South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-06-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

lish campaign paper IA Chicago.
Missouri has paid this year 1922 as
bounty for wolf scalps /. The ice fac
tory at Augusta. Georgia, turns ont s.
500 pounds daily James Buchanan
struck Andrew jackson with club the
other day in Chicago. >. Most OF the
Black Hills miners are digging for home.
-. Eggs in some parts Of Nebraska,
are selling for three cents dozen :.
/ Upslur county, this State, has a FIVE leg.
ged calf at the Centennial. :. Mrs. e
lizabeth Hill died in Rockingham coun.
ty, Va, on Friday last, aged one hum
! dred years and seven months. - The
receipts at the bar OF one Of the Phila-
delphia hotels on the second day Of the
Exposition were $3,462. .Loui siana
sends ten colored and SIX white dele.
! gates TO Cincinnati, all OF them for Nor.
| ton An exchange saws that Fitzhugh
is going back to marshal, Texas cattle.
-. William Murphy. OF Eerkcley coun-
| ty, caught twelve yoang foxes last week.
-. The NJ. +. Church, South, at Charles.
town, has just received a l,066 pound
bell from baltimore :. Five fishing YES.
sells and a. lives have been lost in the
Gloucester, Massachusetts, fisheries this
year. Three firms in Keyser. Mineral
county, have, within two years, sold
! Sl30.000 worth of town lots. There
is colorcd man in .Culpcper County,
| Va, LOG years old. british gold is
coined in London by American machin.
cry. The grain exports of San Fran.
cisco during the last nine months n.
mounted in value to S13,479,399.
Sixteen persons come i'm as contestants
| of the will Of A. Il. Stewart Austria.
liza exported, in 1875, gold dust to the
amount of Sl5, 1889, 525. Victoria has
been Queen of Great Britain thirty .nine
| years and Empress of India three
months There are over $4,000 SOL
| diers buried in the National Cemetery
at Nichsburg. - Rev. benjamin Dcva.
ny, the oldest member OF the Virginia
Methodist Conference, died at his home,
southampton couaty.-Na-, on Tuesday
/ of last week, aged eighty.soven years.
- 1t is stated that the Changers of the
United States have over $4,000, 900 in
vested IN their various enterprises :.
More and more old women who danced
with Washington are turning up every
day. The Father OF His Country must
have shaken an EXTREMITY lively heel :.
! OF the six persons hanged in Connect.
cut during the past thirty years, four of
them suffered the penalty tor killing
! prison officials. Almost pure chalk
exists in vas. beds in Tregro, Kansas,
and house has been built of sawed
! blocks OF it Henry Hulteman, OF
Garrett county, Maryland, caught with
steel trap last week y panther, the
skin Of which measures nine feet in
length. DIR. Aver, of pill fame, is
hopeless invalid : :. Elk. Empress Car.
! lotta still resides in Brussels. She is
I hopc!essly insane :. On Friday last
the extensive shingle mills Of Baird and
Ross, III Norfolk county, Va, were de,
( stroycd by fire. Loss $4,000; insured
! for $1,000. II has been decided 10y
tho Massachusetts Supreme Court that
Jew can work on SUNDAY, but that lie
cannot amusc himself on that day
no silver has jiDgled in Romney yet :.
Ex-Doorkeeper fitzhugh is said to have
received an offer to lecture ut the North
on Southern democracy. Fitz must be
bigger" man than old Grant.
! There is dress in Lewis county, this
State, which was worn by n lady lIG
! years ago. -. The managers of the Cen
tenrial complain that their receipts arc
very light, compared with that antici-
| pated England is making active pre-.
| partitions for war. 49,. The New Mcxi.
cans use the same sort OF sticks TO plow
with that the Egyptians employed 5000
/ years ago. David Craig was recently
run over by mine rain at Homecoming.
| Maryland, cutting Off one of his lers.
7 ho lnat T
co, which it is proposed to make State
ut al early day, contained but six mcm-
bers who could read English. Don't
/ do it then - Tho Society of Alumni Of
the Virginia Military Institute propose
20 erect monument. on the parade
/ ground ut Lexington to the memory OF
the cadets who fell during the war.
/ The Weston Dclnocrdt reports n family
of fifteen children in that county. the
Oldest Of whom is only seventeen, and
there arc no twins .Shat have ap-
/ peared in the Kanawha. About three
| years ago some millions Of spawn were
placed III New river and this il the first
/ appearance OF the result. The Young
Mems Democratic Club of New York
/ have declared in favor OF Tildcn
/ Five cent pieces cost the government
only half q cent each The Alexan-
dria Ga.Ctte says that the work of the
new outlet lock on the canal, above
Georgetown, is completed, and it is ex-
I pccted that operations will be bcgun
with il this week :. Commodore j.
Blakely Creighton has been ordered TO
command the nGvy-yard, Norfolk Va q.
LIST OF July next, Vice Commodore T. II .
Stevens, detached and ordered 10 con
tinue in discharge Of special duty in re-
lation 10 tho Nor folk harbor. a large
party Of Black ilIilers returned to Yank-
ton, Dakota, Monday, with $4,000 in
gold dust The Governor Of Georgia
has spent $1,000 more than lis salary
/ during his term of office i'm defraying
I the expenses Of his official duties and
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