South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-10-06
N E VS. OF THE DAY.

hAITLEsNAKEs have killed somaDy cat
Tie IN Kansas that the farmers have organ
,Sed and are carrying out series Of snake
hunts The Masonic order has total
membership in the United States of 466, :
Gus: CALIFORNIA las co, 100000 acres
oil wheat-bearing land, but ouly 5000 900
nave been taken up and 1000, 600 cu!tiva.
ted TEXAS will build this year five
hundred miles ofrailrCad. The State with
IN tue last three years has given S25 ,000,-
voo 70 railroads. .JNO. QUINCY ADAMS
has written letter accepting the Demo
cratic nomination for Governor of Massa-
chusetts. - GEO. w. VERNON, of Mus.
klngum county, Ohio, has exhibited to the
editor OF the GAINESVILLE Courier, an apple
weighing twenty -seven ounces, and anothcr
weighing twenty and half ounces The
amount OF United States currency now out.
standing is 1897 500, 652. GEN. Bur
LER Is SAID to be very rich man--'worth
million of dollars . b. The Knights Of
Iemplars IN the United States number 81
OOO- THIRTY THOUSAND horses were
eaten at Metz during the siege of that
town. "A PHILADELPHIA clergyman
THINKS he has invented a machine which
Will huSk ten acres Of corn day. AT
recent Indiana wedding the bride and
bridegroom and sixteen of the guests were
deaf and dumb. IN Colorado bald per-
son finds himself alluded to as ga man with
his head above timber-line." A ROLL.
ING-PIN with which loving wife had
knocked her husband down seven times
came IL as evidence in an Indiana trial.
Two brothers, named Valencia, were on
Yesterday -. 4
co, to be hanged on the oath of November
Tor having murdered one Joseph w. Hew-
EFT. LOOK to your Aues and stoVe-pipes.
he season of accidental fires is att hand
-- THREE negroes, under arrest for burn
ing the Methodist Church at Winchester.
Tennessee, were taken from the Jail of that
place on the night Of the 2Sth ult., and
hanged "a LOUISVILLE dairymsn has
been fined for not putting enough milk in
his water. - The largest cannon that has
ever been made has recently been coDstruc-
ted at WoOlrich, England It's weight is
80 tons; lis charge, 100 pounds of powder
1t throws sugar-loaf shaped shot weigh.
ing iUO pounds, which issues from the
cannon mouth At the velocity of $40
feet IN second. - liz is said that a man
bitten by mad dog in 1868, and now
confined in the Pennsylvania penitentiary.
has recently bad an attack Of hylrophebia
1t Is hard to believe this THE receints
OF the Clarksburg fair were over So 900,
and the premiums paid $4,000 SEP
TEMPER is claimed to have been the hottest
month of the season in California. Coz
NELSON, who killed General Clanton, gave
himself Up to tie authorities at Knoxville
on Saturday last, and entered into bonds
in the sum of S25 600 to answer the charge.
49,. Mrs. JAMES BURCH, near New Hose.
Augusta county, while engaged on The
3oth ut IN making sorghum, got entangled
IN the mill, and had her head crushed, kill
ing her instantly - REV. DR. CHEEYER,
OF New York, has patiently waited for the
arrears OF his salary due by the congrepa-
ton. Lately the church edifce was sold
and out of the proceeds of the sale the pas
tor received his dues, principal snd unrest.
which amounted 10 Just $50 600. He now
lives IN villa in New Jersey, and believes
that patience sometimes wins fortune
DR.. &. G. PARRY, the bOtanist of the Az
riculturI Department has been removed
from that Office. : THE greatest amount
ever received on customs in one month was
during August. Ii was over seventeen mil
lions Of dsllars THERE are seventy
thousand glove makers in EoeIand
AN item Of nows going the rounds
says VIM. Beeler has been found guilty
in TPpechnoe county, Ind Of burning the
railroad bridge on the Wabash road. over
Wildcat river. lie has been sentenced ~
pay fine of 100000 aud serve a term Of
ten years 10 the State prison. He has the
privilege, under the State law If working
out his hne at the rate 81 seventy five cents
per day. This will occupy him seventy
two years a BYNCHBURa coIored wo-
man fell thirty feet out Of third-story
window, striking the ground headforemosi.
They are filling up the hole. She wasn't
hurt any. AN old woman in Wisconsin
has missed only two meals in seventy years.
.--- y PREACHER named Rev j Alton
who had a wife aud five children, who had
gone into Doddridge county to convert the
heather thcreabouis, 50 effectuslly convert
ed gr1ss-wid"w hat she apostatized from
her absent husband, and ran away with him
leaving his wife and five children as eharp.
es on the county .FoUR California tur
nips raised near Sonora, weighed eighty
pounds. One from the same patch weigh
cd twcuty-iour pounds A FRENCH en-
gineer suggests tho building Of railroad
from Paris 90 Prkiu, the cost Of which be
estimates at 20.0OO,O0 francs-sbopi
5 e., 600, OO0.- In is estimated that the
cost # providing internal revenue stamps
for the next fiscal year will reach the sum
vt 800 900. This includes expenses Of
paper printing. Nc TUF latest idaa IL