South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-04-28

GOV a"u mpoL esteemed cltlZens OF Snenan-
doah county, died on Monday last. -. "A
GENTLEMAN in Utah thinks he has discoy-
cred cure for cancer. 1t is lemon poul-
tice, applied twice a day. :. . Mr.. FRANK
MAXWELL, the richest man in Doddridge
has recently lost hundred thousand fence
rails by fires. One thousand colored peo-
pie are now awaiting transportation to Lii
IBERIA THE paper collar crop in the u
nited States amounts to 100000 900 per
aunum. IT is estimated thatshe receipts
of Internal Revenue during the current
month will reach $4,000, 900. ENGLAND
is trying to acclimate American oysters
GEN FITzHUGH LEE was married, on
Wednesday of last week, to Miss NELLIE
FowLE, of Alexandra. A MOVEMENT
is being made in Texas in favor of having
that State divided into three States. :. A
PETERSBURG (Va.) boy is aged s, and
weighs 800 pounds. >. .SrRA%BERRIEs
from southern Illinois were sold in Chicago,
last week, at 81 so per pint. e. NINETY
tons of silk goods, seventy tons of tea and
twenty tons of California wool were shipped
eastward by the freight train from San
Francisco, on Friday last . . ONE pound of
watch-springs is said to be worth 81 900.
SID Mokrana, an Arab chieftain, at the
head of 10000 troops, has raised an insur-
rection against French authority in Algeria.
IA BosToN lady's pins, when she is
fully dressed, are said to number 300. 49,.
The Presbyterian gives the strength of the
denomination in the eight largest cities of
the country as follows: Philadelphia, 49,
1877; New York, Is, 7l6; Brooklyn, 7,46S
Cincinnati, 1852 Chicago, 2,273; Bulti-
more, 1903; St. Louis, Zip; Boston,
134. HOPPE, who tried to get himself
on as a juryman il the case of the Common
wealth VS.. Cahoou, was fined $3.50 by
jury, and in default Of payment was sent to
Jail In Missouri husband has sued
another man for $4,000 damages "for
wickedly continuing aud wrongfully depriv
ing him of the comfort of the society of his
wife, and alternating her affections for the
space of 623 days" This makes the value
OF the wfe's society little over S32 per
day. ."NoNE but the brave deserve the
fair, and none but the brave can live with
some of them. - A WESTERN woman re-
Gently made application for divorce on the
ground that her husband is can internal
fool" II seems that almond trees -four
ish IN California, bnt that so little attention
has hitherto been paid to their culture that
the demand for almonds is not supplied by
the domestic production. The tree will
prosper IN every part OF the State below
the line of snow, especially in the middle
valleys. A single one in Santa Barbara
yielded last year forty dollars worth of nuts
a farmer in that neighbohood has this spring
planted fifty thousand almond trees, aud
many others have set out smaller orchards.
1t is very likely that within a few years
California will be able to supply almonds
enough for the whole Union In England
Miss BUTCHER, aged p, has sued A.
Wright, aged 10, for breach of promise of
marriage and obtained damages to the a.
mount of one farthing. =. AT recent
wedding in certain town in Wisconsin, the
organist, upon the entrance of ;he bridal
party into the church, played "Put me in
my Little Bed" .JonN MoRR1ssEY
has given $500 dollars to a cbambermaid
at Alabama who took care of S2G, 900 which
he left under his pillow ELEVEN Jap
anese merchants arrived in San Francisco
April ii, with 1875 cards Of silk worms
eggs, which cost 1878, 600 10 Japan A
CORRESPONDENT in South Carolina writes
that at a station where the train stopped,
Ga young African gent gently jerked my
coat tail, saying, Mister, did this here train
bring airy letter from Glen Cannon to Bill
Shores wife 2 gave it up" a Chr.
cAGo hair restorer agent went out into the
suburbs, stuck bis posters oil over a church
pulpit, and then asked the misniter to cali
attention to them FIFTEEN years ago a
young lady Of Cincinnati, while visiting a
friend in New York, left her finger rings
upon her washs;and, and not hearing from
her friend relative thereto, inferred that the
chambermad had appropriated them
Last week The Cincinnati lady received a
letter from an OLD bachelor uncle, enclosing
a letter fifteen years old, written by her