South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-10-31
n & VS. OF THE DAY.

Naltornla, ls coming about St,UUO, UU0 IL
gold per month. THREE new war ves-
sells have jas; been added to the British
navy, and twenty-five other, are building.
49, No canal hoas has yet been able to
come up to The requirements necessary to
wio the 100000 prize offered By tue New
York Legislature. SIX persons are said
to have lost their lives by drinking from
cup which had been used by man who
died from dyp'heria in Blair county, Penn
sylvania. ..THg B~rei company at Point
Pleasau, expec; before long to turn out
5000 barrels per day. - THE total amount
of notes destroyed at the United States
Treasury Department since 1861 was So
935 952 81 AZ The total amount re.
loaned was s5,93G 76T ,l28 81. KEN
TUcKY worms ar- chewing more han their
-harr OF tobacco -. TX PRESIDENT JouN-
soH reccn;ly appeared before u notary pub
lie and made aifijasit 20 his claim Of s13,-
600 against the First National BInk Of
Washington. In some Of the Western
oranges, it is said the momHers are,pedg-
cd never to 60 to law With each other. but
to settle all their disputes by o.biiration
Ma WATKINS DUrUY, The Oldest citizen
OF Prince Edward county, died on he 9th
inst, aged 80 years =: The obituary nc
'icc If a Kentucky lady includes the fact
that her hair was six feet eigh, inches long.
.---lN letter to friend young lady Of
i!llnois states that she is not engaged, but
she sees q cloud above the horson about as
large as a mans hanA -. WISCONSIN has
most remarkably history. She was gov
erned By the king of France 93 years, by
the king of Great Britain 20 years, by the
State of Virginia year, by the territory
Of Ohio lG years, by the territory Of lodi
ana 9 years, and by too territory Of Mich.
gan Is years. FIFTY car loads of tea
passed through Omaha Friday night from
China, via San Francisco, for the East. J..
\ FoRT Plain merchant adyertiscs his
goods at oxyun. That man has always
s;eered clear Of newspa pers. BIRD Grin
nell Co., of New York, are the champion
bankrupts. Their liabilities are twelve mil.
lions, sui their abilities only eleven THE
silk iOdusiry Of Switzerland is enormous.
and rapidly on the increase, the exports Of
manufactured silks annually amounting to
two hundred and fifteen million francs, or
forty-three million dollars. Two THIRDS
of the patents issued 10y the Canadian gov
eminent are to American citizens. AT
the recent meeting of farmers in Sau Fran
cisco TOR the purpose Of deyising means to
abato the squirrel nuisance statements were
made by farmers in Contra Costa county
showing an average loss of 81 per acre in
tho grain field, by the ragages of these lit
tie Pests--,the losses of nineteen farmers
footing ~, in the aggregate, S0,G72 50.
IA WESTERN plrson de'cstely began
funeral discourse by abiding to the fact
that he had ofHcieted at the hanging of the
father ct'he deceased Is passing through
dark tune! on 3 Pennsyvauia railroad,
woman's voice was heard exclaminG -
"D'n't you fol around | carry u pistol
IN ny paDior -. ROBERT SGxBURY, died
on 'be 23rd instant in jefferson county.
New York, aged 10 years. There
were - deaths from yellow fever in Mem.
pbis on saturday last out Of population
now reduced by flight TO 10000. IA
BUFFALO Tide r.w sells for al 25. The
tanning costs 81, and then the robe sells
Cor SI5....AMoSG the victims Of yellow
fever IN Memphis are five cergyman
THERE sre seyeuy-ono Oranges in the
5 ate # Arsausns. BEVERLY Il JONI
sToS, On OLD and prominen, lawyer Of Vir-
Gioin, died Of Abingdon, in that State, ON
yesterday wcak.-..lT "a not many years
-rrca Illinois l,ur waa suiJ in Colorado NJ
500, hl-s N.w Co'oraI, -four is
sold 90 I'iiooi. az the same priccas Ilin,i,
81 Hr, aud gives general satisfaction
IuE Kooawha Flour Mills IT Charleston
shipped 1870 barrel. # family -four TO New
lrra 'as wcrk....hN Ohio girl climbed
30 'eei up chas'nu 'troc, got scared, and
they had 90 build ladder TO got her down.
....hLrHASDfG r HoLNLs book keeper
with Hardy Bro'ss commission merchants
OF Baltimore, hos been arrested on a charge
Of forgery. ga DELEGATION has gone to
Washington % iDtcrccdo 10 behalf Of tho