South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-09-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The present outlook is favorable for
q larger corn crop than vas.ever grown
in the United States. - or the seventy
million gallons or whisky manufactured
in the United States last year. Kentucky
furnished eight million. The English
mails for Austria now pass ncross the
United States to San Francisco. The
time is twelve or fifteen days shorter
than by the old route. :. Frederick,
Maryland. has q canning factory which
gives employment to five hundred hands.
-. In the NJ. +. Charch mission schools
in India. there are 1000 boys and young
men = The bark and sumac mills of
Smyth, Snyder & Company, at Rich
mond. Va, were destroyed on the 26th
ult., by fire. Loss $23, 5000; insurance
$4,000 -. The Catholic cure OF st.
Jean Baptiste Village. Canada, has Civ
en- notice that he will refuse the sacra-
ment to those females Of his church who
VICAR low.necked dresses and pull-back
skirts. ...A Goshen, New York mother
has given birth to two pairs Of twins
within twelve months -. The Pennsyl.
vania cranberry crop this season has
never been eXcolled. The firm Of Juan
DE Micr & Co., dealers in soap and
-four. New York. suspended on Friday
last. Their liabilities are from $780,
900 to 100000. George w. Miller K
Co., paper merchants. of New York, sus-
pended on Thursday The fish and
oil crop of Newfoundland is valued at a
million dollars. Whales no. counted in.
-...Op;um eating is increasing TO an q,
farming extent in England -. They
won't need any dentists i'm Gallia. Ohio.
while they have sach smart children
there. The other day little girl want
ed to pull her brothers tooth. She tied
q string to the tootk, and tied the other
end to the stove leg. and then touched
a red.hot coal to the little victims nose.
The tooth came ont James Milhol-
land, formerly President Of the Consoli-
dation Coal Company OF Allegheny
county. but lately prominent citizen
Of Reading. Pennsylvania, died last week
ut the age of sixty-three . Mr. A. III.
Smith. raised on his farm, near Bost's
Mill, y. C., II stalk Of corn which had
ON it, all in bunch, forty eight nubbins,
which averaged one hundred grains each,
making in all forty-cight hundred grains.
Three old women and lame man
constitute n debating society Mt Du-
buque. The three old women live to-
gether, and their chickens scratched up
the lame mans garden. The debate is
held across the line fence The Post
master General is after firm of mail
contractors in Texas who had about
thirty routes under their control, and
have failed to perform their contracts.
One hundred and ninety -thrcs car
loads and five thousand crates of peach
es, by steamboat, were received Satur-
day At New York from Maryland and
Delaware. Cattle stealing and muir
der of pcaceable American citizens still
continue on the Rio Grandc. 1t is
thought the only remedy is for our troops
to invade Mexico and capture the dcs-
peradoes The physician in charge
OF the insane asylum where Mrs. Lin
coin is confined denies current state
Incnt that lie has givon certificate for
her discharge. lie thinks her mind is
now more perturbcd than hitherto. -.
An Alabama widow few days ago found
on her farm nugget Of gold weighing
two and half pounds. and worth 5000.
This is the largest nugget ever found in
that State -. The Democrats have
majority ofS0 in tho lower house of the
Kentucky Legislature -. The richest
woman in North America is the wife of
Prof. Samuel, formerly OF Brown Uni
versity, Rhode Island. She has al in
come Of ut least million dollars year.
her fathers estate. which she inherited,
being estimated at fully $4,000, 000...
Tho total population OF Massachusetts
is 100000 gain of 200, 900 since 1870.
The Adams and the American,
which arc the two great express compa-
nics Of the country, employs about 5000
men, 1900 horses, 200 wagons. and
use 5000 iron safes. Their agents ira
vel more than 100000 miles daily, or
nearly 100000 miles yearly A
Springfield (Mo..) man lras invented
machine to bind grain as it falls from
the reaper. At q wedding i'll Clay
county Mo, recently, the groom had
neither legs or arms. and the brido was
deaf and almost dumb a band Of
English gypsies are travelling through
Iowa. The Burlington Hack Eye says
they have aquecn, that there is not more
than one whole shirt in the community,
that they live like Indians. would rather
die than work, and rather steal than 20
to heaven. -. The leather product of
Massachusetts is valued Mt $50 900, 900.
....All the scholars but one attending
school in one district in New Durham,
n. H., arc the children Of Samuel Lang
ley, who has family of fourteen, the
eldest being eighteen years OF age..-
The value OF the peppermint crop in
Wayne county. y. Y, this year, is esti-
mated at $4,000. Hon. George i.
Schsll, prominent lawyer of Allen
town, Pa. committed suicide on Mon
day last by shooting himself through
the head. No cause is assigned for the
act Norfolk, Va, shipped $4,000 wa
termelons TO Boston one day lately. -.
Charles Carruck ard J. VI. Turner FOUGHT