South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-10-20
NE VS. OF THE AY.

er thirty millions from customs. - The
cclorcd hoy whose arrest caused tie Dan
VILE, Virginia, riot lately, has been senten-
ced to the penitentiary for six years. liz
a single year the locomotives in the United
States consumed $4,000. 900 worth of
wood = The trial OF Mrs Wharton is ex-
pectod to come up before the Circuit Court
at Annapolis about the 4ih of December
- GEORGE II MYERS, wel-known Cit
lien of Cumberland aud a member OF the
city council, died on the 18th Instant. -.
THE number of students at Randolph Ma
con College is 1870 The Union Pacific
Railway Company has sold 40, 0C0 acres
OF its farming lands in the last two years,
realizing for the same 81 800 600. ;. The
health Of Queen Victoria is improving
The ex-Coufederate General Glno is now
a clergyman In Tennessee. -. A MAN in
Frenchtown, Michigan, has twenty eight
children aud don't know what TO do with
them. lie is a brother Of the oil woman
who lived in a shoe. THE army of the
United States now costs S57 600, 900 per
annum. The Wilmington, North Caro-.
lima, Star has been shown cotton stalk
measuring 10 feet 3 inches In height aud
containing 23T bolls. CHANDLER AR
THAR, who resides gear Fayette Court
house, is said to be the ol les' man in this
State. His age is HI. THE attemp, to
indict Comptroller Countly of New York
City is reported to have fallen through
ALABAMA has % counties where the blacks
are in majority of the population. :. JOSE
CoRREsCo Of Mexico is the weathiest sill
yer mine owner in the world. He owns
several mines, from one Of which alone he
receives 500 600 per month. COLONEL
PICKETT, Georgia planter, has planted
this season IN the southwestern part Of that
State c, 500 acres in cotton, and 500 in
corn, and it is estimated that he will clear
$50, 600 upon his cotton alone This is
said to be the largest cotton crop planted
in the South.-IIe employs nearly 400
hands, all of them negroes FIRES pre-
vail in the mountains Of Caicornia, and ex-
tend the entire length Of the State A
THENs county, Ohio, has tho largest corn
crop for twenty years. q. IT is said Mrs
JOHN *. FARRELL, Of Palmer, Mass, who
died last week, aged AZ, was n physical a
nomaly, having all her life been ignorant
of the sensation Of pain %. L. LILLER,
Assessor Of the Western district of Mineral
county, received for his service 800 for
the year 1871. The Postmaster Gene
raj expects the deficit in his department this
year will be less than one million dollars
Last year it was three millions. 81. .IN Shell
by county, Ohio, Mrs. ROBINSON obtained
verdict, on the . LIST ult, of 500 from a
jury, against a saloon keeper, for selling
whisky to her husband -. SrAUNToN still
continues to improve. New buildings are
going up in all parts Of the city The
duty on blankets is 10 per cent Plain
blankets, weighing four and n half pounds,
cost in England 81 in gold. We have
to pay 81 30 in grecnbacks :. THE Lon
don and Liverpool insurance Offices lose "A
bout S6,O00,000 by the Chicago fire. They
viii all pay up. SOME Of the laborcrs in
Chicago take advantage Of the times and
refuse to work for less than dollar an
hour There are many cases Of great
moannoss reported. TUE Radical Co,lcc-
tors Of Internal Revenue have stolen, ac-
cording to Mr. BJutweils own stAtcmcut,
500, zoo, 9S3 SO. w II MEnRIMAN, of
Richmond, lost 5000 600 by the Chicago
fire. THE State Auditor of Illinois re-
ports 4 ,G23,247 hogs in that State this
year, against . 220,G5l last year. THE
Secretary of the Navy has dismissed FIVE
cadet midshipmcn from the Naval Acade-
my for persistcncy in the vicious practice
Of haziug GEN. JoSEpU +. JoHvsoH
is a candidate for Mayor Of Savannah 80.
LIFE in the West md the uncertainties at
tebdaut thereon arc ILLUSTRATED By the case
of young man who met his death by pi.-
tol ball while in bed at Boulder CITY, Kan
sas, few days since, the. ball having pas
sed through the PARTITION from another
room, where there was ball and a row 90
ing on. "A MILLION dollars havo already
been subscribed in Europe to the "Chica-
90 relief fund . THE first new tobacco
was sold in ST. Louis ON the 18th instant,
earlier than it had been offered IN the mar
ket for years BANGOR and Portland,
Maine, papers of the 18Th, report the Sc
ycrcst freshct that has occurred for many
years in the Pcn7bscot, water rising nine
feet in forty-two hours-many bridges are
destroyed, and immense destruction pener-
ally. Two powder mills in Portland blew
up OF tho same day, killing one man BE
tween fires, foods explosions aud abortious,
a contemporary says, the Yankees are hav-
ing "hard times" On the 18Th instant,
Johnnie Hogan, seven year old boy in
Louisville, Kentucky drank quart Of
whi-koy and died TIE city council of
Richmond, Virginia, ou tho lllh instant,
appropriated $4,000 for the use Of the
Chicago relief mitice....THuR.uAY
next October Doth, IS election d1y lot
every Democrat oud Conservative make
bis arrangements 90 be at The polls.
HoNoRABLE j. " McKINSEY, United