South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-12-05
N e w s OF THE DAY.


from New York. JAMES MASON has
been appointed receiver in Philadelphia in
the JAY COOKE bankruptcy case. THE
live stock firm of j. b. HUNTER 4 Co., of
Kansas City, Missouri, failed on the oath
ultimo, for $50, 900. SOME of the Vir-
ginius victims were mere boys of eighteen.
WILLIAM GRAY, one of the oldes, and
wealthiest tobacconis,s of Richmond, Vir-
GINA, died on the 2Sih ult., aged IS years.
.--.VALUABLE discoveries Of silver ore
are said to have been made lately in Sugar
Valley, Clinton county, Pennsy lvania. -.
ACCORDING to the Topeka Commonwealth
JOHN j. INGALLS,, of Atchison, is "the on
ly man 10 Kansas who is not a candidate
for United States Senator" Hon JET
PERSON DAVIS has returned home to Mem
phis, without going abroad, his health not
permitting. -. GBoRGs JORDAN, q Bati-
MORGAN by birth and an actor of celebrity,
died in England few days since .fN
the small State of Rhode Island there are
no fewer than seven divisions Of Baptists.
1--WE are spending twenty millions an
nually on our navy. In this respect it is
ahead of anything in the world -. "A HAN
COCK county (Pa.,) hunter owns a coon
which weighs seventy pounds J.. . THE race
horse Tom BOWLING can be bought for
500, 600. SAMUEL HoUsToN, of Texas,
when living as a Senator 10 Washing ton, ut
WILLARD's s, slept on buffalo robes spread ON
the floor. -. A CoNCATENArIoN of cats is
to be held in Cincinnati this winter, open
to every cat in the United States The dog
has had his day, and now the cat is to have
her afternoon ILLINOIS reports SO deaths
from threshing-machine accidents the past
season. CHURCH property in the United
States Is estimated to be worth 1850, 900.
OOO.--.A WESTERN paper calls fellow
poor devil who ran off with $40, 900. AN
advertisement for district school teacher,
in Now Hampshire, concludes in this way ::
"N. B.-No man need apply who wears
shawl IA LEHI0H county physician
claims to have been present at the birth of
1000 citizens in that county MORMON
husbands in Utah are said to be cutting
down expenses, by reducing the number of
their wives. THERE are 100000 slaves
in Cuba. IA RICH brewer of New York
owns sixty fast horses. GERMANY is
making alcohol from Indian corn "A
RICH vein of gold has been discovered Near
Rome, Georgia. We import the most
miscellaneous stationery from England and
most paper from Belgium THE United
States army has Que officer for every fifteen
men, to say nothing of retired off GERS. >.
A GEORGIA man advertises that he will be
hung in any mans place for Sl5, 900.
TIE associated banks in New York City
held S33, 100000 10 legal tenders on Sl-
turday THE colorcd Baptists of Mis-
souri,, Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas have de-
termined to BULL college for the educa-
ton of their young people. 80. IT is sup
posed that there was moro wheat sown last
ever before -. lr has been discovered in
/ Franco that The sheath n the hop stalk is
superior even to rags for making paper
ONO is becoming quito tobacco growing
State. Duripg the present year it has pro-
duced thirty thousand hogsheads d. . RUT.
LAND, VI, boasts Of q man with foot
seventeen inches 10 length. . q. DAN RICE
advertises that old maids can visit his show
at half price, bat he never had female
call for u half price ticket A PHILoso
PIER remarks that there is something pc.
culilarly instructive in standing upon a
street corner 10 large city, and watch the
men all rushing around trying to make
money, aud the women oil floating around
TO spend il. THERE were three suicides
in Baltimore Saturday last. .. JORDAN, of
the White Sulphur Springs, Frederick Co.,
Va, recently killed seven Chester pigs, six
teen months old, which aggregated 1852
lbs or an average Of 336 pounds each.
49, The word panic arose out Of the bat
/ tic Of Marathon. In that immortal fight
q mere handful Of Greeks encountered an
infinite host Of Persians, aud put them to
utter rout. How did they do it? The
Persiaus we're smitien by the god Pan with
sudden Oauseloss aud extreme fright.
/ They lost their wits; and that state Of things
took its name from the god who produced it,