South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-08-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

-Four million barrels OF flour arc re-
quired to feed the people OF New York
city per year Baltimore. it is said, is
overstocked with counterfeit half dol.
lars -. Canada is sending blooded hor-
ses TO England, and making money at it.
-. Hancock and Hooker, the two great
fighting generals Of the war. are for Til
den and Hendricks. Cinnamon en-.
ployed in unloading vessels in San Fran.
cisco walk ashore with opium packed in
their boot heels. The judgments OBJ
tanned by the government against dis
tillers in st. Louis amount 10 nearly
million Of dollars. Thirty thousand
mon have deserted the U. s. army in 5
years "A correspondent of the Chica-
so Times says the st. Louis distilleries
are again being run crooked AN &C.
centric citizen of Cape May carried
rope in his pocket for forty years, his
explanation being that he was liable at
any time to wish to kill himself, and
meant always 10 have the means handy.
a few lays ago he hanged himself with
the old rope. MIR. Boss has visited
Pine Plains, n. Y, seen the child said
to be Charlie, and says it is not him :.
There are forty-foar lodges Of colored
masons in Ohio, with a membership of
twelve or Fifteen hundred. Two girls,
near Adams, n. Y, determined recently
to ''go in swimming rs the boys do
They had a splendid bath in secluded
place, but strolling cow took up po-
sition near their clothes, and they sat
on the opposite bank all the afternoon,
and called that cow hard names. They
were relieved when u farmers boy came
after the cow ut milking time. The
paid admissions ut the centennial expo.
sition on Friday last numbered 1871.
lit is stated that the Turkish army
now equipped numbers 100000 men.
A fire in Ripley, this State, last week
destroyed a stable in which were six
fine horses, n span Of mules and buggy
belonging TO Hon. III. NJ. Mathews
The Baltimore San states that a Post.
master in Calvert county, Md, recently
received several specimen copies Of a
Western Republican newspapers, with
fancy posters, circulars, cards, &c, the
whole containing energetic advice how
TO elect the Republican candidate for
President, together with direct appeal
to Postmasters ito aid in TIE great
work" To which tho Calvert Postmas.
ter responds: 1--WE are all Tildcn men
here, and 90 not want TO know how to
elect Hayes; therefore / have treated
Tic papers and circulars rs / hope the
people will treat Hayes and Wheeler
laid them aside" That Postmaster eyi.
IDENTIFY intends 20 attend TO Post Office
matters OF n legitimate character.
General Sicgcl fights NIT Tildcn.
John Gatcwood, editor Of the Tazcwcll
VIDETTE, died few days since after q
long illness. Mr.. Gatewood for MANY
years published paper at Woodstock,
and for several sessions REPRESENTED
Shenandoah county in the Legislature.
lie was also captain in the Stoncwall
brigade during the lato war John
Tyler, Jr., son of ex-Prcsidcnt Tyler,
decd, has become n minister in the Nj.
T.. Church, South. lIo preached, it is
said, on eloquent sermon ut Wesley
Grove camp meeting. in Maryland, on
Monday OF last week. -. "A Western
editor nobly offers himself as n substi.
tutc for the injurious corset. :. a perso-
nal difficulty occurred in Danvllc, Va,
between w. L. Manning, Of the NEWS,
and Daniel Dcchcrt, Of the EXPIRES, in
which Manning attempted TO cowhide
Dochcrt, md was shot, though not scri-
ously. 80. There is n clock in the Cen.
tcnnial building wlich tells the month
Of the year, the day Of tho months, the
day of the week. the hour or the day,
the minute Of the hour, and which is
said TO run for hundred years with one
winding IT is early for frost, but they
had it in tho region Of Port Jcryis, n.
l., md Milford, Pa, on Sunday night
last. Flags were at half mast on tho
city hall and municipal buildings at
New York on Monday last in respect to
The memory Of the late Speaker Kerr.
Al injecting Of over one hundred color
cd persons at Swygcrt's plantation,
South Carolina, few days since, a re.
solution was unanimously passed that
they were Gin favor Of peace with the
white people, and opposed to ell riots,
and especially TO carpct-baggcrs."
There arc 200 actresses in New York
without engagements. e. Last year Lon.