South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-11-28
N E W S OF THE DAY.

fiscal year ended June 30, 1873, were s34,-
3S6, 1903. "A FABRIC wevsn from BAN
boo tibres is new material for ladies'
dresses The Postofice Department has
concluded a Postal.card arrangement with
Germany "A CONVENT is to be built at
Westsrnpor', Maryland, by the Catholic
church there The music iI one of the
New York churches is said to cost SIS, 900
year. The tax received 90 fermented
liquors, at 81 per barrel, for the years
1872 and 1878, was So ,009, 800 aud S.
9lO,823, respectively. . PENNSYLVANIA
votes on the proposed new constitution De-
cember l6. Texas elects a Governor
aud Legislature on Tuesday next. -. The
students at Hampton Sidney College had
regular jubilee over the Conservative vic
tory one day last week. The colored
companies of Richmond and Winchester,
Virgins, tender their services to the gov
eminent on account of the Cuban troubles.
...REv. r. v. DODGE, formerly of Wheel
ing, has lost his reason and is now confined
in an insane asylum in Illinois. A FAR
MER and bee raiser Of Jefferson county, this
State, last week made his third shipment
of 1000 lbs, of honey, this season to
Washington City. He is emiuently a sue
cessful honey farmer. e. A RoMNEY man
wants TO know where the seven hundred
million circulation is: he has got 81 90 Of
it. We know one who has only got so
cents OF it-.-.lN Australia they have an
office unknown here, that of State Butler.
His duties are wine tasting and scanning
visitors. The whole amount of the North
Carolina State debt is s29, 547,O 45, not
including interest. "A WOMAN clerk in
the Treasury Department can count o 900
notes 10 an hour, and has counted 1000 in
twenty minutes. THE gold coinage at
the Philadelphia Mint in October amounted
to Sll ,O1O, 900 in double eagles. The gold
weighed thirty. eight tons. Two porcu-
pines have been killed in the mountains of
Craig county, Virginia, the present fall
The owner Of the horse Thad. Stevens, the
winner of the California twenty thousand
doll,r stakes, is elated. He offers TO match
his horse against any other for twenty-five
thousand dollars. "A BARREL of oil is
considered fair trade for bushel of pota-
toes in some parts of the oil regions
The explosion of bottle of tom toes re-
Gently came near killing Maine lady
NEW YORK city has $50 churches valued
at $4,000, OO0.- THE japanese make
paper boots which will wear six months.
....ATHENs, Ga, has paper named Cat,
with the motto ri can scratch" "A Mis-
souri, clergyman's fees for marrying four
teen couples amounted to fifty pounds Of
dried apples and due bill for eighteen
bushels Of buckwheat. "A GIRL at Wen
ma, Indiana, lately swallowed a wasp, which
stung her in the throat, aud she died from
sufocation on account of the swelling
The herring catch in England this year
represents money value of S7,500,00O,
and total of 80, 100000 individual her
rings. ONE of the most successful far.
mers ip Kentucky is a gentleman who has
been blind since he was eight years old.
His farm Of two huudrel acres always
looks in thriving condition :. BRIGHAM
YOUNG says he wouldn't advise any one to
marry over sixteen wives unless be is Of an
unusually even disposition .Ir is said
that sixteen of the Virsinius victims were
British subjects. A MAN in .co, Me-.
was recently buried 10 the same clothes in
which he had been twice married 4
MINNESOTA lady is the proud mother of
five sons and eighteen daughters. TIE
sale Of Cuban bonds has been commenced
in Philadelphia, and are being disposed of
freely at 20 cents on the dollar OVER
one thousand skilIed English an French
silk operators have returned homo since the
cessation of work at the silk factories In
Paterson, New Jersey The Democrats
have majority Of twenty-five on joint ball
lot 10 the Arkansas Legislature A sro.
RY comes from IIeideiburg, Of four German
students, two Of whom agreed to play a
game Of cards, the stakes being that the
loser should shoot himself The game was
played and the terrible forfeit paid by ono
Of the young men. Ills companions have
been arrested d. COLONEL J. w. FAIRFAX.
OF Loudoun county, Virgins, has sold bis
splendid blooded stallion, Conductor, to