South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-11-03
N e WIS OF THE DAY.

ANDERSON, of Fort Sumpter fame, died at
Nice, France, on Thursday Of last week :.
Mr.. JouN SIBERT, If Warren county. Va ,
aged lO2 year,, died last week = BRIO
1 HAM YOUNG asks William VI. Evarts, E-q ,
To defend him against the charge Of polyg-
amy Two well known citizens of Shen-
andoah, ISAAC HICKMAN and JACOB
HAHN, Sr., died few days ago. = Ii is
said that A. G Quarrier is employed at
tue penltentiary in Strengthening up the ae-
counts OF the former Superintendent.
HE number of acres of cultivated land in
| Ohio is IA, 500, 900, and the cash value of
all the farms is 81 ,054, 900, 900. Why
don't female lecturers discourse on wash
ing, cooking aud baby nursing -. A COM
parative statement Of the internal revenue
shows sl44,000,000 this year, against
$780, 200, 900 last year GRANT has con-
s'antly gained ground since he became
Presldent-hundreds Of acres in fact
EDWARD DILLON, PiitsburgheT, while in
attendance at the Wesimorelsud county
TAR, last week, performed a somewhat re.
markable shoeing a horse, "all
round" in the brief space of nine minutes
aud hfty-hve seconds. =. SHARK bones are
exhumed in Minnesota, hundred miles a
way from any water. Rev. SEPTIMUs
Justin, prominent presby terrain, died
at Washington, on Sunday last. A BAR
Der, of a statistical turn of mind, asserts
that there are $50 different kinds of hair
! dyes in circulation PROFESSOR LEONE
LEVI says that the capital employed in the
| liquor trade of France amounts 10 GIG
| 100000 sterling. The cotton industry,
large as it is, reaches only ESQ, 700, 900
.---.THE Methodsts Of Cincinnati
have resolved to contribute thirty thousand
dol'ars to the Methodsts Of Chicago.
The latest argument for the narrow guage
is that the road TO Heaven is built on that
principle. -. A Sioux CITY girl has SlS,-
GOO IN the bank. The rush Of immigrants
into the city in the shape of single men
and widowers is said to be unpara lleled
/ GEORGE BAYLOR, member of the Seces
sion Convention, and since the war a men
her of the Legislature, died 10 Staun,op, on
Friday last. THE matrons of Leaveu-
worth, Kansas, have erected an illuminated
clock, in order that their husbands may
have no excuse for "not thinking il was so
late" .VEG ETABLE leather is cow extern
slvely manufactured, the principal mater
ais being caOuthouc and Dophtha. The
product Is ouly one-third as costly as ordi-
nary leather. -. lT is very we'll to say stake
things as they come" but suppose they
don't come. :. Mr.. \ Il. STEWART, since
1862, has given away in public charity a
! bout S200,0 600. In 1862-'63 he sent So
000to the distras Led -spnners of Lam
cashire; soon afterwards ship laden with
provisions to Ireland; upon the breaking
| out of the civil was he gave $50 900 for the
defence of tue Union and $4,000 to the
furnishing people of Southeastern Prussia
just before the war, md afterwards gave
che Germans $4,000 worth OF provisions,
followed by another gift to Prussia of 100,
600 francs, and like amount to France
After the late fire in Chicago, a. is well
known, he contributed $50 900 for The re-
lief of the sufferers -. LARGE, loose irOus-
crs are coming in fashion again =. AN of
fetal statement Of the amount Of United
States currency outstanding at this date,
shows total Of S39S, 043 500 %. AN
uninflmmable material for ladies' dresses
has been invented by Vienna chemist.
4 GORGEOUS gambling. house for ladies' is
the latest fashionable sensation in San
Francisco LARGE fancy pins for the
hair, in the shape Of flowers are made Of
pcrfumcd wood i PHILADELPHIA pa
per makes the outrageous statement that
onc-half Of the 'cryant girls in that city
arc confirmed drunkards. The Mormons
are just now making savage love to their
first wives. The design is t,'keep them so
coutentcG that they will refrain from law
suits GREAT Britain whcct crop
will not be n failure after all BUENos
AYREs has suffered greatly during the past
summer from yellow fever and small pox
....A-GENT wanted-by every lady.
EX-CoNGREssMAN WILLIAM Il. Stokes.
Supervisor Of Internal Revenue for Tennes-
sec, Is charged with drfrauding the Gov
eminent to tho amount Of 10000. THE
CHICAGO relief fund has reached a grand
total Of seven millions Com sells at
two cents busbeI in Jasper county, Mis-
souri,. ."HAvE a snake" j. the San
Francisco interrogation for drinks Tue
mayor and numerous officials of Lexington.
Kentucky. have been arrested on an in
dictmont from the Federal court, charged
with felony, growing out Of the distur ban.
ces at the August FL eiions. A READER
"l au aIboic ln III eNhUgonchl weekly on
Converting United States go.twenties,"
says he longs to be "a missionary in that
field, and think be should cloave unto his
flock GARRETT DAVIS, Senator from
Kentucky, has been making q speech ct
Louisville on the political issues Of the day,
in which he winds up with the nomination
Of Willard Fillmore f,r President
ANDREW SrEvER, a farmer living near
Delphos. Ohio, disarmcd a burglar who at
incknd linn IN. Lii hnn.n nnd elnhhnl Lin,