South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-09-26
N E w s OF HE DAY


hst, dismal failure. THE oficeholders
of Minnesota are assessed FIVE per cent, to
fight the Farmers ticket. =. THERE we're
heavy frosts in Iowa, Wisconsin and Illi-
uois, on the 18th instant, causing. much
damage to the corn crops. THE number
of complete patents granted in England, 10
1872, was 2,734 -. AT Vera, in Spain,
the Carlists lately carried of number of
women, who were chosen By ballot in the
province of Biscay for the purpose of max
ing their uniforms. Among the uulucky
women is young lady with fortune of
$1,000. THE postage on letters to Ger
many Is now six cents. ONE half the
five cent nickel coins in circulation, are said
to be counterfeit. =. T.. THE California Legis.
lature is expected to stand-GRANT, 35 {;
Independent and Democrat, S5. EYES
like diamonds, hair like q vexed mass of
golden feathers, a fau,tless form, aud hand
which no man can look upon without an
intense desire to kiss, are portions of the
description of young lady who is captain
OF schooner that trades with Houston,
Texas. AN Illinois farmer heard that
arsenic aud sulphur would prevent his hogs
from having the hog cholera aud he found
% OF them lying around loose after the first
feed VIRGINIA Conservatives offer q
prize to the county which will give the lar
gest majority. That sort of prize is better
than those taken out of the Treasury by
successful salary grabbers. CHICAGO has
had another cOnhigration. On the 18th
instant, fire broke out and spread over FIVE
blocks. Iu any other city than Chicago
the destruction Of property would be con-
sidered a terrible thing. The loss is ascer
tanned to be 100000. The buildings
burned were mostly wooden ones. .Ow-
INC to war among the dry-goods mer-
chants at Denver, calicoes were reduced TO
two cents per yard, and every editor, repor-
ter aud minister 10 the place now wears a
shirt--gaudy in some instances, but still
shirt. When such war breaks out in
Romuey we will apprise the readers Of the
htelkyencer f.! DIR. BELLEw, of Ediu-
burg, Shenandoah county, has ten acres of
cabbage plants for sale. He thought he
was planting turnips THE Mariinsburg
& Potomac Railroad now completed carried
to the Martinsburg Fair one day 300
Pennsy lvanians, on a single train. SO the
Statesman says. The receipts of the Fair
wero nearly $4,000. =. BREcK ENRTDGE,
Minnesota, had its first baby a short time
ago. When born, it weighed one pound
and quarter, and on Saturday, when it
was two weeks old, its weight was two
pounds. 1t was only six inches long, and
q common tumbler would cover it TEN
young women made the Harlem River at
New York lively on Saturday, by swim
ming match. The prize was a silk dress
valued at Sl75, and the distance a mile. =
Miss DELILAH GoBoEss, of Philadelphia,
proved the winner, swimming the mile in
forty minutes, and Miss MAGGIE CoLToN
of Boston, came in second THE Charles.
ton Courier says the transfers Of real estate
in Kanawha county during the mouth end
ing on the 10Th instant, represented val
ue Of 1922, 900 81. THE, corporation
Of the city of London is arranging a salary
grab, by which the salary Of the Lord
Mayor is to be increased from S35, 900 to
$50, 600. The Lord Mayor, however, is
expected to spend all his salary in NUM-
cipal entertainments LEwIsBURG, Ar.
kansas, claims to be the homo Of an old la
dy who has wept over the graves Of ten de.
parted husbands. A RED HOT erolite
came whizziDe down through the trees at
Marysvile, California, recently, burying
itself eight feet deep 10 the ground. 1t
weighed twelve pounds, and was so hot
even after an hour had been spent in dig
giDg tup that it set FIRE to the cart n which
it was being conveyed to the town "A
CAR loaded with merchandise for Gordops-
willie merchants, worth 81 900, was destroy
ed by fire on the old Alexandria and Or.
ange Road, on Monday night last, at Brandy
Station. On Friday last a Mr.. EDWARD
HAwLEY, resident Of Scranton, Pennsyl-
vania, died Of hydrophobi1. About three
months ago be was bitten by small dog.
lie subsequently, gave Indications Of rabies,
and on last Monday was taken severely i'll,
with the 6oal fatal result mentioned. Mr..
HAwLEY's case is interesting as involving
tn failuro IN oFeot d, 49,. -: tI =