South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-10-24
N e VS. OF THE DAY.

the Presidents appointment of November
p as Thanksgiving day The State debt
of Virginia amounts to s37 for every indi.
yidual within her borders THE fight
between the Bcule Sioux aud Poncas To-
diaus on the 18th inst resulted according
TO the latest reports in the killing of twenty.
IA FABRIC woven from Bamboo fbres
is new materisl for ladies' dresses. -.
The Virginia tobacco crop of 1873 is said
TO be the bes. for years. IT is reported
that the genuine tea plsut is growing pro-
fusely in the suburbs of Jacksonville, Flor
ida. THE California grangers are going
to petition Congress for grants Of land to
the State for system Of irrigation.
The Sacramento beet-sugar factory this
year will make eight thousand barrels of
sugar, valued at $500 900 BY rigorous
enforcement of the liquor law Boston has
managed 10 reduce the number # it, bar
rooms to little over 1000. "A MIME
sofa jury has decided tha, BARRIERS work
on Sunday il necessary labor. AT the
recent exercises Of the State Normal School
in Salem, Massachusetts,, a mother and
daughter we're 10 the graduating class to-
gether . The Msrtinsburg Inde PENDENT
records the death Of Mr.. BERNARD DOLL,
OF that place, a, Shreveport of yellow fever.
/ Mr.. DOLL met his death in assisting the
victims of the soourge. Mrs. HILL, who
shot her husband at Worcester, Msssachu
sets, did it 10 q unique way, with all tho
accomplishments of fashionable life
She was walking beside him and asked him
to take her parasol for her. He took it,
aud she then, after putting Der hand In
her pocket to get the pistol, asked him to
let her kiss him. He consented. She
then put her arms about him and put a
bullet through his lef, lung. His recovery
is doubtful =. The latest Suspension" is
that of the Modes. They will not Gre
sumo" 49,. PORTSMOUTH, n. Ii produces
annually, in addition to numerous temper.
ance orators, 10000 barrels of ale aud
10000 gallons of rum. THE Baltimore
merchants are getting down to specie pay
ments by Offering silver as change in the
purchase Of goods. IA WITTY housewife
says there is no vcnison in the market, but
plenty of dear meat. "A SOCIETY at Pts
cataquis, Maine, has resolved that it is Gas
bad to vote for thief, liar, or a drunk
urd no IN ha ona TUp new lawa of Ne.
braska impose fines 'for profane swearing
done by any person of the age of fourteen
years and upward" Children under four
teen may swear gratuitous!y as before.
a DRUNKEN husband i, worth q great deal
to a woman in Iowa. Every time be gets
drunk the wife can sue the saloon keeper
who sold him the liquor for SO, 900 and in
nine cases out of ten get the money.
"WuERE there's a will there's q way" In
proof, it is said that widow lady in Shell
by county, Illinois, lately refused an offer
of S75 for three calves Bat the man was
bound TO have the calves, so he married the
widow. THE Norristown Herald says
defalcations won't stop till editors get hold
of the Offices. "A BANKER 10 Paris lost
a valuable diamond pin and offered a re-
ward for it. The thief had fac simHe
made, substituting paste for stones, aud
presented the pir to the loser, who paid
the handsome reward The original pin be
sold to jeweller. Few persons have 3
conception Of the enormous mortality a.
moOg men, caused by wild beasts. To
R,st IuGia nearly $4,000 persons we're
killed in one year (1869) by snakes alone.
To that same year single tigress killed in
one district 1877 people. In the year 1871
more than 10000 were killed by wild ami
mails of ell kinds. The Indian Government
has, ogain and again, offered rewards for
the exiirpation Of these beasts, but the su-
persitious fear Of the natives, who regard
them as powerful demons that should not
be offended, has as yet proved an insur.
mounlnble obstacle. ..TuE Shenandoah
Democrat snys that, on Saturday week
Mr. ISAAC HIsEY killed q crane, near the
Falls about mile aul a half above Ediu-
burg, and, by actual measurement, found it
to be FIVE feet eight inches across the wings
from tip to tip aud four feet eight inch ca
high. a COW 10 Kentucky, bitten in the
uddor by a copporhead snake, was saved
f,or, Hath no he;po oopioueiv doeod ~ ;fb