South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1877-02-23
NEWS OF The DAY.

Aa"Snef Attaetic cable IS 70 DE Start
cd. the American end being at Balti-
! moro. -. Manufactures turn out Ave
pairs Of boots or shoes per year forexsry.
man, woman and child in the counssy.
- A sheep ranch Of go, COO acres has
just been surveyed In Menard comfy.
Texas. for Tennessee breeder. :. The
Black Killers want Territory establish.
ed, TO be called Eldorado here are
l23 theological serninaries in the United
States. at which there are els professors
and s.234 students >. Brazil Furnished
the United States with Sc, 600 900 ma.
OF tobacco per annpm. :. V aluable dis
coveries Of nickel have been made in
Longswamp township. Berks county,
| Pennsylvania. Opposite Of plumbaQo
and other ores have also been discover.
ed. Ditto or lead in Blair conn,y.
Easter Sunday comes On the 1st or a.
prli this year....A piece OF Gobelin
tapestry has just been sold in Paris for
the fabulous sum OF $40. 600. If you
are tired OF city business and its small
profits. you might go to logging up into
Minnesota, where hands get 81 month.
- It is said that General Babcoclk is
defaulter to the government to the a
mount OF s500,000. -. The United States
government has expended $500, coo, 600
in its Indian wars. -. Crazy Horse and
Sitting Bull want 20 treat for peace with
General Crook. Eighty.fivc per cent
Of the Russian population are the pea.
santry. 1t is said that the bcggars
that arc arrested by the police, in St.
Louis, have more money than almost
any other class Of people. :. a Miiwau.
kee belle is described as graceful and
bcwitching little toad We suppose
she attends all the fashionable hops
Lewis Rinehart died OF lockjaw near
Waynesboro', Pennsylvania, few days
ago. caused 10y a splinter running under
his finger nail and remaining there -.
Women can't stand on the streets, talk
politics and swear, but they can stay Mt
home and rip and tear and darn-tLeir
husbands old clothes. In Grafton.
this State. q few days age. after n court.
ship Of twcnty.four hours, Mr.. Thomas
Dunn. aged 81. was united TO Miss Mary
Brougha, aged SO :. There were over
1000 desertions from the British army
in 1876 "Homeward bound" is the
heading over obituary notices in Pome.
| roy's Chicago Democrat. Births should
be headed, .'Afioat on the Ocean
Wave" marriages Wrecked on tie
Shoals IA good story Is told Of
New Hampshire physician who yaccina.
ted family OF twelve and charged SIP.
A few days after he took q dozen cab
bage plants in part pay. rs lie supposed,
bat upon final settlement, learned to his
surprise that Nr Farmer charged dcc
tors prices-$l a head -. A Virginia
hunter says that lie saw about seven
hundred thousand ducks settle on pond |
They were wedgcd closely together. He
fred both barrels OF his gun into them. !
They flew away, leaving no dead ones in !
the water; but, as soon as the flock |!
spread out little. dead ducks loosened |
and fell until he picked up enough to I
I'LL twenty. Dine barrels . . j ohm Bishop, /
on old and prominent citizen Of Wheel
ing. died OH yesterday week or uppo- |
plexy -. t here have been received from 4
400 banks and bankers all over the coun. 4
try Sl2.G02.06 for the benefit Of the fam.
iiy Of the late Mr. Haywood, the cashier I
OF the bank ut Mortified, Minnesota, I
who was killed by tho Younger brothers
in September last. To this sum The !
NorthGeld bank added $1,000. :. Lime ,
for "a Pittsburgh elass-factory is being
made st Martinsburg. West Virginia, in ,
q KILN of capacity of three hundred tons
per day Caroline Lambert. orOmnha,
lived TO be hundred years old. and was
accident. When We have Fraadu-
lent President. will not every man who !
takes office under him be a sllarer in the
fraud One OF old John Browns sons
Is practicing law in San Bernardino.
California Foreign corn exports from
Baltimore on Tuesday last we're 1866
bushels -. Judge williams OF the Su-
prone Court of Pennsylvania, died at
Pittsburgh on Monday last :. IN Barn
well county, South Caroline, over nine
hundred colorcd people have paid their
taxes to the Hampton government.
fofty-four female treasury clerks have
arrived in New York to count 500 .OO0.-
900 worth OF revenuo stamp paper ..
Mr. John White, one OF the largest land
1proprictors in Albemarle county. died