South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-12-05
South 8rameh Sntslligenees.
ROMNEY, FRIDAY, DEC. 5, 1873.
s@THE census of the city eff Balfim6~a

just ComPietcu, euON5 q pOpuiatiou "a oV-,~
se2-of these 159 ,30S are females, an OK.
cess of ,723 over the males. The popu-
1ation shows an increase since the census of
1870 of 35,439.
Ev ACCORDING to tho State census of
Iowa the population Of the State is ,251,-
533, the national census of 1870 gave it q
population Of 1,191,792. The increase in
the two years is therefore, in round num-
bers, sixty thousand.
~ CoUNTERREITINd is thriving bu.
siness in this country. 1t is said that the
average amount Of counterfeit money re-
ceived at the treasury daily is $500, or
nearly 100000 year. Tho average a.
mount Of mutilated currency received daily
is s125,O
DE- Experiments with the Wizard gun, on
Friday last,on Nut Island, Mass.,werc very
successful Itsppesrs that the balls penetrat-
ed fifteen inches Of solid iron plates. Cap
tain TRUxToN, United st tee Navy, In
'pector of Ordnance, was present, and pro-
nounced it perfect success, so far as tho
experiments were carried.
EyOUn yearly supply of gold at the
date Of the discovery of the precious metals
in California was about 100000. 1t
sprapg up at once to 1875, 900, 900, running
up to its maximum figure in 1853 to $685.
600, 900. For the last seven or eight years
it has averaged not far from 100000 900
~ Elk. UNITED STATES SENATOR RICH
ARD YATES, of Illinois, died suddenly at
Barnum's Hotel in the city of St. Louis,
Missouri, on the 9th ult.
s~IT only costs the people of the Unit
ed States 1927 ,00C year to maintain the
establishment of the President. 1t is said
there is charged for fuel the little item of
$4,000. Isn't this rather heavy for a pri-
vats family?
@THE annual report of the Commits.
sioner Of Internal Revenue discloses the in
teresting fact that the receipts from the
distillation and sale of spirituous liquors o.
mount to more than one-half of the whole
sum realized from internal revenue.
@'THE Martinsburg Independent has
learned that wealthy and responsible iron
ore firm Of Reading, Pa, have secured leas-
es on some of the valuable iron orc beds in
the neiehborhood of Falling Waters, near
Martinsburg, on the Potomac, and will at
once commence the work of taking out orc
for shipment to furnaces in the Cumbor.
land valley.
@THEsteamship Vile du Havre, which
left New York on the 18th ult. for Havre,
on the 23rd ccllided with the British ship
Loeb Earn, from London for New York and
sunk in twelve minutes after the collision
occurred. The Loeb Earn struck the steam
or amidships and made chasm twelve feet
deep and from twenty-five to thirty feet
wide. The crew of the steamer Vile du
Havre numbered one hundred and eighty,
while she carried ono hundred and thirty
passengers. OF these three hundred and
ten souls only eighty -seven are said to have
been saved. These were taken off by O.
steamer that came up. All the rest went
down with the ship. Among the lost was
Judge r. w. PEcKHAM, of the Supreme
Court Of New York.
CVTnE Supreme Court of California
bias decided that tho taxation of mortgage
on land, or the money secured thereby, and
the taxation of tho land, is double taxation,
and therefore unconstitutional
GTTHERE are forty.eight iron.clads in
the United States Navy, and it is said that
not one of them is ready for active service.
1t is some consolation however, to know.
suggests tue Boston Post that they havo all
got warliko names.
%THE public debt statement for No
vember shows the total debt, principal aud
interest, to be 81, 256, O1s, 4Sl Is. Debt,
less cash 10 the treasury, $3.50, S62 O53
20 Increase during the past month, 80, =
O2S,576 81. Decrease Of debt since March
1, 1873, s6,5l8,647 o.. Decrease since
March l, 1869, 1865, Os2, $50 OF.
EEGovERNoR JACOB would make a
good Senator, and if the Legislature should
fall 10 wraDgling about where to place tho
honor, they could not do wiser thing than
compromise on JACOB. - Cincinnati 90 n.
ETCAPr. Jos. Fay, Of the Virginius,
according to the Little Rock, Ark, Gazette,