South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-12-15
News OF THE DAY.

Maryland, cooAsgration will amount To a
bout 10000 dollars. 1T IS estimat-
ed that 81. 600, 600 worth Of properly is
frozen in the Erie canal. TOBACCO is
shown by official figures 20 cost more than
bread in Germany, Holland, the United
States aud England A MUSTANG mare,
owned by Colonel Dickey, Of San Francis
CO, has been humanely forced II trot TWEEN
ty miles on a heavy track in fifty nine min
utes and thirty seconds lT Is curious
fact that the Appleions have sold more cop
les of "W clusters Speller" than there are
Inhabitants in the United States Cur
cAGO Is said to be ut present paradise for
sign painters. TWENTY frame stores and
four stables, at Lincon. Illinois, were de-
strOyed by fire on "Wednesday night of last
week. NEW style for genIlemen-the
hdbedS corpus suspeudrrs-so called Ia
honor Of the President TIE Mormons
are giving up all hopes If maintaining the
practice Of polygamy, hut some belese that
Congress vii allow twenty FIVE year>, more
or less fcr It's gradual abolition. ALEX
is says lie will positively attend the c.n-
tenbial of American Independence, al PHI
adelphia, on the +th of July, 1876. a
! HARTFORD ! is screamed - hen she found
she was trying 10 eat mouse by mistake
I foF doughnut. THE Lynchhurg Noes
calls Grant sour great national dead head.
-. ELK county, Pennsy lyaDi has the
largest tannery in the world, and it u-ed up
last year 81 900 cords Of peeled bark, anu
/ turned out two hundred thousand sizes al
/ leather. =. THERE arc thirty riora academ-
ic students at Washington and lie Univ,r-
! sity than at the University Of Virginia
! CLERGYMAN, like bra6cmcn, do a good
! deal OF coupling. Nov Is ;he time for
women to complain Of their wrongs, and
! turkeys and chickens to complain Of their
wrings 49, The zone Term Principle"
as applied to Presidents is not at al paista.
! BILE, at this time, to most Of the Radical
! leaders. Several ladies have registered OF
| Memphis, Tennessee, for the purpose Of vo
ting at the next municipal election, under
clause in the city charter allowing IL
! property holders to vote, whether residents
/ or not. ALL five Of the colorod mem bers
Of the House OF Representatives are on com
! mittees. TIE eastern or Mt Sidney
route from IlLrrisonburg TO Staunton has
been adopted by the officers of the Valley
! Railroad =. Tue number of deaths from
/ small. pox in Philadelphia last week, were
/ 1913, decrease Of 81 from the previous
week JAMES STIcKLEY's dwelling
house, on the river, near Strasburg, She.
nandoah county, was totally destroyed by
( fire on the ID instant Most Of Ihe furni-
ture in the house was consumed. The fire
was accidental and caught from a stovepipe
in the wing. The woman suffrage folk
in convention at Washington have set forth
their grievances in resolutions and demand
abe ballot. Dr.. WILLIAM G. WARREN,
on aged and hoDored physician of Lynch
hburg, died on Saturday last. =. THE sec
Fond series Of Five twenty bonds, amount
ing 10 $40 100000, viii be redeemed by
the Treasury Department after the It'll ct
March next. TIE berkeley Lnjon sug-
ges's the name of Senator FOREMAN as
candidate for the Vice Pre- idcncy Of the
the United States. Mn. REUBEN WOR-
THINGTON, former esteemed aud respect
ed citizen Of Cumberland, Maryland, died
in Washington city on the 9Th instant. 90.
RosENwETG's employment at Sing Sing is
making soft SOAP, and not breaking stone
1.-Two resolutions looking to a discon-
Nnuauco OF the funding Of the debt have
/ been ofTe red in the Virginia House of Dol
,1t'tS ~ o. LOUIS ul'u worth go
OoU oeqneathcd to MS children one dollar
/ each-the rest weotto hospital. HERE
/ are a number OF cases OF smallpox 10 Rlch
! mond, some OF which have proved fatal.
..--.AccoRDING to the st"temen, OF the
! Attorney General, AKERMEN, there are
+ upwards 'I TWO fh'uS'ul cu'z'ns OF , 'uih
C'r'Hna' no" inWured 10 prison upon 'e
GnnrSe Of o''"e connected WIN me ku-
hinz a CLERK I'D one ct 'he depart
mems '' washington n'S p''h '''"''--.'
. '"r refusing 'o en- 10 a re'tauI. d. 'i ,hr