South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-03-24
WIS OF THE DAY.

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where the sick is cared for at his expense.
Only 10000, 900 of gallon. Of alcohol
ic spirits are annually consumed in this
country. Horrible.-THERE are - post
mistresses in the United States who receive
salaries Of $1,000 year anl upvard.-A
HOsTLER, who had been working at Lyons.
Iowa, for eight years on a salary of SIS
per month and fees, died the other dav.
when it appeared that he haa aii IN D.
bout 50, 000.-A VIRGINIA paper cites, as
a remarkable instance Of the efficacy Of
abstaining from medicine, lady in that
State who has reached the ago OF ninety
six, and throughout all the long years of
her life has taken but three pills, and has
buried three husbands. -Tr i now bcliey-
ed the cotton crop Of 1870 will reach ( =
100000 bales. New Olcans, ten DAYS
since, bad received over 600 900 bales.
aud last week there were 10000 bales on
the levee at one time. The price Of cotton
Is now reduced 10 about the rates b. fore the
wsr.-IIoN. Il. +. BUTLER has given 6ve
hnndrod dollars in SILVER 10 a church in
Massachuse,ts.-Er D,ubtls.. the pron-
er'y of some Southern gentleman -Ir !,
stated that Mr.. Samuel Y. Pike hes been
offered $4,000 an acre for part Of the
swamp land about Jersey City, for which
he pad $50 an acre several years ago. The
land Is wanted fer railway purposes. IL !.
believed Mr.. Pike vii consent To the ne
cuniary sacrifice. ANOTHER faithful wife
has been discovered in Indiana. Her hus-
band, John L Bridges, was several wears
ago sent to prison on life sentence for
murder. Lltely he received pardon. and
although his crime divorced dis wife she
met lin at the prison doors, wcpt tears Of
JOY upon his breast, aud remarked him that
same day.-''TuERE IS no accounting for
taste" We chew tobacco, the Hindoos
lime, aud the Patagouians guano. Our
children delight in candy, the Africans in
salt, while the E~quimaux leap for bit Of
laI!ow candle. To Us, turtles are savory
dish, the French rovel on frogs and snails
the SavageS on snakes "A TELEGRAM from
San Diego, California, says that on the 7rh
instant forty Indisns attacked the II 8
mail stage Of Barlow & S4uderson, on the
Mnrlcopa or ella desert, Arizona The
driver was shot, the mails destroyed and
seven horses captured.-THE great stock
raiser, Mr.. L. Alexander, Of Illinois. is re-
ported to have failed. Ills liabilities are
million Of dollars and his asset, from one
to $500, 900 -IT cost the government to
dig the cellar under the New York most
ONCE, aud wall it up from $500 600 to 81,
OOO,OOO. This is an official statement made
IN the House of Representatives.-CA
DICKINSON, dem, has been elected mayor
OF Charleston, the capital of West Virgii,i,.
-IuERE IL a merchant in Chicago who has
his life insured for $3.50, ZOO. -OUR Ma
ayland exchanges very generally represent
the growing wheat as presenting fac Gp-
pearance.-A MAN named Perdue has been
convicted in the u s. District Court in
New ork of burning ship at sea, and
sentenced to death for the crime.-CoL. J.
VI. MCCUE, of Augusta, came very noar
losing his life = few days ago, in conse-
quence Of blind horse which he was riding
leapirG down precipice The horse was
billed. -FoRTY years ago Simon Cameron
purchased for 500 a spur of the Broad
Mountain IN Pennsy wanna. II is now worth
$1,000, 900. Coal has been mined out of
1t for thirty-Gvo years, and he has realized
in the shape of royalty about 500 a day.
30 saws an exchaDge-A BILL now before
the Wisconsin Assembly provides that
whenever eleven jurors, impannclled to try
any criminal case or civil action, sha' apree
upon verdict, such agrecmoDt, duly an
nounced in court, shall be taken nd held 70
be the verdict Of the whole inry.-PAR.
KERsEURG has n nitro glycerino factory
and 3 railroad trains a day TUESDAY
morning, the boiler cf saw mill, in Chcs-
terfcld county, exploded. and sinsfaptIv