South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-03-10
VS. OF THE DAY.

81 Z5I ,3l2, gold, aud 81, 1876, 253, silver.
The government printing cost over three
millions of dollars during the past year
HENRY ID COOKE, Esq , the newly-ap-
pointed Governor of the District of Column
bia, has resigned the posiiion-A Mas
sAcHUSETrs bootmaker made 20 ,O25 pairs
Of boots last year.-lN London workmen
are carried on the railroads ten miles once
a day each way for a week for twenty-five
ccuts.-A MAN died in Indiana last week
from immoderate laughter, which brought
on hemorrhage Of the lungs -CHIPPEwA
Is to be the name Of a new Territory, to be
taken from the northern part of Dakota -
RIFLE bullet, it is said will no; 20 through
more than thirty sheets Of paper Hon. w.
Ii. MAcFARLAND, for many years promi-
nent citizen of Richmond has become insane,
aud is now in the care of Dr. Stribling,
at Staunton. He was n man of vigorous
intellect Mn. THOMAS 2. KNOX, clerk
o; the Circuit Court for Loudoun county,
Va, for many years, died last week The
paper mill in Winchester has commenced
operations "A WESTERN paper describes
letter of Horace Greoly's looking 'as if
somebody had smashed a bottle of lux on il
aud tried to scrape it off with curry-comb.
"A CORRESPONDENT Or. j. NJ. Hughes)
OF the Meridian Gazette, furnishes horror
In the shape o. an account Of woman be-
ing gradually devourod alive by worms
The woman lives in Newton county, Miss
lssippl The Doctor Is treating the case.
SAN FRANCISCO has mushrooms n foot
In diameter.-THE Chattanooga Times asks:
"Whither are we drifting? p To which the
Knoxville Whig..replies, at would be pro-
fame to say."-GOv. BROwN says the peo-
pie in the peuiteutary are very polite
they are constantly asking his "pardon =
4 MAN recently went to a revival meeting
near Linnvillc, Iowa, and was making fun
of the penitenls, when he fell to the floor
and was carried out in an inscnsible condi-
ton a day or two afterwards he attempt
ed to renew his sport in the same place,
when he was stricken with paralysis, aud at
last accounts had no use of tongue or limbs
SIXTY thousand horses we're eaten ia
Paris during the siege -THERE were six
suicides during one day last week in New
! \ Urk.-QUEEN Fictoria's private fortune
is estimated at $4,000, 600 The Ohio
Farmer says that if al that the dogs in
this country eat was fed to hogs, it would
make 500, 100000 worth of pork. Add to
this the value of sheep they destroy and
something oe an idea Of the curse of dogs
can be obtained -THE Meaicdl Press is
discussing tie possibility OF secret poison
| so deadly that the perusal Of a letter con-
tanning some of it will cause the reader to
fall dead, with all the symptoms of asphyx-
| Ia O1e or two well authenticated instan-
ces arc reported. -CONGREss has appropria-
ted SO, 900 for the ensuing year, fer the
| purpose of facilitating the detection Of coun-
/ terfeiters.-THERE is 4 man doing business
! IN Chicago whose name is c. Nobody -
| lIoPE & Co., the bankers Of Amsterdam,
are said to he worth $40 900 900 -THIRE
are over 200 japanese students At present
| in the United States.-FIvE members Of
the new Congress are negroes-only one
| full bl'odcd "A RAT terrier kilel3l Nor
way rats ia the store Of Mr.. Fleming. Clgrks-
burg, in quick succession TIE moss bu-
siness in Florida is becoming PR itabla.
! The article is procured in the forests, cur
ed, packed and forwarded to the north
| WHEN the Old School Presbyterian Church
and the New united, an attempt was made
to bring in the Southern branch. The Rev.
Henry j. Vandykc, who was intensely
! Southern in his feelings during the war,
| was commissioned to visit the South and
/ bring about the era Of good feeling He
/ failed The South steadfnstly refused to
unite with the North It's now proposed
to form new Presbyterian congregation in
/ \. y city for the edifcation and comfort Of
| Southern Christians among US The new
society Is to be under the care Of the Gene
raj Assembly South Several wealthy
/ mo 80 fr,t l,
/ DR. Palmer, of New Orleans, is 10 be invited
to Gil the. new pupit.-A POOR soldier in
New Hampshire, who, after three appIica-
tons, succeeded 10 getting sl0O bounty sent
at once $40 to an uncle who bad loaued
him that amount when he was in des
perate need a few days ago the uncle
| died, and by his will left the almos, ponni-
| less soldier all his estate, valued at 5000
/ 600, giving rs his reason for so doing, that
| he bad many times lent money 10 bis rela-
/ tives, and he alone had repaid him.-JEAN
! PtERRON, an old mser, died last week. in
/ New CLEANS, worth $500 He had off
ten begged in the streets, aud is said to have
+ lived on % cents a day for ycnrs. A Chr
CAGO despatch says that Mr. and Mrs
| Walker, Spiritualists, living in McIIenry
county, Illinois, in the hope Of meeting
. speedily better world, give their two
children laudanum, took quantity Of it
themselves, and then all Of them were sub
sequentIy found dead by their neighbors -
4 OBJECTS seveuty-two feet long can be dis.
tincily seen on the surface Of the moon by
the great telescope Of the Earl Of Rosse -
\ FARMER in Lawndale, I'll was presented
by ono of his favorite cows with four fine
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