South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-09-19
N E WIS OF THE DAY.

70 the report of the strar-general, the
average duration of life 10 England is Al
years. Jay GOULD, Of New York, lost
from amillionto a million and a half by the
fall ofgold few days ago THE DELINQUENT
taxpayers list occupies forty columns of
Chicago paper. The Louisville oxposi-
tiou has opened. The display of machine.
ry, manufactures, aud textile fabrics. il is
said, Is very large. :. France has paid the
last cent of her war indemnity, aud rules
her o"n soil agaiu. DIR. JOHN L. DAN.
lei, formerly Of Farmville, Virginia, was
assas'lnatod, few days ago, at his home
IN Texas. -.oNE day recently, it is said,
the wheat cars which arrived in Chicap,
would have made continuous train over
twelve miles long THE newspapers of
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, publish an &C.
count OF the building of two story brick
dwelling, 20 feet by 30 on the ground floor,
and containing eight rooms, in ten and
bali consecutive hours. One hundred work
men were employed THE REV. w. P.
WATKINS, Methodist minister at Waterloo.
Iowa, was made temporarily insane last
week by the combined effects of anxiety a.
bout his wife, who was dangerously sick +,
and efforts TO give up the use of tobacco.
TO which he had long been n devotee, aud
went out and drowned himself. A NEW
TON county GA widower advertises for
wife, md adds that no school girl need ap-
Ply .EAToNToN, Georgia, claims a ne
gro woman one hundred and fifteen years
old A SLAVE ship has been captured in
the Indian Ocean by the British steam
sloop Daphne. When captured the ship
had but fifty slaves on board Two hun
dred and fifty others had died of small.po
during tho voyage A CENTENNIAL SUG-
GEsTIoN, contained in recent commune
cation to the New York Tribune, is that
Congress, ut the proper time, adjourn to
meet in Philadelphia on the 4,h of JULY,
1876, and that thu Legislatures of all the
States meet there on the same day
That "honesty is the best policy" may be
exemplifed by the following little incident
a man at Belront, Missouri, sold to a mill
owner saw log which proved to be hollow.
As he sold 1T for log he voluntarily went
and gave back the price, and, hauling it TO
his own yard, chopped it up for irewood.
La this operation he found ten So gold
pieces which somebody had secreed in il.
IA NEGRO member of the Mississippi
legislature is in jill for stealing hog. -.
ALABAMA is fighting on the white mans
platform against the negro Leagues. &. . THE
new trial Of STOKES will begin 10 the city
of New York on the first of October. e. :.
BEN. BUTLER, after finding the fates aud
votes against him, Withdrew as a candidate
for Governor, before the Massachusetts, re-
publican Convention. AN Ingenious Bos.
ton giTl has taught squirrel, in his revolv
ing cage, to turn her sewing machine
CALIFORNIA claims to have gained $4,000
population by emigration within the past
twelve months FULL official returns Of
the recent election in Kentucky show a
Democratic majority of 92,364. MIR.
YOUNG, of the bureau of statistics, has got
1T tll down. Only Is, 900 Americans went
to Europe this year and our foreign obi.
Cations, MI tod, are but 81 ,OOO, 900 900.
IA FIRE occurred in Baltimore on Wed.
nesday morning of last week destroying the
Holiday Street Theatre, portion of the
~. Nicholas Hotel, and part of the Bal
timora City College building, and damaging
several business houses. The fire occurred
IN the Theatre. LADIES toes are worth
money IN Auburn, New York. A LADY
who broke her big toe by a fell Cd the side
walk made the city pay ST. 500 damages.
....JAMEs READY has recovered sl4,OO
damages from Duluth, Minnesota. because
be broke bis leg, owing 10 a defective side.
waikiki uRING the past twelve months
oil deaths occurred in San Francisco from
consumption. The Health Omser, in his
annual report, says: at is an undoubted
fact that more deaths with this disease o..
cur among The Trish population than the
people Of any other nationality. on
frIiny last The President appointed Mr.. A.
r. SHEPHERD Governor Of tho District Of
Columbia, rice Honorable Henry d. Cooke
resigned 49,. CASTLE soap taken internal
y cures frecbles, and it may not be inap-
propriaie to add, also kills the patient.
On Saturday last an accident occurred At
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