South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-08-20
NEWS OF TEE DAY.
The number of Presbvtcrians in

nc number of Presbytcrians in the
world. is estimated nj 10000. OO0....
Daring the last six months Wheeling
itaS turned out 5il,6i5 kegs Of nails,
worth over Sl.500. 900. -. Counterfeit
teas on the First National Bank OF
!ouEhkccpsie, New York, are in circu-
iatIon. IA smart Kansas woman. who
wanted some hair for clustering. shaved
h'' dog and got t....A fat girl in
nome. New York. aged II, weighs 800
pounds. On the md instan: = slight
':;st OF ''bcautitul snow" WAS experience
rl III Nashville :. Horace Binney, the
oldest member OF the Philadelphia bar,
IL dead. agcl ~. lie graduated at liar
va"d University in 49, $3.50 In the Brook
!vn q. " court on Friday last, Judge
Met ne granted = warrant for the arrest
OF The German consul named Max Hale
hcimcr Ill IN action brought against him
by Noses Swariz for criminal convcrs:,-
iion with his wife. Damages laid at
$1,000. 1t is against the law to dun Il
maa on q postal card Rev. John
Neil. o! Mount Jackson. Va. Of the Tun-
Hcr denomination, died on Thursday
week. aged &C years - The Rev. Joseph
l!llams, negro preacher OF Franklin,
Icnn.. is on tri"l for kissing Sister Jor-
dan. Raise IT,: salary There are 2iS,-
13S acres Of lind in Wood CO., this State,
which with the improvements arc val
ucl ut S5,5SG450, making nearly $3.50
per acre. Queen Victoria is already
the grandmoher Of twenty children -.
The Paris MISSOURI Mercury ssys:-
I'VE are sorry TO learn that Mrs. j. j.
Armstrong, Of this place, has lost her
sight. She had very severe headache
one day recently, and upon awakening
the next ma-niny thereafter, she lscov-
erct that she WAS blind. General
Joseph +. Johnson is spoken of, with a.
bout 100 others, rs 4 good man to be
Governor Of Georgia. Florida has Sc
cured, this year, 10000 alligator hides.
49, The SuTa: cane docs not require re-
planting every season in Mexico, nor
oitcncr than every fifth year. Swim
ming is an adopted branch Of public
/; school education in England, and in
London there are some 5000 children
OF both sexes taught TO swim. The
ladies' all favor "contraction''-in their
dress skirts. IA Minnesota woman
killed eighteen bushels OF yraS shoppers
III one week. anlgot one dollar bushcl
IAN umbrella attachment for plows
has been patented - The LOO Nor
mon recruits lately passing through Chi
cago are described rs dirty, ragged,
and mostly middle aged men and home
~ women" brigham is SO depressed
in consequence tina. it is thought he will
not revive until an improved lot arrives.
80. Parlor skates for hotel walters are
The latest inspiration. .'.Pink slusil''
Is the contcmptnous epithet for water
melon. ~ st. Louis man invited twen-
~ guests to dinner. and placed check
Tor $1,000 under each plate. Everybody
FELT good until it was found that the
cheeks wouldn't check. =. DR.. Helm.
bold, the former proprietor Of many pa
tent medicines, has been sent to an in
sane Asylum i'll Philadelphia. 80 A
North Carolina girl, 16 years old, has
given birth to triplets. - Charles G..
finny, for many years president Of the
Oherin (Ohio) College, died sud- emily at
Clevcl3ud H<lsASenday last Of -hoart di-
sease. General Wade Hampton is pro-
mincntly spoken Of for president Of the
University of North Carolina. Fred.
erick Kramer, Of Baltimore, won the sill
vcT gh5ic: i'll the international shooting
match ut Stuttgart in Germany. on Mon
| day of las: wecl; :. . . DR.. Il. ID. Johnson,
| OF CLAIR: Svillc. Tenn, has teen appoint.
c,i :: surgeon in The army Of the khc;livc
Of EIyp: IA machine has been invcn-
ted III England for making hay by arti-
fetal heat ut a cost of eight shillings per
ton -. There will doubtless be develop.
! cd in ti!ae a bette: understanding Of the
causes leading to General Shcridan's
dreadful opinion OF Louisiana people,
now that one Of The ''hanrlitti' is going
hundred anil iifY-c:yht thousand dol
lars, value o.! sugar, molasSos, g., con.
Iscatcd ty Sheridan in 1867. The dc.
tense OF the general is pretty much like
Butler She '.obcyed orders" >. About
! LOO Indians under Pocatello are ell
canpcI about twenty miles from Cor
| inne. Utah. and the inhabitants apprc-
hcnd second attempt from them to
make = raid on the town. The citizens
are armed witt, :!cc,;lr.guns and other
arms h2lD1gi&g to the government. The
Indians are aa!h TO he supported by
Mormon: anil under tic control Of the
Mormon church Twenty Years ago
there entered anil LETT one Of the depots
in Jersey City forty passenger trains
| day. Now. to accommodate the incrcas-
ed traffic, three ilndrcd tains are ne
ccSSary -. The sugar season in Austria
! III lS14-J has hccn one Of the worst
Known. FROM the month of August,
1874. to The end Of February, 1879, only
92S.4jS tons of beet-root were cultivated,
while i'll 1925 the quantity WAS 1868.
900 tons. The White Sulphut West
Va) Springs We're leased on Saturday
last at auction 70 George l.. Peyton and
Company, for b term of two years at
$lS.5oO per year. taxes and insurance 10
| be paid by the lcssccs. Onc-fourth of
the amount Of rental is 10 be expended
i'll repairs i'll addition TO what pcyton
Il Co, will voluntarily do. Over nine
hundred guests are there by actual count.
....A circular having been sent to Gem