South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-05-26
NEWS OF THE,DAY.

Wednesday last was the birtheay Of
Queen Victoria. She MAS 81 years OF
age Eight hundred thou$anl dollars
in gold was sent I'd Europe On SATURDAY.
last from New York blaine il fbvty (
seven. 80 young and doomed 10 defeat.
lit is said that Presilent Grant will
make tour OF the world when his term
orofIlce expires ;. New York city banks
hold three.tourths OF tho coin Of the IA.
tional banks. ;. Many families in Cen
ira: Georgia usc only homegrowW tea.
80. Population Of Washington ic0. eco.
.. The gravcs OF Federal Zeal at Graf.
ton will be decorated orr Tuesday next.
Col Ren. Wilson's health IL stca.ii.
" i'm 1roving .Ti!dcn gets the Iowa
delegation to- ~. l.oufs james Court.
hight. cx.trensurcr OF Luxerne county.
Pa. has been arrested. charged with
0efranding the State ont OF $50. 900 or
more "A Chicagoan is having n piano.
rama Of the Mississippi painted on his
ear Moses Stockings 10 \ cand date
for land commissioners 70 Nebraska.-
Some Of the people say darn him
The Populor Sc;enrc MONTHLY says
that animals have conscienccs. Happy
thought-put them in chargc or the pub.
lie funds The Deer Park Hotel ia
advertised to he open on Juno 10 and
the Oakland Hotel on July !. with Mr..
John Daley "a manager. {. Arizona IN.
structs for Sir. Blaine -. The Pennsyl.
vania Railroad company has magnani
mously agreed to convey Mexican vet.
Grams to and from Philadelphia free OF
charge i. . The steamship Colorado has
arrived At San Francisco from Hong
Kong with 900 coolies. w. A. Price,
tho only negro lawyer In Texas, has
been elected County Attorney Of Fort
Bend county, Texas. Hon. Killian
V. Whaley. cx. member Of Congress from
Virginia, died last week at Point Plea.
SAINT. this State :. Henry Ward Beech.
er has been chosen an officer OF "a Radi.
cnl club in New York 80. A bull.froo.
observes q contemporary. is never en-.
tirely "broke" financially. He always
has grcen.back, you know :. The tity
Council Of Baltimore has appropriated
$1,000 for the purpose or getting up
lifting celebration on tho 4th Of July.
49,. II is the middle Of May, and there
is yet from six to eight feet Of snow in
the Oregon Mountains :. Missouri has
been granted by Congress all lands
therein entitled swamp and overflow
lands :. According to Prof Water.
house, the Iron Mountains OF Missouri
contain enough ore above the surface TO
afford FOR 200 years an annual supply OF
100000 tons A sailship on wheels,
to navigate the prairie, is building Mt
Osceola. Nebraska :. Since the Post
a., L., \
repair mail-bags instead OF paying the
contractors for so doing. 1t has saved in
six months S33.3S6. There are said
TO be i'll st. Louis county, Mo-, unmxr.
ried females who own property worth an
aggregate OF SfS.0O0.000 Go West!
young man. go West There are Ave
rivers in Arkansas, afforiiny over 10, 900
miles of Steamboat navigation Ia that
State, and spread ont so as to afford
navigable facilities TO every portion Of
it. -. The prairies Of Southern Mime.
sota, since the stoppaye Of the prairie
fires, are fast being covered with thick
growth of willow. wild apple, oak. and
aspen trees. which spring up spontanc.
ously 49,. In Newark. New Jersey. n lit.
tie girl, aged i2 years. who was bitten
the goth. from hydrophoi,ia after intense
suffering. Fonr other persons were also
bitten by the same dog -. In Jefferson
county. sheep. valued a. $685. IS. were
killed by dogs during the last year
Mrs. WILSON, Large. Of sullivan. Tcnn.,
agedS7, is blessed with IL offspring
Is. p. Rodgers. cashier Of the Fulton
Bank. of Brooklyn, who decampei with
$4,000 of the banks funds, has been
sentenced TO tie pcnitentisry for one
year. The money was restored
From the 23d 10 the goth Of April. in.
elusive, 500 deaths by the plague occur
cd at Bagdad and 148 at IIillnII
Henry Atcn, died rscently in Wellsvi'Ie,
o., sgei l02 years. The 'Martinsburg
Idepem"en, says NJ. Michael Sercin.
diver. who rcsiles near Arden, bad
twcnty.six valuable sheep killed by
lightning during tho storm OF sunday
evening. The sheep hal gathered m.
der largo oak trGc during the storm
when the lightning struck and shivered
the tree TO pieces and killed the sheep.
They were found on Monday morning.
hut in such swollen condition that the
wool could not be- taken off. The sheep
had no visible marks OF the lightning
The Methodist General Conference.
which has been in session in baltimore
during tho present month. will proba-
lily adjourn next Tuesday, 30th inst.
Cincinnati has been voted a. the next
meeting place IN 1880. On Thursday
the delegates will visit Annapolis and
probably Washington city also before
tho final adjournmrnt %. Hon. Godlove
>. Ortiz has sent in his resignation n
minister to Austria and proceeds TO In.
diana. where he Is nominated for Gov.
ernor IL is said that the new silver
sinners hre chasing out some of tho old
Mexican quarters and h1lves that havo
been hidden away in holes for % wears
-. Tho Pendleton Netcs says that Mr..
Runaway, Of Baltimore. will shortly @.
rect furnace and other necessary az.
paratus to test the copper deposits ut