South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1868-03-13
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per, extensively used for building purpo-
ses, said to be cheap and durable, aud used
in place of shingles, tin, slate, &c, also for
weather boarding, walls, ceilings, and even
for carpets, that are handsomely designed
and will wear many years.-THE disease
known as pleuro-pneumonia is committing
Iayagcs among some of the finest herds Of
cattle in the vicinity Of Baltimore. The
audiences with which cattle are attacked,
the extraordinary mortality, and the alleg-
cd contagious nature of the disease, are Civ
ing rise 10 great uneasincss among dairymen
. and stock breeders. are twenty
five new railroads in process of construction
within eighty miles Of New York city
CALIFORNIA is entering upon silk culture
IN earnest. at San Jose a company with
capital Of 100000 has been organized.
The machinery has arrived, the foundation
Of the factory is laid, and the worms are at
work.-LEXINGToN, Va, they say, is to
have garrison of Federal troops, because
the boys wouldn't allow an ex-frecdmens'
achoo! teacher TO skate with them on North
River The l.ynchburg Republican says
''Ihe Post Office at this place has been in
Structed by the authorities at Washineto
20 pay no further attention to documents
bearing the frank Of JOIN c. UNDERwooD.
'U. 5. S, and to treat all such missives as
dead letters. This order should have been
promulgated long since "--TuE wife of
retired soldier, living at NunnNs Hill, near
Valparaiso, has recently brought forth, at
one birth, four boys and two girls, and is
sucking her children hersclf-ANamphib-
ious dog, owned by 4. j. GRIswoLD, of
Lee, Mass, met his death Il few days ago,
in diving, as usual, after fish for his dinner.
He seized bull-hcad, whose horrid horns
50 tore his mouth and poisoned his blood
that be died in great agony. GRIswoLD
says that he had recently been offered 81 =
800 for the dog by Observation-Disclosures
bonnots are now being made from Manila
pulp moulded on block, then spread with
dissolved shelac and covered with wooden
flock or clothicr's waste, and pressed till it
Las velvet appearance. The cost of man
1tacture does not exceed ten cents each
KENTUCKY Is to pay to john Young
Brown the salary to which he would have
been entitled from the government, as a
member Of Congress if The House had ad-
mittcd him to a scat.-A CARLISLE eng
land newspaper reports, as q case Of canine
sagaclty, that man near that place Is the
owner Of dog which besides fulfilling the
duties devolying upon It's species, performs
the task of driver to the horses in the
working Of threshing machine. ONO
claims to have 2,7I3, S32 iuhabitants,-an
increase of $4,000 since 1860. It hopes
before many years to report five million
population.-I'HE Bacyrus (Ohio) Journal
states that during the late snow lad near
that4olace went out to n potato mound to
get potatoes after clearingaway the snow,
and breaking into the mound, he found a
a kind Of nest in the straw, in which was
compact ball Of what he took to be a large
ball Of string such as our wool men use.
lie brought this in with the potatoes. and
laid it on the baby $ cradle near the stove
Ills mother just then sent him off to a
neighbor and continued about her work.
lie was gone an hour, and when he return
cd, upon looking for his ball, he found it
had resolved Itself into a pile Of squirting
snakes, many Of which were seeking the
warmth Of the infants body, and one had
actually entered the infants mouth. 4 cry
ot alarm from the boy attracted tue alton
ton of the mother toward the cradle, and,
Selling the child, sought to cxtricatc the
reptile, but was too late, and it actually
drew itself within the baby's mouth and
down i's throat. DR. lNGBAHAM was sent
for, but he recognized the snake as being
The common 'serpcns noptus, aDd therefore
perfectly harmless He declined worrying
the baby with medicine, and the child
seemed uuhurt by It's accident. The mo-
Tier declares. however, that its appetite is
much increased, and that in It's sleep IL fire.
Iucnuy misses loudly g D-PuYsIoIo-
1i-T after patient and close inquiry have
Frivcd 7t the conclusion that the power Of
the entire man, his vitality, is rs much cx-
pended by two hours Of deep mental effort
a7 by whole day Of ordinary bodily labor.
HERE arc ono hundred ana twcnty-throe
persons IN Cincinnati who make their liy-
.ug by telling fortunes, ono hundred and
'w0 N whom nTc Germans.-TuEy talk Of
avying special tax in VIRGINIA TO pay tho
delegates o. The Couyentiou-who have AL
ready shared 500, O0O-thcir So 90 pcl
lay and trimmings. The stcnorrarbc,
&C tic Convention, after receiving $4,000
f.r l's than two months work, has been
discharged. This is Radical economy
lGI ho female College i'm New York
Hos been complained Of as q nuisance, on
account 70 the stencil from IFS disecctiuc
room 10 was also stated chat not lone
since two barrels o. human remains, with
out any covering over them, were aker
rom The college and conveyed through th,
.iraoiG filing the whole atmosphere with
disgusting smell. Nice work for ladies -
InE law in Salt Lake requires young moi
marry at tho ogo Of nineteen, or pay
forfeit TO BWGuAM Of 5000 IN Paio Al