South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-07-25

says: awe are spending i've hundred aud
tventy-one thousand dollars, annually for
public schools" That does pretty we'll for
Mary land "A TEXAS woman has arriv-
ed at St. Louis with 1000 cattle, her own
property, which she assisted in driving from
Texas. linz report that Cob. MosBY's
sister has been appointed clerk in the
Post Office department is incorrect. A
CORRESPONDENT of a New York paper sue-
gests as Il substitute for hanging, To deprive
criminals Of sight, aud thus renders them
harmless for the future. "A BosroN bu
siness man remarks Of q native poet "He
IL one OF those men who have soariugs az
ter the unfathomablc, but who never paw
cash" WHEN the Legislature of Now
York adjourned it left three hundred acts
upon the table of Governor Dix for aporo.
val or rejection. At last accounts he had
vetoed seventy-six ofthem. .SoUTu BEND.
Indiana, is becoming town OF considerable
Importance. A fuur-legged chicken aud
the place. The first four horse wagon
ever made in Clarksburg, was made for
Col BEN. WILSON, in 1880, and paid for
1t IN pork at 81 90 per hundred, aud -four
at $500 per barrel. - THEY have tiue
breed of grasshoppers out in Minnesota
There the schoolma ans bride and saddle
them, snd ride 10 school on EN- GRANT S
friends, says the Chicago Times, are nlrea-
dy figuring for third term for their patron.
1t was FRANK BLAIR who said GRANT
would never leave the White House while
alive. 1t may be that the General was
not very much excited when be made
the remark. THE mother of poor boy
who was murdered in Charleston, S c..
Friday night last, died Wednesday of n
broken heart. "A HARpER's Ferry man
owns whole mountain and offers to trade
1T for a shot gun. = TAYLOR STRAuDER,
a colored man, who murdered his wife IN
Wheeling short time since, was sentence
ed by Judge MELVIN to be hung on the
29th of August next. .CoXFtN EAIENT is
telling on Captain JACK. He is gaunt and
weak. He doesn't find his prison lounge
hn'f as healthy as the lava bed DR..
LoNGDoN, of Wheeling, il using elecrrici-
ty as remedy for paralysis, and other
chronic diseases, with great effect. A
YOUNG man from the country slapped big
copper cent uDder the nose of the stamp
clerk at the Troy post office the other day,
saying, 81 guess I'll take one Of them 'ecr
PASTORAL cards, mister ~. RoBERT DA-
LY, of Upshur county, eyed upwards of so
years, hanged himself in his stable with
skein of homemade fax. thread on the lst
of July. Domestic difficulty was supposed
to be the cause, he having young wife -.
Miss MARY G. LEE, daughter Of the late
Gener i II. L LEE, was in Vienna on the
24th instant. A MAN by the name of
JOHN EARLY wns killed az Eaton, on the
Baltimore and Ohio Rrairo,d, near Par
kersburg, en- the 2nd instant. THE Wash
ington and LEE University, ut Lexington,
Va, has been recently the beneficiary Of
princoly endowments from several States
and from private beuefactors a LITTLE
daughter Of Major NJ. q. c. WRIGHT. Of
Wheeling, fell from window, on tho Sih
instant. Her thigh WAS broken, md ma
ny other serious injuries were inflicted
The will Of SAMUEL MILLER. Of Lynch
burg, Va, who died worth 81 800. 600.
leaving the bulk Of it to school purposes.
is being coniosted by the Kinnards Of War
ron county, Ky., end the MoRAYs, Of Met.
cafe county, Ky, who claim thst they are
tho only heirs # MILLER. THE direc-
tors q the New York Juvenile Asylum IN
nouuce that, with six hundred inmates.
there has not been death IN the Asylum
in lS13..-.OS Thursday evening last
freight train on the Cumberland and Penn
syIvsnia railroad going down the grade
jumped The track, and Captain YrNGLrNG,
Conductor, bad bis right arm crushed, and
THOMAS WEIGH brakeman, sustained Sc
we're iuJutios..-.A TURTLE was captured
lost wock on Middle River, Aueu-,s coun-
y, and purchased by Mr JoHS PEER, Of
stanton, who obtained from it 175 egps,
large portion being larger than Particle
oegs....THE real and personal property
left By the lsto OtKys AMEs amounts 70
s5,75l ,254.. Nus G o HIN has Just
completed, Of Edinburgh, statute Of DR..