South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-10-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Tho negro vote OF the United States
numbers about s79, 600. The Govern.
ment is again furnishing rations to idle
negroes iE Mississippi and Louisiana.
Gen. Toombs has professcd religion and
joined the Methodist church. !. . Rabbit
hunting is now in season .. Louisiana
Democrats promise to carry the State
by majority SO large that It cannot be
counted out. -. Apples are quoted at
80 cents q barrel in some OF the wes-
tern counties OF this State Snow has
fallen to the depth Of from one to three
feet in the mountains or Utah. The
Russian government has contracted with
Springfield firm for 10000 rcyolvers.
-. Indiana has 1905 miles Of railroad,
assessed at s2s, 294,5l3. New Haven
has shipped 100000 bullets to the
Turkish government. Rev. Richard
Fuller, ID. d.. an eminent Baptist minis.
ter OF Baltimore city, died on Friday
last. The cash receipts of the centen.
nisl exposition up TO Tho 14th instant
were $685. COS rs. Corn is selling
in Winchester at S2 per barrel, and pc.
tatocs 81 IS cents per bushel Mr..
Hemming is the appropriate name OF
the great English needlemaker. The
Eagle File Works OF Pittsburg, has just
received an order from England for s..
geo dozen files. The poultry display
at the centennial exhibition will open
to-day, Friday -. The Spaniards ave.
rage % pounds Of meat per year, and
the English 205. How much do the
Romneyites consume? Can our friend
Harrison or Orndorf tell? The old
courthouse in Rappahannock county.
Va, in which John Waller, Robert Ware,
John Shackleford and James Greenwood
were, in l114, arraigncd for preaching
the Gospel contrary TO the law of the
colony, is TO be converted into Baptist
church -. Out OF 50 German papers
published in Wisconsin 6 support Ill
den and Hendricks. - Tie estate OF w.
Ii. Brown, the Pittsburg coal king. foots
up 1885, 600 So. In early life he made
his living by digging coal Mt one and
half cents per bushel. The two Ca
seys, who were badly used up in tie re-
cent bloody affray at Bloomington, Car.
rett county, Md. a'e reported TO be
gradually recovering from their injuries.
IA Hancock county, this State, man
married his mothcr-in-law There
are three thousand members Of Beech.
er's Church : The Ohio Grand Lodge
OF Masons have re- elected their present
officers. The question OF recognizing
the coiored lodge, is still undecided.
80. Two ladies OF Richmond, Indiana.
are suffering from trichnia One OF
/ them has lost the use OF her lower limbs
! and one arm. Two nicccs OF General
Jackson are copyists in the Treasury
Department 1T Washington. A Ger
man woman, the wife of 4 Democratic
citizen OF Chicago, gave birth this week
TO five children at one time She was
solid for Tilc en-. Lee, Of Utah, chose
death by shooting. The Sheriff will pa;
/ revolver Mt the criminals breast and
shoot. wv. j. Lewis, OF New York CT.
ty, is out with flying machine. =. On
Saturday night last brakeman named
Bradley was killed OF Sandy Hook, and
on the same night n book agent named
Palmer was run over by the train, near
North Mountain, and killed .. A Pres.
byterian church in Cranberry, Nj, has
had only six ministers in 40 wears
Charles Condct, brooklyn lawyer, was
found dead, in lis room Oh "Wednesday
from an overdose Of lIydrate OF choral.
taken to allay neuralgia pains A
young man named King Lytton, while
walking on the Baltimore & Ohio Rail.
road, ten miles from Cumberland. was
run over on Sunday last by the Chicago
express train and instantly killed 80.
4 Mexican woman living near Los An.
| geles, California, has been married 20
/ years and has twenty children, her age
being under 35....A meteoric stone.
the size of n cannon ball, is reported to
have struck Windsor Castle on the 9Th
ult., when it exploded with the noise Of
shell and 4 shower of sparks 4. d. Rev.
Jesse Rankin. tho oldest Presbyterian
minister in North Carolina, died last
week in Caldwell comfy =. d. Thomas
Nugent ex.treasurer Of tic Citizens
Loan Association of Newark, New Jer.
sey, is said to be a deraulter to the a.
mount Of $4,000 The widow Of
Richard *. Randolph nephew Of Presi.
dent Harrison, and Of John Randolph,
Of Virginia. died ut Newport, Rhode
Island, on Tuesday last, aged ninety
/ four years. Tho weatherwisc predict
/ colder weather The fne residence Of