South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-07-29
South 8xantlt antelliseneer.
RoMNEY, FRIDAY, JULY 20. 1881.

Ex-Judge WM L. ROBERTSON on
Monday last took the oath of Office as
collector of the port of New York, vice
Gen. Merritt, who takes \ foreign mis-.
sion.
According to Secretary Blaine, there
are moro than 100000 applications
for office on Gle in the various depart.
ments at Washington.
Associate Justice NATHAN CLIFFORD,
OF the United States Supreme Court,
died on the 25th inst. at the age of rs
years, and after 20 years service on
the bench.
The New York Legislature, on Friday
last, elected ELDRIDoE LApuAm, United
States Senator in the place of Roscoe
A. Conkling. The vote stood: 92 votes
for Lapham to AZ for Clarkson n. Pot.
ter. The Legislature adjourned on Sa.
turday.
Last year the people Of this country
paid s34.4S6,519 for postage stamps, en-
velopes, wrappers and cards.
Gov. Foster has received answers from
nearly all the Governors Of States and
Territories indorsing his action in sug-
costing a day of prayer for the recovery
of the President.
The census has shown no other fact rs
remarkable as that the production of
grain in this country has increased 100
per cent. during the past ten years.
The observers at Cambridge, Mass,
do not think that the new comet is that
Of 1887, and doubt if it will prove to be
comet of which there is any record.
In the observations made at Cambridge
the deviation of the actual from the pre-
dicted orbit amounts thus far to almost
nothing. Prof. Stone, Of the Cincinnati
observatory, who has been studying the
newly-discovered comet, inclines to the
opinion that it is the comet Of 1887 and
that it may become visible to the naked
eye. He says it will reach its perihe-
lion about August 10.
It's asserted that the church of Eng.
land possesses pecuniary means that
would be fairly represented by 81, O0O,.
100000.
According to the rule that three good
harvests must be followed by a short
crop, remarks the Wheeling MtcHigencer:
this ough; to have been an off year with
The agriculturists, but reports, so far as
received, indicate fair yield. The
summary as made up is that there is
every reason to expect another year Of
abundance beyond the ordinary average
The wheat harvest is in progress
and throughout the great wheat growing
region the quality is excellent, and tn,
average yield is good, though the guam
tity and acreage are not so great as fol
the past three years. In Ohio, Indiana
Iowa and Michigan, as has already beer
reported, there is large falling off, but
IL is In measure covered by the Yield
In the Northwest. The aggregate oflhe
crop will be millions Of bushels below
that of 1880, but will still remain above
the average.
The corn crop,unless injured by ear
ly frosts, will be above the average, and
the grain of superior quality. Oats and
potatoes promise well, taking the whole
country over. The cotton crop Of 1881
Will exceed by considerable that of 1880
which was by many thousands of bales
the largest ever produced in this coun-
try. The apple crop will fall consider
ably below that of last year. thourh
there Will be q reasonable supply. Tie
same is true of peaches. or other fruits
there will DO amply sulIlc lent TO meet
the demand. The grass crop was har.
vested with yield above the average. !"
In addition to the above, in regard to
the grain market: The Baltimore S,p,
OF Wednesday last says, "the favorable
crop prospects are causing a downward
movement in prices in the grain market
a contemporary says: The national
debt is less than half as much per capita
now as it was in 1865, and the annual
interest is little over one-fourth what
Is was then. If We continue to pay as
much per year on The debt, as we have
been paying for the past fifteen years
on principal and interest, in ten years
" will all be wiped out What q plori-
Gus time 1t will DC when we orc free
from debt again
The Pennsylvania act making tramp.
ing penal ofTense has had the effect TO
rid that State Of large number Of loaf.
ers too lazy TO work.
An attache Of tho Chinese embassy
at Washington says that the Chinese
students now being educated at Ameri.