South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-04-28
NEWS or THE DAY.

There are 1886 American exhibitors
enrolled for the Centennial Colonel
John >. Mostly says he has retired ab.
solu,cly from politics. Thus another
good thir'i-termer gives up the fight
Il cost $4,000 to bury Alexander r.
Stewart -. Centennial collars and CATS
have l776 and 1876 printed upon them.
-. Ohio has now l40 clerks i'm the
Treasury Department.. Oranges are
selling in Cumberland, Nd, at rs cents
per dozen. The best quality too -.
Hagcrstown. Maryland. has republican
Mayor for The flrst tiase in ten wears.
-. In the vest end Of Braxton, this
State. there has been recently discover.
ed vein or superior Ere clay. Is feet
thick. -. The bedsteal on which Mr..
Stewart died MAS octhe most elegant
description, bnilt OF solid rosewood and
inlaht With gold :. A jefferson county
egg was used few ,tays since, which
had three distinct shells. one within the
other. and meat between them. "A few
miners have been killed by the Indians
near the Black Hills lately. :. 1t is said
that the snow is deeper in the Sierra
Nevada mountains than any white man
ever saw it before. >. Israel Sue, Of Ka.
nawha county. this State, is one hundred
years old this year. :. ..Ile leaves no
child" but yet, if the truth were known.
Alexander l. Stewart would have given
all his wealth TO have heard the simple
name Of Father isped by baby lips.
-. The spring style 6rpantaloons will
be so largo that no modest man can
climb ladder with pair of 'cm on.
:. The steamer France, from Havre.
has arrived at Philadelphia, with 1920
tons measurement OF goods for the CEN.
tennial :. Look out for good crops
An old saying has it that
| Should Palm Sunday be bright and clear,
Surely will come fruitful year"
Five hundred boys are educated nj
Girard College, Philadelphia, but the
legacy has SO greatly increased that
room is being made for 1000 pupils %.
Inc March coinage 1.-THE San Francisco
Mint amounted to S3,308,OOO, against
sZ,54o'ooo in the corresponding month
OF last year. John Dolan, the murder.
err OF james II. Noe. was hanged in New
York on Friday last. At Fort Smith,
Arkansas, four Indians. a white man
and negro met with similar fate :.
There were 341 car loads Of goods on
the centennial grounds Saturday morn.
Ing, intended for the exhibition. These
consignments are mainly from the South
and West -. A Texas correspondent of
the Charleston Jounod says that money
- worth "a to Sc per cent. down there.
The coal mines in the vicinity Of
Evanston. Wyoming. are the most ex
tensive i'm the world, the vein being
twenty-slx feet in thickness and several
miles in length :. Hon. q. J. Dickey.
formerly member Of Congress from the
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, district, died
In That city, on Sunday last, aged fifty
TOUR, OF typhoid pneumonia - 1t is es-
timated that only 1000 Mexican sol.
diers arc now living. Ere many years
the last Of that brilliant and gallant
army will have passed away Hon.
Jefferson Davis will sail for Europe OH
Monday next, where he will remain for
six or eight months to promote the es.
Enlistment Of direct trade with the
cities of the Mississippi Valley. It's
said that at least 10000 OF the inhabi.
tants OF Washington City are free A.
inericans of African descent, and who
IN measure do nothing under the sun
Tor living but loaf on the streets by !
day and steal ut night 80. Mr.. a. I.
Stewart, it is said. has hot left blood
relative in the world - Frontier life is
hard one at best. There are too many
pullbacks on the overskirts Of ciyiliza.
lion The Berkeley Circuit Court will
convene on the 9th OF May :. The most
fashionable spring bonnet for this year
will probably he the old winter bonnet
hxed over. Three hundred carloads |
OF goohs from the West we're unloaded |
at the centennial grounds NJ Philadel |
phia on Monday last. Russia h1s Just
applied for and received wall space in
the line art department 10 exhibit some |
very fine pictures. Two or three paint
lngs. tho property Of the estate OF Prince |
Gelitzen, will he among the invoices for
which space is required :. Potatoes ire |
drug in the market at IIarper's Ferry.
Mt 20 cents per bushel -. The Rich |
mond Di,potch thinks that General Han. |
cock stands no chance for the Presiden-
cy because Of his connection with Mrs. !
Surratts execution Two hundred & |
fifty thousand gallons Of beer are sold
III London daily A Winchester firm
has shipped during the last ten days
thrty.five hundred dozen eggs to the
eastern Cities. Enough bel quilts |
have been offered for exhibition al the
Centennial TO cover The whole State or
Ohio A train OF cars on the Rich.
Inond and DaDville Railroad ran into
iock Of sheep belonging to Mr. j. j. Viii. !
kerson, near Midlothian. on Tuesday
morning Of last week, and killed nine
and pTecipitated nineteen into n COW.
gap. Those that were thrown into the
gap were all drowned .. The people OF
this country pay 100000 year for
shoepegs... Dom Pedro will have p !
rooms at the Arlington when he goes
TO Washington. >. The Supreme Court
recently decided case involving the !
title to nine hundred and sixty thousand !
acres Of land in Kansas. This is the