South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-11-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.

WHNafn r.. MOTIFS, one OF the best known
civil engineers in Pennsylvania. died In
-Philadelphia recently 1t is stated
that the ny is masking considerable dep
relations on tine wheat crop in Rock.
bridge county. Va, especially the early
sowing Coal oil has been struck at
Park Ridge, suburb of Chicago The
next stated meeting Of the Winchester
Presbytery will he held nj Hancock Nd,
on the first Monday in May, lS76...
Ohio farms average Ill acres. :. The
Jewish population OF New York city is
about 10000. >. Richie county has the
honor OF putting the first negro in the
jury box in the history Of the State Of
w. Va. Mr.. Wv. Corcoran. of W. ash
ington. ID. c.. has given to the Southern
Historical Society five hundred dollars.
and promises like contribution each
year hereafter. =. England has CON-
menced importing calicoes from the u.
nited States. The Crown Prince Of
Germany will visit the American Cen
teDnial The funeral obsequies ofthe
late General George Z. Pickett took
place ut Richmond Sunday afternoon,
in the presence OF forty thousand per-
sons. The funeral procession numbered
about five thousand, in which were sew.
erai military companies, white and col
ored Two years ago q millionaire
named Johnson, while riding by in an
Indiana railway train, fell desperately
in love with pretty girl sitting on q
fence and subsequently married her,
Now, express train passengers say that
all the fences along the Indiana railroads
n ra Il, hn,N - II l.: l.
rs crows in corniield. :. In Iowa the
corn crop Inst year was 100, 100000, this
year it is estimated that the yield will
be l30,000.000 bushels, which will be
worth seventy million dollars u. a
mammoth steer from Oregon is already
en- route to the centennial. II stands
nineteen hands, or six feet four inches.
measures twenty feet from tip to tip,
and weighs 5000 pounds The differ
ence just now between fishes and girls
Is that fishes are finbacked, and the girls
are pinned back. Mr.. Sanford has
shipped eight thoroughbred American
race horses to England, with which to
contest for turf honors on English soil
next season. Among the horses ship.
ped were Preakness, Mate and Bay III.
normous, selling in some counties at Is
cents bushel. -. John Dolan. recently
convicted OF the murder Of James Ii.
Noe, in New York, was sentenced to be
hung on the 10th of December. Small
Pox prevails to some extent in Cincin.
natl. "A disease similar to the epizoo-
tic is killing or cattle in several coun.
ties bordering on the Pennsylvania side
Of the Delaware river. :. David Shcetz.
whose father lives in Westernport, Md,
was killed at Aurora, Illinois, on Thurs.
day OF last week, by being run over by
the cars. both legs were severed close mp
to the body. He was OH employee on
the railroad at the time. Young Sheetz
had recently been married in Grafton,
consequently leaves o widow. His re.
mains were brought home for burial on
Tuesday Charleston suffered to the
amount. of $4,000 by the fro which oc.
Cured there on the 18th instant . . A
woman at Niles, Michigan. recently sx-
hibited at a local .fair held i'm that city
linen table-cloth nearly 100 years old,
which was spun and woven by her great
grandmother in 1880; bed-sprcad 100
years old and q handkerchief made 60
years ago. These articles will be exhib.
tied at the Centennial exhibition next
year. LAT the municipal election in
baltimore on Wednesday, r. G.. Latrobe,
Democrat, was elected Mayor of the city
by 2,13l majority. James Otis, May.
or OF San Francisco, died on Saturday
last Hog cholera is taking off thou.
sands of swine in Indiana. Missouri, II.
linois and other Western States Kit.
tengill * Campbell, London, have fail.
ed; liabilities $2,000O00. 1t is re.
ported that the Turks have murdured co
Christians on the Dalmatan frontier.
....l676 will lave two eclipses of the
sun, and ditto of the moon :. A man
who breaks up in England, must pay 100
per cent. or never get on his feet again. |
-. Somebody has figured it out that we
are to have twenty six snow storms this
WINTER The amount ofsand paper an
nually produced in the United States, is
estimated ct 100000 reams. Califor-
MIA hunters say that grizzly bears, when
captured alive, though not wounded,
soon die Of broken heart, induced by
excessive rage. Mr.. Jonathan Lem.
on, on James river. raised this year nine
hunheh pOunVS OF pumpkins from one
vine. A long drought in Florida
threatens serious injury to the orange
crop. Sherman's Memoirs netted $780,
600. -. America sends oysters to Paris.
1.-The Taunton Gdzette makes this re.
cord. ut was good and prayerful old
lady OF this city who said that she had
stopped praying for her husband "be.
cause | have prayed so long without ef.
feet that | think the Lord has just rs
poor an opinion ofthat man ne I have.'
The next meeting Of the Presbytc-
rian Synod, recently in session at Staun-
ton. will TO held in the First ,Presbyte.
r;an Church Of Norfolk, on Wednesday
before the fourth Sunday in October
1876. ...Ohio proposes sending youth
Of llG summers, among other contribu.