South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-06-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.

continues to cancel and destroy the frac-
tional currency as il comes in. The re-
dHction in the amount OF fractional cur
rency during the last month was
Sl94 .000.- Strawberries are selling at
p cents per quart in Salisbury, North
Carolina. -. Wheat harvesting has been
completed in the southern portion Of
Georgia, and the yield and quality are
excellent. - Georgia exchanges speak
well of both the cotton and the wheat
prospect -. You can get new Para
sian corset for $30-which is n rather
expensive squeeze" :. IL is estimated
that there were over a million dollars
worth of coral obtained last year from
the Mediterranean by the coral-gathers
of Naples - George III. Lefever, pro-
minent farmer of Berkeley county, died
at his residence in that county on We'd
nesday of last week. =. Our country's
little wine and liquor bill last year foot
cd up the sum of four hundred million
dollars. -. Piuchback is said to be the
handsomest colored man in louisiana
-. There is only one colorcd cadet ut
West Point now. clipper" from Geor-
| gia; he minds his own business. has no
trouble with his classmates. studies hard
and stands 46 in a class of Sc. 49,. The
western train on the Kansas Pacific
road, from Lcavenworth, the other day.
was detained two hours by running over
| grasshoppers. Sand was used on the
rails, and even then portion Of the
train had to be left - The Troy Press
has been interviewing the lawyers of that
city on the Beecher question, and re-
ports that 80 of the "a unhesitatingly
pronounce him guilty. while only seven
of the other eighteen are fully convinced
of his innocence At Carrollton, Ca,
on Friday last, Elisha Yarbrough.
youth less than sixteen years old. was
hung for the murder OF w. ii. Smith. in
October last :. Spotted Tail. and com
pany, now in Washington. propose to
sell part of the Black Hills hunting
grounds for $4,000. The American
Hotel at Staunton, Va. has been pur-
chased 10y Colonel NJ. c. Hartman for
! S22,230.-. Three hundred and seven
boats left the port at Cumberland car
rying thiTty-fve thousand tons of coal,
during the week ending Saturday, June
six =. She remained rich maiden till
forty because she would marry none but
a parson. At last the parsou came, poor
but pious. She married him. But in
the middle Of the moon of honey he re-
linquished his pulpit and became bro
ker-with her money. Over 2,000per-
sons were killed by the recent earth
quakes IN Asia Minor e. Several days
ago tie Drs. lienkel extracted an ounce
! minnie ball from the thigh OFT. {. Read.
New Market, Va, which was lodged
there in the Charlottesville fight about
eleven years ago. The ball was consid-
erably battered - Jury" said Wes-
tern Judge, you kin 60 out and find Il
verdict. If YOU can't End one OF Your
own, get the one the last jury used.'-
The jury returned averdict of suicide in
the ninth degree The New Orleans
PicdyWHe says it is estimated that the
fruit yield this summer viii be quairu
pie that of last year, and the largest ever
known in the south, and that in this a.
bundance Louisiana is to offer the best
fruit crop she has ever produced. - In
six years 6,197 wild beasts have been
slaughtered in Algeria. -. The Ircsi.
dent has directed that all lands lying
contiguous to the Mississippi river
within twelve miles Of the mouth of the
river, be reserved for military purposes
under an act authorizing Captain Eads
to construct jetties for deepening the
channel. General Henry W. Barry. a
member OF the last Congress- from Mis-
sissippi, but n native Of New York, died
in Washington on Monday last, of apo
pieyy 49,. by recent decree OF the gen
eral government of Mexico all foreign
money Coin heretofore paying the reg
ular export duty of five per cent. on sill
YER and one-half per cent. on gold is de-
clared free from export duty. The ex-
port duty On Mexican COIN money re-
mains without modification. .. a few
days ago, says the Martinsburg I,de-
pe5dcW, Mr.. j ohm Martin, freight con.
ductor on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road, was asleep in n caboosc car on the
end Of a train, standing on the track,
when the car was run into by a locomo-
tive and converted into kindlng wood.
Mr.. Martins watch was broken TO pieces.
and his clothes torn TO shreds. but be.
yond n few scratches from spliuters he
was not injured in the least Florida
people are beginning 20 cultivate pine
apples with considerable success. Over
$4,000 were raised last year. Red
Cloud, Spotted Tail & Co, feel highly
insulted by their hotel treatment at
Washington a squash vine in Mich
igan is reported $50 feet long, bearing
squashcs weighing 207 pounds "A
woman in Lancaster county, South Car
olina, has made pFoGt ofninety dollars
in ono year from three hens 90. The
Lowell, Massachusetts, savings banks
have over S11,OO0.OOO on deposit a
strong evidence of the thrift Of the fac
/ tory hands. The Supreme Court OF
New Hampshire decides in favor oc the
I democratic State Senator'S whose seats
were contested by the republican mem
. bers Of that body New Irish pota-
were plentiful in The Norfolk market
last Saturday at l5c per peck Cheap.
Strawberries are selling for 3 cents