South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-06-06

enorm rus, as the statistics below, collected
and grouped by the organ Of the interest
in New York, will show: Amount of u.
S. tax collected il 1872, $40 AIS, 517. 80.
This represents about 100 ,000, 900 gallons,
worth at wholesale So, CO0,O 900, bu, which
brought al retail about s3IT 900, OOO =
This aggregates money interest Of $780,
100000. Beer paid tex to the Govern
ment of S2S ,563, 498 46. This represents
retail value of over s2l2, 900, 900, which,
added 20 the value of the article to the
manufacturers, represents n money inter-
est of about S300,000,000. The wine
trade represents an interes, of SIS, 000, 900.
The import trade Of liquors, beer and wine,
represents retail value Of liquors o s27, =
100000, of beer s2,SO0,00 of wines
$3.50, OO0,O0O, or a total of nearly 49,
100000. Add to this the capital invest
ed 10 buildings and machinery, &c, togeth-
err with the expenses connected directly
aud Indirectly with the trade, aud tho foot.
ing is ct least 81 500, 200, DOOR three
four,hs the amount OF the national debt.
saJ SEWER LAKE iu Utah is a body of
water some forty miles long by fifteen wide,
distant about ter miles from the new Sc
vier mineral district. Its waters contain
about the same proportion of salt as that
found 10 sea water. 1t is said that it has
long been believed among the indians liv-
ing in the region around the lake that it is
Inhabited by marine monsters, and their
terror of these creatures is such that they
caunot be induced to 60 near this water. =
The Salt Lake Tribune says that gentle
man who recently returned from visit to
the Sewer country while there rode for
miles along tho shore of the lake and saw
several of these monsters sporting in the
water. The largest Of these he rather in
definitely describes as about City feet long
! by twenty in circumference, while its back,
as it played and spouted, was plainly vi,i-
| bic some ten feet above water. lie said be
saw Others, smaller than the one described ST.
milarly amusing themselves in the distance
/
LS The JOUnaL Of ComD,eFcs calls at
( tenIion TO two remarkable meteorological
/ phenomena, which preceded the terrific
hurricane that recently swept over Illinois
! The storm was remarkable for its violence
Trees were torn up by the roots, and sent
like bstteriDg-rams hundreds of yards,
hurting through the air. Fences disap-
! peared as if by magic. Ia one instance
cow was lifted bodily and came crashing
down through the roof of dwelling. The
storm cloud was distinctly to be seen It
was vast revolving ball, running with
mighty speed. Everything was driven out
of its path almost as if struck by a cannon
ball. Now for the strange atmospheric oc.
currences noticed by the Joarnal Of CDm-
merce. One was the singular halo around
the sun on the twentieth of May. Tho o.
| Their was on the fourteenth Of the same
month. At that date near Das Moines.
Iowa, and at other places in the State, the
air was filed with electricity, although no
storm occurred. For several hours it was
impossible to work tho telegraph wires :;
but that was the least astonishing part Of
the manifestations. On the + bound
express train on the Rock Island Road, the
track seemed a road of fire under and be-
bind the cars. The light was so vivid as
TO illuminate the track for some distanc
in the rear. One observer describes it rs
a "traiIng banner of flame This, of
course, was In nediately cluscd by the frc.
I ion Of the clr-wh'cls, bus the atmosphere
must have been very highly charged with
electricity to permit its exhibition through
such simple agency. Dss Muiues is on
ly nine miles from tho centre of the lorna
DO track, and that city herself suffered TO
some extent from thunderstorm on the
eventful tweuty-secoud instant Nearly
similar electric phenomena immediately pre-.
coded the storm
IT. Miss SUSAN 3 ANTHONY, who in
sisted last autumn in voting at The polls, 10
Rochester, New York, "like any other CHI
zen, and was arrested in consequence, is
giving The District Attorney good d al
If trouble. After tho case bad been Get
for trial Miss ANTHONY, With pluoky de-
termination to leo tie people know OIL A.
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