South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-12-15
GLEANINGs BY LATE MAILS.

advance to So 90 per bushel before next
harvest, aud are holding large quantities
for that purpose.
In Manila 25, 900 women and girls
work at cigar making at the average wa
ges of seven cents per day.
The day when petroleum will be used
as fuel for locomotives appears near at
hand. An experiment made at West Phil
adelphia a few days ago was productive Of
results which have tho outlook Of practical
bility and economy.
Long Branch was sold two hundred
years ago for barrel of cider
"A delegation of Mormous arc in Wash
intou, endeavoring to secure legislation to
{ protect the polygamous tenet of their re-
ligion.
A little boy embodied his thoughts
on theology in words thus-I don't see
how the devil came to turn out so bad
-Polygamist marriages continue to oc-
I cur at Salt Lake City.
Walls Opera House, at Washington,
was on the 9th inst. destroyed by FIRE.
VERY DECGDED.-A paper called tho
/ Caucasian, published in Lexington, Mo,
thus proclaims its attitude on national
politics: Horace Greeley, Gratz Brown,
Cox, Trumbull Palmer, or the devil
anybody 70 beat Ulysses the gift-taker {"
The Secretary of the Treasury recon-
mends in his report, reduction Of the
tariff to the extent of twenty millions, aud
OF internal revenue to the amount of sew
entcen millions, abolishing all the utter
nal taxes, except those upon spurious, vi
nous and malt liquors and tobacco, of course
including the income tax-This he says,
can now be done, and still leave SOC, 600
GOO annually for the reduction of the debt
The celebrated stallion Gold Dust, for
which the owner was offered $4,000
few days ago, died on the 18th inst. at
Louisville, Ky, of inflammation Of the
bowels
A playing card factory is tho largest
manufacturing establishment at Little
Rock, Arkansas
The Louisiana Senate on the 9th, cleo
ted Pinchback (colored) It's president. This
action will cause him to be Lieuteuant-Go-
vernon by virtue Of the Constitution.
The Senate of North Carolina on
the 2n6 inst. adopted a resolution instruc-
Yting 'ne Attorney ueheTai 10 proceed by
habeas corpus to test the legality of the
arrest of certain citizens Of North Carolina
in their own State without warrant by sol.
diers Of the United States operating it
South Carolina.
TOLD IN New York on wednesday
declined to lOys, the lowest point 1t has
'''O'.u s'"'' '"e CLOSE Oh 'no war
"A i,eIuvian correspondent states, as a
pocuhari'y OF cundurango, that 1t cures tu
a. AZ 60 %. .l''' suo pc''ent' in'ariaDiy
VIC ~ " snort '''n9 aI'sr Oh sore throat.
"A mandatory Of murderers, is what
~? -S% ol% l5 ,. r. c1Is me FhIIadei-
ia.,;,-,,;N u --'oal oo,l'Eo' from "h'ch
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CuJ,,nI,. III NJ ~ I.' VIM" D2"N a LAMP
onn,bor I'LL l;5Se'"e ~" RECORDS
too - -, io'u 'JSui-'pg rom vac
lamp chimney to eztinoui.b The iisbt Tba
cas1,lfv occ9-rod n CleroI. "a - ~ W. uo
hts since: Mrs. Elizabeth Stark disrob.
co 10 retire about ten o'clock. She at
tempted 70 extinSulsh her coal oil lamp, in
very common manner by blowing down
the chimney. The lamp exploded, throw
ing over her the blazing liquid, and 10 an
instant She was enveloped 10 flames and
was terribly burned. There seems 10 be
no end TO accidents resulting from the care
less use OF kerosene, and people cannot be
700 c1.esul no" t'ey manage and handle
'"''' l'su''N ''WPs'
-JInEs says that wedding rings ought
70 be rechrlsteuod aBsr-riogs. Ito bias
been married i've years.