South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-08-04
NEWS OF THE Day.

England ay.stshis eoaalry false hair TO
the amount Of 100 tons, valued at $500.
900. Joseph G.. Moore, United States
Consul, ut Trinidad, died on Tuesday
OF last week Of yellow fever. During
the recent hot spell thousands Of fish
died IN tho Potomac river and the Ches-
apeake and Ohio canal. 1t is asserted
that the crops In Texas are better than
they have been for thirty years.
Eighty tons week Of fresh meat from
New York are sold ut West End Market,
London. Representative Alexander
ii. Stephens is now able to walk out of
doors Alexandria, Va, has man
who has obtained "a patents on his own
inventions. IA number Of typhoid fe.
yer cases are reported in Cumberland
..--A Methodist journal says that there
are 4,l13,047 members Of the Methodist
Church in the world Australia has o
breed Of dogs that do not bark .. "A
Hover grows from the snow in the Cali
iornia mountains, 1900 feet above the
sea. 1t Is purple. "A calf was recent:
u calved near Johnsonville, Frederick
county, Md, Which weighed ninety eight
pounds at birth. -. Thirty cents is the
ruling price for Wool in Washington,
Pa, with fancy lots little higher.
There is good deal OF smallpox at
this time in Pittsburgh, Pennsy lvania.
IA son OF Mr.. Lewis Brown, OF
MooreGeld, is said TO have been slain in
the late Indian fight. Kanawha coun.
ty, this State, has 9,93S youth or which
Si4 are colorod. =. : Texas has now over
$4,000. 600 acres Of public land :. :. a.
merica produces 100000 paper collars
day Under the new law the pos.
tago on books is one cent for every two
ounces or fractional part thereof -. "A
heavy storm is reported ct Richmond, on
the goth, demolishing trees, gardens,
houses, &c. No person was Killed or
seriously injured. Wheat is selling
IN berkeley county, at from 90 cents TO
81 per Dushel.-..A Raleigh county,
West Va, honey tree yielded 14} gallons
OF strained honey eleven pounds OF wax.
One Of the hostile chiefs is called
''Hyc Face" lie is tic -four or the
Sioux. 4 detachment Of the soldiers
at Fort Mcticnry, Baltimore, have been
ordered TO the West. TO engage in the
Sioux campaign --.John Reeves, for
thirteen years IN employee in the Column
bus, Ohio, postohicc, has been arrested
Tor opening letters and abstracting mo-
ncy. lie confessed his guilt. On
Thursday the 10th negro at Red Hill.
iIdgeiicld county, South Carolina. com.
United rape on little white girl five
years OF age, the daughter Of Louis
Prescott, inficting fearful injuries. On
The following Tuesday evening n party
of men took the negro into the woods
and hung him. John a. Dix docs no.
like Mr.. IildeR. No wonder. Our I'm.
Gle Samuel beat him short time ago
by fifty Thousand majority. Dix has
never liked him since. Colonel An.
drew keyscr, Of Page county, Va, is
dead. lie had been for several sessions
member Of the Legislature e. :. Prcsi.
dent Grant IS said 10 have remarked the
other day that he should 30 to England
IN March TO visit his daughter. He
thought lie might travel in Europe for n
year or two, and then return home bv
way of China and California. "A bull
lion yield of $2l,l50.000 is promised
from the Utah mines this year, more
than half OF which will be silver. 1t 10
estimated that there are 200 bags ofDea-
nuts. in Petersburg, Va 1t is stated
that the larger farmers of Shenandoah
county, have generally thrcshcd their
wheat and report the yield 10 be from
10 to 70 bushels per acre on good land.
and the wheat Of supcrior quality, weigh.
ing nj tho machine from G3 to 65 pounds
to the bushcl. -.Tyncr, the new Post
Master General, is the twonty.sixth
| Cabinet officer Grant has appointed in
seven years. IA Tildcn club has Leen
formed in Wheeling. Horse stealcrs
! arc busy plying their operations in the
southern part Of Washington county.
Maryland ...Ovcr two thousand chill.
drcn were buried in less than three
| weeks Of the heated term in the citv of
New York.. Congressman Seelye OF
Massachusetts has boon unan;mouel,.
| chosen President Of Amherst ColIcgc
ia young man named VIM. Harncs
on Tuesday OF last week, being in the
neighborhood Of McGahcysvillc. in
Rockingham county, Virginia, was told
Of swarm Of bees in q tree there. lie
climbed the tree some twcnty.fye feet
and fash Of lightning killed him in.
stantiy, his lifelc5s body falling TO the
ground Ia little boy was attacked by
three water snakes in VUluntown. Conn.
the other day, and when his father. who
| rescued him, came up all the snake9
! were wound around the child's body.
The Pennsylvania railroad has reduced
tho rates on frcightj from New York TO
Chicago from twenty-five to twenty cts,
| on first class. and on all other classes TO
/ Gftccn cents por hundred weight, in or.
der 70 meet on alleged reduction by the
NEW York Central The Rev. Samuel
| Butcher, -. D., Bishop Of Meath. Ire.
/ land, committed suicide on Saturday
last with "a razor during q Gt Of insanity.
The news from Tho South and South
\ west gives promise Of one Of tho most
magnificent crops Of cotton ever pro.
/ duccd. There arc 100000 Indians,
who hnyo had set apart for them about
! lJ0,O00,O00 acres OF land 800. Rev York
city has sixty Tildcn clubs. Western