South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-03-10
NEWS OF The DAY.

France Is going 70 send elk hundred
and seventy oil paintings to the Cen.
tcnni.l. +. There are eight negroes in
Congress and only one German. Gusta-
vus Schleicher, OF Texaa -. The rush
20 che Black Hills 10 increasing I. Har.
rison county. this Staes, AAs - psrsons
who are over 50 years OF ego. ;. The
residences Of Wm. Cooper and Joseph
Fatkin, in Garrett county. Nd. togeti,.
er with their contents. we're destroyed
by Are last week The Hawaiian n.
phabet has only twelve letters. The
Tallahassee, Florida, markets ere over.
stocked with green peas. A woman
in Patterson, New Jersey. gave birth to
-four girls last week The Tilton.
Beecher scandal trial Oost the city OF
Brooklyn $2l,7l2 There are twelve
hundred Oranges In Ohio - Philip
Bartlow, Of wayne county. Pa. has been
arrested on . charge Of incsst with his
two daughters. aged IL aud IL years re.
spectively %. Women of twenty-five in
Egypt are considered old. At Gin
cinnati. the other day. little girl. daugh.
ter Of Mrs. Eliza w agner, while playing.
stucA her tongue through the crack Of
door, when the other children sudden
ly closed the door, cutting two-thirds OF
her tongue entirely of =. Philip Gill
bert Hamilton says horse1esh 10 better
than mutton any day -. Michigan yiel.
ded last year l.026.978 barrels Of salt.
be ny 100000 barrels greater than any
previous year. -. The public debt state.
ment for February shows the amount Of
the debt. principal and interest. to be
$2,232, $50. 480.70. and less cash in the
treasury $2,ll4, 960, 306.S0. Decrease
Of the debt during The month S3.273.-
1888; decrease since June 80, 1875, $l3.-
728.4l9.52. An En- lish revivalist slid
down the banisters of his pulpit in order
to show how people went on backslid-
ing :. The number of draft horses in
the military service OF the country ia
10000. Half the number is said to he
all that is necessary Now that Bah
cock has sworn himself worth only $780,
600, somebody wants to know how much
Mrs. General Babcock IS worth. Lis
bon, New Hampshire raises 100000
bushels of potatoes year. which are
converted into starch .. An orange
tree in Columbus county, Florida, pre-.
sents the unique spectacle Of last years
fruit. this years crop is half ripe. and
buds for another crop in its branches.
IA North Carolina paper says there
il q colored man in that State who has
offered TO sell himself for $40 :. Gen.
Sheridan says the Black Hills country
will probably be covered with towns and
villages during the next Eve or six years
Langston, colored, Commissioner
Of the Revenue Of Charles City county,
is in Jail at Richmond. undera five years
sentence to the penitentiary -. A tor
nadO passed over Lamonte, II miles
west Of Sedalia. Missouri, on the morn
ing of the 9th inst. totally destroying
several houses and unroo'ing - number
oil others. Several persons were injur.
ed. but no one seriously The com.
mittee on expenditures of the War De.
paItment arc said to I've satisfied that
Belknaps possessions are worth a quar-
ter OF iuillion -. Mr.. Ordway. of New
Hampshire. for many years Sergeant
alarms ofthe House Of Representatives,
paid his own son for services as messen.
ger while that son was attending col
iege William }. Purman, a Republic.
can Congressman from Florida. 50 sew
eral witnesses have testified before the
Naval Committee, has been increasing
his worldly possessions by the sale of
naval cadetship. and also some OF the
federal officers in Florida; also. that hc
has received brides for appointments,
and has made his Congressional position
pay very we'll. Governor Stearns, of
Florida, and Martin, the keeper of the
State penitentiary, were the witnesses.
IN "a, A. Il
OF the papers that all the State, County
and District officers are TO be elected
next October. This, says the Weston
Democrat, is a mistake. One Judge Of
the Court of Appeals. all the Circuit
Judges, twelve Senators AMI the Clerks
Of the Circuit and County Courts hold
over IA Legislator and q lawyer pos.
sesses dual character. While in the
House Mr.. VOORHEES, lifted up his voice
loudly against Governor Ames and the
carpet-baggers generally. Now he has
been engaged by Governor Ames to de.
tend him during his impeachment trial
Queer. but nevertheless lawyerlike
IAN eminent physician OF Chicago
says he cures pinety.nine cases ont Of
every hundred OF scarlet favsr, by Civ.
ing the patient warm lemonade With
gum arabic dissolved in IL. A cloth
wrung out in hot water and laid upon
The stomach, should be removed as la.
pidly as it becomes cold =. The town
OF Little Popo, on the Gold coast, has
been destroyed by Gre. Two thousand
kegs Of powder stored in one building
exploded and about fifty natives were
blown to pieces. =. "A man in Pocahon.
tas county was 10 sell farm, in which
"meandering streams and rivulets per.
meate lixuriant pastures. while majestic
oaks and stately naples attract the eve
Of the beholler" Who bids? Mary
Bagnett, of Woodstock, Shenandoah
county, charged with infanticidc. has
been tried and acquitted The Staun
ton Spectator says. could our farmers
have the opportunity to know the con
venience rs we'll as safety OF trained
shepherd dogs in driving cattle and
protecting sheep, they would not hesitate
n, int ..fl,.. I..l Ill