South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-06-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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Moody was given q parse OF 81 500 dor.
ing his stay in Augueea, Georgia. The
Philadelphia horse railways are capable
OF delivering 10000 people an hour at
the Centennial grounds :. "a, 100 shade
trees are now growing in the streets Of
WasAiogtoO. The negro majority in
Richmond in 1867 was 961; now the
white majority there il 2,244. "A bill
has been introduced into the Legislature
OF Mississippi to make education CON-
pslsory throughout the State Presi-
Dent Grant. it is said, will visit Colonel
John s. Mosby during the summer At
his residence in Warrcnton. /. It 10 said
there are 100 women preachers I'm this
country. The Charlestown Free Press
says that Jacob Houk. n few days since,
killed rat which measured twenty-five
inches from tip to tip. What .whop.
per-" The rat, We mean :. Nine cadet
midshipmen at the Naval Academy have
been compelled to resign. they having
been detected in stealing dry goods from
Baltimore drummer. The Chero.
kee Nation is said to pay the highest
salaries to teachers. men receiving two
hundred and twenty-five dollars month
and women two hundred dollars :.
Hon. Benjamin Wilson has announced
himself a candidate for reelection to
Congress from the 1st District Law.
yer FELTON,, Of San Francisco. having re.
ceivcd million-dollar fee for one case.
has arrived at the Centennial Bah.
cock and Bclknap are next door neigh.
bors i'll Washington. =. Florida oranges
arc so plentiful that they arc fed to the
hogs. In 1776 it took about three DAYS
to go from New York to Philadelphia
| In 1876 it takes less than three hours
-. Montreal is to he next principal oh.
jectivc point of Mcssrs. Moodcy and
Sankey. Six thousand silk worms arc
on their way 10 the Exposition from
California. -. The Episcopal clergy OF
this State favor q division of the diocese
Of Virginia. The potato bugs are un-
| qucstionably more troublesome this wear
than ever before =. Mrs. "Stoncwalr'
Jackson and her daughter are at Angus.
tn, Georgia. 1t is reported that the
deaths 10y yellow feve: at Rio Janeiro
average from 80 to 100 daily Too
soon yet to discard WOODEN underwear.
Wait till the 18th Of June {. An excel.
lent quality of tea is being grown in
Jasper county, Texas. =. Railroad men
confess to much disappointment in the
volume Of Centennial travel. The
residence Of Colonel j. Ii. Branch, near
Cincinnati, was robbed on Friday last.
Of 5000 in bonds by q man who called
the ColonePs daughter to the door and
threw snntf in her eyes The Hon.
John ). Garlic made an assignment on
the 24.h nit for the benefit of his cred
itors. Anna Dickinson's hustle cost
| $3.50. Pennsylvania has 235 beer
brewerios Wisconsin, 232; Ohio, 2I0 {:
New York, 2O3; California. POP; ILL.,.
l6j; and Michigan, l49 =. Vanderbilt
scored eighty.two on Saturday last
Dallas Texas. has increased its popula.
ton Of 1000 in 1871, before n railroad
touched it, to 1900. IA poor shoe.
maker at Mort, in France. is the father
Of forty-fve children. all OF whom are
still living. Each of his three wives
presented him with fifteen children.
Queen Victoria's son Arthur will shortly
marry one Of the daughters of the ex.
King of Hanover. =. There was n light
attendance ut the Centennial oil Friday
and Saturday last. Let the railroads
all over the country come down with
their fares, and the/ everybody will 90.
The revenues o. the Church Of Eng.
land amount to $4,000 900 annually.
49,. Nincty.four thousand dogs killed
twenty.eight thousand six hundred sheep
i'll Georgia last year. :. Gillian women
have received the right TO vote the only
qualification being they must be of age
and able TO read and write. Z. II is claim.
cd that potatoes planted five inches deep
will produce thirty per cent more than
those planted two inches The total
amount of money required 10 pay the
legacies left by The late a. II. Stewart
for his employees was $20j,750 -. A
Troy washerwoman beats two lawyers
III case TIC other day. She beat 'em
with hoe handle :. Charles Hall and
wife, Of Jonosboro, Tennessee. eighty.
i've and sixty years old respectively
died at the same moment few days
ago, rs they had daily for fifteen years
prayed might be the case. Hiram
Dryden shipped from Chrisfed, Mary.
land. to Philadelphia last week n large
turtle, weighing 500 pounds a gen.
tieman who lunclied on Friday ut res
taurant near the United States building
was so struck by his bill that lie has pub.
lished it rs follows: Bread. PIC two
cups of coffee, so; omelette. so: scrvi.
ces, So total, $l.34 ...Frcderika See.
han, young German woman, in III
OF insanity, plunged with her two little
children into the lake ut Chicago, on
Sunday last, and all were drowned
Hon. Hiram X. Roberts, democratic
candidate for Governor Of New lamp.
shire last year. died Tuesday at Saline IL
Falls, aged 20 -. Frost and thin ice
appeared at Montreal on the 3Oth ult.
..-.lt is thought il BelknaPs trial is not
postponed until fall the session Of Con
gress will last until August. =. Nellie
Sartoris's baby died on the second an
niversary OF that lady's marriage
MIR. William Il Preston, the eminent
Baltimore lawyer is quite i'll =. The in
surgents have burned Bilhaco, in Bos-