South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-07-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Nebraska last year numbered Is, OO0, 900.
-. The specie shipments to Europe
from New York on Saturday last were
$3.50, 900, of which 81, 800. 600 was gold
coin. Iron is now rolled into sheets
not much thicker than gold. The q
mount OF fruit annually sold in this
country is about $45, 900. The
Chinese make asoup of caterpillars boil
ed with onions. -. A Madison Station,
Miss, man got 1900 this year for his
acre of strawberries A Frenchman
estimates that forty millions of French.
men could subsist on the food which
forty millions ofAmericans thu ow away
80. California makes no difference in
the amount of salary paid to teachers
on account of sex. .Thirty-two car
loads Of watermelons passed through At
lanta, Ca, on Friday last, en- route from
the highlands Of Florida to Chicago.
The hotel capacity Of Philadelphia is a.
bout 10000 people - California is re.
ceiving ten thousand immigrants per
month, and doesn't know what to do
with them all -. 1t is said that Of thir-
ty-two deaths in the city of Wheeling
last month only fourteen were over seven
years of age Mr.. JULIUS ID. Dreher,
a. NJ, of South Carolina. has been c.
lected professor of English language
and literature in Roanoke College "A
thirteen-year old girl in Scarsport, Nd,
weighs 220 pounds -. General Joseph
f.. Johnston is being strongly urged for
Governorship of Georgia. -. Hon. j. NJ.
IIagans, eX-member of Congress, of this
State, has removed to Chicago to prac.
tice law. -. The grasshoppers have &c.
complished wonders in Missouri. They
have induced the people TO fast and pray.
More than one-half the population
of the world lives in Asia. Adam
Grimm, of jefferson. Wisconsin, is one
Of the largest honey raisers in the world.
His crop for last year was 30, pounds,
and his apiary consists of l,15S colonies.
Three young men in Milton county,
Georgia, on June 80, while in field
threshing wheat, were struck by light
ming and instantly killed :. Honorable
Thomas b. Florence, formerly men,
Der of Congress from Philadelphia, and
afterwards editor and publisher of the
Constitutional Union and more recently
proprietor of the Washington Sunday
Gazette, died in Washington on Sunday
last An account from Indianapolis,
Indiana, announces that Robert Dale
Owen, the distinguished scientist and
Spiritualist, has become insane Rob
ert Lincoln, son of Mrs. Abraham Lin
coin, has been appointed guardian of his
mothers estate under bond of $780,
600. :. The number of cattle from Kan
sas and Missouri now grazing npon 10.
wa soil is said to be immense 1t has
Ross was stolen. Hope he will yet turn
up At Lexington, KY, the celebrat-
ell running horse LEXINGTON died on
the 1st instant. :. There is in Rich
mond, Va, master Mason's apron, O.
riginally made for the revolutionary
general, Daniel Morgan, out of part of
his wife's satin wedding-gown, and worn
by him in the Winchester VA lodge in
1865 Work will begin on the Kama
wha river some time during the present
month. 49, recent investigation of the
number of missionaries and converts in
Japan gives the following results -
Greek church, 1 missionary and 5000
converts Roman Catholic, 40 mission
aries, 10000 converts; Protestants, 20
missionaries, 100000 converts There
is n girl in town pins back so tight that
she has7got corn on her Wheel
ing Leader. Is that so?. .. Flute play
ing is the latest accomplishment for
young ladies in England. : The num-
Der of persons killed on the railways Of
Great Britain last year was 1,425, and
the number injured was $3.50. Brig
ham Young says that he would rs soon
marry Satan as woman who wore friz-
yes. Connecticut, getting tired with
her selectment. has selected fifteen Sc
lectwomen. 49,. The receipts at the Office
of the Collector of Internal Revenue in
Wheeling on the 30th ult. aggregated
between $4,000 and $4,000. .. Crime
and divorce constitute profitable items
in the revenue ofConnecticut. The net
profits of the State prison last year were
$2,742, and the fees for matrimonial
sundries aggregated to q much larger
amount. -. Stimulated by the reports of
distress in the far west, the estimable
and accommodating, Mary Jane Brown
offers TO fight any woman in America
for 500 n side, the gate money TO 90 to
freak of lightning has occurred i'm Nor.
ristown, Canada The fluid struck the
limb of large tree, passed into the bo-
dy and down into the ground. It then
took tho root Of another large tree pass
ing mp the trunk. tearing the body into
splinters and telling the tree, leaving its
whole top. An acre of ground was par
TALLY covered withthe splinters The
Virginia papers concur in stating that
very full crop of tobacco has been plan.
ted in that State -. Handled without
gloycs-Knivcs and forks generally
iron beds and furniture. artistically
worked. and by new system of paint.
ing initiating perfectly rosewood. are TO
be one Of the chief contributions Of italy
at the Centennial fair. During the
twelve months ending May 81, 1876,
Great Britain exported l,47S,64S, 900
yards Of cotton goods in piece The
CITY Gpuncil Of Richmond have foLop