South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-07-01
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got on hand l25, 900 acres Fifty two per-
sons were killed by the explosion of kero-
sene during 1869, and the total sufferers
were one hundred and eight.-E. J. LEY
BURN, Lexington, Va, has patented a mo-
uve-power for sewing machines is said
that one OF the tallest horses in the world,
standing nineteen hands high, is owned in
81. John, n. B.-A man who was the val.
edictorian at Harvard about ten years since,
now rings the bell to start the horse cars
I III an Indiana town.-A fifteen year old
female resident of New Albany, Indiana,
advertises to teach three languages and to
/ do Homework at the same time.-Jurors
IN United States courts are to receive three
dollars per day.-"Thc White Element in
our Midst" was the subject of colored
/ geDtleman's discourse at indianapolis the
other day.-ChOlera and smallpox are
playing havoc in Cuba Whistles aud
other chemicals are called notions in Miss
issippi.--A Kenosha wisconsin, fisher
man lately took $500 pounds Of trout and
white fish from his net at one haul.-A
divorced husband in California has bought
his children OF the mother, to whom the
( Court assigned them, for 1915 apiece
Beef tea is said to be made out OF old leath-
or at some Of the hospitals in New York.
/ "A curious police regulation for the pun
lshment Of intoxication exists In Russia
/ Persons found drunk and incapable on the
| public thOroughfares are taken into custo
! dy and condemned to work for day at
sweeping the streets.-Finery may adorn,
but 1t never makes woman.-A party of
ladies IN an Indiana town disguised them
selves on recent night by blacking their
faces, and taking a woman of bad repute
from her bed they dragged her to the woods,
stripped her and whipped her terribly, af
ter which they bathed her wounds with
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES is a creature of laces,
not content with yard upon yard without,
she laces within.-Tho annual income of
! a. T. STEWART is 81 100000; of w. B
AsToR, Sl,273,000; of III. T.. HELMBoID,
/ SlS2,O00 of JAMES FISK, Jr., $50, 900
aud Of CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, $40, 900
In Bloom township, Wood county, Ohio,
on the Sd ult, PIERCE RUSSELL was kill
cd in remarkable manner. He was shear
ing sheep, and the animal, in struggling
TO get away, by some means struck the
shears and drove them into his left side,
the point entering his heart, producing
! almost instant death JOHN RANDOLPH
| TUCKER, Esq, has been appointed Profes-
sor of Law at Washington College, Licking
ton, Va-Millions of acres of land in Mis-.
sour, entered to nominal buyers at 124
cents per acre, are to be thrown on the
market unless the claimants promptly com.
! ply with the terms of purchase. The old
est newspaper in the world, is published
in Pekin. 1t is printed on large sheet of
/ Gil ic Ioa 10 L.
| pearancc for upward of a thousand years
So plentiful are the grasshoppers in Salt
Lake City, that the stencil arising from
their dead carcasses is terrible, and is Sc
riously affecting the health of the city
One Florida Indian ia reported to be nine
feet and half tall. How is that for high
! Lo?-An Illinois farmer casts his eye over
cornfcld of $500 acres Georgia has
produced cabbage head four feet across
Chicago has an organ grinder worth $751;
600, who still grnds away.-A man in
Ohio bit off the head of live rat the 9TH
er day, on n wagcr.-MaiDe is Dragging Of
a matron, 10 her seventeenth year, the
mother of four children. Eighteen hun
dred tons of ice were sold in New York on
Saturday last.-The Sheriff of Nueces coun-
/ ty, Texas, was recently found murdered
| ANDREW STAFFORD, late mail agent at
1 Baltimore, has been sentenced to three
( years Imprisonment for embczzling letters
Three dcnials come from JEFF. DAVIS
First, that he has consented to deliver an
address before a Mississippi agricultural
society second that lac is preparing bis 20
litcal memoirs third, that lie is writing a
novcl.-JAMEs BOYD, a large operator in
gold in New York, failed on yesterday week
His liabilities arc about 81 ,000, 000.-
aunt Dinab >" colored woman, believed
to be the oldest person in Virginia, died
in Abingdon Saturday week, aged one Inn.
drcd anil Ten ycdrS-A female preacher
married couple lately in Iowa At the
cud cf the ceremony the minister kissed
the groom.-The types are compelled to
make many awkward mistakes, but none
more awkward than that which made the
New York Erprcss say the other doy that
Olive Logan had "marricd her uncle"
when the editor had written "sprained her
ankle. An explosion Of nitro glyccrine
took place in Worcester, Mass, on Thurs
day Of last week, killing Timothy Cronam
AMI injuriug thirty other persons none Of
them dangerously, however. Twelve hous
cs were demolished, and many others bad.
" shattered The shock was felt all over
the city New Caterpillar, preying up.
on the growing crops, has made lis appear
auce 10 the Southwest The worms arc Of
various colors, are three.quartcrs Of an inch
long, and at each extremity have two spread
ing horn-like protuberances covered with
hair The sting is unusually painful
Bridgeport, Conn, has red, white and
blue dog-dyed for bis country Wiscon.
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