South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-07-07

hait OF GCiiSfS. IN the cleCtoEM COZ
lcce next fall there viii be 500 votes
necessary to a choice, 1856 - Fifteen
million pounds of Strawberries were con-
sumed last week by the people OF New
York city. Dom Piatt SAYS Hayes is
painfully difsident and has been seen to
blush like schoolgirl. South Aus
tralia will furnish this season 200,00e
tons OF wheat for export The popu-
lation OF Kentucky is placed at 1866, :.
525. =. Rutherford Birclrnrd Hayes is
his full name. and he comes OF Connec-
ticut stock "A Christian newspaper,
the first in Japan. has been issued at
Kobe. 1t is printed in Kama characters.
which ali the people can read....A An
Illinois Judge has decided that n wash
ing bill canno. be collected. The ILL.,
nois Judge would have done better
had he pointed out what bills can Ire
collected The yellow fever is raging
in Cuba.-The Cuban campaign is dull
on both sides this season. -. Two hun
tlred and fifty women will he graduated
as telegraph operators this year from
Cooper Institute, New York .--.A CO.
lored woman by the name of Hattie Ed
monds, of Rappahannock county, Va,
had been in the habit Of lighting tho
fire with coal oil for years. She attempt
ed to start it again on the 2nd inst. and
will never have n chance to do so any
more Two physicians Of Boston are
named Aiken and Ailing :. Mr.. Nor
rilrs appointment makes the changes in
Gen. Grants cabinet number %. q total
never before approached -. G. Oglebay,
n prominent citizen Of Wheeling. died
on Friday last, aged So -. Henry Ward
Beecher has been engaged by the Red
path Bureau of Boston to lecture eighty
nights the coming season for $4,000.
-. DEVILS Slide. Devils Gate, Devils
Door, Devils Back and Devils Knee are
historic spots on the Union Pacific road.
They think good deal of him out there
-. Miss Hannah Anderson of Moore.
field has composed polka and dedica.
ted il TO Prof. Salyards OF the Polyieeh-
mic Institute at New Market. 1t is call
ell the "Polytechnie Polka. Be.
tween forty and fifty Mexican veterans
are en- route from Texas to Philaiel.
phia =. Ex.Gov. Seymour expresses the
confident opinion that New York will 90
democratic in November. :. Mrs a. Il.
Stewards gifts TO public charities have
amounted TO 100000 since her hus-
bands death. 49,. A centennial pig has
recently been produced in Queen Anne's
co. Md. 1t has eight legs. which feat
entities il 10 he considered prodigious
dcscendent of Ham. 1t will cost Bos-
ton about $1,000 to pay the expenses of
the detectives who have been looking nj
Winslow in England The daughter
of nitcd States Senator Johnston, Of
Virginia, died at the Warm Springs on
Friday last -. Frank. son OF Captain
Wilson, of Wheeling, was drowned in
Wheeling Creek on Monday last -.
General Marshall LeftertS died instantly.
of heart disease, on board the train on
Monday morning last, while en- route 20
Philadelphia in command OF the veterans
of the 9Th regiment of New Jerscy -.
a lawsuit begun in 1892 concerning
100000. has i;ist been decided in Eng
land. Not a cent is left of the s400.
000..-.A good quality Of paper is now
being manufactured from cactus in Los
Angeles County, California =. Henry
l.. Taylor, of Aberdeen, Hartford county
Md, is the champion wheat grower of the
season, having harvested 1000 bushels
OH 30 acres Of land. "A porcupinc was
killed near Sweedlin Hill. Pendleton
county, recently -. According TO an Of
fetal report sent to the House Of Rep
rescntativcs on Monday last. it has cost
S2,207 ,7i0 to garrison Washington with
army officers in the last seven years =.
The Boston Herald was Il Jealous al.
yocate OF the nomination of Mr.. Bris.
tow. Now it is equally earnest for Mr..
Tilden.. "A young man named Henry
Cookus came to his death suddenly in
Shephordstown on tuesday Of last week
from tho effects of excessive draughts
of ce.wator whilst he was oyerhCated.
AN Iowa court has decided that If
a man engages himself TO be married
and then commits suicide the dcfraudcd
party can proceed against his estate for
breach of promise Mr.. Alexander
Mckenzie aud Mr.. John Chapman, two
well known citizens, died in Alexan-
dria, on the evening of the Ind instant.
-. English capitalists are said to have
lost about five hundred millions of dol.
lars in twelve months in Turkish, Egyp-
tian. and Peruvian securities Tx
President Polk widow hes been invited
by Col. Tom Scott to visit the Ccntcn
NAL in a special car placed nj her dispo.
sal There were fifty-eight thousand
visitors at the Centennial Exhibition OH
Monday last E. Albany (Oregon)is said
to be the only place in the United States
Of 5000 inhabitants which has no Ro-
man Catholic church The japanese
make bricks of such quality that they
/ pay freight on them for 1000 miles. pay
twenty per cent duty, and sell them in
San Francisco at profit 1.-The con.
sumption Of eggs in the manufacture Of
calicocs is almost incredible. No nlbu-
men is equal 20 that contained in OIL ego
f and it would consume the lay OF 800.
600 hens 20 supply one OF the large
/ calico manufactures in France. The
/ Milwaukee Sentinel reports that ON june
. the head OF Lake Superior was covered
with ice for twenty miles down. and nj