South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-08-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

tue ihH2tIoniStS- -Durip8 last Smontl
i.926,GGo pieces were coined at tho
Philadelphia mint y. Of{he Champagne
drank in the United STATES three quar-
tiers is bogus. The Mormons have
been in Utah 20 years. -. Spring chick
ems are eight cents in Tennessee.
Silver in San Francisco IS 81 TO G per
cent. discount. ...It is reported that
Governor Tilden is soon to marry Mrs.
Todd, Of Huntsville, Alabama. "A
straightforward acre farm was recently
sold in Australia for $4,000. -. The
receipts for q years license fees from
gamblers in Virginia City were $40, 900
The money is collected monthly, and
gambling, is in no way restricted. -
Great Britain has 100000 Mohammc'
dams in her East Indian Empire. Her
Christian subjects number there only
896,658.-. Rhode Island has Al5.737
cotton spindles.. Israel Updcgraff, q
prominent citizen OF Wheeling, died on
Friday last. aged so years.. Kentucky
wants farm hands. Rev. Murphy, Of
Taylor county; willie returning from
Barbour county, Killed snake six feet
long, eighteen inches around the waist,
four inches across the head and having
twenty -onerattles and a button Gen
Joe Lane who was candidate for Vice.
President on the Breckenridge ticket
in 1860. is living in small frame house
on spur of Rogue River Mountain. in
Oregon. He is eighty-threc years. old.
IA recent census Of Montreal gives
that city population Of l46,s00.
The idea of making flour by crush.
| ing the grain with innumerahlc small
trip hammers has been carried out in
England so successfully that pound
ing mill costing $1,000 will produce as
much -four as q grinding mill worth
IS ,000.-- Only from rs to 80 cents is
offered for new wheat in some parts OF
Indiana. There is said to be more
gold in North Carolina than in .Califor-
MIA. Five or SIX miles aren, i'm Mont
gomcry county, would pay the National
debt. abraham NcfT, wcll.known
merchant OF New Market, Va, is dead
.--.75 per cent, Of n potato is water
Miss Buskirk living opposite New
Marinsville, this State, died from the ef
fccts o! running n splinter under her toe
nail. Two little sons of James Wine
burner recently killed colony Of sc cop
pcrhcad snakes near Frostburg, Md. -.
Nearly all The post Offices in Texas are
in charge of females. 1t works, SO we'll
that tho males now arrive and depart
every hour in the day. a bookkeeper
in Baltimore has been seriously i'll from
the effect of putting his lead pencil into
his mouth -. Attic sales Of short horns
at Paris. kentucky, on Saturday last,
sixy-two cows wcrc sold for s2I,5O8,
and eight bulls for $3.50. The stock
sold was the property or Messrs. War
field, Burgess q Combs. Total amount
realized on sale OF cattle during the
week $l55. 600. 1.-The system of inject
ing ammonia into The veins as cure
for snake bites is said TO he coming into
general use in Australia, where it has
saved many lives 80. One hundred and
fifteen guests arrived at Oakland Hotel
last week, and ninety at Deer Park 49,.
Counterfeit sos on the Lafayette Ma
tional Bank, Of Lafayette, Indiana, are
in circulation. Three vendors Of OPT
um antidote, at Iaportc, Indiana, are said
TO clear 5000 n year IA Rocking
ham son few days ago returned to his
father after an ab sence or forty years.
-. Two boys arc born in .li5 Ccnten-
NAL year to every girl. This is looked
upon rs an omen OF war. 1t certainly
augurs less talk "A COW was found
last week standing stark and stiff in
pasture in Maine. She had been struck
by lightning, and killed, but not thrown
TO the ground. .Spurgeon. tho London
preacher, has written TO tho American
Literary Bureau that n million dollars
could not tempt him to come to the T.
nitcd States IA little daughter Of
John w. Upton, OF Baltimore county,
Maryland, aged three months, died OH
the 9Th inst, under distressing circum.
stances. a little brother OF the child
on the 4th put grain Of green coffee in
his sisters mouth, which passed into the
windpipe. Physicians failed TO relieve
the little sufferer, and the child fingered
until tic day stated, when death relieved
it Of It's suferings Francis Dayen.
port, seventeen years Of age, Of Oldham,
England died from the bite Of a cat.
recently, tho physician declaring that IL