South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-01-27
VS. OF THE DAY.

Dailmorej on FRIDAY morning last, PETER
NEsBURa shot and killed Mary Ann ADDER
son, widow, aged As years, and then
killed himself.-A NEPHEW of President
Monroe is priest of the Catholic Church,
and ofhciates in New York city.-WILLIAM
BARRETT, a retired tobacco merchant, aged
"a, one of the wealthiest citizens Of Rich
mOnd, was burned TO death on Friday last
by his dressing gown taking FIRE while sit
ting in his study.-IN Milwaukee. recent
ly, twin-infants froEe to death in their crib
IN the same room in which their parents
slept.-THE Spaniards, not favorable to
their new King, the Italian Prince Amsdus,
have given him already nick name. They
call him 'Maccaroni the irst."-MIss
BETSY HELMS, a spinster, nearly seventy
years old, died in Tazewell county, Va,
few days since, of scarlet fever, very un-
usual circumstance, considering her extreme
age Mrs. +. Roberts, nf Baltimore, tried
to blow out lamp on Wednesday night of
/ last week, and was so burned that her recov-
cry is not expected. The lamp exploded
On. HOWELL A VENABLE, of Prince
Edward county, a popular physician, whilst
coDversing with lady at his residence,
one day last week. suddenly fell dead at
her feet. Heart disease. TWENTY per
cent. Of the army deserted last year Or
/ I'VE LOGAN proposes to "remove the mystic
~ that surrounds girls " WHY, that's in
/ delicate. -NINETY SIX paper mills in this
country were destroyed by fire during the
/ past ycar.-SoNE Of the papers worry I'M
CALAMITY call the congregation recently as
semblcd in Boston. the "Conventian Of
Wild Women. Tile estimated value Of
the annual fruit crop in California /. -
. O00, eco -TuE Cincinnati made Of getting
rio of mothers in law j. creasing the celia,
stairs -TuE advertising rcccipts Of the
London Times sometime, reach Sl25 600
ia a sirgc month w ALTER 'LENNoN,
once Mayor Of Washington, has been COM
mitted o. an insane asylum. Mr. Lcnoy
was refugee In Richmond during the war.
aud suffered a term Of imprisonmcnt, bv
I Fedora order. In Fort MclIanrv -TUERE
are 1000 doctors in the United States
/ THE bells Of the period now pad their boots
/ at the iustop, 10 give them an aristoc -alic
arch The SLcrHs Office in Hamilton
I county, Ohio. paws SI2742 80 -TuE san
/ Domingo commissioners have lift Washing
Z ton fir that I,land.-FATuER RYAN, So
| well known as the ooc. priest, has become
editor Of the Now Orleans Morning Star
/ SOME scoundrci, cut three gashes in a horse
and cut of thc name Of another near Moore
| feli-NIsS LENA LELAND, q young lady
residing in Pauola, Miss, died very sud
denly ON Thursday December 20, just one
hour before the time set for her wedding.-
ON Friday night last Fred Kohers shot
Minnie Wecliug. hof Of CovingtoD, Ohio,
and she died in few minutes. jealousy
caused the murder -THE average cost Of
each shot fred into Paris is estimated at
two hundred dollars.-ON Saturday night
last tho eastward bound train on thc Gen.
nal Pacific Railway, while stopping at Alto
Station, was entered by robbers, aud gis-
tered letters and package Of grccnJacks,
90 the Amount of ten thousand dollars, were
abStractcd. % G.. Perry, auditor # Drake
county, Ohio, shot q drunken man named
Edward Barking, who assaulted him in bis
Cliicc on yesterday wook.--A RAID with
mounted troops, just made ia the mountain
region of Tennessee, resul'e in the destruc-
ton Of seven Illicit distilIcrios and about
fifteen thousand gallons OF mash.-THE
Richmond papers announce the death in
that city, on yesterday week, of Mr.. Aaron
Read, father of the Rev. DIR. c. II. Read.
He died at the residence Of his son at the
advanced age OF ninety years In Napo-
leon, Arkansas, man who had been guilty
of not less than nine bomicides was elected
constable by an overwhelming majority
EIe is killingly popuar.-THE weather has
been colder at the South this winter than
since 1880. Two men were frozen to death
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