South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-09-23
South 3raneIs 9ntelligeneer.
RoMNEY, FRIDAY, SEPT. %. 1881

people, or people freer from bourbon
ism aud narrow prejudice than those OF
the South Branch Valley.
The Auditor Of Virginia reports thatL
there are 1906 white and lI4,193 cola
osed voters in that State. total OF 3Ol,-
3S9. The total vote for President al
year ago was 2l7.615.
II is said that the fees Of the Hea,th9
Officer Of New York City amount toS
$4,000 a year. Besides this he has an
elegant cottage at public expense & twot
steam yachts constantly at his service.
Con. JosEPn f. JoHNsTos thinks that(
there will be large vote in Virginia5
this year, but that it is too carly yet tos
predict res. Is, though he considers Ma
hone weaker than he was 6 months ago. |
Senator BUTLER, OF South Carolina
is very right when he says: Journal
ism has become as much q separate aud
distinct profession as medicine, or law,
or engineering, or agriculture, or archi-I
lecture, or mining, and every family
should have newspaper if they expectI
or care to keep pace with the current oil
events in this fast moving age. Books|
are not always accessible, but newspa-
pers are, and at price that places them
within tho reach OF tho poor as we'll as!
the rich.
Very low railroad fares seem TO be-
the rule from many Of the principa! rail-
road points Of the country. At Cleve-'
land they are selling tickets to New
York for 81, and to Boston for So
Wheeling, the InteHiycncer of that city ,
remarks. "does not seem to come in the
scope OF these low fares. The only way
TO do is to buy local ticket from here
TO Pittsburgh or Cleveland and get a
cheap ticket there. Why should the
Pennsylvania or Baltimore &c Ohio car
ry passenger from Chicago to New
York for So and charge $40 TO SIS from
Wheeling. We would suppose that in
asmuch as the New York Central and
Pennsylvania roads are fighting each
other so bitterly, the former would make
cheap rate from Wheeling to n. York
vim the Tuscarawas Valley line, which
is one Of its feeders
Toledo, Ohio, Blade 1t is estimated
that the Ohio corn crop will be less than
half yield owing to the prolonged
drouth. There has been great suffering,
tom the same cause, among live stock,
and the loss TO farmers in this respect
will reach considerable sum. Por-
tions of Indiana show the same condi.
ton Of affairs. The Ohio River has not
been as low in so years. The potato
crop is reported short in nearly every
locality, and high prices-$2 so and So
per bushel-are predicted.
DISASTROUS FIRE. In Washington
n. j., the Star Parlor Organ Company
and Beatty's immense organ factories
were totally destroyed by fire on Sun
day evening last. The loss is estimat.
ed at 100000; partially insured. Four
hundred men are thrown out of employ
ment.
The Edison Electric Light Company
has received orders from the French CO.
vernment for eight hundred electric
lamps. which are to be used for LIGHT
ing the great ball of the Grand Opera
House in Paris.
1t appears that the private fortune of
Queen Victoria amounts to S8O,00O.O00,
and she possesses an annual income of
S3,25O,OCO. Before her birth her pa.
rents were so poor that they had to Dor
row the moIey TO pay their passage to-
England that the expected princess
might be born on British soil, and she
remained in comparative poverty un-
TIL sue ascended the throne.
IL is stated that another OF the oreat'
patent monopolies of the country, theI
Mckay leather sewing machine, has ex-
PRED. The number OF pairs of shoesl
made 10 this country with the McKayI
machine, which has been in use sincol
1860. has been put down at 500 900 600
Nine-ionths Of all the boots and sboosI
made OF late years in the United States
have paid Tribute to this patent, fromI
which the inventors personal incomeI
has been not less than 81 ,OOO, 900 a year.
Any one who wishes may now make and
use the machine which can be construct
cd and sold probably for about SIS.
The PostodSco department has cons
icrred the authority Oh postmasters-
not possessed before-lo correct mIadi-I
rected letters where possible and for
ward them instead Of sending them to|