South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-12-09
NE VS. OF THE DAY.


mon roads, Is likely to prove successful
The new bridge over the Potomac at Pied
mont has been completed, at a cost of
$4,000 A NEw HAVEN factory turned
out 100000 pairs spectocles last year
BALTIMORE employs 1000 persons in the
shoe trade.-CoL. w. ID. WAsHINoToN,
Professor of Fine Arts in :he Virginia Mil
itary Institute, died at Lexington on yes
terday week of paralysis.-A FEW days a.
go one hundred and thirty FIVE barrels of
| oysters,i in the shell, were shipped from Nor
fork, Va, TO San Francisco.-SUsAN Il.
ANTHONY says "Marriage Is a fearful
thing " That's all she knows about it,
The charlottesville LnGHigencer reports o.
yer 40 students at the University Tue
London Times presumes that there are rot
ten lrishmen in Ireland but that think Of
going 10 Ameri,a some time or ano her
HE Asylum for Idiots, at Columbus, now
contains 100 inmates "A SAVANNAH paper
divides the Georgia Radical politicians in
to two parties, the ''colored negroes" aud
the "white negroes In Japan 4 man can
live on Two cents day -lT il proposed TO
utilize cotton seed in this country 10y man
utacturing from it oil and cattle cake aud
also to make paper feom cotton husks.-A
! WOMAN IN New York was scalded To death
| by the upsetting Of cup of tea upon her.
The English government has refused to
adopt any form Of milralleurs in the Brit
ish army.-THE steamship City of Brus-
sells which sailed for Europe on Saturday
last took $500, 900 in specie A FEW days
ago, an incendiary fire occurred at Law
rcnceburg, Pa, which destroyed four no.
tells, thirty dwelling houses, several stores
and two oil tanks -MRs. WATKINS rea-
son for wanting divorce from Mr.. WAT
KINs, at ST. Louis, Is his calling her
''hell cat, aud other pet namcs.-COLOR
ED women are manifestly born to blush
unseen A TENNESSEE farmer recently
! paid Sol &. q. ID on four "goil watches"
lately, and on opening the box found some
pieces of cast iron TIE castor bean crop
in Randolph county, Illinois, averages
twelve bushels To the acre - \ CRAZY Con
nccticut farmer has just finished a s., 900
/ hog pen, which Is grained and papcrcd.-
\ FIRE occurred near Markevillc, Perry
county, Pa, at three o'clock on Saturday
morning last, destroying the dwelling of
JouH p BAYER, together with Mr.. Buyer,
his wife and two children. 4 surviving
son escaped by jumping out Of the window
to have originated from tie explosion Of
coal oil lamp, which had been turned low
and left burning -TuE police force of
! Baltimore took the census of that civ lot
week in four days Population, 2S3, 375.
Rat markets have teen opened in Paris;
Prices are firm. Cats are triAe higher,
with an upward tendency SIXTY ONE per
cent. Of the people of Mississippi can ne-
Their read nor write WINTER had (No-
vember ~ set 10 with great intensity IN
the northern districts If England and Scot
land CANADIANS are coming over 10 us
in shoals Last year IL 600 emigrnted,
and 500 900 in all have come out GEN
ERAL BUELL. is candidate for Governor OF
kentucky .-CAPT. JAMES MCCLUNG, for
many years the proprietor of the Virginia
House at Slaunton died in that place on
Friday last.-TnE Wurtemburg troops lost
S4S in killed and wounded, in the action
before Paris on the 2nd inst.-DURING the
earthquake last month an oil well al South
! Olive, Ohio, threw up set f lois that
had been buried in it fer months. Owing
to a renewal of hostilities between the Erie
and the Morris and Essex Railroad Com
| panieS, the trains on these roads were de-
tanned several hours on Friday last at the
west end Of the Bergen nel-There are
now / convicts in the pcniten iory Of this
State A RECENT sleep walking scene at y.
1 Haven was a very singular one. The som
nambulist first jumped down six teen feet up
on a tin roof, and, still asleep, deliberately
walked of on TO another roof siz feet lower
Not satisfied with this achievement, be
walked through n sky-light and lodged on
table ten feet below, and then in some
way craw led back through the dismantlcd
/ sky-light, cutting his feet badly in bis strug-
giles The noise awakened 4 man in the
house, who found the somnamhulist stand
ing upon the tin roof with nothing on but
his shirt, and entirely unconscious rs 10
how he came there lie was wounded and
nearly frozen, and was taken back into The
house aud cared for Heavy winds have
prevailed in the Western States during the
past few days, and on Monday last several
buildings were blown down in Ciucinua-
ti-Lovcrs Of Tobacco, and, indeed, Of
all stimulants, ike TO end medical author
ity for the usc OF them, and therefore will
be glad 10 learn that the London Lancet.
The highest medical authority in England,
thoroughly believes in tobacco MISS A.
MILLER, OF Michigan, has sued % broth
erin law, Rev j J.. Wicker, for breach Of
promise 10 m rry, estimating her anguish At
$4,000 -NoRALs ia y y are illustrated
IN a divorce suit now going On a con,em.
porary says: a schcming mother in-rw, of-
Tended no her daughter in law, offers a son
$50 600 to divorce his wife The son, who
seems worthy Of such a mother, consents.
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