South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-08-15
N Z w S Q F THE DAY.

usiI are 10 De shot 10 death, unless Exec
utive authority interferes. ."GALLows
RAPTURE" is what Mr.. GREELEY called
psalu-siDgiDg on the scafiold The de-
crease Of the public debt during the month
of July was over $500, 900. IA FULL
grown Saratoga fan measures four feet a.
cross when expanded. NEW ten dollar
notes are soon TO be issued. Glad of it, as
we are just about out of old ones . . . FRANCE
feeds forty millions of hens, and makes an
annual nest-egg of about eighty millions Of
dollars on the industry, which is something
to crow over THERE are, it Is said L.
972 lager beer brewers in the United
States. THE custom receipts in the city
of New FORK, on the 9TH inst, were 1885,
900. SAN ANTONIO has meat extract
company which congresses twonty-eight
pounds Of beef into ono pound Of extract.
A FARMER in Muscatine county, To-
wa, has just paid - 200 for two cows.
WILD horses are abundant 10 Southern
! Kansas and Al parties of hunters arc
after them. :. AN American tiger hunter
in India made So, 300 last year killing the
ferocious animals -. "a FEARFUL storm OF
rain, sleet and hail broke over the Noun
tain division Of the Union Pacific Railroad,
the latter part Of last week, the hail lying
in some places two feet deep. EIGHT
Cinnamon, belonging to secret Chinese
company, are On trial in San Francisco for
carrying on Gu infamous trade in women.
SALMON are 80 plenty at Portland,
Oregon, thai fine ones weighing thirty
pounds can be bought fer fifty cents.
AN ingenious poulterer has taken The hint
from the Iowa cyclone, and invented q
powerful bellows, with which he blows the
feathers off chickens instead picking them.
"A GARDENER in England claims 10
lave discovered IN ethod of varying the
colors Of flowers by N eaus Of chemical ap
plications to the earth in which they grow.
.BELLUNo, Italy, suffered a terrible
earthquake on the ev enins of June 90
Every fourth house Was ruined, hundreds
of lives lost, add millions of property de-
stroyed. THREE " ,mep, ons ct time,
married rich old Pniladelphian in ordsr
to live after him, ~ hu has buried each
one, - na~. a. sbs 40 x %, is looking
for ns raroT1g t@prsss9c
syeeag geatieaoan in Vi .eiail recently shot
his brother 90 cars BIN u habitual inebrie-
ty. The treatment was successful =. In
Rockingham county, 10 I'm HARTMAN, aged
81 years, 10 months and one day, and ia
COB LINAwEAvER, in the S0th year of his
age, died few days ag =. HARRISBURG
returns taxabl1 property to the amount of
50 ,027,7S2 1881 taxable polls and AIS
dogs JAMES McGRg COR a we'll known
merchant of Cairo, Richie county, We learn
from the Wheeling Int ugemcer, dropped
dead in front of his store on last Saturday
morning. III had bee in his usual health.
He was about GO years Of age, on old resi-
dent Of the county. ~ Man addicted to
snoring remarked to his bed-fellow in the
morning that he slept 'sliko top" 81
know it," ssid the otber--"like bumming
top. DIR. II. T. DUNN, deputy United
States marshal, was ass a, mated In his bed
at Coriuth, Mississippi, on Friday night
last. 1t is thought he wss shot through a
window with shotgun loaded with buck
shot which was placed within few feet Of
his bead when fred Thus far no clue has
been found to the murde rer- The Luray,
Page County VA Cow Ter says the hog
cholera is prevailing in that county,.
DURING the last year spectators have car
ried cut of the Arkansas valley thousands
Of cattle to the farms Of Illinois, Iowa and
Missouri, for the purpose of eating up the
grain raised by the farmers there, which
they gladly sold at twelve and fifteen cents
bushcl IA SON Of Mr. EDWARD SNIP
son, nine Years Of aga, living about three
miles fr1u Ett'op, on the road to Newatk,
was Killed by lightning on Saturday after
noon las'. lie vas walking with bis bro
lher u1der an overcoat which covered the
two, when the electric fluid struck aud
Paasc! entirely through bis body. His
comp1nion vas shocked to inseDsiblity, but
recovered 4 third boy was walking some
distance ahead, and carried the sad Dows to
Tho rarcnts....T HEY had frost in Du.
buqne, Iowa, IN July. T. i. HANBERT,
lawyer q eccentric and misery habits.
died 10 Phil'dlpbia, Pa, on the 9Th inst