South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1877-04-06

hog cholera.
WOur export Of fresh beef TO the
United Kingdom steadily increased from
1.l7o.000 pounds in July. 1878, 10 A.
s5a.6oo pounds in January, 1877. The
total export for the seven months wa,
28.2oo. 955 poands. valued at 81. Os7. 3ss.
or this quantity l9.4os. 955 pound. went
to England. and s.7si 900 pounds to
Scotland.
~ The public debt statement for
March shows the debt. principal and
interest. to be s2.2Oi.s32.275.47. or less
cash in the treasury. s2.O74.674.126.63.
Decrease during March SI4. i07.Ol6.4I:
decrease since July I. 1916, SPA, 1855.
1856.
~ State Senator Alexander B. Coch.
ran, oil Stanton. Va. was stricken with
paralysis on Monday last in the Senate
chamber Mt Richmond while maxine /,
speech. His condition is believed to be
critical.
DMrg. l'obb, OF Corpus, Christi, usu.
ally fattcns $4,000 beeves for the market.
She is called the Cattle Queen Of Texas
tV'California sent East last wear
$50 car loads OF fruit. averaging 90. 900
pounds to car. The freight alone n.
mounted TO S2ll.500. Enthusiastic
shippers predict q double amount this
year.
VThe State Bank Of Harrisburg Pa.
has gone into liquidation. The cashier
viii pay 20 per cent. Of all claims as thew
mature, and the balance as soon as the
bank can realize sufficient from it's assets
The total assets are S202.5s5 JAP; liabil.
ities. Sl62,049 ~. The action of the
institution is taken principally on ac.
count ofthe unproiitableness Of bank ng.
DEATH OF 4 AIINIsTER.-We learn
from tho Baltimore Sun. that the Rev.
william u. Coe, prominent minister Of
the Baltimore Conference NJ. T.. Church
South, and presiding elder of the Lewis.
burg (West Va.) district, aied in that
town few days since. He was a min.
lister of'ability. had been for many wears
assistant secretary OF the conference
ana leaves wife and ten children. He
was native Of Baltimore. Only a few
days before his death Mr.. Coe performed
the marriage ceremony which united his
son, Rev. Henry S. Coe, and Young
lady of Lexington, Va.
10 Beaver hunters in California live
In arks or floating houses, in which thcv
move from place to place on the streams
and ponds. The one small room on
sucha craft contains benches for several
men, cooking utensils, hunting articles.
and stock ofprovisions. The hunters
are lazy, card playing. and carele as
lot, but live comfortably and make tho
business pay.
SO The new liquor license bill HAVING
oeen adopted by the Virginia Lecisla.
tnre, the bar-rooms in that State will.
alter lew months, be compelled to add
TO their furniture UNIQUE instr,ment
drink register made after the fashion
oil the bcll-punch OF the street cars
upon which each barkeeper will he re.
4u'rea TO register every drink sold at
his bar. The register will be examined
at intervals by the commissioners of
revenue and tax of one-half cent ON
each drink ofmalt liquor and 81 cents on
each drink of spirituous liquors is to be
paid. The revenue that will be secured
by the enforcement of this law will be
very large. Some have estimated il as
nigh as one and half million. The new
plan meets the decided opposition of
the liquor dealers.
IHE LEGISLATURE OF New .Jersev
sees that Of Virginia, and goes one bet.
ter. 1t proposes, by bill, to regulate
tile collections made of congregations
IN churches throughout the State of the
Band Spaniards, and provides for the
"hiahehC Oh sections and collectors with
beli'puncies TO announce the receipts.
The bill works we'll for every one except
the collectors and the benevolent indi.
viduals Of the congregation. The latter
find themselves rudcly awakened bv the
continuous ciinks of the keen instru.
ment, aud the results are sometimes as.
tonishing. Last Sunday, in Elizabeth.
one father o: family demoraized the
entire church audience by suddenly and
sleepily starting up and bowling. in
voice heard high above the vibrating Of
the bell-punohes: Sarah Sarah for
Gods sake 60 and see who the devil
that is at the front door! The infer
nal fool will pull the bell down if YOU
amt quick abont IT."