South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-10-08
NE US OF THE DAY.

UP IN raiirosd Ties, 94,Oo4,4 cubic feet
of timber. The Chinese i'm California
consume nearly 4 million dollars worth
OF opium yearly. -. There are 40 silk
manufacturing establishments in the u.
nited States, AS Of which are located i'm
I New Jersey Ex-senator Doolittle
thinks married men should have two
votes... Hand-woven silks are import
! cd, and highly recommended .Ex.
President Johnson's estate is now val.
ned at about $175, 900 :. The number
of kegs of nails made in West Virginia
last year. was l.084,o27. In 1878 il was
SIS.633 St Louis is talking about n
twelve-story hotel, to contain two thou.
sand rooms, and accommodate three
thousand five hundred people :. E. The
London police have the names Of Az
600 habitual criminals on the register.
Ia square of ground in Galveston
worth $4,000 few years ago is now
simply sand heap not worth anything /;
the cyclone and floods caused it - The
Bank of England holds las. 900, 900 in
| gold Profound peace reigns through.
out Mississippi. Notwithstanding Ames.
lit is estimated that 100000 reams
OF sand paper are annually consumed in
the United SGates. :. Potatoes are sell.
ing FOR twenty-five dollars gold per bar
rel IN Havana, Cuba During the first
three monts Of this year, there were re-
ceived from abroad $50 1857 boxes oflem.
ons and oranges ut New York -. A
/ charity patient in a Baltimore hospital
on being searched was found to have 0.
yer $1,000 in money sewed in the lin.
4 Of ka h, 4. g. II.
the owner Of two farms near the city.
The value of watercresses sold in
Paris in the course of year is estimat
ed at 100000. The growth of the
practice of opium eating in Baltimore
has become quite an alarming evil, &C.
cording to the Gazette of that city. The
drug is largely used by persons in all
classes and conditions OF life :. Ohio
county, this State, returns, upon the as.
sessment books for 1875 property. real
and personal, valued at $l7,346, 500.-
The tax on this valuation is Sl0S776.
-. In the mines of Scotland last year,
thirty-two thousand seven hundred and
fifty persons were employed g. AT Read
ing, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday of last
week, the jury rendered verdict in the
case of Elizabeth Mishler, Us. Joseph
NcManus, for seduction oil the plaintiffs
daughter, Mary hishler. The verdict
was in favor of the plaintiff. and the
damages were assessed ut $4,000. This
IL the heaviest verdict ever rendered in
Berks county in an action Of this kind.
49, 1t IS said that the true heirs to the
Jennings estate in England have been
discovered in that country, and that
there is no chance whatever for the Jen.
nings of Virginia -. In the Prince Ed
ward, Va, Circuit Court, on Saturday
last, the suit against the Danyille Rail-
road for $4,000 damages, for causing
the death of w. w. Anderson, who liv.
ed near Green river depot, was condi-
tionally decided by the jury allowing
him $4,000. "A panther rushed into a
bedroom in house few miles from
Willis, Texas, the other day, and carried
Off baby in his mouth, but the twelve.
year old sister followed and screamed
so Justify that the. brute dropped the
youngster only slightly injured The
famous trotting-mare American Girl fell
dead on Saturday evening last in the
first heat of the free for all race on Eel.
mira New York; Driving Park. She
appeared at the start to be in the very
best condition. The hog cholera is de.
stroying large numbers of hogs through.
out the country to the eastward of Day.
ton, Ohio -. Captain s. G.. Baker. for.
merly from the Valley Of Virginia, and
who resided for many years in Wheel.
ing, died III st. Louis, on Sunday last.
There is blind man at the Deaf
Dumb and Blind Institute ut Stanton
thirty years ofage, who has never in his
life tasted vegetables of any kind, and
meat but once. During the long time
which lie has spent here, he has never
been known to eat any kind of fruit;
but for breakfast, dinner and supper
takes only bread and coffee or milk, and
cake, occasionally, for desert. Notwith
standing his eccentricities, he is q musi.
cal prodigy -. At Atchison, Kansas, n
girl ate four pounds OF wedding cake in
order that she might dream of her fu.
ture husband. And now she saws that
money wouldn't hire her to marry the
man she saw in that dream A horri.
bic murder occurred at Suncook New
Hampshire, on Monday last. Miss Lang.
made, daughter of James Lanamade.
left her home this morning for school,
having n half mile TO walk, part Of the
way through woods. Not returning at
the usual hour search was made and the
woods secured. At eight o'clock this
evening her body was found i'm the
woods, half n mile from the road. with
her head nearly severed from her BODY,
She had been outraged and murdered
Intense excitement exists in the com.
munity The Atlanta and Augusta
,Ga.) papers concur in stating that mo.
ney matters are rapidly improving in all
the cotton towns OF the Southern States.
The planters are in better condition Co
hold back their crop than at any peri.
cd since the war Heretofore they have
had il so he ayily mortgaged they were
forced TO sell for whatever price offered
these mortgages always maturing prior