South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-06-24
WIS OF THE DAY.

! W me- Ala--l nc crop re pOtlS
| California still continue unfayorable.-
ZACH CHANDLER says he both likes aud
+ fears Kentucky. He means by this that
he likes her whisky and fears her hemp
/ n couple of chairs belonging to BENEDICT
ARNOLD were recently sold at St. John, n .
/ b, for 81 ,275 cach.--California is assess
ed for taxation purposes at 1910 ,000, 600.
-Methodism claims in the world j, 43S,-
033 members Chicago received one hun
dred tons of rawbCIrics in one train of
% cars last week-Hon. T. Il HoAR
! has resigned the Attorney. Generalship,
aud Hon. AMOS L. AKERMAN, Of Gecr-
/ gia, has been nominated as his successor
There are rumors of other Cabinet changes
The Virginia Legislature has appropria-
ted 81 800 TO remove the Virginia dead
! frtm Gettysburg and Arlington TO Holly
wood Cemetery, Richmond. j ERoME Ma
PoLEON BUNAPARTE died at Baltimore on
Friday morning last, aged 65 His moth
er-in-law, Mrs. WILLIAMS, also died the
same morning 1t has cost the United
States eighty thousand dollars TO return
/ the Fenian raiders 10 their homos-BAR-
NUM- has struck new dwarf in Californ la
that only weighs fifteen pounds, which he
calls admiral Dot."-Dako,a contains
one hundred and fifty thousand square
miles Of tertitory-ninety-f four thousand
more than Illinois.-A Peunsy lyania youth
of twenty, unable to pay his board bill Of
about forty dollars has married his landla-
dy, a widow Of seventy How much wor-
rying those evils cause US, which never
happen.-Mrs. SUE LATTY is n deputy
sheriff of Des Moines county, Iowa Co
it, Sue--we'll hold your bonnct-Mr E
, KING, Sr, Of Richmond, says he is the au.
thor of the song, "SToNEwALL JACKSON s
| WAY."-A middle aged woman died in
Philadelphia on yesterday week from the
effects Of chloroform administered to her
BY dentist for the purpose of pulling a
tooth The foolish are afraid of others ;
the wise arc afraid Of thcmselges.-Let
your losses in the past be your lessons in
the future "A California man laid down
under the fence to sleep, when a swarm of
ants took possession Of his ear, and he had
to blow them out with powder or some thing
lie said they were the most unpleasant
aunts he ever had visit nina Bachelor
"A man who negiects his opportunity to
make some woman miserable 1t was re-
| garded as n strong case Of circumstantial
evidence in itIsburgh court, the other
| day, when the plaintiff produced the skillet
with which his wife struck him, and show
cd the jury how nicely the three legs fit in
! tue holes in his head. THE miser is rid
dle-what he possess he haint got, and
what he leaves behind he never had
! Whisky is not tonic. 1t is probably an
Alternative for 1t changes dollars TO dimes,
virtue to crimes and men to brutes.-
! Somebody says the women make very good
street swecpers when they are trained TO
do it.-A train on the Vermont and Mas
acbusettS Railroad broke through q bridge
on yesterday week. Three persons were
killed and number Of others wounded -
Twenty one millions of dollars are cxpcnd-
ed annually by the drinkers Of lager beer
in the United States for their beverage
Some one has calculated that there are
20,6l9 stitches in a shirt-and an indeii-
/ mite number of stitches in the side of the
| poor seamstress that makes it.-FRANz
/ WINDHAUSEN, of Brunswick, Germany
has invented a machine for freezing water
without the aid Of chcmica ls-Oue thou
sand married couples were divorced in O.
/ hio last ycar-A wheat crop larger than
| the average is expected in England "A
| few days ago the Indian Agency a Tauk.
/ Ion, Dakota, was destroyed 10y iuccndiaTice.
| 1t is thought that white men were the per-
/ petrators The salary Of the Postmaster
/ at Clarksburg has beeu increased 70 81, 100
n year.---An Indian woman, aged l2O years,
resides in Philadcl phia-JAMEs LEWIS a
colored man was killed 10y a butcher in
/ Central Market, Baltimore, on Saturday
( last Grasshoppers have appeared in the
southern part cf California, and have done