South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-12-12

ber- IA GOOD many people are out Of
work just now, bu. ostrich feathers still
find purchasers at $3.50 pound . /. IT is
said that Harrisonburg will be the location
OF the workshops of the Baltimore and O..
hio railroad in The Valley of Virginia-
RECENTLY, IL Shenandoah county, a chick.
en- hawk, which measured J feet from
the tip of one wing TO the tip of the other
was killed. THE eggs received at o gdens-
burg, New York, from Canada, last season,
numbered IL, 637, l24 DR.. ALBERT G.
WORKMAN, aprominent physician of Rich
mond, Virginia, died in that city on Thurs
day OF last week. THREE ladies' have
been nominated in b ,ston as members of
the School Committee, decided innova-
-tion on ordinary usage :. 4. MORE than a
thousand of the foreign operatives in the
Patterson, New Jersey, silk factorie, have
returned to Europe since the suspension Of
work 10 Patterson. ABOUT 100 repair
hands have been discharged a, Mlrtinsburg.
by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com.
psny- a FARMER in Belmont county,
Ohio, has the following notice posted in
conspicuous place or bis farm: "Know
all men by these presents that | CoRBEN
BENIN of sound mind dearly beloved and
long 10 be remembered d never TO be for
gotten while feeling souls are susceptible
of memory. This to let know | wan, you
to stay out of my premises bird hunting a
wink or nod to the wise is sufficient"
THERE was decline in -four last week at
New York of % to 40 cents per barrel. =.
ECONOMY is said to be carried to such an
extent in town in Michigan that the pa
per mills have been compelled to suspend
operations for want of rags. Pro iron
has declined Sl5 per ton from tho highest
point of this year. THE total number of
hogs slaughtered in Cincinnati for the past
week is 1000, aud since November to
date 2oS, 900. During the same time last
year the number slaughtered was EOS 600
-. CONGRESSMAN PENDLEToN of Rhode
Island, on the principle of better late than
never, has sent into the Treasury his back
pay, under date Of November &c. THERE
was a terrible fight between circus men ana
citizens, with knives and pistols, at Jack
sonville, Texas, on tho 30th ult. Three
rou9hs were killed and seven wounded. and
SIX circus men were wounded "A NEW
colored insane asylum is TO be built in
| Harrisonburg, Virginia "A GIRL of the
period thus comments on Mormonism -
allow absurd Four or Eve wives to one
man, when the fact is, each woman in these
times ought TO have four or five husbands.
1t would take about that number 10 SUD-
port ono deccntly". Folks are beginning
to make buttons, combs, door kuobs, cups,
canes, aud oil sorts of thugs out of leather
They chemicalize it, chip it up and dissolve
it in certain fluids till it is pulp. Then
they make it into useful articles By press
ing into mouds of the required share.-
When they takeit out of the moulds it is hard
and tough. Then they polish iis surface iD
some way, and the articles arc ready for sale.
- In Java young ladies' in want Of hus-
bands make known their wishes By placing
an empty flower pot on the portico roof.
! THERE are l72 new memb ers of the lower
house of Congress. THAT was Dice,
cautious, lonely old lady in Hopedao,
Conn. who kept 81 900 bond and $1,000
In bauk notes in her house because she
couldn't trust tho bank. She has not the
money now, though. Man came with
| pistol) and carried away the treasure ..
TIE police stations Of Cincinnati accommo-
date $50 dodgers per hight. THE Gov.
ernmen. officials OF England use nothing
but quill pens in their writing .. ARIzo.
MA is improving. \ man has been indict-
cd for Furnishing a deadly weapon IT
is estimated that for each enlisted man in
the service, the United States has to paw
81, 900 year. ORDERS for 2, 900 freight
cars, to be placed in readiness for the trans
por,aiion Of aboni $50 900 bushels Of whea',
says the 81 Paw Press, have recently been
issued by the Milwaukee aud ST. Paul Rail-
road Company. L, is also stated by close
observers Of the wheat market and trade
estimates that within the next fifteen days
there will be at least 500 900 bushels Of
wheat on its way to the sea board THE
Yirginius was owned by New York man
named WILLIAM PATTERSON. Tba. set