South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-03-21
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raising STATE in ,be Uuiou BIsHor
MciLyANE, If the Episcopal Church, died
at Florence, Italy, on the l4th inst
+ WEES the eagle wants her young to hy
/ she smashes their ness; the new one
hundred dollar greenback ia in circulation
I When sc get oae vel tell you oil about
I it,. LADIES should now wear heavy
wells Oh their faces in order TO keep from
tanning by the March winds. The U.
uited states grows annually about l30, 000,-
+ rVU bushels Of p,taioes-tbrae bushels for
every man, woman and child - GRANT
/ sent o0 the lfL .nstsut letter ~ COLFAX,
expressing his sympathy FIR his "iato vice"
and bis belief ia his entire innocence
LUCIEH BEARD, the great Virginia horse
tEief, has been arrested in Missouri, and
Gov. WALKER has sent for him A
SECONDHAND dress and two skeins Of yarn
were recently exchanged for forty acres Of
land in TcN.s equity, No. GENERAL
WISE, Que If the comm issioncrs e the
boundary lice, appeared before the Senate
Committee on FaIcral Relations, few
days ago, aud explained Virginia's "case."
According to bis Vows Virginia is en-.
titled to 40 Ut $50 .000, 900 wor d fprop
er'y BOW claimed aud occupied by the
State Of Mary Ind. =. The First Auditor
| Of Virginia has announced that he will be
ready on tho ist Of April to commence the
payment q ne January, 1878, interest on
the public debt of The State. WE are
pleased 20 state that Miss VAN LEw, has
agaiu gotten the postmastership of Rich
ulpnl, Va despite the clam1r against her
OF hungry Radicals MEssRs. Dir. KAGEY
and Brother are about to establish wa
ter-cure hospital at Mount Crawford, viii
lage eight miles south of HGrrisouburg,
Rockingham county, Va. They are com
pleung now building for the purpose,
aud have already several patients . CA
UTERINE MAlLY, convict in the Virgin
Ia state prison, worth $4,000 in property,
hung herself LIST week. THE dropsy
following the epizoo,ic is killing many hor-
ses in AlbemaIle c. VAL IN the manu-
facture of paper from wood the pulp was
formerly produced by mechanical means
chic fl. \ new meth j, Invented by SIN
CLAIR aud improved by UNGER, has been
adopted IN Germany it IS said, with good
success. The wood Is treated with strong
sodA-Iye uud,r pressure OF six atmospheres.
The fibre Is bIugcbod with chloride Of lime
as usual Il does not require grinding to
form pulp, aud good, substantial paper
Is produced without mixture f rags
The Associate Justice Of The United States
Coart of Wyoming Territory says that a.
lnOng the large number Of cases tried aud
disposed of by female Justices of the peace
in that Territory, only two have been ap-
pealcd, and in these the decisions we're
sustained by the Appellate Court -.
The worst shocked man we have seen
far some time was citizen who made the
discovery, last Friday, that the neighbCr
from whom he had borrowed "a paper for
the past four years, had not paid foT it.
lie learned the fact from the agent of the
publisher, aud he was gricvcd lie said
to US: ITO think that ! should have been
so imposed upon at my time of life. tell
you, man don't know who TO trust IN
these times. The world is full of corrup-
ton, and deceit, and deviliry--chuck full
OF IT, $50 ONO has one hundred and six
y i've naiionai banks The mortuary
records OF Savannah, Geo, show il to be
one OF the htalthiest cities in the country
--InL IIpFccanoc battle gr ,uud, IN In
dIau", Is 20 Toe surrounded by q $50 600
fence. Mn. boutwell, WIS elected N
"Wednesday Of last week to the United
; at,s Senate by the l. gis aturc Of M,ssa
chusctts BED BUGS are now SAID to
be preparing for an active summer cam.
paiEn. Miss RowLEs, pged sixteen. in
Is stoD, las week, fell dov l. stains al d in
O lag 80 one Of her hair Eios was driven
INTO her head, rendering her iusensib,e
Ibis case SIC enter az see off against that
of tae young lliy who on falling down
stairs was saved from fracture by her wa.
ter-tlil..-.A WATER spout burst near
Bakersfield, California, or Sunday last, and
formed cuasm sixty foot across and ff-
teen feet deep 4 party Of men narrowly
escaped death, the falling column complete
~ euthing them. SEVERAL Wooden
ltairo1ds are DO operation near Quebec,
anu have au aggregate length Of one bun.
bred miles. They have q guage Of four
fcei one and q half inches The running
time is sixteen ml,os au hour, but trains
have been ron 90 double that speed The
rni's arc made Of m1plc strips, four by
scFcn inches ~ cross dimensions They
are seq w cdg wise, are uJtchcd into the
cross,lc- i0ur inches 3arr, aud are held 10y
.wg wedges driven into The notch, on tho
outside of the rail- Tue tos. eight inches
'hi.k, are iiI twenty inches apart The
roads els, from 6 GOO 60 $1,000 q mile
arl ,hc rails viii list from two TO four
years. according 90 The quslity OF tie tim.
Der aul Che amount cf ibc traffic. Aus
IEALlA Das monster ncttic, which grows
l1 ihe tcIEht OF forty feet .pRIslUENT
GRANT writes ~ 'he Mayor of Richmond
chat bee hs been compelled BY reason Of
rr.-.inr rublie iu.Iu... o., t.rstr,,ro in