South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-03-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

l DE hetd Mag AZ. -. Counterfeit twenty
I'VE cent pieces are in ejaculation. says
THE wheeling Regi.ter :. The licenses
To shoot game in Scotland amounts To
So. So5.U0o annusiiy-much more than
ri the game is worth :. Austria still
spends more money or cavalry horses
than schools 1t was always 90 in Au.
! stsia. "a BLOCK Of pure silver weigh
/ ing 1900 pounds has becn received at
| New York from Mexican mine for ex.
tibition at the Centennial :. Four hun.
drca and twenty three immigrants from
Washington county, Mary land, and
Franklin county, Pennsylvania, passed
through Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania. on
the 10th instant. destined for various
points in Illinois Moody and San
key. tue great revivalists, are drawing
tremendous crowds in New York city.
Thousands have professed conversion,
and the good work goes braveiy on :.
1t IS believed that Marsh will be back
in Washington in day or two under
promise Of safety from prosecution.
-. Jay Gonld, the speculator. reports
over seven millions profits on the bust.
ness Of the Union Pacific Railroad last
year. The question'arises Why lac won't
let it pay the government the interest
on its loan to il LIN Howell, Missouri,
cows are legal tender; q thin one
counts eight dollars -. "A fine specimen
Of black, marble has been found by Mr..
William II. Montgomery. 1t abounds
on his lands adjoining Lewisbu.g. this
State. Mr.. Elias Trotter, of Morgan
county, fell from his wagon while driv.
4 ing along the road, on Saturday last,
and his head striking against the pro.
jecting rubber-side. he was killed almost
,instantly :. bloomington. Pennsylva.
mia, wants law to compel butchers to
furnish good meat-legal tender meat
sit were =. A hundred pounds OF -four
costs twenty eight dollars in the Black
! Hills The news comes that several
lady leaders Of fashion in Washington
are exating over the social ruin Of the
elegant aud beautiful MIS-. Belknap :.
Sixteen thousand two hundred and
eighty eight patents were issued i'm the
! United States last year, an increase of
2.6S9 over 1874 -. since the lst of Ju.
" last California has exported $l1,3l6,-
| $40 worth OF wheat This il what
might he called an open and shut win
| ter. Now you see it. now you don't.
-. Senator Jones has the potatoes for
| the consumption Of his household at
Washington imported all the way from
ElkO, Nevada ...Twenty-siX carloads
of emigrantS passed through Iowa in
one day for the Black Hills Balti.
more & Ohio Railroad shares sold on
SATURDAY. last at 1851. They have been
| fluctuat:ng for week past and were Us
If.ku = aSt -
since they were scarce at 1870. Every
pupil in the Latin School Of Boston
costs the city $40 MIR. Barlow. Of
St Adams. VT. testified before a com.
mittee in Washington on Saturday that
S4o,000 were paid by firm Of postal
contractors to hive an investigation
stopped during the last Congress :. In
Texas. out of thirty State Senators e.
lscted. the Radicals elect only three, and
one Of these 10 a negro >. The specie
shipments from New York to Europe on
Saturday last were SS50.O00. all Ameri.
can gold coin Seventeen counterfeit
ers were arrested at Terre lIaute, Inii-
ana, on the 10th -. Mrs. Carl Shurz
died on tho 18th inst ut her residence
in New York, OF puerperal fever. The
ex-senator has recently lost his father
also and is much depressed Mrs.
Schurz belonged TO n wealthy Hamburg
family, and married Carl wh. n both were
yonng. and he was an exile En-
President Roberts. of Liberia. died Mt
Monrovia, OIL the oath nit Spain will
send to the Philadelphia Centennial n
ehronometer watch which, when wound
mp will run for Ave years - The death
penalty has been abolished ia Maine.
and imprisonment 1T hard labor for life
substituted The General Assembly
Of Virginia will adjourn sine die on Wed
ne'day next :. Edwin Booth realized
$4,000 by his late tour in the Southern
states :. A cave has been discovered
in Kentucky rivaiiing in dimensions and
interest the celebrated Mammoth Cave.
Two plough companies OF Moline,
Illinois. manufacture 10000 ploughs
yearly. using 100000 feet of lumber.
and giving employment to 80 men -.
The lower House of the California Leg.
islature has followed mp its repeal Of the
compulsory educational law by voting
TO annul the act making women eligi.
blc TO the Office Of school superinten.
dent Mrs Jane Frazer died in the
poOi muse VI NiOhOhS"ila county. on
the lst Of March. in the 10Th year OF
her age Mr.. John Tayioe, of North
Carolina. has taken out patent for
baby cradle which cal be folded and
carried in trunk -. Statistics show
that the average hog last year weighed
22l pounds. This year he weighs 268
pounds The Grand Lodge. |. q. O.
f.. Of Virginia, meets in the city Of Al.
cxandria on the 18th Of April o.. The
loss sustained by the Baltimore < Ohio
Railroad. in consequence Of the late te-.
rible accident on their Valley Railroad,
is estimated at over 100000. TO say
nothing Of prospective damages for tile
I terrible loss Of life and limb .. The
Boston HeSoH referring to tho labors OF
tic naval investigating committee at the