South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-06-20
N E VS. OF THE DAY.

ladies' in Narsemond Co, Va, has been
sentenced to be hung July 1ltb. ONE
hundred dollar Panama hats are cow the
rage IN New York among tonrish gents of
that great city. AN earthquake vista
ton in New England is predicted BY "Pro-
lessor DELIssIER" for August 90. FINE
land in Mississippi soils for twenty five
cents an acre. A BOY Of seventeen has
lately married a girl of twelve in Jackson,
Tennessee. THE Geneva award Of S15,-
ooo,OOO Is to be paid September 14,h of
the present year. .REvERDY r. WALL
INC, living near Adamstowu, Frederick
county, sheared Eve ewes and one buck, of
the Spanish Merino stock, and obtained 50
lbs. From the buck alone he gathered %
los JOHN CRAWFORD, for many years a
popular deputy Sheriff of Augusta county,
Va, died near Mt Sidney las: week WE
read of young woman ia Missouri who,
whom certain good time comes, will prob
ably be member Of Congress. Before
elopicg with the darling of her heart, size
had an interview with her fathers bureau
drawer, aud voted herself an increase of
back pay to the extent Of 81 900. She
would have nobly taken more, but that was
all there was to take. GEORGIA has a
Penitentiary convict who has served thirty
four years, and the other day, when they
talked Of turning him on. in the cold world
he sat down aud wept. HARTFORD, Con.
necticut, had an auction of coffias the other
day. 1T is said that not single Penn.
sylvania Senator or member of Congress
haa refunded his back pay :. THE Morgan
Envelope Company, at Springfield, Mass,
is running its works night and day upon
the postal cards, turning out Co., 900 of
them every twenty-four hours. NINE
thousand emigrants arrived during the part
week atlhe portof New York, making l4l, :
$50 since January /. The farm pro-
ducts of Kansas in 1870 were worth s27,-
64O, 05l.. NICHOLSON and IIoLLoHAN
are to be executed iu the Jail yard in Bal
timore,on Friday, August ACCOUNTS
from alabama mention the prevalence Of
cholera in that State, and consequent alarm
among the people The number Of stu
dent at the universities aud colleges 10
Virginia is nssrIy 1000. .Th. lumber
product of Michigan amounts to $50, OOO,-
600 aunuslIy..- CATTLE men through
from Texas report that grass is good and
WAGER lenty.. THE damage done TO crop,
in Southern kansss by the late rains is in
estimsbls. THE Dog Tax in Loudouu
county, Va this year amounted to 81 ,9S3
1t pays for all the sheep destroyed and
leaves about 81 900 for the school fund
IT is said that some Wheeling temperance
men are said to drink whisky from TASKS
made to order, bound like bibles and la
blsd as such The potato bug has been
so destructive in Msigs county, Ohio, that
some Of the farmers have plowsd up their
potato fields and planted corn instead
GENERAL DAVIS has sent a psrty Of men
to hunt for and arrest tho persons guilty of
the massacre Of the Modoc pri.oner,, an ac-
count of which NO gave in our last num-
Der. "A NEWARK, n. j., mau recently
paid claim of $500, all 10 old-fshioned
coppers. They weighed 400 pounds, and
II took three men TO remove them A
MAN has been decided in.ans in St. Louis,
the cause Of bis Iunssy being IN improper
dose Of medicine administered while be had
9 fever. THE Grafton Sentinel learns
that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in
tend erecting shops for psintiug cars at
Grafton. .WHEN CAKES AMEs failed he
owed 100000 Within two wear. he
paid every dollar with interest. "A ST.
GAR plantation selling for 81 ,SOO-les.
than the machinery in the sugar house
would sell for rs old irou-is tho latest
evidence Of the bcne6cencs of the rule Of
KELLOGG in L1ujsiSBa. ALMOST eyerv
| other farmer IN Ohio has put in a "Morgan
rsid' claim. THERE ere three hundred
nunneries in the United States IT was
proposed to send BEAST BUTLER after tho
Modocs, but as Captain JACK bad no sill
yer spoons or other table were, BUTLER
dsclised the command . CHOLERA has
appeared at Cincinnati, three cases already
having proved fatal. ALL tho Modoc .
prisoners have been removed to For, KIa- /
math, California, upder a strong guard I
r. ID. BECKLEY, colorsd, ~ special mail {
agent, gets salary Of 81 900 per apuum,