South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-09-22
N E WIS OF THE DAY.

N'''NRSN ~ inola- HERE are ten til-
hon acres unoccupied lands in Iowa.
PRESIDENT GRANT and family were on
friday last at Washington, Pennsylvania.
-. -Lo the poor Indians number just $751;
OOO souls, according to the last census.
HE importation Of tea 10 the United States
reaches 4O,000,000 pounds yearly. The
experiment Of "ship building is to be tried
In st. Louis. IA MAN, wife, aud seven
children walked twenty-five miles to visit
circus, 10 Kansas The express Office
at Ellis, Kansas, was robbed of S20, 900 on
Tuesday night of last week. THE latest
returns from CahforUia indicate that the
Democrats have two majority in the Senate,
but on joint ballot the Republicans have a
majority LITTLE son of Robert Love,
OF NeWburg, Preston county, was killed
few days since by falling from q chestnut
tree .kU-KLUx smoking tobacco is be-
ing manufactured in the western portion Of
North Carolina. The Portland and Ok
ford (Me.) Railroad Company will change
the guage OF their road from FIVE feet six
inches to three feet. This is the first adnp.
ton OF the narrow guage plan in New Eng
land THERE are 90S agricultural socie.
ties In Prussia. -. In Vienna it is forbid
den to publish matrimonial advertisements
In the newspapers. TWENTY FIVE miles
an hour is shown, By signal service obser-
walton, to be the average velocity of storm;
when 1T has twice that velocity it becomes
tornado. In the public schools of Mu.
mich, Germany, gymnastics have been in
troduced as an obligatory branch of iustruc-
ton. MIKE HEINER lives in Caldwell,
North Carolina, is 104 years old, has %
children, and can jump on a horse as spry
as a man of 60. "A n CAROLINA editor
Expresses the hope that the lives of a certain
newly married couple in his neighborhood
may be glad as the throbbing Of angel mu-
sic IN empyrean space. In Madrid two
women, Rose Campos and Rose Gurtrez,
were advertised to kill the bull at a recent
Sunday bull-fght. PORT and sherry
form nearly two-thirds of the consumption
of wine in Great Britain. "A HOUSE
HOLDER in Florida, in filling up bis census
schedule, under the heading "where born"
described one of his children as "born in
the parlOr," aud the other sup stairs" A
strict return. - . IT is said that Mr.. Don
ALLISON, Of Cincinnati, has so thoroughly
domestlcated a humming bird that upon
going into his garden the bird will imme-
diately alight upon shell in his hand and
sip the sugar-water within it, no matter
bow many persons may be standing around
him at the time. DETECTIVE j. II RICH
ARD, OF Bait. who was shot by young Miller
two weeks ago, whhc attempting to arrest
the latter party on q charge Of stealing,
died on the 18th inst Miss SARAH
BROwN, a Charleston negress, stole white
dress, muslin spencer, and enlargement
from her mistress TO be baptised in on Sat-
urdly last She was afterwards arrested
md sent to jail for. twenty days. l.. j.
WEIR, of Limestone county, \ labama, who
was taken from bis house some days ago
by FIVE masked men, was found on the l4ih
inst tied 10 tree in the swamp. His
captors after whipping him, nearly drown
ed him in stream Of water, then tied him
to tree and left him TO starve Two Of
the desperadoes have been arrested -.
THE cattle in Fayette county, Illinois, are
dying in considerable numbers of Dew
disease that manifests itself by the animals
scratching and rubbing the jaws until they
exhibit symptoms Of madness by running
and believing, and most invariably die 10
about twelve hours. "A LONDON under
ground railway cost four million dollars o
mile. Nobby young men DOW wear
sleeve buttons about the size Of door mob
GEN. MCCLELLAN has refused the
presidency Of the Atlantic and Great Wes-
tern Railroad at a salary Of $4,000 per
annum. -. AN earthquake on the 2lst
ult shook the entire coast Of Peru severe
10 Tin vy flt ocvifogol II
Gallo it was impossible for time for yes
sells to enter port. = IT is a significant fact
that every stean er which left British ports
on yesterday week for New York took spe-
Gle on freight. Mrs. WHARTON, the
prisoner in Baltimore is said to be in de.
cliuing health. She only admits few init
mate friends to her room, and keeps her
bed the greater part Of the time. THE
San Francisco Call publishes list Of the
solid men Of that city. Fifiy-one are mil
liouaires, with fortunes running from S1,-
100000 to so 100000 ten are worth
$3.50, O00 AID sixty one have $500 900
and upward ."JoHN' was the entire
name of a cOlored candidate for District
Clerk at CorsicaD, Texas, at a recent cleo
ton OYSTERS carried from the Allan
tic coast are being planied in Oregon
AN exchange says an illinois girl was bug.
ged to death. That's a mistake; you can't
kill 'em that way. .THE New York Tri-
June gets of long and artistic comparison
Of Butler to a turkey gobbler. II will not
hurt Ben and it is gratuitously disparag
ing to the gobber. "A CITIZEN Of Mon
treal has been sentenced to pay six dollars
and cosis, or to e. 10 Jail for thirty days