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

ineton on the 9Th Of December next. -.
THERE Is cave 10 Greeubrier county said
TO extend Z miles under ground. =. john
VI MEM, owner Of the Nj. Airy estate 10
Shenaudoah, died in Lynchburg, Virgins,
on the 18th ultimo, in the seventy eight
year of his age. -..IN Bll,imore, THOMAS
KEMP Co, grocers, Suspended on the 1t
inst Liabilities 10000; assets $50, 900
-. Sir El,cia Lanaseer, the celebrated
painter, died at his residence in London, on
the LIST inst. aged II. A LADY of Kenton,
o, was recently admitted to the bar. The
President has appointed EDWARD G. Neg
LEY postmaster at Pittsburgh, Pennsylva-
MIA, vice j. ii. STUART, suspended under
the tenure. of Office law. THE waiter girls
at the Queen City Hotel, Cumberland, Md,
IN accordance with de: erwination announc-
ed by them to the manager some week.
since, all left for Boston on the lSt inst,
and their places have been filed by colnred
men. "A YOUNG lady in Missouri womb
ted so violently the other day whils suffer
log with fever aud egue chill, that she
dislocated both jaws GENERAL JosEPH
E. JOHNSTON aud the late General. STER-
LING PRICE Of Missouri, and HENRY w.
ALLEN of Louisiana, were born, says the
Petersburg Index, in Prince Edward coun-
~, Firginia, within three miles of each
other. I'm japan a man aged 80 recently
committed suicide by hanging in fulGIment
bad made to BUDDHA, namely: that If At
the age of 80 he had not become famous he
would die. ORANGES measuring sixteen
inches 10 circumference are raised in C,i-
! ifornia. -. A MAN named WARNER had
/ his leg broken a. Lexington, Missouri, the
other day, and being in great pain he beg
ged of some one to shoot him. Mr.. Cur
IT'S, one of his neighbors, obligingly com
piled with the request, and is amazed at
| fuding himself arrested e. A KANSAS pas
tor has declined sn addition to his salary,
on the ground tha. the hardest part Of his
! labor heretofore has been the collection Of
his salary, and it would kill him to under
take to collect hundred dollars more.
! THREE counties 10 Illinois have female can
didates for The Office of superintendent of
common schools THIS year The estima-
ted value of steam engines exported from
England was Gl,9iG,S93 in the corres
| ponding period of last year, 81 $50 52S.
THE daughter of ENG, one Of the ST.
amcse twins, though deaf and dumb, has
married mute IN tie at Raleigh. THE
session of 1884, of the University Of Nir-
GINA, opened on the 1Sh ulrimo, with 400
students. ..TITUsvILLE (Pa) girls have
voted not to purchase any dry goods where
the stores keep open in the cVeuing They
! think the clerks can find some better bust
mesa, ADD more congenial. LII is estima-
ted that the bridge across the Mississippi
at St. Louis, with its approaches, will coat
| 50, 900, 900. THE women of the United
States use more pins and needles than those
ofany other country. Why is thi,2. =. The
doy before the failure of JAY CooFE he
entertained President GRANT at bic palatial
residence, at Chelton Hill, near PbilndoI-
phia. A GRANDSON of TIPPoo SAHIB is
in Jail at Calcutta, Indis, serving out term
of imprisonment for perjury. IA Con-
NECTICUT admirer of ALEXANDER II. STE
PuENs, wrote 10 him asking bin If sassa-
fras was good for the blood, and Mr. STE
PHENs wrote back on sixteen pages Of note
paper that il was RECENTLY, In a fight
at Paris, Kentucky, w. A. BURTON u
nited States deputy marshal, was killed
while in discharge of bis duty by two men,
brothers named CURRENT, who shot and
beat him to death with p toll butts. a
NOVEL cure for whooping cough is re.
ported 10 ColliusviIc, Connecticut. A lii.
tie four-year old boy was severely attacked
with tho above complaint, when little
kitten was given him, which be was very
fond Of holding most Of the time. The
kitten soon began to cough and wboop, with
symptoms Of being quite III. The boy ra-
pidly recovered, aud be anl The kitten are
are now both well "A WOMAN and child
at Angels, New York, have lived in a h,gz
head for two months, being 90 poor to pay
rent. GEORGE II BURwELL, Sa died
on the 5,h instant at bis residence, CAR
rrp Hun - mar M;lIvood in Clarko conn