South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-10-17
N E w s OF THE DAY.

ending the p ID of September 400 oranges
were organized ia Pennsy lysnia THE
Australian gold fields exported 1,l6O, 554
ounces Of gold last year. BUG some
what resembling the cockroach is taking
possession of the houses in New York and
causing great annoyance. IT is said that
Dine-tenths of the ministers 10 the country
are not as we'll paid as base ball profession.
ais. - .THoUGH color cannot be changed
nature may, aud many white skin covers
q very black man. -. THERE are Eve va
caucies in the next House of Representa-.
tives, all caused by deaths Of mem bors-elect
since the adjournment of Congress in March.
- BRIGuAM YOUNG was on the Oh inst.
re elected President of the Church Of the
Latter Day Saints, without dissent. :.
john RoEssLE, who established the brew
ing of lager beer in this country, and ac-
cumulated about 81, 600, 900 thereby, died
recently in Rnxbury, Massachusetts,.
THE story that a LEavENwoRTG father had
offered SO, 900 to any one who would mar
ry his cross-eyed daughter brought about
500 strangers into that town in one week.
49,. BENJAMIN GRIswoLD, who recently
died 10 Cambridge, Vermont, at the age
of oighty-oue years, had read hia Bible
through lG5 times. A MICHIGAN paper
recently closed an obituary noti,e with the
misquotation, Gle is not dead, but squeak
eth" w. C. MILTENB ERGER, who had
only been in the Pittsburgh Post Office for
a month, wants to know why he was dis
charged. Probably because he was not
the nephew of a Congressman HERE
AFTER bores are to be sent to the peniten-
tiary 10 Pennsylvania The latest ecce-
siastical novelty is an advertisement for a
paid superintendent of Sunday School
IA BULL FROG weighing fifteen pounds
and half is said TO have been caught lately
in Cayuga Like, and sold to a French cpl
cure for six dollars . An Iowa clergyman
who had a douatiou party lately, has beans
enough to las; thirty years ID. .SHEF-
FIELD, late President Of the Merchants
National Bank OF Dubuqe, has made up the
amount Of his dedication by surreuderin Q
all his property, including his homestead.
- FAR Western papers, as rule, spare
neither age nor sex when a joke is wanted
For instance a Carson City Journal says
"Our County Clerk can boast of a wife with
the biggest feet and the longest nose of
any female in the Territory. A Con-
NECTICUT editor AYERS that "theres an art,
genius like the poet's-born, not made, I"
which produces fried potatoes as delicious
as fairy dream lie does not give the
California, of which so many accounts have
been published, has been captured, and
proves to be 4 species Of nondescript very
like bear, 81 hough it entirely lacks arms
and forelcgs, and walks upright like man
Probably it is delormcd bear A IVES.
3rERN paper speaks Of duel between two
4 'jackaspera;ed individuals" >. IT is stated
hat fifteen out Of every forty-oue who have
4iied 10 Cohuoc;icut during the past five
years were druukards Rather a land Of
unsteady than OF steady habits, one might
Judge, unless "steady drinks" be referred
o.-. CHINA is said to possess coal fields
Extending over 400 600 miles of territory.
IAN indianapolis belle, who was to
ave merred German count, his Just as
b nished Society by marrying a sleeping
& ar conductor Ara camp meeting at Mid
etown, Lake county, California, lady,
uder great excitement, ard while shouting
nd ciappipg her hands, declared she wan.
ed TO die then and there. Her wish was
ranted, for she almost instantly fell back
nd died in a few minutes. The excitement
as more than her delicate frame could
ear. An Allentown, Pa, eronaut is
onsiructiog paper balloon, in which he
|ntends making voyage. .Ir is cstima.
% that The Valley railroad from Harrison.
urg TO Salem, distance Of l13 miles, will
psf only s7,700,OOO The whole line
buih Of Stanton has been placed upder
pntract ARTHUR FIELD, London let.
Pr carrier has been sentenced to Gge years
enal servitudo Tor stealing o letter. II is
= iisra ni in ibis country ....TT il reported
a 1si liver mines. yieldiog 90 per cent Of
are silver, have been discovered near Co.
fap0 boz Chill The fortune hunters are