South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-10-28
NE VS. OF THE DAY.

C*p'' DAFiO JONES, mayor at Harrison
burg, Va, died on Wednesday of last week,
IN the 7Oih year Of his age -. THREsH
ING machines have killed forty persons in
Iowa this season.. THE famous Cash.
mere goat has been introduced into Nebras-
ka and promises to thrive. Hon. JEF.
PERSON DAVIS arrived at New York from
Liverpool few days ago. PAPER was
hrst made from linen in the year 1902 -.
a FRENcHMAN has taken out patent for
stockings with gar:ers attached !" TIE
perfumes manufactured in this country are
said TO be much better than tho majority
OF those imported from abroad THE
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad is now open
from Richmond to the White Sulphur
Springs. The first coin made in the
Mint 10 Philadelphia was the copper cent
in 1893. THE latest accounts FROM the
Indian territory state that the indications
for the preservation of peace with the In
dian tribes are all favorable at present.
Two prominent bankers have suspended at
Richmond THE largest farm in Engllud
consists of3 600 acres. The live stock kept
on this farm is valued at SCI 800 49,. LOOK
out for counterfeit 3 $ on the Farmers Bank
Of Reading, Pa They are aGoat.. In
Russia the potato Is considered the apple
OF the devil, which was the fui bidlen fruit
Of Paradise 49,. AFTER the death OF QUEEN
ELIZABETH, 1t was found that she had p
coo different dresses. \ FEMALE child
with two beads, three feet aud eighteen
toes, was boru near Carding'on, Ohio, on
the l4th inst. The two heads are perfect
in shape, but the third limb i as large as
the other two. 1t seems 20 be quite healthy,
and takes food Ia both mouths at the same
time EIGHT young women olhciated
as pail bearers at the funeral Of young
woman in Troy, y. y. FROM a certain
hilltop in the southern part Of farewell
county, Ill, where the vision extends for
twenty miles, nothing can he seen but corn.
MA. SAML b FoARD, Jr, of Eikton,
| Md has sold his famous trc,ting horse
/ Cecil to THos. b. MARRETr and HARRY
ID NJ. Howard, for 81 600. This is a 2:l0
nag, raised on the Eastern Shore The
horse is just coming into maturity, and bet
ter time Is expected Of him when fully
grown. The paying teller of WINsLOw,
LANIER 4 Co, Wall street bankers, New
! York, has absconded with 500 600. a
BURNING well has been 'struck" on the
plantation of Wade Hampton, in Virginia
IL has been burning steadily for more than
two weeks. The Greenvlle RcpUJiicaR
says that the gas, when bottled, burus read
lily, and has q sulpburous smell. SCAR
LET FEVER is destroying many little chi
dren at Charleston, this State. COUNTER
FELT tcu-dolIar bills on the First National
Bank of Poughkeepsic are in circulation
The total receipts Of the St. Loui,
has just lost by dea.h an organ grinder who
leaves an estate Of 100000, with no heir
to 1t but his monkey .JouN HOPKINS,
of Baltimore, is spoken Of as President of
the Valley Railroad THE populatirn Of
Louisiana Is III, 026 49,. Mas OpHELIA
! BENNETT, who was badly burned in Rich
mond on Friday by treadiug on n parlor
match and her clothes catching FIRE, lied
the same night The Georgia State
fair at Atlanta Is declared to toe an unpre-
ccdented success. Thirty-Gve thousand
persons were on the grounds on Saturday.
The State debt of California is two
aud half millions of dolIars-one million
less than last year California is a Demo-
cratic State. TIE Internal Revenue col.
Ieciions from tobacco by the sale Of stamps
in Virginia, for the quarter ending Septem-
Der 3O'h, amounted to 81, 924.19
ALI the citizens of St. Cloud, MINI
recently turned out to hunt the only rat
ever seen in that region. A CoLoRED
mombar Of the Georgia Legislature was
killed by Niger doorkorper and the Leg
'saiure decided to pay his salary to his
widow, when * wsnches claimed the mon.
ey.--. Tie receipts Of the Industrial Ex-