South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-02-03
VS. OF THE DAY.

+ peli"' W Is writes with his mouth. His
body Is paralyzed below the chin. SIX
hundred and seventy-fiye divorces were
granted in Chicago last year MARY JANE
HENDERSON, Of Raleigh, y. c., has one
husband in the peuitentiary, aud two were
hung for murder One house in New York
is inhabited by l,2lS persous-a village
under one roof.-THB contribution impos-
ed upon Paris by the articles of capitulstiou
Is fifty three millions of francs. There
are twenty-seven bills before Congress do
mating lands TO railroads.-IN the U. S. Dis
trct Court at Richmond, last week, Katie
Cummings, co.ored, who was sent South as
teacher by benevolent society in New
/ York, obtained verdict for 81, 100 DANA
ges from the Orange and Alexandra Rail.
road Company for having been elected from
train at Alexandra because she, having
/ first class ticket refused to 90 in the colored
/ peoples car.-THE Apaehcs are still muir
dering the whites in Arizona, aud running
off their stock.-THE impeachment trial of
Gov. HOLDEN was formally commenced on
Monday last, Chief Justice Pearson presid-
/ ing.-On Wednesday, in the House of Del
egates, says the Charleston Courier. Mr..
| Cracraft presented the petition of ANDY
/ Highfiyer and others, of West Liberty, for
the passage Of a law compelling the a,ten-
ton of bachelors To unmarried women, and
imposing certain fines for failures in that
respect The first daily newspaper print
ed in Virginia was printed in 1880 and
the subscrption price was $50 per annum.
DR.. II T. llELMBOLD fred a salute of
one hundred guns from the roof Of his
building on Friday last in honor Of the e.
lection ofhis friend, General FRANK BLAIR.
to the United States Senate. Piano
! ing is the third manufacturing interest in
! this country,-THE San Francisco "Bulle.
/ tin" estimates the value &C the yearly fruit
crop Of California at 5000 900 In
/ Florida they are making orange brandy
| EIGHr of the foreign diplomats at Wash
| ngton are married to American wives. -
| THERE arc |, -lS6 churche. in Wisconsin.
| So SAYS the ceusus.-AY Iowa town is nam
ed Seven Up.-SUMNER thinks the time
will soon come whcn only thieves will be
4 able n hold office. We thought it had
The GalIego Mills, Richmond, shipped on
the ooh for Rio, 4,490 barrels of -four
-SINCE September 10000 people, wiz.
| l,GG4 wagons, have emicrated fem Ten
nossce and 6 1urgia into Toxas. IT is esti
mated that there are 1900 oliul persons in
Missou.i-AN iowa girl has recovered
$4,000 on a breach OF promise suit
"AScENpED the tin tube is the polite
way Of saying, "gone up the spout
CuICAGo saloon i called "Lqmb's Rest"
Folks look sheepsh when they come out
-LEAVENwORTH, Kansas, barely seven
teen years old, now hn, - 600 inhabitants
IT i stated that there are twcnty- five
physicians in the Legislature Of Virginia
CHARLES jolly and JOHN ARMSTRONG.
the murdcrer- of the Lrpne family, five in
number, near Potosi; Mo-, in Novem Der.
were publicly hung at Potosi, Friday after
noon laSt.-RECENTLY in Greene county.
New York, lady visiting the house of
\ friend where q large mastiff was kept,
was seized by the dog, and nearly killed
before she could be rescued. She made
brave fight with the animal, but was over
powered, and bitten dreadfully No man
olgl 10 keep a fttca cog on his premises,
Which is unclaimed during the day He
puts the lives Of tis neighbor-, constantly.
in jeopardy.-A PARTY Of New York gen.
iIcmen are said 20 have paid $50 900 for
the young tror'ing horse "Blackford," in
Scott county, ~. lie male one race 10
public as a rbrce-yesr old. in which he is
said 10 Lave scored 2:31.-TuERE are a.
600 doctors in the United States, or one
doctor 20 SIS inhabitants To 1860 there
was one doctor to SD persons Nh.
GEORGE TICKNoR, a distinguished scholar.
died 10 Boston, on Friday last, aged near.
ly so years.--A RICHMoND woman asks
for n divorce, saying that she has not seen
her husband since be murdered her father
"A STATEMENT is made that out Of the
amount charged FIR q through ticket be-
tween New York and Washington the com.
panles north Of Baltimore receive less than
three cents per mile, while the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company get four and
half cents COMMISSIONER Pleasapfon
estimates that tho income Tx will Weld
next year over $4,000. 600 -TnF case If
Henry WELCOME, the lad Who was hangeJ
at Windsor, Vermont, on Friday Of last
week, 40 the agc of nineteen, Is n most GRE
vioue instance Of youthful dcprayity. Ills
crime, to which he confessed, was the muir.
der Of m old man for hi4 money. Ills
course downward was al achieved i'm tbreo
years, BIO having run away from home NJ
sixteen and entered almost Immediately Up.
on % career If vice, dissipation and mi,cel
I'noou- crime "A GUrrNBRIFR hunter
Killed two deer % one shot -SoNF Ciucin. .
natl ladies thought 90 increase their bcautv
when wearing law-uookol dresses. by paint
ing oluo veins on the exposed skin. but
were Disguised ~ the remark Of q physician F.
who looked az them too closely. that thcy .
hain. got those veins painted within C9ur