South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-04-14
N e w OF THE DAY

y commissioned AZ preachers in the United
States j yvELLED buckles have lately be.
come very fashionable for lsdics' house
shppers.-OvER forty dwelling houses nre
DOW un1er contract 10 be bull, In Alexand-
RIA TINS summer Own twelve hundred
cnutcnes were buiit in the United States
Ast year "A BOSTON womab declares her
sen nsppy, because she hss thirteen cats
ana loves them sll--Is Switzerland law
Is proposed making it unlawful for any one
unuer if years of age 10 smoke tobacco. -
Mkt 10 mitrsilleu-e, the most killing
th'ng nowadays Is druggi.t's mortar, an
aged oy al mex perienced clerk The fund
for the relief of the daughters of Chief
Justice fancy will. il is said, reach the
snug sum of $50, 900. of the page.
IN tos House of Representatives j. = color
ed ooy--SIx pupils Of ono of the public
SCHOOLS OK Louisville, Ky, have been dis
missed Tor refusing 10 study "The South
srn History OF the United States ''-IT il
said TIA, hrnad-s"led shoe will make la
dy foot look smaller than a narrow-soled
ONE HE eterosl mares nests the Repub-
Ilcans discover South makes one think of
Dill APPS lamsnsstion in lS65-"This is
the most hardest war 10 wind up that his
tory records. TIM reported insanity of
VI Trielhard, the French Minister AT Wash
ington, is without foundation --PHILApEL-
PHIA has 459 churches Cungregs-
tIonal Church 10 Akron, Ohio, has, by un-
'nimoas vote, discarded the use Of wine NJ
the able-ToRToIsE SHELL
once SO much In deinsnd-has nearly ceased
I To be an article Of commerce - NANNY
| CLARK, an old culorCd woman died in Nor.
gapto"n on Monday morning Of last week:
at The advanced age ~ lob years Two
brothers named Smalltubs, recently married
In Michigan, took the name. Of their wives
-THE Hartford Ecenjng P1si says that the
entire Republican Stale tickle, has been e.
Iecied ia Councsticut, with the exception
| OF the Governor NOTORIOUS horse
thief named Hodge, arrested pear Stauu-
ron, Va, on Friday week, shot and mortal.
! " wounded } II. Whitlnck, one Of his
/ capfors. the patents issued last
week, was one to Norbone Berkeley, Of Al
die, Va, for = door mat-CLEAR black
walnut lumber is selling in the New York
I market At 500 to Sl25 per thousand feet.
/ "A NEGRO in Richmond undertook a small
contract 40 remove dirt from Dutch Gan.
and commenced business by steaipg d Il
en- Uteelbarrows from rs many diHcceui
| parties. Dutch Gap reminded the n, gro Of
/ Butler, and he thought it his duty a. hon
Z or the example which this rccnll elton in
Splrrd "A MAN in the lower p-rt of Pla-
cer, Cal, has H,ck II tnrk".ss, number
ing Ii 900, and has 6Vc men employed ia
hsrdiDg them. -1HE Soua'e, in executive
session, Oh Friday LIST or6rmsd the nom
instionS Of 4. H. l.1fli0, IS naval officer Ut
New York, md OF William A Darling, as
appraiser OF merc' .andi,e "A MONO the fur
niture Purchas ID for shs Sta., by ,hs pc
gro Lcgislatar. Of South CArolns, was
large nnWber ot sprittoons a. ,igIi
doi'arI apj>c,.-RIcH gold discoveries are
constantly being made ia central Ariz,na
/ -STRAwBEaRIE from tha South are ssl.
iss IN Nv York VI 81 80 per quart a
Man IL tie OIL region having suspicious
/ that some ons WAS stealing his frcwond.
/ 6xed up several temp my stick with nitro
I glycerine, and lsfi it in The yard Mex,
! morning neiQhbor was splitting liitlc
wood FIR br-akfa-t, wher an explosion took
place, he stick WAS converted into splin-
! ters, lis axe went up through the air ike
a rocket, followed by his hat few rods be.
I hind, and when last a~rn ,ne woodman wa.
/ hu.y picking chips out of hi. ear with
toastiug fork. The joking ncighhor WAS
s9on af1er condoing with the victim, who
aid ne supposed the frost was oil on. Of fhc
wooI a week ago --IT j.. sai! General
/ Butler will 90 10 Europa thi. cum
mer That isn't the name ~ tho plare
ne. going To che OF these days -Tay
hou-- ~ jesse Bumgardcncr, of Peck.
Run, Up1hur county, wa. turn,d IN the
ground few days ago. Ey.rythipg va.
lost No insurance - BhsTfNoRy b,, 70
pay forty-hvc dollars per- nnnun for the gas
consumed ~ r7o1 'trs't lamp in tie ci.y.
-PFRU hs' bced visited by a storm If rain.
which delugrd the line. ~ thc water cours-
~ and destroyed g. 900 900 Of property.
causing great distress and suffering TIM
coffee plant atiains the height, 10 general
ot eight tn twelve feet, and sometimes o..
ven 90 thirty feet Il FISER harves, il in
prospect in Northern Kpnso- than WI, ever
known WHAT are said 90 be- the finest
mills IN Virginia, out-ids Il Richmond
have been recently hujlt hy Capt. John G
Mrem, Jr on the celebrated Mount Airv
estate, Shenandoah Ma JANE. GRrGG
bachelor who died IN Drcring. n ~ ro-
Gently LEFT s23 600 ~ INC American Bible
S'cIcty -WEATnER prophets predict ibat
there viii Boz heavy frosl after rho 19th Of
'his month So says 'hc Il,rr,s9nhurp
EufCrpis JAWS W BoWysoS ha. been
appointed Notary Public Tor Hobclo g
county, by Gov. JACoB --SENATOn BIA m
truly says, that the broad issuo now n AIDE
before thcscouotry ''is, whoiher 70 ha, o.. or
arc % have, Federal Union On y cor stitu-
'l'nol hpsi-, or aah-r.o'c GovcTumc' II. with
re,ycr ia tho har3a "a tl,.,t - =.