South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-09-08
N VS. OF THE DAY.


lic debt during August WIS 50 POS, 297.6 go
A NEW counterfeit So note on the Ninth
National Bank of the city Of New York, i
IN circulation. WHEAT BUYERS in CHI Ii
Gothic, Ohio, are paying 81 % to 81 10.
according 20 grade. The whole amount
OF flowers sold IN New York City in one
year, is nearly one million dollars worth.
-. ISAAC RosENwEIG, a prominent and
wealthy citizen Of Erie, Peuusylvsnil,
was convicted on Friday last of sci iog fur
ged and fraudulent tickets FIR passage over
the Erie Railway. Col YERGER Of Mis-
slssippi, l. about TO start new daily pa
per In Baltimore. THE Washington Star
SAYS 'the demand for The new FIVE per cent.
bonds i fifty millions of doll lrs in exces,
ot the allowance The cars on MANY Of
the best railroads at the West are lighted
by candles. Two years experimenting
has Demonstrated that the poppy culture Ia
California Is success. The opium con-
aims an uCu.ual percentage of morpbi .,
AMI Is coDsl Tered flr superior TO the orii-
nary opium If commerce.. y BOX con
tanning duck sitting on ZEN coqs. went n
baggage on the Kncx.il Ea.lrtaa, - Ten
nessre, recently LADIES a. tua White
Mountains sleep under GOV riets q. d. wsoa-
pers, as there are not blankets enough tn =
round a YOUNG lady who W.. out nd
ing in Wisconsin fell from her horse, and
the animal running away, she was dragg,
by her skirts until she was killed AN
old lady at Cascade Iowa, WAS attacked bv
a vicious ram, the other day. and mangled
80 she cannot survive o. tho 20th ult,
the boiler Of an engine in j ID Shomo's
Sash and Blind Factory, in Stouutoo, ex-
ploded, carrying with it abont one half Of
the building, damaging good deal of the
machinery and making a to al wreck Of al
most the entire bulllinC -. REPORTS from
Charleston indicate that the fellow fever
is dying out in that city QUEEN VICro-
RIA is now in her 5lth year. Her health i
not good \ PIANO that is played with the
feet is the latest musical invention announ-
ced in England 1t has G8 keys, which are
cubicnl blocks Of wood, aud each one
strikes chord of four NOES. The iuven-
tor wears slippers while playing, and while
he performs upon the piano with his feet
he plays the tiu'e with his mouth and FIN
gers. Tue African c.nuibal, who receI t.
ly killed boy at Kingston, Jamaica, roast
e! him, and drank ais blood, has been
found gully and sentenced to death y
MAN named Terry Dooley was convi,ted at
the August term of Pittsylvania (Ya.)
county court Of horse stealing, and seuten-
ccd to the peuiIontjary for sixteen years
-. ADvICEs from Tuscon, Arizon', Of
Auguat 2G, announce new and rich silver
mine discoveries near Prescott = .EXPE-
RIENCE this season has demonstrated that
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Of a train. The Ohio river il so low
that no steamboats, can run between Wheel
ing and Parkorsburg. -. INDIA has five
thousand miles of railway .RICu gold
mines have been discovered in Utah, near
the Emma Mine -. EIGHT hundred ond
fOrty-sx deaths occurred in Paris during
last week e.. .FoUR thousand more cmj-
grants sailed from Liverpool in August
than during the same month Of any pre-
vIous year. An iowa apple tree, two
years old and two feet high, has born, an
apple that would outweigh itself, this sca-
sou. "A FRENCH girl only II years old.
neatly aud tastefully dressed has surprised
the people of Vermont by her skill in the
use Of an axe. She cuts and piles mp
cord Of wood daily GARY and attrac-
tive are the aGjec'jves applied to n new
heaTse in indianapolis "A New York
oculist charged n man $1,000 far taking out
an eye The patient "cou,du't SEQ it"
MANY women at Washington, it il said, are
becoming hopc' drunkaris, ownr to dis
appointment. BOB 'p5e. MEXICAN news
papers are discussing the aunezali1n Of
Mexico 10 the United States. .CAIIFoR
MA is growing cotton, and some Of the