South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-01-09
South a}vantIr antelliseneer.
RoMNEY, FRIDAY, JAN. 0, 1874.

So,fOS,ZiZ II.
ETTHE Legislature of Virginia has ap-
pointed Tuesday next to 60 into an election
for United States Senator, in the room Of
Senator LEWIS.
EE-THE London Times estimates that
$4,000, 900 bushels Of wheat will be requr-
cd from this country to supply tho markets OF
Europe until the crop of 1874 is harvested
EFTHE President, i. is said, will nom
mate LUMFoRD l.. LEWIS, Of Culpeper,
(brother OF Senator LEwIs,) to be United
States attorney for the eastern distric. of
Virginia, rice Judge LYONS, declined.
ITTHE corn crop this year Of Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Mis-.
souri,, Ohio and Tennessee, is, according to
the National Crop Exporter of Jackson
vile Illinois, 24l, 100000 bushels below
that of1872 The potato crop in the same
States shows q decrease of slS,400,o00.
EyA MAN can send telcgraphic mes
sugo from lands End in England to Kirk
we'll in Scotland, distance of 700 miles,
at one cent q word In this country we
would have to pay twelve times as much
rG-CALEB CUSHING has been appointed
minister to Spain in the room Of General
SICKLEs, resigned.
Ey UNDER the new Constitution of
Pennsylvania, women are eligible to any
Office of control or management under the
school laws of the State.
ETA PHILADELPHIA letter states that
the opinion in financial circles has settled
upon 25 cents on the dollar as tho figures
which the estate of JAY COOKE g. Co will
probably yield to creditors, if closed with
in year, under the provisions of the bank
rupt law
E6-1T is stated that the utmost capacity
of population to consume grain 10 the
form Of food is eight so ten bushels per
capita per unnum. The grain product of
the commercial world, however, amounts to
eighteen bushels per head, giving an excess
Of supply which necessarily makes agricul.
ture Improbable.
ES-THE gold coinage of the mint at
Philadelphia in October amounted to Sl1,-
100000 in double eagles.
SOME of tho Iowa Oranges, in order
to induce white men to settle in that State,
have promised to furnish every white FAM
lily coming into their respective counties
IL A of f.
ES- MELBOURNE, Australia, has law
which has recently come into operation, by
which persons brought before a police bench
charged with insanity, said insanity having
been caused by excessive drinking of intOx-
icating liquors, nro to be sent to prison and
treated as criminal lunatics, and not, as
heretofore, forwarded to bcnevolon. or
other asylum to be treated as afflicted 10.
dividuals.
GsI \ WASHINGTON correspondent Of
the baltimore Sun remarks "that it is not
considered possible to reduce the estimates
for pensions, which is now $4,000, 900
There is also belief that oil of the pen.
siouers Of 1912 in the South who were
dropped during the war will be restored, in
which event q large amount Of back-pay
will have to be provided" There are on
tho pension roll seven widows Of revolution
ary time. Two Of these, viz; Mrs. SUSAN
j. JACOB, mother of our present Cover
nor, and JANE MARTIN, living in Clarks-
burg, draw $500 per anuum; tho others
draw 500.
ETHARRY GENET, convicted Of com
plcity in the ring robberios Of Now York,
and sentenced to the peniteutiary to accom-
pauy his boon friend and companion TWEED,
slipped tho Sheriff and made bis escape.
It's stated that he got OF in his own yacht,
which wac waiting with friends and proyi-
sions. The Sheriff has offered IS 900 for
his capture.
The trial Of ox-Mayor HALL ended in q
verdict Of "not guilty" lie is the first Of
the "Ring" brought TO trial in tho Courts
as at present administered who has failed
q conviction
ss5-THE most valuable car load Of Cali
foruia products that was ever sent East was
forwarded Dec 10 by the Central Pacific
Railroad II was a car load Of cloths and
1auncs, for the Brooklyn Navy Yard, sent
by the Mission Woollen Mills It's value
was $4,000