South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-07-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.

General Santa Anna died on the goth
OF June. lie was "a years old BE.
tween 5000 and 5000 people persisted
in this country last year victims OF ker.
| oscne oil accidents. The United
States centennial commission has deci-
ded, by n vote of 80 to 8. 20 keep the
exhibition closed on Sunday :. :. First.
class fresh butter is selling in Bedford,
Pa, at ten cents per pound Dom
Pedro takes his hat Off to every woman
he meets in America. Hayes is said
to have inherited his immense fortune
from his uncle. Trot out the name OF
that uncle. or somebody will be suspec-
ting it was "Uucle SAM. 1t is said
that Mt least 1873 persons have been
killed and wounded by the Indians on
the different routes leading TO the Black
Hills. .Ex.Lieut. Gov. j. Il. Wiley, Of
Va, died last week, aged eigbty-three
years. 1t is estimated that the peo-
pie of this country are now carrying u
bout fourteen tons of silver money in
their pockets In Washington county,
Pa, wool is selling slow ut 3O(a 33c.
They We got u singing doll at the
centennial. She huns I'm sawdust
when | sing. -. The latest in England
is bnttoncd stockings :. The Chinese
have introduced leprosy on the Pacific
coast, and the question of remedial
measures is likely 10 force itself on the
attention OF the American people before
long a colored man named Turpin
was killed in Washington city, on the
Fourth. His head wa. severed from the
body and the body cut up and thrown
into an ash-pit. The woman with whom
he lived has disappeared She is sup.
posed to be the murderess. "A catfish
weighing one hundred and seventy
pounds was caught at Alton, ILL.,, few
days ago. The Winchester and Poto-
mac Railroad Company has declared q
semi-annual dividend Of three per cent.
-. Miss Martin, of Cincinnati, had
her hustle shattered by three bullets shot
from revolver by her lover -. Prus-
STA has eleven thousand miles of rail
ways which cost Sl,050,000,0 and
now the government talks of buying
them all The investigation ut the
Virginia Military Institute into the case
of the young cadet who. being suspect.
ed OF stealing, was mobbed by his fell
iow-stu0ents in Lexington, his uniform
stripped from him, and his head shaved
has resulted in the acquital of the boy.
Ills Indignant father says, in view of
this, that If the Institute authorities do
no. punish the cadets who mobbed his
innocent son lie will put the matter into
the hands of the law. >. AT the cele.
bration in Akron, o., Tuesday, the
special feature was the presence of Lo-
,rinin IL ..aoro oil Nar-
burg. \. Y, Eliza Armour wrapped her.
self i'll garments saturated with coal oil
as cure for rheumatism, and her cloth.
ing took fire from lamp, roasting her
alive. Her daughter was fatally burn.
ed attempting to save her. Sad indeed
Sixty-carloads of tombstones ar be.
ing shipped over the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, for the National Cemetery ut
Winchester, Va. The Rev. Mr.. Nor.
rison, graduate of the IIampden-Sid-
ney Theological Seminary, and who had
church ut Selma, Alabama, died nj
Memphis on Wednesday of last week.
Only little more than a year ago he
married daughter Of the Rev. DIR. At.
kinson President of IIampden Sidney
College,. State Senator George j. La
thrOp, OF Charlotte county, Virginia,
died suddenly IN Richmond, on the 10th
inst, from the effects Of the heat A
subscriber TO the Baltimore San at st.
Mary's, Kansas, writes that the fall
wheat and rye harvest is ended. and That
there was never a better. yield. The
prospect for n large crop ofcorn is good.
but the spring small grain is light
William VI. Evarts is strongly endorsed
Tor the Governorship OF New York -.
Senator Jones silver mines i'm Nevada
yields as per cent of gold to 55 per
cent Of silver. Washington market,
New York. has man millincr and a
woman butcher.
ANoTnER RENovAL.-A St. Louis dis.
patch 20 the New York Sun states that
Pre- sidont Grant has removed Col. ID. p.
Dyer, tho United States District ALtor.
ney for Missouri. who so vigorously
prosecuted the 81. Louis whiskey ring
and appointed in lis place Assistant
District Attorney w. II. Bliss. Col.
Dyer, was superseded because, IL is al.
legged, he had spoken unexpectedly Of
the administration, and, learning OF the
fate in store for him, had meditated
resignation. The removal. however.
came too soon. The new attorney, Bliss
is not known as a ring man, and asserts
mat ne accepted the place only on CON
dition that none Of the whisky men
should be pardoned.
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10 The Valley Railroad, from liar.
Iisonburg TO Staunton, Va, was opened
Tor travel on Monday last and the trains
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