South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-10-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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House on Saturday last. =. The 18th
inst, Thursday next. is set apart as
maryland Day at tie Centennial.
One hundred and eighty-three convicts
are now in the penitentiary at Mounds.
vile, this State.--. Next Friday is the
sixth anniversary OF the death of Robert
T.. Lee. - Berkeley county corn, raised
By Thomas Flagg, tool, the first premi.
'um at the Centennial or three mem.
bers Of Lincoln's cabinet, now living.
two ere for Tildcn and one for Hayes.
The total gold coinage last month was
S4,443.S60. all in double eagles; total
silver $a,57,000. :. Pennsylvania EN-
pioys over sixty thousand men in the
work of mining and shipping anthracite
coal. Gen. Newton. The He'll Gate
hero, Is iilden man :. 1t is said that
ChicaSo does as much telegraph bust.
ness as Philadelphia aad Boston togo.
ther. Turkey furnishes most of the
sponges OF commerce, and pretty much
all OF the opium "a colored woman
gave birth to five children, three boys
and two girls, in Union county. South
Carolina, last week -. The Utah emf.
grants to Arzoua, orc dissatisfied. AMI
returning home. The itineran. Me.
thodist preachers throughout the world
number 2I,3Jl. The local preachers
n'"'hor Gi.i74, making an aggregate of
~. The yearly transactions in
oysters IN 'v York f,otu2 Ten mill.
;2ns OF dollars lac l.ya,,ss this wear
vii, o. unAana I'D o. superior de
scripi,o1. The ST Loais. Wabash and
Hcstera r"lroaG carried more thu =
million bushels OF grain o,ar its trac'.
curing the month of August The
Ncv. " Iliiam McElroy, OF the Church of
Got. died in Charlestown. on The niyb,
OF the LIST inst, Mt an ADVANCE! arc
rrof. Repass has been promoted, by the
trustees OF Roanoke College. to the
Presidency of that Institution. i'm place
OF the late lamcnted DIR. Bittle
colored woman named Emma Scott
starved to death in Georgetown, u. G..
last week THE first carriage brourbt
INTO Berkeley county. il is said w.s
butt IN Charleston forty wears ayp. and
~ now used by Henry Gryatt. Of Mar.
tlnsourS -. Texas has set aside ror bor
common schools, sixty-one millions ot
acres OF lend -. One thousand one bun.
drcd aai ten horse doctor in the Irpi.
ted States, and eight millions of horses.
The official figures show the recein.s
OF tile Centennial exh bition so far -
have been S2.2l0,26S.2+ c sum greater
than any previous worlds fair. The
commissioners Of the Illinois State Pen.
Itentiary have advertised for the work
OF four hundred gconvic 8. Mrs. Car.
noyic, OF ETcckanri9ge Co., Kentucky.
has child five years old whose body
appears to be absolutely boncless. Al.
though we'll developed in every particu
lar, its limbs can be literally tied in =
Knot. The school board of Cumhcr-
Land, Md has decided to open public
school in That city where German will
be taught. The St. Louis fair has
closed and is pronounced q success.-
Gross receipts for the week $40. coo
fitzpatrick got worn out in an Indiana
speech anil had 10 have his month half.
soIed - James Gordon BcunetCs in.
come IS figured ut $4,000. "A Grc
broke cut on yesterday week in large
restaurant in the Centennial grounds at
Philadelphia, and completely Quilted the
building; damage. $4,000 q. Within
three months cholera has carried oTI
nearly 10000 people in the city and
subsurbs OF Damascus. Most OF Tie
victims Lave been Mohammedans.
English lawyers arc dropping the gown
and wig and appear in Court in citi.
zcns clothes Ten thousand New
Workers are engaged in tho manufacture
OF cigars Tho Democratic majority
in Georgia will reach $4,000 ....A re.
markablc murder occurred in New York
on yesterday week. An old woman OIL
Il was killed with club 10y man
whose excuse was that he had been for
some time out Of work and the com.
plants Of 'hc old woman (his mother
inlavl annoyed him Three Roman
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