South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-10-30
south 3ranet 9ntelligemeer.
ROMNEY, FRIDAY, OCT. 80, 1874.
CTIr is said for the first time since

judge of the supreme court
THE NEXT LEGIsLATURE.-The next
Senate of this State, according to our nfor-
nation, will stand 10 Democrats, 4 R,di.
calls and l Independent. The III ouse, 81
Democrats, lS Radicals, aud Iudapen.
dent. 1t is said tina, of all those who held
seats in the last House Of Delegates, but
fve-two Democrats aud 3 Republicans
are returned to the next House.
EETHE sale of waste paper from the
different departments of the English Gov
ernment produces an annual revenue of
$1,000.
cS"IT costs less to take weekly pa
per-" argues the Cape Ann Ad0e,t'scr,
ethan dilgent hen can earn in year
at the market price of eggs
ETA. T. STEWART is a very poor e.
nancier. Think, for instance, of that be-
nighted person paying out 100000
year for advertising
EUOFFIcIAL reports from Ouio d. moi
differ from earlier reports in showing that
the majori,ies are turned squarcly around.
The Democrats elect their secretary Of Slate
by nearly the same msj ority that the re
publican candidate received in 1872. aud
the congressional delegation of 10 repub!i-
cans and Z democrats will be replaced by
IL democrats md republicans
The official returns in OLio give the
democrats 1902 majority, and Is Clu.
gressmcn out Of 90 Last year the demo.
Gratis had only Z Congressman.
THE NEXT CONGRESS. The Home of
Representatives consists of 292 members.
OF these in the present house I94 are Re.
publicans, SO are Democrats, s. are Lber-
ais and one of unknown politics. So tho
Administration Republicans have major
ity of lOl over tho Democrats, and 50 O.
yer all other than their own.
$50 far as heard from, lO8 members
have been elected to the next House Of
Representatives. 52 are Republicans and
56 Democrats, according to the latest re.
port. The same States a,nd to the present
Congress 76 Republicans add 80 d ,mocrats.
1t the Democrats gain in the same ratio 10
the States which are yet to elect, they will
have 80 members in the next H.use-a
majority of 10 over the Republicans, and
OF over both Liberals and Republicans, or
II the Liberals vote with them, of is over
the Administration Republicans"
SLAsr week FRANK WILSON, living
few miles south of Huntington, this State.
1t Ia stated, was awakened by two strangers
who asked foreman til! morning, the night
being dark aud rainy. Ga being admitted
they presented rovolvers demanding money.
Being refused, both fred several sho oue
taking effect in WILSON'S thigh. This
firing brought assistance and the strangers
left without effscting the robbery. Their
faces being blackened tboy were not known.
SEA DEMOCRATIC paper in Georgia
asserts that more democratic clubs compos.
ed OF oolored men have this year been form
cd 10 the South than in the whole previ.
ou'S years of negro freedom, anl the work
still goes on
The CARLGsT WAR-It is reported
from Spain, on authority which is beliov-
cd to be reliable, that the Madrid govern,
ment has sent s., OOO, 600 for distribution
among the Carlst Chief, for the purposes
Of temporary war.
TUITION FOR DAUGHTERS The Jouy-
mol Of Heath asserts that no Thoughtful
mother should rest until she has taught her
daughters to do well the following things:
10 make cup Of coffee to draw dish
Of ioa TO bake a loaf of broad to cook a
potato; to broil a steak or chicken; to cut.
fl, nnd make a dress, and to &c. a tidy
table.
TT IL an article upon American watch
manufacturing, contemporary states that
- represents capital Of nearly $4,000.
oJO, and that the annual production Of
watches in this country is abou. 200 900
ESTHE BiDghamrtou, Mas, PcpuJli.
can says it is slated that there are from
10 20 republicans murdered every week ia
Arkansas. Ooly from to 20 week
why notsay, observes a contemporary from
5O to 100, which would be just as true,
adding that in each township the democrats
cat live child for breakfast, aud bis "a
Their, If republican voter, for dinner?