South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-08-29
South 3ransk yntrllisenter.
ROMNEY, FRIDAY, AUG. 20, 1870,


man paper Of large circulation. has haul.
cd down Fosters name from its mast
head, and came out for Ewing.
Tbs TAX ON MArcHEs.-The com.
missioner of internal revenue reports
that the tax on matches produced reve-
nue. during the last fiscal year of three
and a quarter million dollars-an in
crease over any previous year. From
hve-eighths to three-fourths of the price
of matches is due to the tax. We i'm.
port no matches now, but are exporting
them to q large extent.
Professor CHANDLER, Of the New York
Health Board, says scarlet fever caused
more deaths in that State last year than
yellow fever did in the South, and yet
failed to excite public apprehcusions, or
to make people more than ordinarily
carefM to prevent infection.
Short crops is the cry from England
to Southern Persia and Asiatic Turkey.
Almost famine prevails in the west Of
Ireland.
A late census of voters in Baltimore
shows 6l,l3 white and lO,36S colored,
or total Of II Sol.
Manager Haverly has offered s3l 900
for the trotter Rarus, but his owner
wants $4,000.
A common way Of imposing upon ig-
norant prospectors in the mining regions
of Nevada, is to shoot gold filings into
the ground from gun. Even brass is
made to suit the purpose and by this
means many u worthless claim is sold
at high price.
During the past nine months over
10000 bullocks from the United States
have been sold in England, and the pro-
fits to American shippers have thus far
averaged about 4 per cent, although in
individual cases a much higher figure
has been reached.
A useful device for preventing O class
of accidents by which SO many people
have been killed or crippled for life, has
been introduced on the Delaware and
Hudson Canal Company's railway cars.
1t consists of movable steps, which at
the stations are let down within foot
OF the ground. When the cars are in
motion the steps are lifted up, so that it
is impossible to jump either on or off
The War Department has informed
the Indian bureau that the Hualupai In
dams, of Northern Arizona, numbering
about 1909 persons, are in starving
condition, and have applied to the army
officers in that locality for food. In re-
ply the bureau has requested the Score
tary Of War TO direct ratons Of meat
and -four to bc issued to them Temporal
rily. or until provision can be made Cor
supplying their wants from the Indian
Office. The Hualupais area non-reser-
walton band of Indians, who have here.
tofore subsisted upon acorns, wild seeds
and some little corn which they raised.
A prolonged drought in that section has
deprived them of their usual means of
support, and they have been forced to
seek food from the government.
Deer Park letter to Washington Star
THAT was a good joke of Mrs. General
Crook, who. when Senator Thurman OF.
fered her his arm, said to her husband
George, walk behind me Senators are
dangerous now"
According TO the register of the woa.
Their in England, the mean temperature
Of the three months ending with last
June was the lowest for AZ years. and
for the eight months ending, at the
same time, the lowest in So years.
or the Irish it is said they are never
at peace unlcss they arc al war. They
seem 10 have a national and an irrepres.
sible tendency toward fght. within
few days there have been desperate
and bloody riots in Dublin. Belfast and
Lurgan, Ireland, and last week ut Que
bee fight between the Irish and The
French Canadians ragged for two days.
the wounded numbering scores. But
wounds and even murders only acem TO
give zest to these proceedings for those
engaged in them"
DISTRESS ALONG TUE NonTu CARROLL,
MA CoAsr.-.A letter published in the New
York Woy7d from Cartorct county, North
Carolina, represents that the recent great
storm along The Atlantic coast DESTROYED
so much property in that county, which
extends ono hundred miles along the
seacoast. that the Inhabitants are actual.
~ in need Of The necessities Of life.
Buildings ocro RACED 10 the ground. tho
gathered and standing crops destroyed.
and live stock swept away 30 that the
people arc utterly destitute The Let.
ter has been written ~ lady from Now
York visiting her son there with the view