South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1877-11-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.


printing last year Ten thousand
louisiana refugees have returned 10
New Orleans since the overthrow OF the
carpet-baggers' regime. "A colored
man Is Postmaster at Pincy Grove,
kanawha county :. Gen. J. b. Robert.
son claims that the immigration to Tex
rs this year will be larger than it was
last. when it was considerably over 500,
600 :. Prairie fires in Iowa are doing
good deal Of damage. Mr.. Barnum
gives to the Smithsonian Institution
at Washington the skins and skeletons
ofrare animals which die in his COLLEGE
ton, and pays the expense of mounting
them ~. The census of France, just
completed. puts the population at &c.
900. 1888 :. .'fhe flesh and skin of several
Kinds or serpents are employed in Chi
M as medicine. care being taken to cut
on the head and tail :. 1t is estimated
That 120. 900 children have been made
orphans by the famine in India.
Mukhtar Pasha, the Turkish commander
In Asia, has sentenced several of his
officers to be shot, for cowardice in ac-
ton. About 2. 80 o'clock on the morn.
ming of the 18th inst, violent EARTH
quake was felt in Knoxville. Tennessee.
and disappearing in n northward direc-
ton. 1t lasted about one minute
A large beefpacking establishment is
to be started at st. Joseph. Mo. the com.
ing Winter -. II is said that die has
already been prepared at the mint for
the new-old silver dollar. Long may
it live -. Ex-U. S. Marshal Shatfen.
berger OF Colorado, who has been in the
Kansas peniteniar the past eight
months for robbing the u. S. govern
ment OF S40,000,wa pardoned by Pres,
idcnt Hayes, last Saturday John Ill.
Haskell, an old Baltimore merchant of
high standing, died on Monday asst.
III Ills 6Sth year. The confederate mo-
nument at Chattanooga. Tenn, compile.
ted and ready for erection, was defaced
beyond repair on Saturday night last
ny unknown persons. AT Fairmont,
'hls State last week, in the case of
thompson, Union soldier, charged with
killing Ice, confederate sympathizer in
1864, Judge Lewis decided that it should
be taken TO the United States Court :;
that his court had no juris LECTION in the
matter, &c. 50 ends case which has
excited great deal Of interest for the
last year --.I 1t is said that Mr.. John w
Young, the sor of brigham Young. is
hopelessly bankrupt. .Phia lei hia is
TO havc dog show, beginning on the
10Th OF November AMI to continue five
days. The exhibition to be hell in
horticultural Hall, and prize Of the
value of $1,000 will he awarde
Fractional currency is scarcely ever
seen these days, hlying been preceded
by silver. Canada claims u have
| produced the largest cheese on record
From the lngersoll fa,tory has bcca
y ~
pounds. 1t was six feet ten inches in
diameter, three feet in height & twenty
one feet in circumference. Il reanircl
one milking of 1000 COWS, or thirty.
five tons of milk to produce it,. Dur.
ing the month oil December ninety sail
ing vessels and five steamers were lost
at sea. Eight OF the Sailing vessels ana
one steamer were American Apples
packed in sawdust will keep six months.
The expense of attending college
at the West Virginia College, at Elem
ington. is only $3.50 per year. :. . Georgia
will realizes 500, 600 out Of dried peach.
cs this year. The barroom bell
punches in Richmond, Va, have collec.
ted $4,000 tax in about two months
....There are now 1926 letters CARR
ers employed in tho free delivery service
OF tho United States -. IT is said that
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal will
probably not be kept open much beyond
the last Of the present month The
FaIrmont West H,ydi0n tells Of hog
at Hessville, eighteen months old, that
weighed over 800 pounds . 1t is said
that the partridge is one Of the most ef-
lectual destroyerS Of the potato beetle,
and in Ohio some of the fields have
been kept free Of beetles where this
bird IS numerous Col. Robert IN
gersoll has declined tho German mission.
49,. Reuben Proctor, burglar, who
shot Miss Codigan in Warren county,
Iowa, was taken from court by mob
Of citizens without masks OF Wednesday
evening Of last week, and hanged =.
The Methodist Church distributes about
100000 annually for missionary pur