South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-10-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

wanna Day at the Centennial, ami z57.-
600 people were present. :. The Uni.
versity OF South Carolina, has 200 stu.
dents OF whom ri are whites Pres.
dent Grant. Senator Jones says, is worth
$50, eco. In the year 1874 there were
1924 illegitimatc births in France. -.
According to Adjutant General Slide
there are 1898 fugitivcs from Justice in
Texas A Mormon church Of sixty
members has been formed in Towanda
township, Wayne county, Pa. -. Ru.
therford B. Hayes is for keeping stand.
ing army in the South until every Sou
thern State votes the Republican ticket
The grand total OF subscriptions
publicly acknowledged in New Yorl. for
Savannah and Brunswick is sl2.49l.0S
The Milburl wagon works. at Toledo,
Ohio, were destroyed by fire on the night
OF the Doth ult. Loss 100000 .. The
first banks were established in Italy i'm
sos by the Lombard Jews Mrs. BE-
fair, OF Donor county, Wisconsin weighs
$50 pounds. Awoman cant weigh that
and Bcfair long ;. A woman 20 years
old, and who is the owner Of S10,0 900
worth of real estate in San Francisco,
has been arrested for begging. There
are seven Salt furnaces in full blast in
the Kanawha Valley. Only three far.
Ill 10 - al
land and Piedmont railroad are now
running across the river ut Westcrpport.
six Swedish sisters are the wives
OF one Mormon. =. The first piece Of mr.
tillcry was invented by q German soon
after the invention OF gunpowder. and
artillery was frat used by the Moors ut
Algesiras, in Spain, in the siege OF l3if.
- Michael Fisher, Of Lancaster, OHIO,
was driving 4 wagon loaded with lime
on The 23rd ult., when the wagon upset
in a ditch with about two inches OF wa.
ter, and the lime sluked, burned up the
wagon, ami nearly destroyed Fishers
body Mrs. Silv;ns. of Timberyille.
Rockingham county, though 10 . years
old. supported herself by means of her
OWN hands until her death. last week.
-. Somebody has taken out patent
for brown paper blankets in Eugland.-
They are perforated for ventilation, and
the small sizes sell for nine cents -.
William Crafts, the once famous color
ed man, who for year, past has collect
ed money from people Of the North Os.
tlasih'y for the benefit OF n farm school
iYy eoi0re: pcopie in Georgia, is declar-
Ell by respectable white and colored pc.-
SOM IN Georgia TO DO = fraud. They
asset hat he ana his family live on the
money, and thst not one cent goes to
charity. Twenty siioep from one flock
near A.rj:n55urg, werv,sccently destroy
cd 10y dogs. The jeweiry store OF
Franklin Horton, No. ~ Fulton street,
New York, waf broken open OH Sunday
night last, and $4,000 worth Of da-
monds stolen. -. Dom PEDRO married
ut seventeen ... The public debt WIS
reduced last month S2,9lj, 365.3J :, At
Omaha Nebraska, on Saturday night
last, water frozc 10 the thickness Of an
eigth Of an inch .. George Alfred Law
renee, the English author, is dead.
The jury gave the verdict that the Pan
Handle railroad accident near Colum
bus. Ohio was caused by the breaking
Of Hn aXlc. for which the company is not
responsible =. Wright Davis, OF Key.
ser. accidentally shot himself while
cleaning pistol few days ago -. A
vein OF iron ore, fourteen feet thick, has
! been opened near Buchannon, This State.
49, New York City the money re-
| ceiycd from licenses to sell liquors is
distributed among the local charitable
societies. This year the sum is $780,.
$50, which is divided among about eigh'
ty hospitals, asylums and other bcnevo.
lent institutions. d.. Col. William Stew
art, prominent man Of berkeley coun-
ty, diod OH Tuesday OF last week near
Bunker ILL.,. Up in Rutland. VT, q
man has just had q piece Of window glass
more than two inches long taken from
his leg, where it had been for eighteen
years. II may I've truly said that during
that entire period Inc has never been ab
soIutely free from PAIN. Mr.. Simpson
Is. Donnvin, formerly OF Baltimore city
has taken the stump in Ohio in favor oI
the democratic ticket The death ot
James Lick the California millionaire
IS announced ....A woman in Massa-
clusetts fed n tramp tho other day, after
which lie asked if he might 90 to bed
long enough for her 10 wash and iron his
, shirt....A man was killed in Georgia
for stealing n kicking male. The mule
was the cxccutioner. Several light
irosts have fallen since our last number
Gen. Braxton Bragg dropped dead
at Galveston, Texas, whilst crossing the