South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-07-07
N E VS. OF THE DAY

'euteu maculne IOr making morse SHOES
which will turn out 125 per minute
NEW HAMPSHIRE makes as many bushels
of shoe pegs as she raises of oats. . Ac-
coRDING to the Dispatch the Richmond
Mills can grind six million bushels os
wheat annually. PAPER is manufactur-
ed from hop vines at Marsailles, France,
and is said to be strong, flexible, white and
soft and much liked in that region AT
San Francisco, Mrs FAIR has again been
refused new trial. THE death of two
children near Bradford, H., from the sting
of locusts is reported. AN old rail split
ter IN Indiana put quetus upon young
man who chaffed him about his bald head
in these words Young man, when my
head gets as soft as yours, [ can raise hair
to SELF The negroes in Kentucky will
this year vote for the first time 1t is es-
timated that the negro vote in the State
will amount to about forty thousand
WHILE in 1860 the number of miles of
railway in operation in this country were
3O,G35, they numbered on the LIST of Jan
uary of the present year SD, Jas. AN
Arkansas dressmaker made bridal trous-
seau, which contained 500 yards of calico.
49,. The New York Mail thinks the Uni.
ted States needs new departure in cook
ing, and that the better teaching of roast,
boils, &c, be hereafter cardinal doctrine
of womens' rights YOUNG Grant stands
No. 81, or five from the foot of his class
at West Point In has been decided that
woman cannot be Justice of the Peace
in Massachusetts. :. BARON MEYER
RoTHscHILD, whose horses won the Derby
and the Oaks races, is said to be the pauper
member Of the family, his Income being
only about S2,000,000 year TIE
season of green apples and. gripcs is at
hand a BRUTE Of a man attempted to
hang Miss Potter, school teacher at
Princevillc, Illinois, for whipping his chill.
He had the rope around her neck and drag
ged her to the door of the schocl-room,
when she was rescued by two men j.
=. Nelson has been appointed depot agent
at Woodstock, in the place of j. II. Davis
deo'd.-..A NOVEL express robbery is re-
ported on the Mobile and Ohio railroad la
the night, while the messenger was asleep,
the thief cut through the roof the express
car and fshed out the safe containing a sum
Of money variously stated at from $50, 200
to 100000. The Mobile and Ohio road
is five hundred miles long, and two nights
and one day are required for the round
trip. 1t is said that one messenger makes
the whole trip. Mrs. HuTCHIsoN, Of
Huntingdon county, Pa, added three to
the population few days ago. DAVID
HOWELL, Sr very oil aud respected cit
izen Of Charlostown, Jefferson county, w.
Va, died in that town on the 25,h ult ....
REV G.. WILSON McPuAIL, ID. D., fol-
merly Of Virginia, but for the last four
years president of Davidson College, in
North Carolina, died, recently, after few
days illness THE Mansfield .ShieH
says John Bailey, aged about twenty five
years, living near Olivesburg, was siuDg
by honey bee on bis neck, on Monday,
l9th ult., and died in fifteen minutes aft
err. Is Utah the grasshoppers are again
stripping vegetation, and farmers are hir-
ing themselves as laborers in the mines
AN old steam boiler is used for a jail
in Arkansas. The imports Of PhjIadcl.
phia last month amounted to little over
two millions Of d.llars. CHINA claims
credit for champion cucumbcrs. They av-
erago from five to eight feet in length, and
undcrtakcrs purchase them by the whole
sale and use them for collins a oANu
Of fur cOuutorfcitcrs, two Of whom arc
heavy operators ia the business, have been
arrested in Monroe, Wis by officers Of tLc
United States secret service. There are
thirty-rinc prisoners ~ the R1lcigh, \. g.,
Jail charged with Ku Kluziam a TRAIN
Of ten cars containing over 500 German
cmigranis passed through Cumberland,
day or two ago, bound for Minnesota 49,.
GENERALLY speaking women TuBEE
hundred Mornous just from Europe, left
New York for Salt Lake, on Friday night,
10 charge Of Brigham Young sons, and
four hundred more are at quarantine at that
city Soor from tho chimney, mixed
with coru meal dough, is said 20 be q GER
tain euro for chicken. chol,r, Tr ia said