South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-12-22
NEWS or THE DAY.


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year will be about $4,000. 900 The
Amazon river drains s,5oo.oOo square
miles OF land. and is navigablo for g.
200 miles from its mouth President
Grant has bought fnc residence in
Washington. "A witty Journalist says
that the States OF Louisiana. Florida,
and South Carolina have a.rg gone by
the boara =. Over eight hundred rabbits
were shipped from Fsirmout. this State,
to Balttmore. via the BALTIMORE & Ohio
Railroad. last week Green corn and
cuenmbers are still 10 be had In Ama.lar
Oonnty, California. There viii be two
fal) moons this month - Prof Repass
has declined TO Accept tho Presidency
OF Roanoke College. maic vaoan. by
the death Of Dr.. Bittlc. "A nine.een-
year old Cincinnati belle has married a
groom aged IS; bat be has riches with
years Tho Wheeling Register Office
received tho contract for doing the State
printing for the next t~o years "A
Wisconsin couple named their sixth
boy Enough" - Jacob Fisher, soi.,
dier Of the war Of 1912. died in Shcnan.
doah county, Va, las. week. aged 81
years. "A bill has been introduced Ia
Congress reducing the postage on let.
tiers, TO two cents ...Th, New York
police raided on branch Office OF the
Kentucky State lottery in that city few
days since. aud seized tickets represent
ing about $4,000. 100 in money >. Five
colored insane have been transferred
from Shepherdstown to the Asylum at
Weston lit is estimated that 5000
rabbits have been shipped from Oakland,
Maryland, 10 other markets III the pas,
few weeks :. " the three frat DAYS OF
December rule the Winter, VIC may look
out for three cold months A Logan
county, this State, dealer has six tons
of gingseng in store....It appears tia.
tho est Virginia building on the Cen
teunial grounds hasfnot yet tecn dis.
posed OF -. Seven carloads of silkworm
eggs, valued Mt about IS 900 900, passed
through Omaha, Nebraska. on Sunday
last, from China Ell route TO Europe -.
French ingenuity 10 occupying i,sel; in
making perfume from peach leaves,
which promises TO he delicious :. Cou-
gresham Stephens denies reports tl.;L
lac Is eounseling al acceptance by the
South OF Hayes. Inauguration Three
Carloads OF white emigrants left Sum.
ter,S. Carolina, one day las. week bound
Tor Texas, bccause, it is stated in TIC
Charleston papers, OF the bare possibil.
ity ofa continuance OF tho Chamberlain
government for two years moro 4
New England establishment Las con-
tracteea To supplys the Russian gorern-
ment With G0a,10o pairs OF s,,ocs =.
Forty-two negro women. dressed in male
attire, voted the Radical ticket Mt the
! prcciact known IS Barnes Sto.e, in
Alachua county, Florida :. The Goa.
/ ccntration Of troops at Washington is
still going on. The full complement OF
marines on the United States steamer
Michigan has been ordered 10 report at
once at the marine barracks there -.
| Judge Richard Parker. OF Winchester.
I has been elected Grand Master Of Ma
/ SOS IN Virginia :. Nearly . hundred
/ thousand young salmon have recently
/ been placed in the Shenandoah river,
! lac s;et
/ belligerent feeling in the West. incident
/ 10 the election fraud. is SO great that
/ reports from there state that the clubs
that were organized during the campaign
are arming themselves in anticipation
4 OF open hostilIties :. An EnchuH, says
that any mau OF family who says lie is
too poor to take his home paper should
be indicted by the grand jury for OBJ
tanning family under false pretencc
The school population Of Virginia.
between five and twenty-one years Of
age is: white. 280l49; colored, 202.-
64O--total, 4S2. 7S9 1.-The papers an
rounce the failure OF II. ]. Glendv. Of
Augusta county, one OF the most extern
si'c cattle dealers in Virginia Col.
G.. +. Sims, qualified IS sheriff Of Min.
cral county. on The 18TH inst. and ap-
pointed Mr.. ID. L. Grccpwadc his Dep
uty....A military company, tha isie-
pendent states. has been organized in
Marlinsburg, with some forty members
already enrolled -. Our recent exchan-
ges report that tic Governor Of Penn
sylysnia has telegraphed Gran: that he
has $4,000 militia ready for his use 80.
The Presidential election is settled
All tia: remains to be done is for Con-
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