South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-09-29
N EWs OF THE DAY.

'iNAsbURG anu jackson, Mississippi
arc no" suffering from the yellow fever.
Thirteen Struggled diamonds, valued al
oio,OOO, were seized by a New York de.
tec'ive on Saturday last. "A HANDSOME
. entertainment was given at HarrisOnbure
on Saturday last, 10 Governor Letcber, by
ms friends In that place. Two thousand
1ndlan warriors are reported to be moving
on toe fialns, and the surveying party OF
the Northern Pacific Railroad have been
turned back by them ILLINOIS claims
tue champion sun flower measuring five feet
10 circumference. -. EIGHT days and nine
teen hours is the time made between Liv-
erpooI and New York by the steamer "Bal-
TIC, which arrived on Sunday last at the
latter port. \ BLACK baby took the
hrst prize at Keokuk baby show. AN
Irish doctor advertises that persons afflicted
with deafness may hear of him 10 a house
on Ditey street, where also blind persons
may see him daily from till 10 O'Clock.
THERE is now but very little doubt that
the wheat crop in England will be very def
cient III quantity aud rather inferior in
quality. ~ YOUNG woman In New Or.
leans handsome X bewitchiDg, lately oppl-
ed to lawyer to procure a divorce from
her husband on the ground that she could
do better. -. DR.. SrEARNs, removed tape
worm from Mr.. ANTHONY STAUBLY, of
Martinsburg, last week, which measured
forty feet long A QUANTITY of hair,
silky, silver gray, and thirty inches long,
was recently sold in New York at S35 an
ounce. AT Larwill, Whitley county, To-
diana, IN addition to the bell TO call chill.
dreD 10 Sunday school, two guns are fired
1.-Two womeG in Kansas have gone as
partners into the law business. They pro-
pose TO be sisters-in law. :. JUDGE JOHN
Nj. HERNDON, late Secretary of the Com
monwealth, died at his residence in Fred
ericksbnrg, on the goth instant - Two
crops of sorghum, millet, oats, Irish pota-
toes and many other vegetables can be
made IN the coast regions of Texas in the
year.---A CALIFORNIAN, worth $780,
GOO, fell in love with lady in Columbus,
Ohio, street car, and married her Corn
in the ear has been engaged by differeu,
parties in Chjllicothe, Mo to be delivered
at 10, ID and 20 cents per bushel. THE
assessed value of real and personal proper.
~ IN Rockingham, as given to the Register
by r. Sterling, Esq Is SO, 1915, 1876 81
PROPERTY at Kansas City, Mo it is sta
ted, has increased in value TO an almost un-
prccedented extent within the past few
years y lot in that city fifty by one hun
dred and fifty feet, purchased five years a.
50 for S40O, sold last week for Sll 600
MARRIAGE is like quarrel-much
easier rushed into than out of. THEY
have discovered a mammoth cave under
is now ascertained to be fact. WHEN
shocmakers are to be piticd-when they
lose their orl. THE largest whiskey
seizure made for long time, occurred near
Brownsville, Pennsylvania, ON Tuesday Of
last week, when the revenue officers made
a descent on the listillery of SAM'L THoMP-
son, charged with votation of the revenue
laws, and seized ,92S barrels for the use
of the United States -. A Mr. SEMMEs, a
Georgia postmaster, has tGrued up a de-
tauIter to the tune Of $4,000 Steal !
steal . appears 60 be tie rule and honesty
the exception with the officials of this ad-
miuistration The 26 letters of the al.
phabet may be tranSposed go, 44S, 40l =
1873 ,239 ,430, 800, 600 times . ENERAL
GRANT has been received handsomely aud
welcomed in every place he visited during
his present journey to the West Or the
3.407 ,924 people in New England, 6IS,-
GEO. or nearly one fifth, are foreign born.
80. LooK out for n great intestinal com
motion, for California estimates its crop of
castor oil at so, 600 gallons. A SHOOT
ING affrhy on the Gosh instant, at Shawnee
town, Arkansas, between DR. MeGarock
and Mr.. Shadiord, both we'll known plant.
crs, resulted in both being mortaly wound.
ci. The dispute was about some hogs
LITTLE daughter Of Harrison Wine, aged
) years, near Nashville, in Rockingham
county, was burned to death last Friday
She had been left alone by her mother, and
her clothes catching fire, caused the fatal
accident. ."WoMEN, Wake Up "-RcU.
olVt,0R Yes aud-dammit turn out
and make a fire, and put the tea kettle on
There was snow at Mount Washing.
ton Wednesday Of last week, with the Their
mometcr at 3G-..-A NEW trial has been
granted THOMAS MCCLELLAN, for the muir
der Il Myers, at Dayton, Ohio, on the
ground Of thc incompeteucy Of one Of the
jurors .-. Mr.. 4 CHAMPION, Of Roches-
ter, New York, who is worth several mil
iious If dollars, bequeaihs half his fortune
20 Bible society not under The coulrol o.
Baptist, ani half to the Prcsby terian For
oigu Mission Society YELLOW fever in
ils worst form hs- broken Out at Cedar
Kegs, BOO Florida. writer iu Wasbi, gton
90 lhe Baltimore GuSHc, says that on one
Of Che day. be vas there, The deaths nun.
basCd ono twcuUath Of tbc inhabitants.
There vas great alarm and excitement.