South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-09-05
N e W OF THE DAY.

GA plantation which sod for $50, UUU In
1850, brought $500 at shcrif's sale recent
ly.- AN cx-United States Treasurer ap-
Piled to General SPINNER, present Trea-
surer, a few days since for position as
messenger in his office. Mas WooD Of
/ Dekalb county, Iowa, wrote to the man
from whom she had been twice divorced,
asking him if he couldn'. take care of the
children. lie replied, ayes, and of you,
too" and they are now married for the
third time. .JouN MILLER, of Medina
county, Oaio, remarked that be never felt
so well in his life, and be dropped dead the
next moment. By recent order Turk
ioh Indies in Cons;aniinoplc are not allow
ed to enter the stores for the purchase of
goods. THE Secretary Of tho Uoited
States Treasury denies tie recent charge
that there is deficit in the Treasury of
several millions w. w. CoRCoRAN paid
$500 in taxes on Washington property
last year, leading the list more than two
fold over any corporation or citizen in Wash
ihS Nph -OOotI-h DlAONS VI
~, is 1913 years old The railroad from
ST. Louis to Fulton, Arkansas, 400 miles,
is completed. WHEAT in the Martins
burg market is worth from 81 30 to 81 40
per bushel according to the kind and quail.
ity... MAJOR john ID. ROGERS of Far
ley Vale, King George county, Va, sold bis
s
miller in Frederick sburg, at 81 so per
bushel. WILLIAM r BoYcE, Presidcn,
of the lst National Bank of Lynn, Mlssa.
chusetts, committed suicide on Wednesday
evening, the 27,h ult..-.J. III. RosAN
QUEST, cashier Of the lst National Bank Of
larry town, Now York, also, committed SUI
icde on the same evening FEDERAL
troops are to be sent to Kentucky to sup
press the Kq-KIux iEfesrng Owen and o.
Their border counties in TIA; Suite. .. Eff
TY fishing vessels, American and British,
were wrecked on the Magdalea Islands, in
the gale Of the 2lst uit "A WOMAN at
Ipsilanti: Michigan, gave birth to tripletis
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them to church and had them christcned.
An advertisement in Charleston South
Carolina paper calls for all kinds of conf, d.
crate stamps, bills aud bonds. One dollar
each and upward will be paid for the $1,000
bills GALE, RNIA boasts that severe
and destructive storms of any kind are
practically unknown on that side of the
Rocky mountains. "A NEGRO thief in
Hart county, Georgia, attempting to enter
a store by way Of chimney, wcdgcd him
self SO tightly in the hle that the chimney
had TO be torn down next day before he
could be extricated aud escorted 20 place
Of safety, that il, to a cell in the county
jail AN engineer named WILLIAM ii len
bricks was killed by "run in" on the
'Bhilimore & Ohio Railroad near Mounds
vile, West Virginia, on "Wednesday of last
week Mr.. WILLIAM ANDREW, a high
~ respected citizen of Hancock district,
Washington county, Maryland, committed
suicide on tho 81 uliimo by hanging him
self with a dogwood wiihe, skillfully and
neatly made. lie was hanging about three
hours before being discovered. Justice
Lowe hell an inquest, aud the jury return.
ed verdict If do0th by his own hand
Pecuaiary embarrassment is supposed to
have been tho cause. THE Illinois and
Iowa corn crops, it is estimated, will not
exceed two thirds the average yield, owing
chiefly to tho drought early 10 the season.
&C.. .THReE children were struck by light
ming aud killed. in Calvert county, Mary
land, ON the 27,h cit. They belonged to
/ one family, aud were playiug 10 the room
az tic time. THE "hoodlu Of San Fran
cisco have devised a new way Of money
mixing Two Of them cutter into partner.
ship Oae # the firm insults rich young
lady IN public place the other, with great
spirit knocks him down, aud calamity
protects The young lady and secs her home
where, Of .urse, the grateful father gives
bin $50 ar so.... MICHAEL KAYE, lozy
o.nyiat 10 Gc Nv Jersey State prison GU
81 his thumbs last week to avoid working il
the shoe shop. WHAT 'soid teacher
20 a pupil, "mlkes you feel uDcornfortabl,
after you ay, done wropg?" "My papa.
big lel,ber s'r1p," feelingy replied th,
boy.. BosroN has refused TO rem
It's CJmmon az tho ratio Of one dollar pc