South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-05-02

a days Is fsr less srreusive than 20 Cali.
fornia. SoNE liliuni- farmers haul their
products s,Kty asii 70 F.th.T ihar ps'roniEe
railroad. . la JuuN \. HUNTER. a dis
tinguisAesi Canf.frtstr surgeon, died ia
Lesisburc, fbis = ats. u The l9th ult.
THE two guestions q ,hs day What IL
going 90. saI wh,i I. coming n =. The
Atlantic B4uk Ncs a ok, susp, uded on
she 27th uh +. l. TRANroR, cashier, de-
fAulter for Sl0O, 900 D.. .GREEN peas from
New Orleans, have re.ched the market in
Lyncbburg :. Mas. JoNEs says her bus-
band is a tbree-hADded man-righi hand,
lefi hand and little behind hand .THE
stores in Ramney are fuli Of Spring Goods
TEXAS is supplying the northern mar
kets with mutton OvER $4,000 ples-
sure seekers spent So 200, 900 in Florids,
last week . %, 600, 900 bush wheat were
raised in the State OF Minnesota last season.
Mr. DANIEL BURNER, a highly esteem.
ed citizen OF Wocdstock, died on the 22nd
ult. OF heart disease \ LATELY deceas-
ed millionaire's estate in San Francisco Is
claimed BY four lawful widows already. d.
Miss MARY WADswoRTH,M ID of Frank.
lin, n. III. has been appointed physician
10 the harcm Of the Sultan Of Turkey.
lT is estimated that Que thousand new
houses and additions are in course of con-
struction in Richmond at the present time
... lT i stated that there are over three
thousand building associations in Balti.
more .-- FIRES, floods, freshcts, fcvers,
frauds, fleeciu.I, forgery, fighting, flirting,
turnkey ism, and hutery are among the
Oh Of nd g III
GENERAL JAMES SHIELDS is the only man
who ever represented two States in tho L.
nited States Senate. At one time he was
Senator from Illinois, and subsequently
Senator from Minnesota. THE leprosy
is said to be prevailing TO an alarming ex &.
tent among the natives of the Sandwich
Islands. THE Scientific american says
"that in less than twenty years most of
the heating and cooking will b. done by
combustible gas" .lr is remark able
fact that human hair grows nearly twice rs
fast in Europe as it does in America.
Hence the product OF the former country
is much greater relatively to its population
than that Of the latter a BEAUTIFUL
Indiana school girl, thirteen years old and
six feet one inch high, Is causing a general
rupture among the suspcnders of the short
boys who try to kiss her. A LARGE
grist and saw mill on the &. Il O. Canal,
twenty two miles east OF Cumberland, aud
belonging 10 the heirs oe JOHN YOUNG, was
destroyed by fire on the morning of the
2lst ul,. Loss, $4,000. LATE Cali
fornia papers give SOME fearful details of
the distress caused by failure Of the rice
in Il Of a
who have died of hunger, are daily found
on the roadsides, aud il ia no rarity to see
persons laying along the roads exhausted
and awaiting death :. DRUNKEN women
ars so common in Washington street, Bos-
ton, rs scarcely to attract attention. So
the Ira oeier says RICHARD SHERWOOD,
aged CD, sold house in Baltimore last
week for 81 900, and afterwards, thinking
he had gotten too little for it, went and
hanged himself. JOSEPH G.. Bowman
formerly of Rockingham county, Va, long
sufferer from rheumatism, drove cary.
ing knife to his heart at Vincenncs, India
ma, few days since. JAPAN exports tC
this country $4,000, 900 pounds of tea an.
nually. GEN Crook, the cnnqueror o
the Apaches, is to be made brigadier- gen
eral in the regular army, vice General L
ST. COOKE, who is TO be retired on account
Of Cd age. .SoMEBoDY says the las
Congress "more than hold their own
-. GREAT complaint of destruction from
prairie fires comes from all parts of tn,
state of Kansas a CONDUCTOR on tn,
Pennsylvania Railroad telo2raphcd from
Derry station recently "Tfain DELAYED
fifteen minutes on account OF lady. Don
know whether it is a boy or a girl"
DURING 1872, 291,2l7 immigrants arriv
ed AZ New York, an increase Of 81 ,57S o.
vcr ISL. Mr. w. DoNAGHE, a we'll
known and respected citizen, Of Staunton
died suddenly on the 23rd nit, FROM al
overdose Of laudauum NEGRO lodges O
the Know Nothing order are forming in tn,
Wet aud South. Their motto j. an
white man for cflice" The Winchcstc
NerS has been informed 10y gentleman
who has travelled extensively this Sprinl
through Frederick and the adjoining coun
ties that the wheat, especially in portion
Of Warren and Clarke, i looking very we'll
....A DEMON, named FARRELL, in Brook
/ Ign, New York, has been arrested. for starry
irg sixteen horses 10 death Mr. VIII
LIAM SroNNILL, who lives on tho north
westcru suburbs of Alex ndria, has a col
just one year old which weighs $50 pounds
an extraordinary weight ....THR follow
ing bits Of rroVcrhi,l wisdom, saya m
Winchester Times, will console the sn xiou
farmers who have been pipiug over the re
cent cold snap
IS cold Apr
The barn will ST.
"W hen April blows bis horn.
Us good for both hay and corn"