South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-10-24
South, 9ranelt 9ntelligeueer.
RoMNEY, FRIDAY, OCT. "a, 1873.
cy SIxrY-rIvE millions Of postal cards

skS- DRINKING IL SMOKING put good
deal of money into the treasury. From
July ], 1872, to May /, 1878, the govern
rnent revenue from spirits of all kinds (uot
including bcer) was Sal ,94l 1876, and from
tobacco in its various forms, S7,176,413.
ET CINcINHATI prides itself on being
the centre Of the peanut industry. II is a
great distributing point. For example, Of
the Tennessee crop of 675 600 bushels for
this year, Cincinnati received SAC, 900.
Her exports for the past year were $50 900,
and the STOCK on hand at the close Of last
month was 600 900 bushels.
ea-THE amount 10 be paid out 10 pen
sioners during the next fiscal year is be-
tween thirty aud thiriy-oue millions of dol
iars-So says the Commissioner of Pensions.
Gr PRESIDENT GRANT has issued pro-
clamation, appointing Thursday, the 9th
Of November to be observed az day Of
thanksgiving.
Winchester Democratic Nominations. -
la Democratic convention, held in Win.
chester on Saturday last, the 18Th inst, j.
VANCE BELL was nominated treasurer for
Frederick county, JOHN W SILvERs sheriff
aud X. w. HUNTER for one of the mem
bers of the House Of Delegates. Pending
the nomination Of the second member, the
convention adjourned until yesterday.
~THE Washington correspondent Of
the Now York Journaiof Commerce states
eonfidentially that two schemes will be press
ed upon tho next Congress, backed by the
foil strength Of Executive influence. The
ono is the Postal Savings Banks plan, aud
the other, 10 connection with it, CREswELL's
favorte idea of Postal Telegraph.
ETA TERRIBLE prairie fire swept over
twenty 20 miles of country near the Oma-
la and Southwestern Railroad, in Saline
and Jefferson counties, Nebraska, on Tues
day, the 16 b inst. Many houses and large
quantities of grain were destroyed. AT
Wilburten school children were caught in
the flames, three persisted on the spot, three
more will die, and four are dreadfully
manned, but will recover, Mrs MORLEY,
the mother of throo of the children, ran TO
help them and received fatal injuries.
EBTHE province of Shousee, China,
has been devastated by food. Thirty
. villages were swept away, aud many lives
lost.
EE-TuE Emigration Com missioners cay
that during the past twenty-one years TO-
057 ships of this country went to sea, car
rying 4, al $50 persons Fifty of these yes
sells were lost, aud with them ,936 lives, or
one-tenth Of one per cent. of all who sailed.
THE RECENT ELECTIONS Although the
recent Stnte elections were comparatively
tame affairs the results, says the Baltimore
Sun, indicate o condition of public senti-
meut somewhat modified as to party politics.
The votes cast in the several States refer
rod to were not SO heavy as in times of more
heated political conflict, but the proportion
shows decided change 10 political inhu-
ences 10 Pennsylvania the Republicans
Wv HO' SOAS y + ~ 'hSi' PiOPOA'lOhaIo IL
guros in the majority by which they carried
the SCate. 10 Ohio the slight republican
majority in the Legislature has been over
come by the democrats, the democratic can.
didate for Governor elected, according 20
latest accounts, and the State practically
changed in its political aspect 10 Iowa
the farmers oranges ostensibly joined with
the democrats, but tho result being re-
publican victory shows that tho farmers
were not really united, though the repub.
lioan majority was reduced 10y more than
ten thousand. The election Of the demo.
cratic Congressman in Oregon is q decided
democratic victory, The issue being purely
national and the democratic majority hea-
" one. The election for supreme Judge
m CulifJrnia was a matter Of local rather
thsu general interest, but tho result being
10 favor o. tho independent or anu-monopo-
~ candidate is suggestive Of the natural
course Of public sentiment when "soulless
corporations carry their nyarico aud i'm
pudonce too far
TnE PREsrpESr AND THE BACK PAY.
With preface Of "if," aud "buts" Uar-