South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-09-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

lille is making redhot republican speech.
es in the western portion of this State.
IA party of Apache Indians, males
and females, passed through Cumber
land on Friday last on their way TO the
Centennial. Chicago is the metropolis
OF canned corn beef. Patterson, New
Jersey, has hair.pin factory -. Mr.. w.
Ii. Mong, prominent citizen Of Mar
tinsburg. died on the 14th inst. :. A
bride OF day poisoned herself at Mans
field, Ohio. Ten thousand miners i'm
the Black Hills. The democrats cx.
pect to begin mt once the most vigorous
canvass of New York known to its his.
tory. During its 81 years of exist.
ence the Virginia Military Institute has
graduated l,01S cadets. :. Accounts Of
the suflerings in Savannah from yellow
fever are very distressing, and aid is
asked from abroad. :. Ninety one thou.
sand eight hundred and eleven persons
were admitted to the Centennial on Sa.
turday last. Dartmouth College has
received in donations during thirteen
years s060,590 one-half of which is now
available. All the democratic Congress.
men from Georgia have been renomina.
ted According to the Adventsts, the
end ofthe world occurs on Friday next. !.
There are five Tilden and Hendricks
poles in Martinsburg :. Hendricks is
% years old....A portrait of General
Robert +. Lee will soon hang in the
Texas Senate Chamber. A Nicholas
county, this state, Cotswold lamb, 1O5
days old, weighs 90 pounds d.. The
| Boston Methodist ministers voted 40 to
s. that we hereby disapprove of the
policy of holding camp meetings on the
Sabbath. DIR. Tying, the great New
FORK preacher is &C :. Sir Norton Peto
paid Delmonico $4,000 for dinner.
A 2,2OO pound mule at the Centennial
is called Queen of India President
! Grant says that after n tour in Europe,
TO follow his retirement from office. he
will take up his permanent residence in
Washington city. a connecticut wo.
man who has used one needle for %
/ years has begun on her second paper OF
pins, the first paper having lasted forty
| years -. \ shirt dealer advertises n DO.
som warranted to wear longer than the
! shirt. lSui who wants bosom longer
than his shirt? The eminent English
| physician, DR.. Far, has computed tina,
only 223 people out OF 100000 will
live 100 years. -. -Four ladies out Of III
in Michigan university arc going to stu
! dy law -. Queen Victoria weighs over
! $50 pounds. 1t is estimated that
there arc about 400 young men from
The United States pursuing their stu
| dies in German universities The cats
/ OF the Isle Of Man are without tails
They expect TO make $4,000 worth OF
silk in Kansas in 1876. Last year they
! made 1000 worth A Texas woman
| fell over rail and bit her tongue of
while chasing her husband with pitch.
fork. This may como under the head
| Of divine retribution," bnt it's n pla-
gucy bad thing on the woman :. At n
camp meeting near Somerset, Pa, q
! preacher became so much excited dur.
ing his discourse, that he jumped from
tic pulpit and broke two ribs belonging
TO one of his hearers While Califor.
MIA boasts Of her immense wheat crop,
her gold and silver, her grapes & pears,
she actually imports her eggs from n.
broad Mrs. Margaret +. Brccken.
ridge, widow Of Dr.. Rob. Breckenridge,
of Kentucky, is building church at her
own expense, there being none at pres.
cnt in the neighborhood of her estates.
49,. Robert Barnwcll Rhctt, ST., for ma
NY years prominent South Carolina
politician, died recently, at tho advanced
! age Of 75 years - Dcadwood City in
! tho Black Hills, an infant town of q
single summer, has twenty saloons,
| three hotels, six restaurants, three drug
stores, two hardware stores, five black.
smith shops, five dry goods stores, 20
! grocery stores, six doctors, one dentist.
| one bath-housc. three Chinese laundrics.
| and one editor. The movement TO
I keep John ChinaEpn at home within the
/ great wall which his ancestors built, IS
! growing popular the world over. Even
in Australia the anti pigtail sentiment
is increasing IA Salt Lake Mormon
/ has returned from the Sandwich Islands
with five young Hawaiian wives The
Car faces hard times with $2j,0O day.
The Sultan has $4,000, and the Empo.
ror Of Austria exists on $4,000. The
Radicals Of South Carolina, have nomi.
mated the notorious Chamberlain for re-.
election as Governor. During Che
months Of July and August, 2G hons
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