South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-07-04
N e W S OF THE DAY.

October next NANCY HARVEY died in
Baltimore on the 25th ultimo, aged III
years. MARBLE Of tho finest quality has
5eeu found in Augusta county, Va-browu,
red, white aud black, with lines of green
running through it,. Iowa people do a
great many funny things. TIE latest re-.
ported achievement is That of young lady
teseher in Riuggold county, who rides to
school every morning on an OK >. A PRE-
DAToRY rat lunched off the hand OF slocp-
Ing baby in Danielsville, Pennsy lvania, the
other night, leaving only the bones of the
fingers - GRASS, cut early is worth near
y double that cut late. When hay is Gu,
late it is likely to give horses the heavss
Ia NEW kind Of brandy, distilled from
figs, has been made in California. Dur
mo a thunder storm in Stsunton on the
9th, colored boy was killed by lightning
while up cherry tree, 10 tho lower part Of
the city, the lightning striking and killing
the bog, AID hog at the root of the tree.
-.-.A COUNTRY maiden lately drove an
ox-team into indianapolis, hauling q load
/ OF wood. She said she cut the wood, and
with the wood she bought highly ribbon
ed hat. lr is said that President GRANT
has determined 70 uominats Judge HoAR,
u NJ Massachusetts,, az ChiefJustice "A
BLACK snake vas killed few days since
10 Jefferson county, which measured eich,
feet IN length. THE receipts from tolls
OF the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal for the
week ending June 81 were 1904 10.
GEORGE FORD, aged IL, son Of NAT FoRp.
OF Washington c. ii Ohio, was drowned
IN the OHIO river, on l1th ultimo, near
HaverhiII, Ohio, where he was telegraph
operator. THE Marietta Ohio, Reyister
says; ECLIPSE, JR, buck, belonging to
Il. III. PALMER, of Barlow, sheared 243
lbs, OF wool; the animal weighed after
shearing, 90 lbs. -. Mrs. SouTnwoRru
Is the mother of Al works Of fiction A
FINE stallion belonging to Mr. JONI Sror.
TIER, OF Grant county, was poisoned on
the 2O.h ultimo, at Petersburg. in tbat
County Ills supposed tbata negro groom
iDg another horse in the neighborhooG COM
United the cricie. -. THE four principal
bridges on the Vallcg railroad wil! be of
iron, ond are now being built in Baltimore.
.---A NAN named TEASE went TO see n
lady Damed Cross, aud toascd her until
she consented to be CRoss no more. ..IN
Caldwell! county, y. c., there lives one
JOHN BARNES, aged 115 years, and ne.
gro woman lib years old THE price OF
CORE Is falling all over the State of Texa.
on account of the big crop growing TIE
debt of the District Of Columbia is SIT
0OO, 900. EIGHr thousand five hundred
emigrants arrived at the port Of New York
last week. -. EXTENSIVE fores. fires are
raging in various parts of Northern Michi.
gan, and repetition Of tho disaster of Dc.
tober, 1871, is feared A WOMAN nam
ed KING, of Knoxville, Tennessee, died
from q spider bite few DAYS since Or
course relative of PRESIDENT McMAHoN
yves in Michigan .Ex-Gov. FRANK
THOMAS, Of Maryland, Minister to Peru.
IS at home on a visit, and wns in Cumber-
land on Sunday last. Col. w. +. NAL
LoRY, an old citizen Of Petersburg, Va,
died in that city on the 24th ult IT il
estimated that it has already cost Stokes
500 600 to keep his neck out Of the moose.
.-..A JAPANEsE PRINCE is learning to
set tyre in Loudon newspaper Office.
THERE are FIVE hundred and fifty patients
in the Georgia Luuatic Asylum MAJOR
THEoPHILCs I. HILL, brother Of Gen. A.
p HILL, died suddenly at Culpepper Court
House, on the Ord, Of heart disease.
AT a Grange meeting at NortbfelJ, Mime
SOFA, the other day, 5000 persons were
present, und the procession was over mile
long IA FIRE 10 Norfolk last week des-
troycd fifty thousand dollars worth Of prop
criy WETzgL county has compromised her
tax claim against the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company for $4,000. NEW
indictments have been found by the Fed
eral Grand Jury in New York against
Woodruff and CJAFLIN for msiling OBJ
scene papers Mas JESN1NGs, who was
shot by the lyncher in Wetzel county, it is
said is doing vol and will recover.
a FARMERS Grange has been organized
n Jefferson county ....R C.JoHNsToN, Of
Jefferson county, convicted at tho las, Germ
OF the BcIkelev Cirnnrl Cnnrl fnr fnrnin..