South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-03-26
South Branch 9ntsllisenser.
RoMNEY, FRIDAY, MARCH, 81, 1880.

State. The newspapers OF the Territory
claim that IL has q larger population
now than either OF the States of Oregon.
Nevada OR Florida.
A LARGE ORDEI.-The New York
Herald states that an order has been re-
ccived by the Winchester Arms Compa.
ny to make from fifteen to twenty mill
ion of cartridges for the the Chinese
government. This is the FIRST order, il
is said, ever given By The Chinese for
the manufacture OF cartridges.
A Freuchman has succeeded in max
irg wa,ch which. in addition to the
time of'day, indicates The day Of the
week and mouth, and each phase Of the
moon.
/. is estimated that The increased cost
OF railroad building at present. as COM
pared with n year ago, is $4,000 per
mile.
A man in southern Illinois has been
keeping diary. He says the Chicago
Times is always Democratic on Wednes-
days and Fridays; Republican on Sa-
,nrdays and Mondays; Greenback Tues.
days and Thursdays; and the organ of
the whiskey ring on Sundays.
A corps OF engineers OF the Shenan
doah Valley railroad is now engaged in
running line through Rockbridge coun.
", Va. with n view Of its extension to :
wards Salem.
DR.. Cartwright. in his report upon
yellow fever in New Orleans. says: Five
thousand Incorporate persons died be-
fore the epidemic touched single So
Der man, so far as can get at the
facts trre
The State OF Pennsylvania has within
its limits 6,027 miles of railroad, being
exceeded in this respect by only one
other State in the Union that OF Illinois,
whose numerous lines aggregate 1922
miles. 7.u
One thousand and FIVE bushels Of
wheat was the product of 81 acres on
The farm Of Waller Armstrong, known as
Sunnyside, in Cecil county, Nd, in 1873,
and ] ,00l bushels on the same number
OF acres in 1879.
\ DUEL THAT WAS Not FoUouT. -
A Petersburg dispatch says reliable III.
formation received there contradicts lie
reported duel in Brunswick county, V A.,
between r. A. Rra;ney, readjusler, and
Richard jolly, debt-payer. The parties
have had no difficulty, and the account
OF the dnei, which app Jared rs letter
in the Richmond Wing, was written FOR
sensational purposes.
Experience has shown at the Petro-
leum iron works, Titusvile, Pa, that n
barrel Of petroleum will generate heat
sufficient for making ton Of iron while
ton and q quater of coal would be re-
quiTed for the same result.
Wheeling MteN'yencer &: The remark
able statement was made in Congress,
on Saturday last, that the present rate
Of paying the national debt, if continu-
cd, would wipe out the whole two hill
t''''7 Ah h''SCu ythls. nc pay UeHI
for this fiscal year will diminish the
permanent interes. account by more
than 100000
" is said that there is n colored man
in Baltimore vino has profound distrust
Of that fundamental principle of the
common law that every accHscd person
is entitled to be tried before jury OF
his peers. lie was informed that il was
his right to demand colored jury, but
colored jury Was exactly what he
didn't want. lie declared in open cour,
that he did no: want colored Jury.
because his chances were better with q
white jury,& lie wasn't going TO he made
q cats paw of, and for law 10 be prnc-
ticed on him
Mineral lands having been discover
ed on tue Crow Indian reservation, up.
on which an invasion is threatened, Sc.
creInry Schurz has arranged for dele
cation Of the tribe 20 visit Washington.
with n view to amicab'y arranging the
matter
The Chinese appear TO he leaving Cali
tornia faster than they are arriving. Du.
ring Nov. and December the arrivals at
San Francisco OF Chinese we're but 571
whilst the departures for China we're g.
40. During the fourteen months end.
ing with December the arrivals we're >, q.
600 and The departures lO,047.
The keeley Motor. 1t is reported, has
again been perfected this time n few
days before tue first of April. The
Power has bepn n iiustad IN n svit,rato.