South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-05-29
N Z w S OF THE DAY.

- .EIGHTEEN hundred dollars was the
florists bill at late fashionable dinner
party III New York MONEY iu the n Y.
market is quoted easy at per cent. The
supply Is greater than the demand
THERE are in Richmond 400 retail liquor
stores. These pay 800 each Of specific
tax, or $4,000. There is one retail dealer
for every l2S inhabitants The Bible
is now printed in no less than 200 langua-
ges in 1854, it was printed in only so.
IA CURIOUS fact in South Carolina e,
. economies has just come to light. Twenty
seven convicts have been pardoued out of
the peni,entiary because the State was too
poor TO provide for their support A.
MEXICAN cast iron is said TO be % per
cent stronger than German and 16 per
cent stronger than English. .AsHANTEE
gold, which has just been Analysed in En-.
gland, is found to contain about 10 per
cent. of alloy. mainly silver. 1t has a pc.
cul'arly rich color, partly due to red oxide
Of iron -. THE talk about President GRANT
for third term has been revived TIE
AUGUSTA Spring races will come offat the
fair grounds, near Stauuton, Va, on the
3rd, 4th, Ssh ani 9th of June, 1874. The
purses and stakes amount to $4,000. IT
is said that Syracuse, New York, turned
out ~ ,OoO, 600 pounds of salt last year
The Pope has received Easter gifts valued
at $4,000 from serving maids in Great
Britain. 50 $50. S4l in gold and $780,
5l5 silver bars were shipped last week from
New York. The most fashionable of
Saratoga cottages rent for $4,000 for the
season of three months. Others bring 81
800, others $4,000 and so on down to $500.
80. Mrs uELNBoLD, wife of The Doctor
OF Buchu fame in this country, has entered
convent IN Paris. =. IT Is stated that
widower in Baltimore county, Maryland,
made his second wife bridal present of
his departed angels teeth, gold plate aud
all. IT is reported that there are thou.
sands of persons suffering from sickness in
the overlooked region along the Mississippi.
-. PENNSYLVANIA has 1,176 fewer pro-
ducing oil wells this year than last. Mr..
GEORGE w. BARNES caught three hundred
thousand herring at one haul on the North
East river, about two miles below Charles
town, Cecil county, Md, on Monday OF last
week. THE ice bridge ut Chicontimi on
the Sagucnay river, Canada, was still firm
at the last accounts, aud teams were cross
ing without incurriDg any risk The ice
measured feet thick. The opening of ma.
vigatiQn on the Slguenay was never known
to be so late as this year In O l:onagon,
Michigan, the snow was reported TO be nino
feet deep last week IA BILL is proposed
in Canada to limi; lawyers power of abuse
while arguing in court. -. A CoTEMpoRA-
RY calls Congress "Our national windmill"
That is hard on tho windmill, which is
generally a useful machine. WHAT a
Toe the farmers have to contend against in
the potato bug is shown by the experience
of man in Joliet, Illinois. He placed
some in bottle eight months ago. They
have been exposed to tho extremes of WHO
ter ard summer, have had nothing to eat,
and are stiIl living. "A BUFFALO mer-
chant bought and sold million pounds of
dried apples last year. What a basis for
Imitation !...A young man is on trial in Pa.
Tor stealing nitFo-glyceriue. lie deserves
a good blowing up. -. FRAUDULENT scrip
to the amount of So, 500 96 has already
been paid into the treasury e Columbia
county, Fioridl. Thus even the carpet
beggers may Eeet with smarter thieves
than themselves. AN Oswego woman
says she cannot pray in the saloons but she
will shoot the first man who sells her hus-
baud liquor. That will certainly make the
thing binding. In moving for the SEN
leuco of a man who had been convicted Of
taking bride for bis vote at Louisville
Kentucky, BAIRD, the prosecuting attor-
ney, said that 10 punish DeUt could bo too
great, no infamy too damuing. Tie con.
Wet deserved to be hanged by the neck to
the nearest tree like judas Iscariot A
WONDERFUL cave has been discovered near
Pine Grove, California. Three men named
STOKES, JAMESON, and mason explored il
Tor about mile and quarter They found
chambers beautifully decorated with sialac.
titcs and stalagmi,es, and q stream Of water