South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-08-01
N E w 8 OF THE DAY.

dent 10 again agitated. The German
Governmeu. has just invested $40, OOO, 900
in U. 5. 5 per cent. bonds. The eleven
Territories exceed by nearly 200, 900 square
miles the aggregate territory of all the
States of the Union SENATOR GAINES.
OF Texas, has been sent year to the peni-
teniary for bigamy. The Superior Now
ing Machine, of Wheeling, has been award
ed the first prize at the Vieuua Exposition
.--.GENERALSAM CARY, of Ohio, is sleep
ing in hsymow to prepare himself as q
candidate for Governor among the Gran
gers.--.THE first shipment Of the new
wheat crop Of Califoruia was made last
week. III is stated as d fact that there
are more youths in the South receiving q
military education at this time than there
are in the North. -. DYSPEPSIA is pros
nounced national disease. 1dleness is
another. THE mackerel season has been
q good one in New Eogland waters. 1. f. EU-
ROPE alone possesses III cities containing
moro than $4,000 Inhabitants. BRto-
HAM YoUNG's 17sh wife has left him, aud
is suing for a divorce. The l7;h part of a
divorce ought to satisfy ter. THE ''mess"
system at the University CT Virginia makes
living cheap. Board is only 80 a IN onth,
and one student lived one year on Sl40,
which paid all his expenses. :. Our rail-
roads use 100000 acres Of timber land
annually. THE value of railroad property
in Ohio is s79,7l3, $50, against SOS, 3l2,-
DAG last year. >. NEVADA has named q
new comfy Brandy. !. THE Oldest man
now living in Webster county, this State,
is named CoGER. He is ITO years old
He was married before the war of 1912.
and was soldier in that struggle He
still recollects distinctly all the events Of
Importance that occurred in the earlier his.
tory OF the country. "A GIRL at Terre
ilaute, who had been made speecbless some
time before by measles, swung so high on
the Fourth that she screamed with fright
and wholly recovered her speech =. "A
LADY writer Gays that the present is the
age of sensible dress for women. What
will they wear when the foolish age comes
round again 2. -. LOUISIANA expects this
season to have the largest sugar harvest
since the memorable harvest of 1850.
Il. j. BouLDEN, Esq has in his garden,
near Kennedyville, Md, gooseberry bush
fourteen feet high. INDIANA claims to
make moro wagons than any four other
States put together. GENERAL PATTEn-
SON, Of Philadelphia, owns thirteen cotton
mills, and employs over four thousand opc-
ratives. Over the entire north of Ire
land the crops are reported to look excel
'ently we'll. THE Lynchburg Tirgimian
is inform'd that large quantity of ammu.
milton passed through that city few days
since via tho Virginia and Tennessee rail-
roads, directed to Governor KELLOGG, at
New Orleans. -. SINCE the postal cards
were issued, seventy millions have been
ordered. The manufacturers, it is said, can.
not supply the demand aud have received per-
mission from the Government to use single
roller, with which they eau manufacture a
million day, Instead Of six hundred thou
sand, as heretofore, with the double roller,
-. CAPTAIN w. p. WILSON, one Of the
oldest of Wheeliug's citizens, died on
Thursday oflsst week On the day follow
Jog his wife also died. "A BUENos cor.
respondent narrates the particulars of Il
discovery 10 the province Of Argentine Of
a wonderful gold mine, said to be the rich
est in the world. One-half Of tho mine
has been sold, according to the narrator,
for one hundred million dollars. .ONE
profession (says Pauch) is safe from the
invasion Of woman. She may enter the
army, but is is impossible that she can man
the navy. GOOD article Of coffee ha .
been raised in Ventura county, California.
....THoMAs Il. ALLEN, State Grand Ms
ter reports 376 oranges as having been es-
tablishcd in Missouri to June 30. =. SIX
TEEN gallons Of water were recently drawn
from dropsical man in Connecticut. /. ON
Monday last, CLARENCE THoRNLY, aged
10, son Of DR. THoRNLY, United States
Navy, who resides in Charlottesville, Vir-
ginis, came home from hunting apd 10 plsc-
ing bis gun down, it exploded shooting him
through the heart. The boy had only a
lew days before saved another boy from
drowning at the risk Of bis own life. His