South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-07-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

There are 3.s25 producing oil wells in
fcnnsyivnnia. Governor Tilden has
recently bought pair of bloodea coach
horses in Cincinnati FOR $40. SOC. Dom
fedro's hotel expenses in this country
are said 70 have been nearly $4,000.
49,. South Australia contains G.0O0. 600
| sheep. There are two large and -four
ishing colcred Tilden and Hendricks
clubs in Richmond. Virginia. /. /. Flornla
makes 2l6.000 cedar pencils day -.
Willie Mcclure, Ia years old. fell from
o cherry tree on the l4th inst, ut Hoif.
man Hollow, Allegany county, Md. and
was instantly killed On the night Of
the 1Sth inst, James Cambcll, of Day.
ton, Rockingham county. Virginia. was
seized with vertigo and fell into large
tub filed with water. When found he
was dead. Near Nanceburgh, XIV. on
the 18th inst, Washington Lee killed
Robert Ellis on account or alleged init
macy between Ellis and Lees wife
Tuesday night n mob hanged Lee :. a
catfish weighing 40 pounds was caught
at Alton. Illinois, few DAYS ago
Anna Dickinson has. during the past
ten years, earned Sl50,000 by lecturing.
-...ln Texas watermelcns weigh fifty
pounds piece -. There are now seven
hundred and fifty convicts in the Mas.
snchusetts State Prison. the largest mum.
Der ever in that Institution at ore time.
-. Mr.. +. j. Shumate has been appoint.
cd agent Of the Valley Railroad at IIar-
risonburg, Va. IL. L. Dickcrson, depot
agent at Wytheville, Va. was shot and
killed on the 10Th inst. by Charles NJ.
Williams, for the alleged ruin of the
latter's daughter. Williams was arrest
ed and held for trial -. Wheat is being
shipped from Buffalo TO New York on
the Erie Canal for 81 cents per bushel.
On Saturday last Mr.. Stephens
Caldwell, OF Marcnsburg, brakeman
on a freight train OF the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, fell under the wheels Of
his train and was intantly killed. Ac-
cordng to Humboldt. an acre in bananas
will produce IA much food for man as
twenty-five acres of wheat. At Du-
buqHc, Iowa, on the 18th inst, Samuel
Lawton. shot his father four times with
navy revolver, iHHicting fatal wounds.
No cause is assigned. Young Lawton
was arrested. =. The Liverpool wheat
market is very dull. Customers restrict
operations on account Of the large yield
promised. Wheat has receded one shill.
ing per quarter. Peters Brothers, of
Liverpool, corn merchants. have suspeu-
ded. Their liabilities are estimated at
from $500, 1000 TO $50. 900 Colorado
produces $4,000 in silver for every
twenty-four hours, $4,000 in gold. and
$1,000 in other materials, or $4,000
| daily equal to 50 400, 900 yearly. .. The
Bible is now read in $500 OF the IL
| 600 public schools OF Penn'a. The
fast mail trains have been taken of the
Pennsylvania Railroad New Wheat
WAS sold in lIagerstovn, Maryland. last
week, at Sl.0J per bushel "A fatal
case OF cholera is said TO have occurred
in New York last week -. Dom Pedro
travelled 10000 miles in 10l days -.
The Presidential election in Mexico last
week resulted in m overwhelming ma.
jority for Lcrdo de Tejada. the present in.
cumbent. =. London has 1,1l6 schools.
costing 50, 230, S74.9l, and last wear
2S8, 49I pupils attended them. There
arc twenty thousand unmarried women
living in Philadelphia. .Schurz for
his disinterestcd support OF Hayes. is TO
receive twelve thousand dollars -. Cal
ifornia has the largest lunatic Asylum
in the world =. Five children died H.
Washington city on Friday last from
eating bologna sausage d.. Over 1000
tons of suInac ground and crude. are
annually shipped from Richmond, valued
ST over $4,000. 900 .. London has SCI
churches and 1,44j clergymen. The
Royal Land Company have commenced
the construction OF Railroad between
fredericksburg and Harrisonbur9, Va
The Chinese navy consists OF forty.
Eve ships Of war. divided into three
squalrons. AMI the army il composed
OF 100000 men "A woman in An.
dcrson county, kentucky, gave birth TO
five children one day last week -Four
Of them are living and doing well
The coal at tho Dora Mines in Rockiny.
ham shows better n: every advance Of
the miners pick The bark ola white
oak tree in Ralcig' county, this State,
IS seven inches thick .. james Fisk,
the father Of Erie J i'm has turned preach
or..-. Nearly 1000 indians still live in
Florida -. Ex.Goy. Letcher, of VIRGIN.
IN, IL rapidly improving in health at the
Hot Springs ia that State The dem.
ocgats ofOhio arc \ unit for Tildcn aud
Hendricks .Cassus VI. Clay, minister
to Russia, under lincoln, fayors Tilden
IA larger number Of counterfeit
notes have recently been received at the
redemption division of the Treasury
than ever before within the same length
oftimc. Recently dangerous counter.
felt $40 note Of tic National State Bank
Of Tcrrc Hauto, Indiana, md a counter.
felt IS note on tho First National Bank
OF Louisville. Ky, have been discover. :.
Sitting Bull. it Is now asserted
was killed in the fght with Custer Tic
notorious savage chiefs, Crazy Horse and
Black Moon, wcrc also killed. The -.
tai loss Of Indians III the flght is placed
ut about 400 .Blackberfios arc sell
ing in Braxton county, this State, nj %
cents per bushel... Sheep are selling