South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-10-16
South 9ranrll anttlligemeer.
RoMNEY, FRIDAY, OCT le, 1874.


re- WHEAT is lower in England now
than it has been for four years, or down to
AZ shilliugs quarter 1. has not been be-
low SO shillings before since October, 1870.
E$THE total number of complete pat.
ents issued in England, during the last year
was 2,906. La the United States, L, 1854
patents were issued during the Same period.
SETHE Now Orleans Republican re-
cords the presence there of three or four
thousand regular United States troops with
ships of war, and says that two ba,taliops
of cavalry are on their way thithcr All this
is to restore a usurpation which can only
be kept alive BY such means.
GV AT anegro meeting held in. Wash
ington few evenings since, "Prof" JOHN
NJ. LANosToN, negro, delivered an address,
Gin which be claimed to have written the
Civil Rights bill This is blow at Mr..
SUMMERS fame which his admirers viii
hardly RELISH"
~ THE ST. Louis hog market i, is sad,
is overstockcd, especially with common
stock, and shippers arc warned against send
ing in more unless further decline is no.
csp,ed. Packers are doing almost nothing,
and the price of common to good hogs his
dropped to IS 50as6 go.
s6rTHE steerage rates across the Allan.
tic by the steamers which left New York on
Saturday was only $40 90.
%THE Department of Agriculture re.
ports toe wheat harvest as nearly equal to
last years, IGdian corn less than al aver.
age, tobacco less than half crop.
EE In the Circuit Court of Cecil cour
ty, Md, last week, Miss JESSIE A. HEA-
TON, little girl, was awarded $3.50 dam
ages from the Philadelphia, Wilmington &
Baltimore railroad. She bad paid the con-
duc;or ten cents and requested him to LEI
her off at Frenchtown, but she was carried
to Port deposit, and compelled to walk back.
EF AT the sale of the Gaddesby short.
horns on Mr.. CHENEY's place, near Lei
ocster, In England, the other day, the cows
and beifers averaged $3.50 each, the high
est average ever recorded. Sir Curtis
LAMpsoN paid 1885 guiueas for the heif-
er Dutchess of Gloucester, and the Dutch
ess of Airdrie sold for ZOO guinoas.
kx-SENAToR HUNTER. The Baltimore
Sun says that the great work upon which ex-
Senator HUNTER, of Va, is now engaged i.
intended to comprise not only the history Of
the war, but the anterior political history
of the country. From Mr. HUNTERS great
experience and his intimate acquaintance
with the statesmen of the pas. and the pres.
ent, their private motives, and also from
his familiar connection with the inner work
ings of the Southern Confederacy, his work
must prove of great value.
GV IT is said that DAVIS, the colored
Governor pro tenn. of Mississippi, has taken
advantage of The absence of AMEs to par
don ii convicts in one week. DAVIS is
ambitious,and he knows where the strength
Of his party lies.
@THE new law for the prepayment Of
postage on newspapers has baeu found 10
be deficient in that it does not provide for
the purchase of scales with which to weigh
the papers. Four thousand scales of large
size will DO required, and the various man.
ufacturers throughout the country have
been in Washington to get the contract for
furnishing the department. with the reoui-
cite articles. Owing to the lack OF IN ap-
preparation for the purpose, however, no
contract will be awarded. 1t is altogether
likely that the cost Of the scales will ca.
up the principal part of the revenue the first
year, and when tho law is repealed, as i,
probably will be, tho government will be
enabled to 60 into the second hand scales
business with large stock on hand, which
nobody will want to buy Wheeling Int.
GS Rev. DR.. THos. NJ. EDDY, a promi.
nont minister of the NJ L. Church, and
ono Of the Foreign Missionary Secretaries.
stationed at New York City, died in tba,
city on Wednesday of last week.
WOOD FOR PIPES -Few persona pro e.