South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-11-10


session.
I0Suits have been entered at Wash.
ington by the United States against
Gen. o. o. Howard, as q deraulter OF
funds entrusted to him in connection
with the Freedman's Bureau and The
Howard University. One Of the suits is
for Sl50,000 and the other for $50. 900.
20 Ii is estimated that there arc now
in operation in the United States no less
than 500 paper mills, which arc valued
at 100000, 900 of capital invested, with
total production OF SIC, 100000. These
mills give employment nominally TO
10000 people, whose earnings are footed
up at Sl0,000,000 annually.
10 The outlook for cheaper tea is
good. This plant was only introduced
into India forty years ago. and already
1000 acres are covered with il on the
slopes Of the Neilgherry hills. The
yield OF the current year has been over
$4,000. 900 pounds, value slO,0OO,00O.
CHARLEY RosS.-Considerabe excite
ment has been caused by the arrest Of
number Of parties in and about Har-
risburg, Pa, supposed TO have some con-
nec:ion with the stealing of Charley
Ross. A man named James Pickett. OF
Hagcrstown, was also arrested apdtaken
10 Philadelphia.
En- There is said to be a paper church
actually existing near Berlin which can
contain nearly one thousand persons.
1t is circular within, octagonal without.
Fhe reliefs outside and statues within,
the roof, ceiling, the Corinthian capitals,
are all papier mache, rendered water
proof by saturating in vitriol, lime water,
whey and white Of eggs.
To- 1t is stated, on the authority of q
Spanish Clergyman, that Scripture
reader, who was recently arrested in
Seville for the crime Of reading the BIZ
BILE, was told by the Aloalie that he
was sorry he could not sprinkle him
ard all the Protestants in Spain with
petroleum and set them on fire."
~ The publication of the IL Depend
cm daily, at Martinsburg, w. Va, has
been suspended, as the proprietors an
nounce, until business affairs become
more prosperous in Martinsburg." The
publication Of TIE WeeItiy will be con-
tinued.
PROBABLE DEMAND IN ENGLAED FOR
AMERICAN WnEAT.-Thcrc arc many
indications in England of the probable
ity of n large demand there this winter
for American wheat. A writer in the
London Times says that last year the
British wheat crop was % per cent. be-
low an average, whilst this year it is
II per cent. below. The amount this
year available for consumption, after
dcducting the wheat necessary to be re-
tanned for seed is stated at about ~.
100000 bushels, the average yield per
acre being % bushels this year. The
requirements of the population for the
year are estimated at $4,000, 900 BUSH
els. Therefore 10000, 900 must be i'm
ported, an amount about equal to the
imports of foreign wheat into England
during the past year. In the wheat trade
the fact is demonstrated in England
that wheat can be imported cheaper
than it can he grown. Each year there
is diminution in the acreage sown.--
Thus the increased yield per acre this
year compared with last year, is entirely
offset by the reduced surface planted in
wheat, which is but 3,114,j56 acres
England now looks TO the United States
rs her chief source of supply for foreign
wheat, of which San Francisco sends
her probably the greatest amount ofany
single port.
NO FEMALE PRACTICE ~ TIE L.
NITED STATES SUPREME CoURT.--A
decision Of some interest was rendered
by the Supreme Court at Washington,
on Friday last. Mrs. BelyaA. Lockwood
applied for admission 20 practice as an
attorney and counsellor Of the court
Chief Justice Waite, in delivering the
decision Of the court, said that it had
been the uniform rule Of the court from
it's organization 90 the present time TO
admit none but mon to practice tclorc
IT, Tic said it was also the immemorial
usage in England. and was in conso.
nance with the law and practice Of all
the States until within recent period