South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-07-15

fects Of chloroform administered to her for
the purpose Of extracting teeth by Dentist.
"A Louisville man, who is graduate of
an Eastern college, and has practiced law
and medicine, aud studied for the ministry.
now drives brick. cart, and thus earns an
honest living AT Beltsville, nd on the
2pd inst, a colorcd woman who had been
detected IN stealing, and ordered to leave
the next day, in revenge, poisoned with
strychuine, the infant child of Mr.. Albert
Read The child died in half an hour.
The woman was arrested and confessed her
crime.-A Texas paper asserts that the
bitterest Radical in the Legislature of that
State is an ox Confederate General, who
went 10 Brazil at the close of the war be-
cause he couldn't live under the hatred
Yankee Governmental breed Of dogs
that cannot bark has been discovered i'm
Australia President GRANT and Senator
SUMNER arc SAID to have come to an open
rup'ure.-There are more than eight mil
lion paupers in England and Wales
Much distress has been caused in private
circles in Mississippi, by respectable mu.
Iatto girl having imprudently married State
Senator Morgan Miss SUE LATTY is
deputy sheriff of Dcs Moiucs county, Iowa
She has already made nineteen arrests.
As she is very handsome it is thought
young men commit breaches of the peace
plrpOSe!y to fall into such pretty clutches.
A Boston gentleman who could not waltz,
offered young lady 500 if she would let
him hug her as much as the man did who
had Just waltZed with her. 1t was a good
offer and showed that money was no object
to him, but they pat bim out Of the house
- hard that his eye was quite black -
The Sheriff of Morgan county has Keen en-
joined frem collecting taxes due by the Is.
" O. Bailroad.-A Troy (Kansas) paper
announces that a car load of girls could
find early husbands in and about that town.
The Kanawha PcpUbIicm says that Mr..
j. i. CARR recently sold ITO acres of his
farm below Elk river, for $50 900, and
understands that the same property could
have been bought for s. 900 a short time
since They had frost in Wisconsin on
the 22d ult-Silvcr ore has been discov-
cred near Lexington, Va-WmrTLEsEY
received fifteen hundred dollars Cor contest.
ing Hon. Lewis McKou2eTs seat.-It is
announced that false Ch.yuoas, plaits and
curls can be, and have been, made of spun
glass.-A Texas couple eloped on horse
back, accompanied By clergyman. They
were pursued by the brides father, and
the minister performed the marriage cere.
mouy at full gallop While excavating
the celar for a new church, in Iowa, n val
uablc' vein of iron orc was struck, when
the trustees concluded 70 put up with their
old meeting house while lvnger.-The
Rev j. H. SMITu, of Illinois, recently
tried for tire murder Of his wife, who was
found drowned in small stream the con-
pie had crossed in buggy, has remarked.
"A Philadelphia woman has eleven bun.
drcd flower pots surrounding her house.
St. Louis has new wheat from Mississippi.
which sells for S5c per misunderstanding
bellies, whose great feature is extravaganza,
have just discovered that to be ANYBODY
they must appear with new fan every time
the clock strikes. Snuff was tbs form in
which tobacco was FIRST used in France
An eagle was lately shot near Auburn, n.
Y. which measured twelve feet from fip
to tip Of his outspread wings When dis
covered he was pcrchcd on n fence intent
ly watching n small boy picking sirawber-
RIGS. consequence Of tho statements
made by the colorcd cadet at West Point.
of the treatment he receives at that insti-
tuition, some Of The nor,hor papers arc cali
ing Tor an investigation lDt0 the matter. -
The supreme Court Of Pennsylvania has
refused to open the case Of Dr Scbmppe.
Rear Admiral DAHLGRERN died on Tues
day morning last, If heart disease, at his
residence in Washington city. IN. y.
TRIsT has been appointed Postmaster at
Alexandra, Valley have been firing
cannon in tho folds near Paris TO bring on
a rain Old Aunt Tabby, Of llarrodsbure,
Ky, the black woman that turned white,
IS dead Tho Earl Of Derby settles S25,-
600 per annum upon bis bride - la scan
dal trial DOW in progress in Cincinnati
young man testified that his father spont
s3J,OOQ upon \ notorious woman with whom
he became infatuated Senator Sprseuo
says there arc l2,O0O,0O0 sets Of corsots
imported into tho United States annually
These will pay, under a recent enactment.
SJ,OOO,BOO Of revenue tax-June Roses
all the bloom ng girls about Romney.-
Fashionable women are like the conven-
Lonal scho0lmistress-tbeY believe ia the
switch.--Biftecn negroes married white wo-
men IN Boston last year, but there was no
instance Ola white man marrying a necress.
To remove stains from characier-ret
rieh "A fire,crackor was accidently thrown
into the mouth Of little Pittsburgh bov.
on tho 9th, where it exploded. The boy
voice has not yet returned, and it is feared
that he will be permanently spceobless.
Tho fashionable hoped skirts arc
very small, nearly straight, and have
small bustlO shaped out at the back.