South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-05-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Sixty thousand ounces Of po,d uer


melted in the San Francisco mint GA
yesterday week -. California now leads
all other States in wool growing. and
pretty much everything else =. Judge
Nelson smokes fifteen cigars daily. ac-
cording to the New York Sua o.. There
were 100000 bushels of Western corn
sold in Baltimore on Saturday week
In 1874, 100000 pounds of buffalo
meat were shipped over the Kansas Pa
cific Railway and its connections. In
the same year over the Topeka and San
IA Re Railroad, bones, 6,6l4. pounds
hides, l,3li,300 pounds; meat. 63l. 800
pounds - Wheeling wants all the Ma
sons in the State TO be- p her lay the cor
ner stone of her new capital building.
on ST. Johns Day. June goth Chica.
COS delinquent tax list foots up % So
$50, 700. - The Millerites now assert
that the world will come to an abrupt
conclusion on June Is. Professor lice.
of st. Louis, also predicts terrific cy-
clones about that time. :. Last year this
country imported 90, palm leaf fans.
Guess less number will do this year.
-. DIR. Glenn. of California has sold
his last years wheat for 100000.
Seven hundred horses have been killed
in the neighborhood of GAINESVILLE. Ar
kansas, by the buffalo gnat 4. d. Treasu.
~ statistics show that during April To-
S5l passengers by ocean steamers ar
rived in New York. OF these 1854
were Storage passengers. The average
length OF the voyage for forty-fiye steam
| ers examined was twelve days and three
quarters :. The steamers which left
New York on yesterday week for Europe
took out S6l3,025 in specie, of which
S350,O00 was in gold coin John Boy
er Caldwell, of WI ite Sulphur Springs,
this State, died on the 9th inst, in the
seventy-sixth year of his age Judge
Ward, of Magic Relief and injunction
notoTiety, while Mt Raleigh Court was
robbed by servant boy Of about sixty
dollars. Isaac Green was the BOYS
name -. Engineer Wickham. OF Wheel.
! ing reports the city rs using daily 3
100000 gallons of water per day. With
population Of $4,000, that is thirty
| gallons per day for each man. woman
and child. What a dry people live in
that little slice of West virginia A.
/ boat half the fall wheat will be plowed
/ mp IN Missouri Seventy wives in W ar.
saw, Kentucky. desiring by their exam
PIE 10 promote economy, discounte-
nance extr1yag aace, and tighten the bur
dems of family expense" have signed
! this pledge: Nv G will not. during 3
! period of one year from the first OF May.
| 1873, purchase any material for wearing
apparel the cost of which shall exceed
twenty-five cents per yard. And shall
/ further promise TO observe strict econ
omy in all orr household pert.ncnees.
| and cheerfully add by those delicate
! sacrifices to the general stock Of home
/ comforts, too often dispensed with for
/ the frivolous outside adornmeat of the
/ body alone" 80 a woman in Belleviile.
! Illinois, eighty-nine years old, could no,
wait for the natural end OF life. bu'
hanged Lersclf from one Of the high
! posts Of her old-fashioned bejstead
/ The first iron steamboat built in St.
! Louis was recently launched. A col
lision occurred on the 4th of April. OIL
! the coast Of China, between the Chinese
steamship Fu Sing and British steamship
/ Ocean. The Flu Sing foUnlered almost
! instantly, causing n loss OF fifty lives.
/ The Ocean was seriously injured. but
! succeeded in reaching Wa Sing. There
are about 10000 men employed in the
| oyster trade in Baltimore 80 Pitts
| burgh glass factory is said to have been
using oil for fuel with success -. Dele
! gates left Ottumwa, Canada. on Mon
day last for Philadelphia, to make ar
| engagements for representation Of Cana
| dian industries ct tine centennial
! The chrome business does not appear
! to be confined to newspapers alone. A.
/ it is asserted that an enterprising Young
! clergyman in the W est is presenting the
| inducement of seventv-ive cent chro.
mo, neatly framed" TO every couple
| coming to lin TO be married The
/ Ohio democracy are preparing for their
! State campaign. The convention viii
! be held at Columbus, June II. and will
! be followed by grand ratification meet
! ing and glorifcation Tho Shepherds
! town Herald is told that the growing
/ wheat crop in Jefferson county, will not
average four bushels to the acre. if
/ something unforeseen does not improve
/ il very shortly. Some farmers are plow.
/ ing up their wheat fel Is and planting
them in corn -. ID. Morris. member
| of Congress from Ohio in 1871. died nj
| Connersyille, Indiana, on Sunday last.
80. The present tax on whskey "a il
passed, fixed the tax Mt ninety cents
The tax in Great Britain is ten shillings
sterling, equivalent at present quota.
tons Of gold and exchange. to S2.S3 in
our paper money. II the English Gov
ernment can collect S2.S3, our Govern.
ment ought certainly TO be able to Sc.
cure one third Of that amount DR..
James Beale has placed in the State Ii.
brary Of Virginia portrait Of Pocahon-
tas which he says is an exact copy.
made by the elder Sully in 1880. Of the
original portrait of tic Indian Princess
painted during her visit % England be-
tween the years of 1916 anj 1917. It
/ has been I'm the possession Of the de.
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