South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-12-15
NEWS OF THE DAT.

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- Chief Justice fancy must have been
an inye,erate smoker. thirty cigars day
hsing a short allowance - American
meat is liked in English markets. and
il brings from twelve to seventeen cents
a pound.-- Two negroes we're fined and
imprisoned by the County Court OF Fau-
quicr, Va. last week, for assanlting peo-
pie OF their own color for voting the
Democratic ticket 49,. Il is said that the
Bonapar;e family are worth $20, 000. 600
in property -. Alexander II. Stephens
weighs 30 pounds 80. The New York
Central Railroad company pay its Ia.
borers 80 cents : day. There are 50
Saturdays and - Sundays in this year.
:. There are 50, 9S4 idiots in France, OF
whom II. 600 are women. ). . Eleven thou
sand people in ISgland have died during
tho past year OF cancer. :. {. Subscribe for
tho Mte2;ycaeer FOR the New Year, only
5000. Col. Scott. of Railroad notorie.
Is, has subscribed $4,000 TO the Wash.
ington and Lee University "A liar.
rison county, West Va, farmer, killed
ID month hog tina. dressed 50a pounds
last week :. Two Misses Campbell,
Miss Choate and James Gregory were
drowned in q mill pond, near Ol,nstead.
Kentucky, on Friday night last By the
sinking of canoe in which they with
six other persons were proceeding 10 a
dance. :. Trar,ps are called "turnpike
sailors" in Yankee land Wisconsin
| produces 100000 bushels Of cranberiies
annually 1t is estimated that the
! Sioux in Dakota number 10000. aud
oc cupy AZ, 100000 acres OF land -, The
! Pioneer Darrel Factory ct Charleston.
this STATE, makes an average Of 500
barrels per day Gold has gone down
to lo1k, the lowest point reached since
the war Oregon publishes forty.
/ FIVE newspapers AMI Washington Terri
tory seventeen. Buy Of the men who
advertise -. a man OF sixty and n wo-
man of fifty elcped in North Carolina,
not because anybody opposed their mar
riage, but for the sake or the romance.
80. A catfish, weighing "a pounds, was
caught in The Kanawha river ut Charles.
! ton, few days ago -. Margaret Neff.
| aged about 10, died OF heart disease, in
| The Poor House Of Hardy county. on
| the Ord instant -. This is the way
/ Chamberlain settled upon South Caro-
lima: An old college friend ofhis was
| drowned in Charleston LarOor. He
went there TO settle his affairs. That
visit ended in his leasing an abandoned
! plantation. and i'll entering upon the
untried life OF planter. lie was soon
! elected q member OF the convention
which formed tho present Constitution
OF the State" =. According to recent
statement there are in this country seven
Catholic archbishors, 55 bishops, 4,S73
priests and 1920 churches, ciapcls and
stations -. Smith 7. Van Buren,, only
Surviving son Of Martin Van Buren,, died
at Poughkcepsie, New York, on Monday
last. aged sixty years -. Does an cleo.
ton elect? Th is the question which
now agjtates the honest voters of the
country -. The Richmond Enquirer has
again made its appearance, with John
l.. Schoolcraft, proprietor, and J. Wat.
son James. editor. The sumac factory
of Mr.. j. L. McGraw, Mt Alexandria,
was destroyed by fire on Tuesday morn.
ing last. Loss not stated; insurance
| $500. a convention OF teachers oil
Virginia West Virginia and Maryland
viii be held at Ilarper'5 Ferry OF Tues.
day, The 26th instant Jere HARRISON,
a colored Congressman from Alabama.
who was defeated for reelection. SAYS
lie is going TO contest the seat Of his
opponent, n democrat, who holds the
ccrtiiicatc....Thc Chambersburg. Pa.
OPiaion says that on Friday night last q
lock of ducks were caught mapping or
Il creek in that town and frozen into the
ice! Their owner cut them out on Sat
urday morning, thawcd or the ice, when
they were found 10 be none the worse
for their adventure -. Several cases o.
poisoning have occurred at Buclevs
town, Frederick county, during the pas
few weeks, from eating apple-butter
which had been put away in oarther
pots. On examination il was found tha
the glazing had peeled or the crooks
and was mixed through the apple-bu;ter
p The persons first affected from tho us,
Of it, three weeks since, are now conva
lcscent Tho three negro burglars o
Jewclry, in Martnsburg, some tim,
. since, received sentence. last week. n