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


229 OF printing paper; in 1876 only
$40 worth You can re; cashmere
shawl from $40 clear up to $4,000 !.
The directory OF st. Louis for 1877 gives
that city a population OF sol. 4S9.
Gen. Lonsstreet became member or a
Roman Catholic church. in Now Orleans
recently -. There are lie. 900 books in
the New York Mercantile Library
There are twelve miles of book shelves
in the British Museum :. They are
holding neck-tie parties on the plains.
The horse.thicvcs arc the invited guests.
Nv. w. Holen, who gets the Raleigh.
North Carolina. pos.ofiice. is tho i'm.
peacbed carpe,-aag-ex-Governo
Both ofthe Kansas senator's arc printers.
Young man. 80. West. and learn to set
type. ..It is stated that Col. Critlen-
den, late assistant doorkeepef and pay.
master of the Virginia House Of Dele.
gates, will pr badly be Indicted for for.
gerry and grand larceny. Speaker
Randall says it cost Jones, the New
Hampshire Congressman. $4,000 10
re-elect himself The Governor OF
Virginia has vetoed the bill which pro.
posed to lease, tue James River and
kanawha canal 10 Mason & Company
for twenty years Wood county, this
State, sends Ave horse thieves to the
penitentiary :. Ilayes's policy: Never
do to-day what can be done in several
months from now ;. II is interesting to
know that Col. Bob Ingcrsolrs bump of
reverence and Mr.. iIayes's bump OF con.
scicatiousness are about equally devel.
oped. A high state OF civilization is
reached in England. Organ-grindcrs
are sent TO Jail. a brother Of Gen.
Joseph Il. Johnston is dead. lie was
~ years old anil was resident Of Alb.
lngdon. Virginia :. President Grant
and family are booked to sail from Phil.
adelphia to Europe on the steamer In.
diana May IL. 1.-THE Staunton T,ndi-
'a'or advertises Forepaugh circus and
menagerie for Thursday, April 10Th.
Oil IN abundance has been discovered
In Tucker county, this State At a
late hour on the nighb OF the 2Sth ult..
three stables on Williams street near
the Railroad, Martinsburg, were destroy
cd by fire "A hog weighing 1878
pounds passed the other day, ell route
east, over the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
Road :. Il is estimated that the farmers
of North Carolina paid last year the
enormous sum OF three million dollars
for fertilizers. :. W lid ducks and geese
arc oil the wing bound nortl,ward
The Missouri sLcgis ature has passed n
bill providing for the payment OF five
cents Per scalp for tie destruction O!
rats, No reward IS To bc paid for any
number or ratsAiess than fifty :. D.. The
Chrome Works in Baltimore took fire
on yesterday week and were damaged
TO The amount OF $4,000 or 5000
The body OF q colered man named Parker
was found hanging on the limb of a tree
near Walton. Kentucky, on Friday last
The mystery is explained by the fact
that Parker bud seriously Injured little
white gil nine years OF age by brutal
assault, and had subsequently attempt.
ed similar assault upon farmers
wife -. Rev. l.. Il. W. Dosh, has been
elected to the Presidency of Roanoke
College which has been vacant since the
death OF tho lamented DR.. Bittle
There are 2lS prisoners in the PerLen.
tiary Of this State. The Pennsylvania
Railroad company compels all its en-.
ployets TO abstain from Intoxicating
liquors under pain Of Instant dismissal
Ia coin counterfeiting den has been
seized at Petroiia. Pennsy :. The
suit of Mr.. Thomas TroxcII against the
city of Cumberland for $40 900 for dam.
ages sustained by his son falling into
an excavation, has been compromised
by the city paying 1000 and costs OF
cour: Governor Chamberlain left
Washington OH Monday evening last for
New York :. An exchange recon-
mends DR.. Mary Walker for a position
on the Polar expedition. a cool sug-
gestion. - General Campos has notified
Cubans that prisoners made after the
lst of May viii be shot. A bill is
pending in the Illinois Legislature for
the purchase OF statues OF Abraham
Lincoln and Stephen a Douglass. worth
$4,000 each, to bo placed in the State
capitol. If the statutes can be finished
ia season they are to be exhibited at
the French exhibition in 1873 b.. Mr..
Jerc Black is credited with the remark
that the two greatest calamitics which
ever befell the human race were the fall