South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1877-04-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Great Eastern steamship is to be
employed in carrying eaGtle from Amer.
ics 10 England - Five members OF
the Cabinet are Free Masons - A lodge
Of color ed Masons has existedin Charles
ton. this State. for some time :. Ger.
many twelve years ago hnd no Sunday
schools. Now II has over 1900 con-
tanning more than $4,000 SCHOLARS :. :. ). :.
Robert Bonner only keeps 100 horses
- Troyon's "S!,epher.i's Dog" recent
" brought $4,000 at sale Of paintings
in Paris Col. Nalcnboasch is building
new hotel ut Martinsburg :. Parkers-
burg paid. during last year, l6.767.i2
in revenue on cigars and tobacco.
Brigham Young has lost the use OF his
legs. George Francis Train describes
Brother Hayes as tiishwatcr President.
IA lot Of Mar, land red wheat
brought in Baltimore few days ago.
$i.oO per busLel, and another lot $l.83.
- There are districts OF France and
Germany where women are still seen
yoked to the pillow -. Wednesda OF
last week was observed % Memorial
Day in New Orleans Proud hearts
and high mountains are always barren.
-. The new assessment Of property i'm
Allegany county, Nd, aggregates near
~ S2O.00O,OO0. IA prominent grain
Operator named Friedlandcr, Of San
Francisco. has suspended. with debts
amountingto 100000 - Arlan sas has
more newspapers III proportion TO pop
ulation than any other State in the I'm.
ion. Out in California they have been
experimenting ON fattening hogs with
grapes -. 1t has been decided i'm New
York that Court can compel a woman
to raise her veil while testifyiny. -.
Eleven thousand herring, the largest
haul this season, were caught in the
locks at Delaware City on Monday
morning last =. West Virginia contains
23,OtO square miles. -. u. NJ. Boyd, Jr.,
the general passenger agent OF the Penn.
sylvania kailroad Company. died at
Jacksonville Florida, on Tuesday after.
noon OF last week The Moundsville
Hrpo'ter reports hog measles very pre-.
vaiens in some Parts about there
One thousand barrels OF oysters week
are carried from New York to England.
Henry Wade. of Botetout county.
Virginia, recently lost by death from
diptheria all OF his children, six in
nnmber. President Garrett lately
testified in n Baltimore Court that the
employees OF the Baltimore and Ohio
Line are instructed to make no tistinc.
tion between white and colOred pas sen
gers under the penalty OF instant dis.
missal The formal opening Of the
Royal Land Compauy's Narrow Guage
Railroad from Fredericksburg to Orange
court House took pace on Tuesday Of
last week. The Texas cattle drive
Tor the coming season is estimated ut a
quarter million head ~. The murrain il
troubling the cattle in Harrison county.
tins State :. How do you like your
new quarters? :. From a tree. mea
surfing four feet three inches at the butt
and carrying its size for fifty feet, rclled
on DR.. Gerstell's farm near Keyser,
6,5eO shingles were cut. without OK.
hausting the log - A disastrous north
east storm prevailed at Norfolk, Va, on
Monday last, causing $1,000 damage
by humiliation :. The Virginia Council
Of the Episcopal ChuI III meets at Staun.
ton in May next -. The Wholesale as.
sassinations Of Cinnamon at Chico is
only what has been accomplished re.
pcatchly in California during the last
ten years. The Louisville Courier Jour.
nal remarks that il the victims at Chico
hal been black men it is possible the
republican press would have slobbered
over with God and humanity" There
is kind Of humanity" in this country
which is governed altogether by color
and voting power Applications for
employment on the Miami canal are so
numerous az 10 create the belief that
hundreds Of Buckeye patriots who went to-
Washington to obtain foreign missions
have abandoned tie pursuit and return.
ed to Ohio. One gentleman in Paris
lost 100000 at gaming, in single day.
-. The Richmond liquor dealers have
determined to raise $4,000 TO fee coun.
sci TO resist the Mohett whiskey law
April showers will now be in order &. q.
a whale thirty.niDe feet lon. grounded
and was killed on Monday on York
Point, Porquason river, York county.
Virginia The residence of Delegate
Elkins. Of New Mexico, son-in-law OF