Daniel has come to judgment" 80
a HORSE thief was arrested near Kansas
City In the morning, tried at noon, and
hung at night. GOLDSMITH MAID won
the race for 5000 at the Dexter Park, in
Chicago, Saturday. BALTIMORE has put
up two thousand buildings in the last eight
months THE Union Pacific Land Office
at Omaha, has sold 1857 acres of land
in the last two years for Sl,773, 79l....
The Shenandoah Iron Works, destroyed
by the flood of September, 1870, are again
in full operation. ELIJAH BRAGG, Of
the vicinity of Mt. Sterling, Ohio has put
an end to over eighty ra;tlcsnakes this sea-
son. Mr. NJ MCCARTY, of Harrison
county, this State. reaped Oft Of ! ) acres
sowing the usual amount / bushel to the a.
cre-360 bushels of wheat -THIRTY-TwO
81 cd h,
lightning striking church at Bologna, Ita-
ly, few days ago On the 22d ult, the
residence of Mr. STEPHEN ALLEN, 1 miles
north from Clarksburg, was destroyed by
fire, caused by defective hue in the kitch-
en- ---- AN Ohio girl committed suicide by
taking strychnIne, because her mother box
ed her ears. The Stanton VUyjni4R
says that the recent advance in the wool
market has bad marked effect on the
price of sheep, aud farmers now seem more
generally inclined to buy than to sell a
FIRE in Amboy, ILL.,, on Friday last destroy
ed seventeen brick and seven frame build
ings. 1t swept both sides of main street
for an entire block. The city buildings and
Jail were burued, and a prisoner, Johu
Shannon, persisted before assistance could
reach him Loss, $50, 900. THERE is
a melon patch 10 Illinois which covers 700
acres Of ground. - DREDGING for oysters
in the Mary land waters commences on the
18th of the present month TIE reports
Of the condition of the cotton crop continue
to be very uuiavorable. THE North Mis-.
souri, railroad was sold ON Saturday, at St.
Louis, to Mr.. Morris Jesup, of New York,
for 81 000, 900 The New York author
tiles have expended over seventy thousand
dollars 10 the last month cleaning the
streets and alleys, in expectation Of the
cholera. 4 LOCOMOTIVE exploded stand.
ing on the track, at Eckart, Md on the
Cum berland and Pennsylvania Railroad,
four miles above Cumbcrl md last s lturday
night. All hands were IN an adjoining
brewery getting . drink and nobody was
hurt. IODINE is said to be now manu-
featured on a large scale from Chill saltpe-
tire Citrate Of Soda, over 1000 pounds
per aunum bring obtained PAPER is
now used for the lining Of ice-cooors 90.
AFTER the FIRST Of October the rate Of post
age for single letters between the United
States and Germany will be reduced from
ten to seven cents. ...lT is said that there
are over three hundred species Of humming
birds known TO ornithologists. These are
mostly confined TO South America and the
West India Islands "A LADY al Sara
toga ball on Saturday evening last display.
ed 100000 worth Of jewelry "a GUEST
at Western hotel, finding long hair in
the butter, ordered the waiter to bring him
some "bald-headed butter" IA Mime
sofa juror addressed note to the Judge, IN
which he styled him an "onorable jug"
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