South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-07-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Sauble. of Westminster, Nd, has a two
year-old heifer which has never had a
calf, and is giving one gallon OF milk a
day. The farmers of Central Illinois
are complaining of the rains !. 1t is
estimated that there are over 800 tons
of old ruber shoes manufactured into
car-springs in Boston annually Gut
IN percha and india rubber are brought
hither chiefly from Brazil and Columbia
-.--A destructive fire occurred Mt My
eresdaie, Somerset county. Pa, on Sat
urday morning last, causing loss of
$4,000. The Delaware peach crop
will probably exceed 100000 baskets.
Ia funny use of steam is found on
Duck river, Tennessee. on which steam
boat, drawing only foot of water, wan.
ders up and down, stopping where she
Is wanted to grind bushel or two of
grain for the farmers. /. +. The Sultan of
Turkey has seven hundred wives; and
yet it don't cost him a cent for spring
bonnets. He makes them go barehead-
ed, he does The Peruvian Govern
ment has ordered the coinage at the u
nited States Mint OF 100000 Of two
cent pieces aud 100000 Of one-cent
pieces. "A Jefferson county (Ga.) far
mer owns two thousand head Of sheep,
which have Melted him this season one
dollar head. besides the increase ofthe
stock -. The quantity of iron to be used
in the construction of the Centennial
buildings will aggregate about 5000
tons, Of which more than five sixths will
be wrought. The Carlists recently
caught man, bathed him in petroleum,
applied a lighted match to him, and
danced by the light thereof. They had
no personal grudge against him. The
total amount which the Freedman's
Bank stole from the Southern negroes
was S2,S79, 031. -. There are 800 paper
mills in the United States. with an in
vested capital Of $40, GOO, 900 and total
production of S70,000,OO0 per annum.
These mills give employment to 10000
people, whose earnings are estimated ut
Sl0,000,000 annually. A decidedly
nauseating item comes from Washing
ton. A recent clearing out OF the sedi-
ment in the main reservoir from which
the people derive their supply of water,
developed the fact that it has been
made the hiding-place of family secrets.
BY actual count, no less than thirty-one
bodies of dead infants had been despos-
tied there for safe keeping >. 1t is an
nounced that two prominent London
houses failed on the 14th-one of them
with liabilities amounting to $15,000,-
O0O... William Kelman, colored man.
convicted Of attempting to commit an
outrage on white woman, was lynched
at Greenfield, Indiana, on Saturday last
- The extensive machine shops and
foundery of j. Il. Crowell and Co, ut
Greencastle, Pa, were DESTROYED by fire
on Saturday evening last. Loss about
100000. -. The snake Run Academy is
the name of an Indiana school. The
scholars must all be adders The peat
morasses of Ireland are said to be near
~ exhausted The wheat crop in near
ly every section of Maryland is report
ed to be excellent in quantity and quail
ity. Brigham Young sees that Nor
monism is soon to he ,exterminated, and
he is converting his property into cash.
Cash is the next best thing to thirty
wives. The money in the United
ed twice, once for New and once for
Spinner. The amount in vaults is said |
to be $i0,000,000. Some of the packa- |
ges which contain as large an amount
as 81 100000 have not been opened for
years. "A nugget of copper, ninety
eight per cent. pure ore, weighing six
thousand pounds il on exhibition ut St. |
Louis. 1t came from the Lake Superior |
region, where it was taken from an an.
cient digging. The mass. when found. |
had evidently been detached from its |
bed by ancient miners, whose stone ham |
mers, in great numbers, were found i'm |
the mine The people of Iceland Sc |
riously think of abandoning their island. |
so frequent and appalling have the vol |
canic eruptions become. A large por- |
ton of tho country is covered with hot |
ashes, and the persistent action of the !
internal fires several weeks ago destroy.
ed the pasturage, and otherwise injured |
the prospects of the farmers q. . Rev |
benjamin Gildersleeve, one of the Oldest |
Presbyterian ministers in Virginia died |
in Tazewell county, on the 20th ultimo. |
-. Among the graduates Mt West Point !
last week was Willard Young. son of |
brigham Young the Mormon chief, who |
came out fourth in class of forty.fve. /
=. Milwaukee grows apace. It's pop |
ulation, according to the State census |
Just completed, is 101 ,049. Since 1S47.
!, 100000 immigrants have entered the |
port Of New York, bringing with them.
in actual money. $347. 100000. and in
money value the sum Of $6,5GI ,5OO,00O |
-. Governor Beveridge, OF Illinois, has
been doing great business in the par
doning line, having released sixty.fyel
criminals during the first Eve months of |
this year, or Mt the rate Of over one hun
dred and fifty year. Among the mum.
Der are seven murderers, who have serv. /
ed an sveverage OF only eight years -.
Boss Tweed has been released from Jail |
on Blackwelrs Island. but arrested on a /
civil suit for $4,000, 900 and confined in |
Ludlow street Jail until he can furnish |
a bail bond Of $1,000, 900. 1t is esti- |
mated that the bonded Indebtedness of |
the railroads Of this country is 81. 700. |