South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-11-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

from Western forts Last week 16S
boats. carrying 19.076.07 tons OF coal.
cleared from the port at Cumberland.
....Thomas Newton. of Taylor county,
this State, has q thousand pound year.
ling steer Five thousand and eighty
Maryland licenses to oyster drcdgers
have been issued at Annapolis the pre-
sent season. -. A colored preacher nam
ed Parson Divine. is in Jail at Hickman,
Kentucky. for hog stealing Forty
deer. lying together dead, met tie as
tonished eyes OF recent Mississippi
hunter. Black tongue did it The
sum Of 10000 pounds sterling in A.
merican eagles was withdrawn from the
Bank of England on the 18th inst, for
shipment to New York .. Thirty one
miles ofnew streets were opened in Lon.
don last year -. "A Tennessee man went
to Texas some years ago with $500. He
is now worth $4,000 in cattle A
squad Of United States soldiers passed
through Grafton, one day recently, en-
route West -. On Monday last Mr.. j.
w. Yingling. living near Brady's mill,
bagged four wild geese and one swan.
IA large number of cottonseed oil
factories are being erected in Georgia.
-. Lawrence Holton died in Newark,
New Jersey, of lockjaw, caused by a
bite in the thumb, received in a fight.
Europe is beginning to appreciate
California wine. Persons in pursuit
OF autumn leaves for pressing will do
well to beware OF the lockwood leaf, for
while 1t is amongst the most brilliant of
the autumn foliage. it is quite poisonous
to some people The statistics Of i'm.
migration ut New York for the first ten
months Of the current year indicate a
falling off from the diminished figures
OF last year. The number of arrivals
has dropped from 100000 in 1874 to
$4,000 in 1879, and then to probably
10000 in 1876. - Rudolph Weizork,
doctor, notary, lawyer. pastor of a Ger.
man Luthern church. and author of n
book against Catholicism, convicted i'm
New York of drawing pensions on GER
titicates of deceased persons, has been
sentenced to two years imprisonment
and fined $4,000. - Randall. Of the Al.
lanta "Constitutionalist," wrote MARY
land, My Maryland" "A Michigan
farmers wife Whose name, by the way,
is Eliza lately produced q second pair
of twins, and the happy agriculturist
now calls his spouse his "fertile-Liza 7"
There are upwards Of 5000 school
children in Monongalia county The
slave trade still fourishes Among the
Mussulmans Of Salonica, and 100 ne.
groes lately transported there from the
African coast, were sold at an average
of about $50 each a Section of the
Cadets of Temperance" is to be estab.
lished Mt Keyser. 80. The Legislature of
Vermont has defeated, by vote of Ill
to &c, the bill "to accord to women the
same privileges as mon" Hon. Alex
ander III. Stephens left Charlottesville,
Georgia, for Washington few days ago.
There were sixteen deaths from
scarlet fever in Baltimore last week, anu
a total of one hundred and nineteen
deaths from all causes The father of
the boy Morris who shot his companion.
Bogard, at Benwood, as stated in our
last issue, writes to the Wheeling Incl.
Hgencer saying that the shooting was an
accident, and not the upslot Of quar-.
rel over politics. Bogard's wound is
not so serious as was at first thought,
and he will recover Mrs. Wayne
Swcigert, daughter OF John Candy, re.
siding near Hahnstown, Lancaster Co.,
Pennsylvania, was bitten by the house
dog several weeks ago. During the lat
ter part of last week she complained OF
pain in her limbs, and soon thereafter
exhibited unmistakble symptoms of by.
drophobia. Death finally ended her suf-
ferings. The deceased is the mother OF
child four weeks old =. In New York
on Saturday last De Welt Clinton Lew
is, about ten years old. died OF what the
attending physician thinks was hydro.
phobia. Two months ago be tried TO
pet an old black cat that had been
chased by boys Of the neighborhood, and
was bitten on the right wrist -. In Vir.
ginia City, Nevada, great excitement
was caused on G. street in that city q
few nights ago, by man who gathered
q large crowd under the pretext OF lib
Grating some rats from box for dog
tokill. About three hundred men gath
cred about the spot. when a pole cal
sprang from the box and began to dis
/ perse the crowd. The man made hi,
. escape but was huntpl 0ll NIGHT nv ,