South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-11-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

weighing 252 pounds. Counterfeit
half dollars are in circulation. They
have the right ring, bet are Of light
weight. =. San Francisco papers aiver.
tise ripe straw berries ut ten cents a
pound" The new Capitol q, Wheel
ing is ready for occupation. All the
merchants at Shreveport, Louisiana,
closed their places Of business from Nov.
=, to the 9Th. ...A passenger train on
the Hannibal and st. Joseph Railroad
was thrown of near Brook6eld, Nilsson.
ri, on yesterday week, and over twenty
persons wounded, several fatally.
The Georgia cotton crop report for DC.
tober indicates yield about equal to
that OF last year. possibly greater. The
crop is being gathered and marketed
with rapidity seldom If ever equaled.
DIR. Camaro Cabral, Portuguese
doctor, has extracted eighty needles
from girl Of sixteen who had contriyed
Mt different times to swallow them, and
at length found them highly inconve-
nient companions. "A Missouri Judge
has decided that woman is not an old
maid until she is IS years old. Bar.
mum is profoundly detected because the
United States has beaten him at the
show business. :. Mrs. Cameron, Of Hi.
lier. Canada, is entitled to place a.
mong the brave women of the world. A
few days ago she seized ring in the
nose Of an infuria:ed bull, while in the
act of goring and trampling her hus.
band, and led the animal away from the
dying man into an adjoining field. She
then carried her husband to the house
in her arms, but he was dead The
death, on the 9Th inst, of Macajah Bal.
ley, prominent provision broker of
twenty-five years standing in Cincin.
natl, was caused by the mistake of a
druggist, who put up cyonide of potassa
instead Of prussiate OF potash. lie was
arrested. acknowledges his error, and
processes his willingness to suffer the
consequences "A riotous demonstra.
| ton was made in Richmond, Virginia.
on the night Of the 9th inst by a mob
ofcolored men, who. among other things,
! stoned the house Of Rev. j. w. Dungee.
the well-known colored conservative.
A number Of whites subsequently went
to colored hotel and served it in the
same way. One Of the most wonder.
full cities in the world is Bangkok, the
capital of Siam. On either side of the
wide. majestic stream, moored in regu.
lar streets and alleys, extending as far
as the eye can reach, are upward of
10000 neat little homes, each one float.
ing on compact raft of bamboos, and
the whole intermediate space of the riy.
er is one dense mass Of ships, jun!;s
and boats Of every conceivable shape,
color and size u The Vermont Legis
laturc wants the bankrupt law repealed.
Too many fellows paying fifteen cents
on the dollar and hiding eighty-fvc.
80. Throughout election day the United
States war vessels Canonicus and Ossi-
pee lay at anchor Mt New Orleans so rs
to command the principal streets 1t
has been ascertained that nine hundred
and sixty women in the United States
professionally practice what they call
astrology as means Of livelihood.
The circulation Of the New York Sun on
"WEDNESDAY reached two hundred and
twenty thousand (220.o0O) copies-a
circulation never before paralleled or
approached in the experience of any
daily newspaper in the United States.
-. Between 1900 and 10000 alliga.
tor skins are tanned yearly, which are
consumed by the boot and shoe manu-.
facturers in every portion Of the Unit.
ed States, as well as exported to Lon
don and Hamburg. -. Major Bradford
OF Culpeper, received as premiums on
sheep at the Richmond State Fair, the
sum Of $3.50 The German Empire
has presented the German Pavilion in
the Exhibition Grounds To the city of
Philadelphia. OF The 2j8, 239 inhabi.
tants Of Rhode Island. 1876, 003 we're born
in the State, and 81 SOC are natives OF
other States in this country :. An in
FAINT daughter of Mr.. Felix Westwood,
Of Wheeling, was choaked to death on
Sunday last by piece ofan apple which
she was eating -. Over in the Colorado
mountains a woman has collected ffty
bushels cf grasshoppers and scalded
and dried them for winter chicken food.
Twenty thousand persons killed by
tho India Cyclone. A wave nine feet
high swept over part Of the damaged
district. Some idea may be formed
Of the vast numbers of stock in Texas