South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-08-19
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died in Baltimore on tho 18th inst, nged a.
bout fifty years.--UsINu coal oil to make
a fire is rapid way to make funeral
PEACH festivals are the latest style Of enter
ainmcuts.-THE Rothschilds have the cred
it Of having lost $40, 000, 900 by the fall
in European stocks, caused by tho war
KANSAS announces that it has room for n
million or 60 of Chinese to 90 into the silk
manufacturing business. has
had sixty drowning cases this yoar.-AT
Holena, Montana, on the 10Th, tho Their.
mometcr at noon was down to freezing point
and it showed q littlc.-MARrINsBURu is
going to have a steam fro engiuo.-ABRA-
HAM LINCOLN's funeral cost tho United
States 81 ,000, O00.-SrErHEN A. DoUo-
LAS, son of tho great Senator, il one Of
Governor Holdcn's pimps in North CARROLL
na.-SoME bad boys at Oshkosh, Wis,
put hornets nest under tho cushion of
sofa in church pulpit last Sunday morn.
ing, and when the minister sat down after
reading the hymn, he got right up without
being told. lie said he did not feel like
preaching that morning, and the audience
went homo wondering.-Mns. LINCOLN has
written letter expressing gratitude Mt the
action Of Congress in granting her pen
sion.-Mosr ladies arc artists w-n-days.
The majority of them paint.-MRs. ADELA
McKEoNs, of California, is an independent
candidate for Congress from her district in
that Statc.-VIoLET ink is used altogether
for love letters, because it fades out SO
beautifully, and leaves no sign.-THAT
was as sharp trick of Mrs. ANTHONY, when
she remarked at Lowell that she would re-
coivc money from "the devil himself" to
be used for the cnfranchiscmcnt Of woman.
The next dny she received q remittance
from BEN. BUTLER The old lady evident
ly knows her business.-J0HN Il. ALEX
AMBER, the great Illinois farmer, owns thir-
ty four thousand acres of land, worth ST.
5000, has $50, 900 worth of implements,
pays SIG, 800 wages annually, and sold last
year Si93, 400 worth Of live stock, besides
grain, &c.-MRs. SARAH A GRANT, rcsid-
ing iu Andovcr, Mass, died suddenly on
tho 5,h inst, from the sting Of bee. Im-
mcdiatcly after she was stung she laycd
down on a lounge, saying, 81 am dead"
and going into commissions, died in about
two hours afterward.-TnE number of
deaths during last week in New York was
75I.-GREEN county, Indiana, has horse
thirty nine years old-said to BIO the oldest
horse in America.-MAJ. 3. Is. FRENCH,
q prominent citizen of Washington, died
on Friday last, of disease of the heart
GENERAL LEE has accepted the Presidency
of the Valley Railroad Of Virginia.-THE
German Sanitary Committee in San Frau.
cisco, California, oh Saturday last remitted
$4,000 to Bcrlin.-A TON Of pure silver,
in the form of bricks, is en- route from O.
maba to London.-A RESIDENT of East
lis ffe0s sskca by the fotenss tease f 81 t &c
sun during the past days to tho depth Of
half an inch.-A GUEST at hotel in Lcav-
enworth, Kansas, ate ovor a dozon ears of
green corn at one meal the day before his
funernl.-AN Illinois doctor, to DO sure
patient was really beyond further fee pay
ing, burnt him with q hot iron. lie was
too dead to resist-AN ordinary rife ball
costs in France about cent, while nm ex-
plosivo ono costs forty.fvo ccnts.-A LAD
of Is hanged himself at Cordova, ILL.,, on
Friday, because he was rcprimanded at the
tea. tablc.-THE Jefferson county levy is
sixty cents per hundred dollars this year
and Berkeley fifty cents.--A MULATTo nam
ed Alexander Clark aspire % seat in the
United States Senate from arkansas -Fon-
TY.oNE Episcopal olcrgy''en died in the
United States during tho year ending No.
vember 10, 18G9.-TnE great number of
deaths by sun stroke which have occurred
this summer in various paris Of the country
show how much moro dangerous IN intense
beat than intense coldgto human life.-'IF
thou art n master, Says old Mr.. Fuller,
times dcaf."-GEoRGIA ships six or eight
hundred tons Of white clay monthly to New
York to uso in adultcrating fur, pulvcr-
lied sugar, flncy candies, ca!omol, soda,
cream tartar, white lead, &c.-NITno- Oily
cERrNE has bccn 10 uso but five years, yot
over seventeen hundred persons have been
killed or MANNED by it.-DURING tho tbuD-
dcrs,orm Of July 20, at Jacksonville. Green
county, N. Y, ELIJAH blossom was ius
s.antly killed by Lightning. lilo weighed
about 300 pounds, and almost every bone
10 his body was broken by tho shock Tic
was rs years old.-TnE steamer "City of
Brooklyn" from Now York, for Liverpool,
on Saturday last, took out 81 ,119, 900 in
specie.-Ir IS rumored that the Hon. LY-
MAN TRUmBULI has been toudcrcd tho po-
sltlon OIL occrctary OF state by President
Grant.-TnE Kansas Pacific Railroad, was
completed on Monday last.-A CHILD of
fourteen is at present on trial for murder in
Reading, Pa.-CoENECTIcUT contains nine
pin factories. Ono eau make 1000, 900
pins pcr day.-W. Is. JONES, Esq prom
inent, merchant, and ono Of tho wcalthicst
men of Petersburg, Va, died on Friday af-
tcrnoon last at tho White Sulphur Springs.
Miss BESSIE w. PAUL. of the same city,
died suddenly of heart diseasc,at Capon
Springs in this county, q few days apo.-Ir