South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-09-29
NEWS OF TIE DAY.
Sixteen person, in Forest county.

Near Summit. Miss, a man Jumped Off a
train to get his hat. and did not get i,
because he broke his neck. A Peter
Cooper organ is to be started i'm Charles.
ton, this State Advices from the Red
Cloud agency state that all the necessa-
ry signatures have been obtained to the
Indian treaty for ccssion Of the Black
Hills. ..Col. Hardee. of n. c., has been
appointed librarian of the House Of Re.
representatives.. vice John NJ. Rice. :.
Beecher's last trial cost him and his
friends S250.000. An expensive busi-
ness. IA Tu lare county, California,
man has married his s.ep.mother.
The late r ufus b. Graves. Of New York
city, among numerous charitable be-
quests,w illed 100000 to be appropria-
ted to the education OF the colored chill.
dren OF the South. The firm Of A. r.
Stewart & Co., employ 1000 person S
in this country APPLES are so plen-
tiful in some parts Of Connecticut that
! they arc offered ct twelve and q half
cents per bushel. Ccffins for birds.
cats, dogs and otEer pets are now sold
in New York. Robert Young, of IA.
nawha county, killed fish-hawk a short
time ago which measured five feet six
inches from tip to tip Of his wings. "A
wealthy Bos;onian diod recently and
lett all his property TO his wife on con.
dltion that size married again within
eighteen months. Philadelphia curni.
ture dealers send "confdential' letters
to clergymen OF tie city. asking TO be
/ put upon the track Of persons who are
/ to be married or have been recently.
This is truly business enterprise. Won.
der how much commission the clegy
men charge The population of
France, instead OF increasing, is dimin-
! ishing; and what is of Il ore importance
still, the French are tleterioratinc i'm
! ply steal vigor- The pay OF all OIL
GERS and employees OF the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad is TO he reduced 10
per cent. after the lst OF October.
no whisky rings efrauded IL govern
nent OFT of $S00,GC0,oCO :. a man in
san Joaquin county, California. has
cleared $4,000 this year from eight acres
of blackhcrries. -. A lady in New York
recently paid 500 FOR black and tan
terrier, weighing two pounds and ten
ounces. Judge Colquitt, Of Georgia
has an orchard from which he exp Gets
10 gather 5.CGO bushels Of apples this
season. j. n. Camden & Co.. have
absorbed all Tie OF! refncries in Park
ersburg, but one. The Richmond En-.
q"irer newspaper, with its good will, fix
turcs, &C.. is to he sold at Trustees sale
Oh the 5rd Of October :. Quite sensi-
bic shocks Of earthquake were felt On
Monday last at Belleville, Mt. Carmel
and other parts OF Southern llliJois.-I
In Louisville crockery was broken and
pictul es thrown from tic walls. Three
armed masked men entered the dwelling
OF Warren Caswcll, at Eden, Ont about
o'clock on tie morning Of the 25th
instant, and attempted to rob him. Cas-
we'll resisted, and one Of the robbers
shot him through tie neck with revol.
yer, after which they left. Caswcll's
condition is precarious. -. Mrs. Maria
Natalie Pollard, the widow of 4. A.
Pollard, author of The Lost Cause" is
announced to stump The State Of Cali
fornia for the Democratic ticket -.
Richard Bowel, of Lewis county, charg-
ed with the murder OF j. II West, has
been found guilty of murder in the first
/ degree. and sentenced to be hanged on
! the 9th of next month The number
of assertions from the United States
army for the last five years aggregated
/ $4,000, of which number $500 deserted
in 1873. This is one-tenth Of the nom.
inal force of the army-that is. one man
out OF ten in the ranks deserted last
year. Pittsburgh window glass facto-
rics are closed by strike. IA new
! Partisan hotel will have q mantelpiece
worth $50, Zoo. d. Mrs. James X. Polk,
widow OF the eX-President Of the United
States, is living at Nashville. Tennessee.
/ bonored and beloved at an advanced
agc....N inter apples are selling at 12l
cents Der bushel on the trees in Deer
/ field Valley, Massachusetts,. Cider ap-
| pies no sale at ten cents. The crop is
extraordinary General Crook says
that active operations in the Indian
campaign will begin again in about 80
days. The latest invention is one
wheeled sulky. 1t came from California.
-. During the crop year ending Au.
| gust 81 Baltimore sent more corn across
the ocean than the ports Of New York
and Boston combined. Tho aggregate