South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-07-11
" E w S OF THE DAY

THE people Of California are clamorine
for paper currency-i3 newspapers fol
aud IL against 1t. TIE new counterfeit
niekels got into the Treasury Department
before tho government knew they were in
circulation -. IL is remarkable fact tina,
the humau hair grows nearly twice as fas,
in Europe as in America. "a RAILROAD
over the Andes is the grandest work
under contemplation VICE PRESIDENT
WILSON'S health is improving, and his
speedy recovery is expected. a PIECE
of President GRANTS handiwork as a tan.
ner is being exhibited at the Vienna Exhi.
bition. The cotton crop made in the
small county Of Newberry; South Caroliua,
last year, realized 81 900, 900. THE i'm.
por's Of foreign dry goods for the last fiscal
year in New York amount to sl25 ,0S6, 600.
- THOMAS Il. KENNEDY has been elect
cd president of the Shenandoah Valley rail-
read in the place Of THOMAS A. SCOTT re-
signed THERE have been s, 500 deaths
in Philadelphia, Penusy lvania, during the
past six'mouths, decrease Of > ,443 as com
pared wish the first half Of 1872. =. IT is
delightful to read that in Sandwich, n. III
on June 19tb, there was snowdrift three
feet deep in a pasture. White honeysuc-
kle blossoms near it, aud the abundant fol-
iage Of trees bend above 1t. On the south
crn slope of Back Mountain, too, there is
snowdrift which has resisted all the sun
and rain of May and June. FOLLY and
crime are twine. At Reading, Pa, is II
bAuk called Bushing Bank, and stepping
up to the counter Of that fiscal institution
the other day, charming young woman,
daughter Of a respectable citizen, presented
her fathers check for considerable sum
Of money. Although there was some doubt
aboat paying it at first, it was finally CASH
ed. And new it appears that the fair one
is on her travels in unknown regions, with
a handsome young foreigner, who had been
only it'll. while in Reading, and who
probably executed the forged check. Poor
young woman !. 80. Ir is confidently bcliev-
ed that, with the abolition IF the ranking
privilege, July ls', the Postofli &c Depart
ment vii begin at once to pay its entire
expenses THE Niles, Michigan, fruit
drying establishment, dried last year 500
bushels Of apples day. .-.Gov AUSTIN,
of Minnesota, declines Subernatorial third
term, on the ground that it costs him S.
600 more per srnum than his salary to lire.
PATENTS have been granted in France
for n series Of machines for making barrels.
On exhibition the machine turned cut in a
very short tune large lumber Of barrels
which were pronounced superior to hand
wood work -. THE Rev. DR.. DABNEY, OF
Virginia, has published card denying tina,
he is in favor Of union of the Northern
and Southern Prcshytcrians. THE re-
ceipts of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
for the week ending on the 2Sth ullimo,
were Sl4, 40 90. IN South Acton, Mas
sachusctis, GEORGE CURTIs, a lad of eight
years, cn'iced boy named LANE, aged
three year,, into the woods, and there beat
him With club 10 a most shocking man.
FER, leaving him insensiblc. H. was soon
discovered, but died Of his injuries in TWEEN
ty-four hours afterwards The murderer
fed, but was arrested in East Cambridge.
- CONNFCrICUT, according to the ccr-
sus, is the heaviest hardware manufactur
ing State in the Union In June 80, 100
imm grants arrived in New York, 81 ,S67
from Liverpool and Queenstown, 8, l65 from
Glasgow, $50 from Havrc an 10, 446 from
German ports Ten persons were killed
at Virginia City, Nevada, on Monday Of
last week, by the accidental explosion, in a
store occupied above as Offices aud lodgings,
of six cans Of Ditro-gi yceriue and City
pounds Of giant eunpowdor Among the
killed are Maj'r Geo. JACOB J.. Voy Box
KELES, J i. SMITH, hardware merchant !:
WM DAVIS, clerk for j. T.. SMITH BENZ
MANDrL, dry goods merchant; CHARLES
II. KNoN, Of San Francisco JomN De-
WISE, NHs EMILY O'CoYoR, and WIN. II.
DoANE aud daughter, eight years Of age, Of
Gold Ill., /, has been ascerInined that
VAS IoFEFLgs had the nilro-glyccrinc
and powder stored beneath his room
THERE arc over twenty oranges Of the Pa
irons Of IIu,baolry in North Carolina.
....WE learn from lho Saun,on Spectator
hat the trial ot William j.. Palcs for kill