South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-03-07
VS. OF THE Jay.

COW, VVD, Jpp worth OF railWayS-- tRLS-
IDENr GRANT has decided to postpone his
Southern tour ,ill the pressure of business
upon the new Administration is over
ANOTHER cold snup this week. Ground
Hog representations all right FIVE
hundred and thirty women in the United
States are doctors, twenty four are dentists,
FIVE lawyers and sixty eight preachers.
The German papers hint tbat the abdica-
ton Of Amadeus vas secured by French in.
trigue . GEN. GRANT has ordered all the
troops from the Siuth aud concentrating
them near Salt Lake City. A speck Of
war with tho Mormons. "A PATENT
medicine advertised as an infallble cure
for tho opium habit has lately been analyz
ed and found to be morphine dissolved in
colored syrup. -. SENATOR BoGY began
his career as a page in the Missouri Legis-
lature, when he drew n salary of fifty cents
a day - IN Georgia, during the pas, five
years, $40, 900 worth of cattle have been
run over and destroyed by locomotives. =.
GEN. CRANE offered Cor. MosBY ten
thou d, liar fee, in a law case, employ
ment by the Government, which be declin-
ed -. \ KANSAS editor is advocating
ting up the United States Senatorship at
auction, for the benefit of the State =.
| COLORADO estimates that it received at
leas, s /, 900 900 from tourists in 1872. -.
/ THE Uniied States Hotel, Columbus, Ohio,
entertained % 600 guests during the past
! year. UDGE JAMES III. FERGUSON has
taken the benef; of the bankrupt act -.
/ DR.. JOuN WILSON, u prominout and much
respected physician of Marlinsburg, died
( suddenly on Friday evening last SOUTH
( Bend, Ind, has the largest wagon factory
in The world. Five million dollars worth
/ of wheeled vehicles were made 10 that town
/ last year. The Senate viii not act on
the bill removing Il. NJ. 7, HUNTER dis
abilities, Senator FOREMAN of this State,
| having OF ec,ed 80 TWO year olt child
of ANDREW CRUDE, Of Upshur county,
/ this State, recently sirauglei to death on q
bean with which it was playing. "Anoth-
er warning &c. - STERLING SLEDGE, a
convic, in the Virginia pcntentiary worth
| $50 600, died last week lie was - yenrs
Old and killed a man in anger last year
~ Il; HOLMES, of Manchester, Mich.
! igin, has Just sold five trees on his land in
! Clinton county for 5000 Four of the trees
were black walnut, aud the other was cher
iry They were bought for the Dotroit mar.
ket, and the same man offered $3.50 for
/ eighteen walnut trees standing on tho same
land, bong the price that Holmes paid for
/ the eighty acres -. Nix BESs ENIER de-
cares that he can produce gun which will
/ throw bali Weighing ten tons. KEN
lucky shipS BONDED horses to Scotland
-. AT White Pine, New, mahogany is
used for fuel. =. The most horrible acct
dent ever recorded took place in steel
rolling mill at Newburg, n Y, on the
18th. \ workman named JAMES NULL
GAN, Ia fixing a wrench bove the rollers,
fell upon them feet foremost, and in an in q.
slant was drawn through, the space being
only 81 inches. Every bone in his body
was crushed THERE ara nearly two
thousand children u New York under fl
teen years Of ago employed in making pa.
per collars. ...THE Spirit ofJc6crson says
JoHN W. KENNEDY, E.q., of Cbarlcstown
met with painful, though not serious ac-
oident, on Saturday last, by cutting his
foot with n axe. TINS is the way they
keep up the balance of power in Kentuc-
ky: "To the wife Of JAMES BRADLEY, of
Fayette county, sou-JEFF. DAVIS. To
the wife of ROBERT RITCHEY, Of Fayetie
county, a son-U. 5. GRANTA FE.
MALE Lobbyist, who couldn't get her bill
through, spit in a Wisconsin Solons face,
AMI she S0lonch5kei her litte. FRANK
LY speaking, what's to be done with Con-
gressmen's dirty clothes DOW that they
can't send them home by mail to be wash
ell without paying postage IA New
York man has invented an sir gun which
throws u bullet through horse and makes
no report. The government refuses to pa
tent it. The map Of Rockingham shows
the county to possess the best manufactu-
ring advantages ofany ia the State. .AD-
VICES from Rio Jlneiro say the yellow fe.
vlr carries Oh hundred porsoDs daily.
JAMES y. u Ellis, the head and front OF
the American gamb.iDg-b9us recently bro.
ken up in Paris, wa, ten years ago, a min
lister IN good standing aud had charge Of
a Massachusetts, church ... Here i true
dog story "A family downtown having
a ia!se CRATE in one of tbe rooms Of tho
house placed some red paper behind it tC
Give the effect Of fire. One of tho cold
es. days this winter the dog belonging to h,
household came ia from cut Of doors, and
seeing the paper in the crate deliberately
walked mp 10 DO and laid down before il
curled mp ia the best way to receive lht
glowing heat as il came from tho fire. IT,
remained mJtionless for few minutes
feeling no warmth be raised bis head auc
looked over his shoulder at the crate still
feeling 90 beat be arose aud carala'ly ap
piled his nose TO the CRATE and smell Of it
lt wls as cold o5 Zee. With look &C tht
most supreme DISCUS. bis tail curIcd dowr
j between bis legs, every hair on his bod