South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-12-26


crui.ed for the navy in New Orleans.
IT is said that AGO men were killed in the
State of New York, in seven months, while
coupling cars CHIEF UsTIcE McKEAN
has sgsin refused TO admit polygamists to
citizenship a, Salt L,ke....A cow near
Norristown, Pennsylvania, lately gave birth
to four calves. THE appropriation for
the expenses of the present session of the
Legislature OF this State is a little less
than S44 900. ONLY about q hundred
million cigars are manufactured annually
in the United States. The rest are import
ed !. The Illinois farmers convention
have adopted resolutions looking to the for
nation of q new political party -. A KIND
OF Mexican grass which grows on the shore
of the gulf of Mexico contains an excellent
fibre for the manufacture of cloth. Within
the thin fibre which covers the leaf is found
perfec, skein Of thread, of extraordinary
tineness and tenacity. By chemical pro-
cess the cuticle can be removed and the f.
bre rendered available at small expense.
THERE is religious sec, in England,
calling itself Peculiar Paople," the main
article of its creed being that it is sinful
for Christian, however uhwell, to call in
medical man .TnE new Constitution
of Pennsylvania has been adopted by a
very large majority. -. AN exchange tells
Us that the daughter of Don CARLOS, of
Spain, had so many names that 81, took
eight able-bodied clergymen to bap,ise her,
and her visiting card is made as large as o
cellar door and carried around on q push
cart" JOHN W. INsKREp, of Hardy
county, killed hog, the other day, that
weighed 522 pounds net -. A WESTERN
editor says he saw q beautiful maiden in
the street the other day, "who had what
seemed TO be stake and rider fence of lace
around her sloping neck, so high she was
compelled TO tip toe in order to see over it,"
Is not that rather ruff? A FAMILY nam.
ed MOORE, consisting of the husband, wife
aud child, passed through Little Rock, Ark.
on the llth inst, en- routo for Texas, and
when seven miles from Little Rock, were
misled from the main road and brutally
murdered by unknown villains. JUDGE
THOMAS LEIGH, of Virginia, son of the
ate Judge WIN. LEIGH, died at his resi-
dence in Halifax county, Va, on the 18th
instant SN.IIpoy 10 r,n0rt.1 -, a. .
increase in Chicago CINoINNAT1 has
slaughtered 4l5,00O h,gs since November
L, against 336, 900 for the same timo las t
year There are now LOO veterans in
the National Soldiers Home at Dayton,
Oaio--- A TEST case is said to be prepar-
ing IN Chicago, in which man is charged
with refusing to &c vaccinated and having
the smallpox, IN cons queDcP, endang ering
the lives and health of his neighbors.
Stylish kid gloves are down to fifty cents
per pair in New York SPRINGFIELD,
Massachusetts, has an ordinance which i'm
poses line on any one "who swears cut
loud NEW ORLEANS sent to Genoa,
Italy, two bundred barrels of whiskey, man
utactured 10 Louisiana, but consoles her
self with the reflection that i, is all com
ing back soon 10 the form of French bran.
dy. EIGHT years ago STEPHEN MEAD.
OF Pennsylvanio, told his wife TO "shut up. -
and she hasn't spoken a word since. A
CHILD witnessing balloon ascension said
he wondered the occupants did not wait IN.
til they were dead, for he didn't behave
live people would be permitted to enter
Heaven. --.A BosTON man was cursinp an
editor the other day when he fell down and
died. Several similar instances of the kind
have been recently reported. People should
DO exceedingly careful not to curse editors.
80 THE British navy has 900 vessels At
sea IN different parts of the world A
Maine girl has killed herself chewing Gum
- lr Is said that the Baltimore Il Ohm
Railroad Company find it necessary in or.
der to accommodate their immense traffic
to build four tracks between Washington
| City and the Relay House THE indigo
/ plant Is indigenous in Florida aud South
Carolina. 1t is easily cultivated, and is
remuucrsiive. a RECENT advertisement
states that competent agents arc wanted foI
the sale Of new medicine, (Which will be
very profitable TO the undertaken. THF
GAR has ordered the Grand Duke ALEXIS