South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-12-09
NEWS OF THE DAY,

I grafton from Germany TO the United
States. The number of ordinary pos.
tase stamps issued in 1881 was 95i,-
125, 440. - Tho July dividends Of As
cotton mills in Georgia were at the
rate of from 10 to IS per cent, and ay-
eraged fully ~ per cent There are
l,0Sl prisoners in the OHIO Penitenti-
airy who are regularly employed. -.
The payment OF pensioners during the
next two years will require larger a.
mount OF money than will be required
to pay the interest on the public debt.
1.-THE passage OF an uniform and
equitable bankrupt Law by Congress is
urged by the merchants OF New York.
| An edition of the New Testament.
| published in London retails for two
cents copy. Already four hundred
thousand have been sold. There are
365 students at the University of vir-
ginia. -Four hundred people are em.
ployed in the Philadelphia mint and all
are making money. MIR. JOSEPH Ev-
ERHARr. OF Gerardstown, of Berkeley
county, was mistaken for wild turkey.
the other day, and received q rife bali
in his right thigh. :. Robert Garrett
has been elected president of the Pitts
burgh and Connellsville Railroad Com.
pany. .Twenty-nine Journals are now
published in this country exclusively by
| colored men. The Parkershurg FREE.
MAN claims that forty two ont Of fifty-
four counties in this State sustain Pro.
hibition by popular sentiment ......
| Cheap green tea is supposed TO have
| caused the death Of one and sickness of
five other members of a French family
residing at Lewiston, Maine, recently.
1.-Two men propose to get on board
balloon snd alight on the North Pole.
Success to them; but will they ever get
| back Senator HAMPTON daughter.
Miss DAISY HAMPTON, will make her
debut in Washington this winter. "A
splendid and extraordinarily abundant
sugar crop is predicted everywhere in
| Cuba. .SARoNY. of New York, has
paid PATTI one thousand dollars for the
exclusive right to Photograph her in
this country Hon. a. II. STEPHENS
ia quite unwell. He is suffering from
something like tumor on one side OF
his face The New Haven clergy have
pronounced against the new revision Of
the Testament, claiming that it is no,
written in good English. The Faculty
of Yale College claim that it is good e.
nough for them. and vii, be used as
Textbook -. Philadelphia's four color
ed policemen are black guards. If
GUrTEAU is convicted be will be hung.
Ii he is acquitted he is sure TO be muir
dered by mob, so tbs poor devil is in
close place any way -. DR.. JOHN III.
STEVENS, chief surgeon 10 Ssonewall
Jackson during the war, was found dead
in bis ofilcs at Dallas, Texas, on the
evening of the 25th. :. The father of
Mrs. GARFIELD Gays that sooner or later
the assassination of the President will
be found to have been the result OF
conspiracy. The violinisl WILnELaI
has refused ten thousand dollars in gold
for the violin lie uses. /. q. Barnum's
show. IL is claimed, made 800, 600 the
past season. Pres, GARFIELp's mem
DRY is TO be honored in London by the
founding OF Home for Working Girls,
to be called Garfield House" A lady
has given one thousand two hundred
and fifty dollars to a committee for this
purpose Z. {. Hon. Roscoe CoNKLINd ia
reported as suffering from a deep seated
lung trouble -. NInIL1sTs have warned
the Car that he will not 1.-Two to be
crowned In April next. ...General
GRANT has insured his life for$ 100 900
LIT is soid the corn crop grown n
Wicolnico this year far exceeds in
quantity and quality that of any preyi-
Gus year. There has been received in
Baltimore from Albuquerque. New
Mexico, white onion weighing one
pound and ten ounces. Some Of the
farmers Of Berkeley have commenced
blowing for their next years crop. -.
The Lynchburg colorel BaptiSts have
completed a $4,000 church =. Two
hundred bushels potatoes and OF of
kraut and cabbage we're among the
cargo OF the steamship Braunscbweig,
which arrived at Baltimore on yester-
day week The agricultural products
OF Accomac county, Va, the present
year amounted to one-tbird OF the as
sessed value of It's real estate. "A
$4,000 fire occurred in Petersburg. Va,
on the 2sth ult. Mr.. JAMES NJ VIII