South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-12-19
N E w s OF THE Jay.

THERE are 1888 Oranges in Iowa,
with an aggregate membership Of ] 90, 600.
-..-THE Canton (Maine) Tooth pick Fac
tory has just contracted for five hundred
cords of wood for It's business. THE mum
Der Of letters cent to the Dead Letter Ofice
at Washington in 1873, is already 4,402,-
34S. THERE is more carpeting made in
the 18th Ward of Philadelphia than in all the
looms of the rest of the United States, and
Great Britain. -THE aggregate number
of deaths from yellow fever in Memphis
this season was about two thousand Sc
Twenty-Five thousand hogs have been pack
ed in Kansas City this season. The Mo-
doc glory cost the Government three mil
lions The Massachusetts, Dental Socie-
ty have adopted resolution that in their
opinion the use Of chloroform in dental ope-
ratlOns Is not advisable AT Montours.
vile, Pennsylvania, recently man was
standing by his horse, eating an apple,
when the animal opened bis jaws and seized
the apple, biting the mans thumb com
pletely off,. The panic has got out to
Utah, and some of the Mormons are reduce
ing the number of their wives. THERE
are no women in the Wyoming Legislature
....TuE .Sah Lake Herald says that Mrs.
ANN ELIZA YoUNG's lectures about BRIG.
HAM were pruned, prepared, and doc:ored
by jurist, an attorney aud a clergyman.
....THEY don't whip school children at
Dos Moiues, but the victims are made to
stand on one leg for two hours. SOUTH
Carolina is bankrupt, and its Legislature is
doing nothing at $4,000 day. IT is
stated that ii. t. HELMBoLD, the once
well.known New York druggist, has emerg-
ed from his European retirement, and pro-
poses to again embark in business in New
York city 80 THE Carlist war in Spain is
said to have seriously interfered with the
cork trade, much of the region producing
the cork trees being in possession of the
Carlist forces. THE Indiana Historical
Society has appointed committee to con-
suit with Gov. HENDRICKS upon the ex-
pcdicncy of removing the remains of P.csi-
dent WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON from
North Bend to the Tippccauoe battle
ground "A HUNTER was torn to pieces
by an enraged female beAr, whose cub
he had wounded, in Cambria county, Pa,
recently - a CLEVELAND dry goods drum
mer has, during the last season, sold SEQ,
600 worth of goods, Travelled 900 miles
and married four wives a WAsuINGroN
drug clerk is under arrest for causing the
death of little child by carelessIy putting
too much opium in prescription MISS
TUBB, of Kentucky, has recovered 80, geo
for breach Of marriage contract and scrub
by treatment by her lover THERE are
$4,000 slaves in Cuba THY are eat
ing fresh strawberries 10 Mobile AN
Ohio editor publishes marriages under the
head Of Attachment Notices" IT is
said that General Fremont has cancer Of
the stomach, aud may not live year. a
LONDON court has recently been considering
the case of young man who had been de.
voting bis time to cutting off horses tails.
On being apprehended he admitted to hav-
ing appropriated hundred tails, or there
abouts. All this horse hair, it is supposed,
was intended to supply the wants of chignon
manufacturers. NEARLY 10000 natives
OF Louisiana reside 10 the city Of Paris
lr Is said that the people who went down
10 the Vile du llavre were worth twenty
millions Of dollars. WISCONSIN ia out of
debt. VIRGINIA has forty blast furnaces
80. VIRGINIA coupons, such as arc taken
for States taxes, sold in Baltimore on Sat.
urday last at 77ba77l ...TmE Library Of
Congress now numbers 2jS,752 volumes
and 90, 900 pamphlets. 10 the copyright
department ID 352 entries we're made dur
ing the psst year, netting over SIS, 600 to
!ho treasury go. Mr. ANDREW BAKER, Of
Lawes, Del, whilst cut cunning the other
day, Changed away and brought down se.
ycntocn large geese" 81 the Breakwater
Light says. PETER VAN DYKE, an old
chap who died in New Hampshire the other
dsy, worth sl4O 900 in cash, requested in
bis will that no one Should suifls and shed
crocodile tears at bis funeral, but cover
him over and chen bury home to fight
over bis money" Ia is said that the new
style Of overcoats for gentlemen has pock-