South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-04-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

soil by the Governments since t4e 3Oth
Of June last liigh-toned papers now
speak of Belknap's grsvestone rohbinx
as sad and solemn steal. SANDY
CARRIER says there are $500. 600 in green.
backs boarded away in Augusta county
alone :. +. A mile and-a -halr lash for a
thousand dollars. at San Francisco. Sa.
turday l sst. between Chance and Katie
Pease, WAS won by Chance in 2.24i
The Centennial has cost Philadelphis
four million dollars An English com
pany is buying up 4 million OF Georgia >
wild acres Tom Thumb is about 10
go into stock raising in Texas Eff
teen thousand lunches Of v;oiets are
sold daily in Paris. -. Martha Plougher.
white. was tried in the County Court OF
Rockingham county, Va, last week.
charged with the murder of her infant.
and acquitted - The st. Louis Globe
says the Republicans OF Missouri arc No
unanimous for Blaine ut the present
time az they were four years ago for
Grant. "A Brooklynite ships 1000
pairs ofparlor skates to Liverpool week.
ly... Texas is improving her stock by
heavy impo;tations OF Kentucky short
horns -. One Thousand persons are re.
ported to have let Washington COUNT,
Nd, and Franklin County, Pa, for the
West this Spring -. A Truss factory
has been established at Winchester
At Richmond, Va. on Tuesday night OF
last week, the roof and four floors Of a
double brick warehouse, occupied "a q
storage depotRy tho Old Dominion Nail
Company. gave way. crushing through
To the basement. There were about
1000 kegs of nai!s aud several hundred
tons of bar and other iron stored in the
building :. Thomas w. Piper. the muir.
dersr of little Mabel Young in the War.
rem Avenue Church beltrey. at Boston,
has II length been sentenced to be hung.
- Chicago is trying to borrow money
in New York. and nobody will loan her
a dollar -. 1 he Post Office Department
seems 20 be as rotten den "a either
Pierrepont or Bclknap's, but not quite
so rotten as Robeaon's A woman OF
Omaha, 100 years of age, has had her
grave clothes on hand for fifteen years
and has h.d them washed and troned
once each year. Thonas u Dudley
died at Richmond, Va, on Saturday
night last OF rheumatism OF the heart
aged 6S. He was one oftLe most prom
inent members OF the Masonic fraterni.
ty in the country. During life he held
several high official positions in Rich.
mond. ami was the father OF Bishop
Thomas u. Dudley, Of Kentucky. who
was with him when he died >. Michigan
University has !, lcT students Orvil
Grant is now wanted by the Sheriff OF
BUCKS county, Pa, on q charge of swim
/ ding Seth w. B0oz out Of some real es-
tate by giving n security for its tranfsr
worthless 9tock ofthe Bristol Frenklinite
| Company, which was represented To be
valuable The City Hall at Chilli
cothe, and all the records Of she city.
was destroyed by fire Oh the night of
the 21th ult. Loss $25, 900; insurance
| $1,000 +. A. Lutx. or Loudoun coun.
W, Va, but formerly OF Georgetown. ID.
| O.. has given Sl.000 to the endowment
OF chair in Randolph Macon College.
Lutz made large fortune in Washing
ton durin. the war IS q loyat purchaser
Of "a ldles and harness 1t is now un-
derstood that in giving ont tn Alaska
Seal contract, big swindls was perpe.
trated. in which Boutwell,, Richardson
and Attorney. G cneraE b oar were parties.
The investigating Committees find evi.
! dences Of Radical scoundrelism every
where -. Frederick Mertens has sur.
chased the residence OF Gen. Thomas
j. Mckaig, in Cumberland, the price
paid being 5 Z, 500 -. The firm of J. ".
Camden x Co, Of parkershurg. employ
800 hands in their barrel factory and oil
refinery, and turn out 600 barrels per
day Hon. Alexander Ii. Stephens ia
rapidly convalescing. lie sat up last
/ week for the first time this year Miss
Mary j. Randolph, sister OF the late
/ Thomas Jefferson Randolph of Edge
! Hill. Albemarle county. "a, died in 81.
exam ria OIL Friday morning last. in the
! I3fd year Of her age Miss Randolph
was the daughter OF Thomas Mann Ran.
d0lph and Martha Jefrerson, who was q
daughter of President Thomas Jefferson.
The Ohio Republican, endorse Gov
| enor Hayes for the Presidency and
have backed him by strong deleg cation
to Cincinnati IA New Hampshire
court has decided that boy Of thirty.
five ia too old tn be licked, even if he
! does stay srounl home Letters OF
administration on the estate of the late
| General Francis Z. Blair. of st. Louis,
I Nv lts value 1T $500 mississippi Re.
! publicans instruct for Morton, tue color.
cd elemsn. being unanS nously in his
favor THE Piedmopy Independent
! says the Virginia Coal Company. near
! Piedmont, will send to the philadelphia
/ exposition section of seam OF coal
fourteen feet high. with but four inches
Of impurities. Col. Horace Reslcy, Of
! Cumberland. aud j. j. Hoblitzcll, OF
trostbure, have sold TO ID. :. Jones all
their shares Of capital stock in tile En-.
/ pire Coal Company for $4,000. The
same gentlemen have also disposed OF
coal lands in Allegany country for $40.
600 IA Young fellow in a western
town was fined $40 for kissing girl
against ifer will. and the following day
the damsel sent him the amount OF the
line, with note saying that the next
time hc kissed her he must be less rough
abont It. and be careful to do il when