South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-07-28
NE WIS OF THE DAY.

DEN BUTLER, spoons, consents 20 run
Tor Governor Of Massachusetts,. How kind
- DURING the quarter ending June 80,
1871, tie total number of passengers ar
rived at tho port of New York from foreign
countries was l07, III THERE are now
100 eonvicts iC the peniieniiary at Mounds
yil', this S'ate.--- Tue population Of
Wheeling Is %, HI. Mr.. joins PREs-
TON, Of Frostburg, Md killed twenty rat
tie-snakes, few days ago, near that place.
----A BRILLIANT display of metcors is an
ticipated about the end of the present
month"; Miss SABINA IrURBIDE, a
daughter of lturbide, the. former Empero.
Of Mexico, died in Philadelphia few days
ago.. Miss TENNIE CLAFLIN publicly
announces herself candidate for Congress
IN the eighth district Of New York city.
AN Illinois gentleman raises one
thousand varieties ofapples. =. Cor. No
BILE ;. BRADEN, a prominent citizen of
L'udoun county, diel of paralysis on yes
tcrday week, at his residence near Wheat
land. The remarkable child, brought
from Ohio for exhibition in Boston, having
two heads aud four arms, died in Boston
on tho 18th inst. AN Illinois man
breaches Sundays, and drives stage week
days GREAT BRITAIN last year consum
cd forty-two million pounds of tobacco. or
pound and hale for elch one of the non
ulaiioo- NINE elephants from Ceylon ar
rived at New York on Friday last. MA
Ny enferprisIng and well-to. do Young men
ct Baltimore are about settling in Duluth
Mimi. SOMEBODY in Maine has present.
ed President Grant with now patent saw.
mill. The president is now waiting for
some individual TO give him n water priyil-
ego TO run his mill $50 GOLD plains as rich
as those of California and Australia have
been fouuhiu Mexico, and are ATTRACTING
thousands from America. - REV. DR.. Nj
JACOBS, forty years professor in the Penn
~ Iyauia College, died at Gettysburg, Pa
on Saturday last. Experiments in the
army bakery at Washington, have shown
that So one pound loavcs Of bread can be
made from barrel of flour. TIE Dayi,
Creek bridge, on the Chosapcake and Ohio
bIiroad, five miles west OF Charleston, fell
on yesterday week, while the workmon
were putting on permanent timbers. Thir.
teen men fell with the bridge two were
killed, one probably fatally injured, and
SIX were seriously injured "A YOUNG
man ia Indiana lately became 81 frirhten-
ed at widow's persistent attempts TO marry
him that he turned over to her all his prom
cry aud ran away Mr. DApD of Iowa.
IS the dad Of nineteen chiidren-cirht
pairs and three aces. Be "dad, !" if he isn't
a Oddly -. Tue yellow fever, which re-
Gently ragged so tclrfully at Bucnos Ayrcs.
has now entirely disappeared -. IIoN
THOMAS \. ScoTr is president Of Eve Rail
roads, including the Union Pacific, vice
president Of twelve, including the Penn
syivania Central, and director in thirty
three. Al the roads in the country carrv
him (Scou) free. 4 MAN named AARON
BEDuUG, Of Montgomery county, intends
pstiiionjug ;he Legislature to change his
namc. IL says that his sweetheart, whose
name is Oleyi1, is unwilling that he should
be called .bcibuc -hcrscifO Bedbur, and
the little ones, liule bcdbugs. -. LATE Pc
ter,burg, Va papers announce the death
Of Captain ROBERT SHANKs, the oldest cit
jzsn Of Petersburg lie was born in Ire
llul, in l773... WHITE leather harness
has been introduced by porting man at
Long Branch -. ACCORDING to returns
made 20 the Bureau of Statistics ofth en-
igrln's who arrived at the port Of Bllti.
more during the quarter ending June 3Oth,
1871, She whole number was 800. Of
whom 2 925 were males and 2,G7l females.
Of the total number j,5lG were from Ger
many. SHAKE got IN bed with young
man at Hannibal tae other night, and the
young man got out Tie editor of an
E'stern paper having received blnk note
.ctlctor, returns thanks, and modcs.ly asks