South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-08-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

I merican urmS VINO are Rettln& rtc1 Dy
making better importer liquors and
wines than can be mace in Europe.
The Snake Run Academy IL the name
Of an Indiana school. The scholars
must all be adders. :. Fifty million dol.
lars Of precious metals have been mined
in Nevada this year. :. General Joseph
+. johnson, OF Georgia, has been elect
ed president Of the Arkansas Industrial
University. Over {, 900 different school
books are published in this country.
Four thousand millions OF dollars are
invested in railroads in the United States.
-. The New York man whose wife mix
cd rat-poison with his breakfast didn't
like his rat-ions. IL. A farmer living near
Fredericksburg reports thirty-three bush
els of wheat to the acre. Is he happy?
The greatest contest OF reaping ma
chimes ever held in Germany has just
ended in victory for an American har-
vester. .. Mississippi embraces so, 49,
$40 acres of land, of which only 4,209.-
l45 acres arc as vet under cultivation.
On yesterday week a colored woman
named Jennie Williams died at York,
Pa, at the age of 105 years. Our
cheese factory, says the Loudoun coun-
ty, Va, Enterprise, is doing well this sea-
son. 1t is now receiving about LOCO
pounds OF milk daily ;. On an average
twenty-eight miles OF streets are opened
and nine thousand houses built every
year in London. Lewis county, this
State, has 4 twelve-year old boy who
weighs l5S pounds :. The Co., Court of
Taylor county has voted to accept $685.
900 from the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company, for taxes due mp to, and
including, the year 1874 :. a. L. Stew
art says that the best way to make n
man honest ia to watch him. The Gus
tom house officers will please keep an
eye on Mr.. Stewart - Chicago boys
and giIls use 100000 worth of school
books annually. 49, New York city has
altogether $50 temples Of worship, of
which the Presbyterians own forty three,
the BaptiSts thirty-three, the Episcopal
lians sevcnty-seven, and the Catholics
% -. Blue Earth County, Minnesota,
has thus far paid SIS, 900 for dead grass.
hoppers at SLIGO per bushel -. A little
! girl in Stokes county, n. c., aged eleven
years. killed rattlesnake the other day,
which had on it fourteen rattles and
which was four feet long -. Thomas A.
Keunard, clerk in the War Depart
ment at Washington, died on Friday
night last from the effects of n pistol shot
wound received at the hands Of John
Frawner, on Tuesday night. The origin
Of the shooting was the alleged estrangc.
ment of Frawner's wife by Kennard. =.
Rev. John ID. McCabe, for A5 years
minister of the Methodist Episcopal
church. died at his residence in Balti-
more, on Sunday last, aged 60 years -.
! Canada counts upon bountiful harvest
this year, and she hopes thereby to
counterbalance the present business de-
preston there. Il. Rev. Father Jeremiah
iIenricks, pastor of st. PatricIls Catho-
lie church ut Mount Savage, Md, died
on Tuesday OF last week, of congestion
of the lungs. lie was thirty-three years
old, and n native of Ellicott City -.
The government will sell on the first
and second Thursdays OF this month ST.
| 100000 gold, and on the second and
fourth Thursdays, one million Grass
hoppers, Notwithstanding. the corn crop
Of Kansas is so large that the Kansas
Fvmer OF the DIST says the question
now to be heard on every side is where
can we get stock to feed our corn to-"
-. Seven female clerks are engaged in
the New Orleans postoffice - People
who imagine that all their kid gloves
are imported will be surprised to learn
that there is n large mandatory of those
articles in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, whence
large quantities are shipped to New
! York -. Rev. DR.. James Richards q
Presbyterian minister of Charleston, this
State, fell in q railroad depot at Edin-
burgh, Scotland, on Saturday last, frac-
turing his skull, and died soon afterward.
-. On Monday night last n colored man
named Charles Harrison fell from the
wharf Of the Consolidation Coal Compa-
ny in Cumberland, into the canal and
was drowned before assistance could
reach him. = The losses of the Carlists
during the past three weeks in killed,
! four thousand men - Nash & Nash is
the title of Columbia (Me.) law firm.
The partners composing it are partners
in matrimory rs we'll "a in law Ken
lucky grasshoppers chew tobacco and
make away with whole fields, OF the stand
| ing plants in single day The Louis
lana census will make the population Of
/ New Orleans about 20j. 900 .Alexan-
| der Hamilton, aged 80 years, son Of
the great statesman. died at his residence
in New York on Monday last .Sena-
tor Mcdonald. OF Indiana, has been look
/ ing over the feld in Ohio. and is conf
dent that the democrats will win "A.
ID. Jones lately Postmaster at Corinth,
Mississippi, and a member of the Repub-
! Iican State Central COMMITTEES, charged
with robbng the mails has been tried
and sentenced TO two years confinement
in the penitentiary at Albany, New York.
The Portsmouth, Enterprise says that lat
/ one session Of the District Court in Ok.
/ ford lMiss.) six loyal postmasters were
convicted Of embczzlement and robbing
the mails" The Library Of Roanoke
/ College now contains $4,000 volumes.
-Four hundred volumes were added dur