South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-12
N 4 WIS OF HE DAY.

year rent Is paid for one of the hotels at
Saratogs. 1.-The total grange mem ership
Ia the United States is now estimated ut
l ,25O 600 .KENTUcKIANs are purchas-
ing laud in Texas for tho purpose of rsis-
ing hemp. The article is in great demand
there. lao converts to Mormonism is
the latest importation direct from Europe.
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, claims pop.
ulation of 100000 The census of 1860
gave her $1,000. 80. FLORIDA has harvest
ed her strawberries aud is gathering in the
watermelons- You don't say you smoke
cigar now. You cremate it. And when
you want light, you politely request the
favor OF little cremation. :. .WHooPING-
COUGH is still prevalent in Romney.
LAST year the farmers of Guthrie county .
Iowa, burned their corn because thew
couldn't sell it. Now they travel miles to
purchase 1t, and pay half dollar bushel
for it to feed to their horses. NEARLY
dozen couuterfeiters and dealers in coun.
terfoit money, were captured 10 Cincinnati
last Friday. WHEN ayoung lady hits
gentleman over the head with her sunshade.
In Kentucky, they say he was "parasoled."
--..1HE ninth census shows that there
are only States in tho Union wherein the
oolored people have majority, and only >
where, on squire division of the races at
the polls, the negro majority is largo G.
nough to be fairly counted upon. The
States in which there are colored maiorities
are louisiana, where there prepopderapce
is :, llo; South Carolina, where it is l26,-
III; and Mississippi, whore it is Gl,3O5.
ln all the other former slaveholdiug States
the whites have majority .WIru some
people cremation is only question of time.
Ii 1t don't come 10 this world it is sure To
come 10 the next NEAR Enlield, North
carolina reside two ladies' remarkable for
their advanced age. The younger is Mrs.
SALLIE SMITH aged 81 and is possess
cd OF all her faculties in a remarkable
degree; the older is Mrs. PATsEY JUDGE.
aged 90 and who can perform her usual
work. She can thread fine cambria nee-
Ole without the use of glasses. APPLE
orchards IN Southern Ohio are reported to
be injured by catorpillars. In the last
two yeors forty English steamers have
entered Norfolk, Virginia, harbor brig.
ing 1880 English passengers and more
than 100000 OF wealth TO the conn
try---.THE new Appropriation Bill pro.
vides for the payment of 50 $50 900 to
the Chociaw Indians for land coded in
1880. "A PENNSYLVANIA manufacture.
ing establishment has been discharoing mon
Tor telling falschoods This plan, if gener.
ally carried out, would be apt to parnl yzo
tho industry of the country 2. Major
>. L. STUART, of Londoun county. Va
writes to the LeesJmy Washingtonian that
he this year raised rs lambs from rs ewes
which he sold for four dollars head
HE Boston Post wants TO know if tbov
mean to logalize hugging whom they talk
OF throwing the arm of the law around lady
crusaders OF course, they do the good
time is coming =. Com is selling in
Newborn, North Carolina, at % cents q
hel....THE law fixing the legal rate
OF interest 10 Virginia Mt six per cent. went
into operation on the 1st inst IT is said
that ROBERT Bonner eponds s2OO,O0O n
year tor advertising the Lcdyor. No won.
dor he's rich. "A YOUNG man of Nanse-
mond county, Virginia, cut down a bee
tree, partook freely of tbo honey, and died
from It's ELECTS. HAVING sirictly retired
to private life, ex- Vice President CoLPAx
only spoke in nine States last month
WEST VIRGINIA has fifty, one Newspapers
Labor is said to be ennoblirp. II
doubtless is, but the reflection won't case
mans back any after digging ga,e-post
holes. The estimated wool clip of Cos.
hocton county, Ohio, for this year is esti.
mated at half a million pounds. Mns
MARY CHR1NE, aged %, residing 6 miles
from Baltimore, was burned to a orisp IN
Saturday night last by an explosion Of n
coal oil lamp. VERMONT this year turns
out l5,OOO,OOO pounds Of maple sugar.
worth ten cents pound . AN attempt is
making to establish Cotton Mill in Staun-
ton.-..THE Rev. JOHN A. GERE, Of the
Northern Methodist Church, died on Sat
urday last in PoDDsylvnnia, in the 10Th
year Of his age....F. G.. LINDSAY, of E. |
egyptian corn fame, convicted some two