South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-08-25
N E VS. OF THE DAY.

10 fuily lo,VOU,UOO TONS STATISTICS
show that Cincinnati is the healthiest city
and Philadelphia next in the Union - MN
NEsoTA has ten railroads in process of con-
struction. In Dublin, witnesses who de
not speak loud enough are raped on the
head by the Judge. The debt of the city
OF Philadelphia, in round numbers, is said
to be Fifty millions OF dollars THE av-
erage depth of the ocean IS about three
miles. : FIFTY business and dwelling
houses were burned at Dale, Oregon, on
the 17,h inst. The loss in excess oc insur-
auce is 500, 1000 -. 1T is difficult to find
a deaf and dumb darkey One of The
best lawyers in Columbus, Ga could not
read when he was nineteen years old
| published an essay on The Devil We
trust she understands her subject. AN
/ Illinois farm laborer was cut into ten pie
ces by reaping machine. AN Indiana
man claims TO have succeeded in playing a
thorough confidence game upon the potato
bugs. He planted grain of corn in each
! potato hill, and as the corn came up irst
the bugs thought it was q corn field and
started for other scenes :. "A PRoTRAcT-
ED drought in Kentucky has seriously in
/ jured the corn crop. Old corn has gone up
to 81 so per Dbl. in Louisville. THE e.
/ brc of bamboo is being made into cloth,
and dyed The texture CT the cloth resem-
bles that Of Woulen material. Ten
thousand hens arc possessed by one man in
/ California. LOCOMOTIVE No. s, of the
New Jersey Railroad Company, is said to
be the fastest in the United States, having
made eighty nine miles in one hour, as is
said, though without carrying conviction of
! truth to every reader An ostrich Of fine
/ plumage is worth from eighty to one hun
/ bred dollars. 80, a BOY in Kentucky has
committed to memory the entire New Tes-
lament. THE horses attached 70 one Of
the stages running between McConnells-
burg and Chambersburg, Pa, ran away a
/ few nights since, killing the driver and in
( juring two passengers IT is said that
| there have been more deaths by lightning
! tho present season than has ever been
known before, and some were cases Of most
singular occurrence. In one instance four
men were struck down by one bolt.
/ GEN. HANCoCK maintains that it is cheap
cr to feed the Indians than to fight them.
/ The difficulty is, says the Washington Star,
that we have TO do both On Tuesday
Of last week, bright and interesting little
daughter Of Mr. DowDEN, Of Winchester,
aged about five years, camberod to the top
of trunk to play, when she fell 10 the
floor breaking her arm. "A LITTLE chill
aged 10 months, died recently in Chicago
from hydrophobia, having about month
previous been bitten by large Newfound-
land dog, in three places. Previous to It's
death, it tore off all its clothing and in it's
paroxysms. whired and barkcd like dog
"A VERMONT widow told divorced man
to consult the devil if he wanted second
wife, and not come to her. a YOUNG
farmer named Frederick Barnard, residing
near Dwight, Illinois, was choked to death,
Friday morning last, while drinking water,
by its getting into his windpipe. Mr..
EDGAR CoNovEn Sickles' secretary of le.
cation at Madrid, Spain, recently married
q beautiful German hciress. SEVERAL
yearlings, lately purchased in England by
American turfmcn, left London On July IL,
aud are expected to arrive daily One Of
them, bay colt, by Blair Arbol ont Of
Coimbra, was bought by Mr. ID D. With
ers for the large sum Of $50 guincas, over
$3.50 gold Tue engineers Of the Val
ley Railroad are surveying the route be.
tween Harrisonburg and Bridgcwaier. e..
THE Chesapeake and Ohio railroad bonds
arc selling freely at % and accrued inter
est. a MINERAL which performs all tho
duties Of soap, and has an aromatic odor,
has been discovered in immense quantities
near Iowa city A WESTERN paper, af-
ter counting them up, ASSERTS that thoro arc
no less than 800 candidates for the position
Of Congressman at large 10 the State Of n.
linois ENoCH CoRUu, colored, was tri-
ed before Loudouu court on the Nth inst.
convicted and sentenced TO the pcuiteniiary
for two years for attempting an Outrage on
Mrs Tibb7, Of that county. DuRtNG list
week nine hundred and eighty. one ponsion