South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1834-11-22
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during the past year.-Joseph J. Sl
ger, charged with poisoning his wv
with arsenic, given in vine, has b.
tried at Augusta, Maine, and sentenced
to deash.-The LondM papers speak
of duel between lawyer and eler.
guman, in which the latter was wound.
ed in the thigh. The cause of the
quarrel was an accidental exchange of
coats, at place Of public resort.-N
young woman, Miss Parent, was burnt
to death few days ago, near Mount
Sydney, Va. 1t appears her clothes
took fire while she was toasting coffee,
and no one being with her, she ran out
of the house-thus giving vigor to the
flamss which were enveloping her,
Her clothes were literally burnt off her,
and she died in a few hours.-A greet
fraud has been discovered in England.
Large quantities Of the common congo
or black tea, BY chemical process,
has been changed to green, and sold as
green tea.-The state of Georgia has
purchased Of his owner, at the enor~
nous price Of $500, negro man man,
ed Sam, with view to his emancipa-
,ion, for his services in eKtinguishing
fire on the State House, hich occurred
upwards of year ago.-The Rev. ja-
cob Abbott of Windham, N. FL. was
drowned on Sunday the 9th inst. as-he
was crossing a pond to attend church.
Three other gentlemen were in the pond
with him when the boa; upset, and one
Of them, MIR. Dinsmore, was also
drowned. The others escaped to the
shore.-Talkirg Of iron collins, an l.
rishman observed, "Ab, that is coffin
that will last man all his life."-The
Rev. Moore Wisdom, exercising the
double Office of Constable and Clergy.
man, was lately killed in Tennessee,
while experimenting gambler of the
name OF Ward. The English Sport
ing Magazine of I765 gives an account
Of an elderly man who; for a wager
Of five shillings, ran twenty miles with.
in two hours. Il an elderly English
man could do twenty miles in two
hours, in the year 1865, surely Yam
kee may be found who will do tea
miles in one hour, 10 the year 1885;
SO that we think Mr.. Stevens's $1,000
will stand pretty good chance to be
taken up.-.Throughuat Hungary, Pfus-
STA, Silesis, Bohemia, Morayia, Aus
lria, there has during the past season,
prevailed an extraordinary drought, as
we'll as heat. Farmers have conse>
quently been compelled to sell off their
stock; and owing to the failure Of the.
streams, the mills generally were una
BILE TO grind.-Doctor Franklin en-
deavoring to killa turkey by an cleo
trical shock, received the whole battery
himself, when, he good naturedIy oh.
served that. instead of killing turkey,
ne had nearly put an end to the exist
eace OF goose.-5,G2 patents were
issued by the United States govern.
ment during the last year, Of which
$50 were on subjects connected with
agricnture.--lt appears that the laws
OF Louisiana make it capital crime
for slave to wound or main a white
man. Recently, mulatlo slave ct
New Orleans was tried for having
struck white man ia lha head with
pair OF tongs, during general ARRAY,
and having been found guilty, was sen
tenced to suffer death in conformi'
with the provisions of the statue 4
question. He was subsequently, taken
to the place of execution, but was par
doned under the eallows.-Potatoes
are worth in Nav York from seventy
five to eighty.aeven and half cents
The friends of the Adminis,I alton par
ty, in Philadelphia determined on the
Ia inst, to celebrate the victory they
achieved in New York city by the dis
charge OF one hundred guns. During
the firing two persons were severely
wounded. One of them Mr.. Barnes,
carpenter, had his hand and part If
his aim, and another, several of his
fingers blown off. Elr. Barnes was
Immediately conveyed to the Psnnsyl.
vania Hospital, where his arm was am
putateG. The cause was the same es
10 most other cases of accidents from.
hiring caanon, carelessness in stopping
the vent.-A Bear, weighing 200
pounds, was killed few miles south
east Of Leesburg, last week.-A few
days since two young ladies Of Wealth.
efsfield, Conn. got up seven hundred
lunches Of onions in Que day. Oae
hundred and fifty is an ordinary days
work ola fsmale.-There is a widow,
residing ia Southwark, England, whose
first husband was butcher, the second
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