South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-08-29
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East every day from Chicago. :. Two wo-
men have applied for seats in the Graphic
balloon. Or the 80, l70, 294 passengers
carried over the railroads in Pennsylvania |
last year, Only 80 were klled-less than one
10 = million. 4 CHILD two years old was |
lately found at Mount Vernon, Ind, trying !
to awaken mis- parents, both OK whom had !
died of cholera. Mrs. SARAH JOHNSON,
white woman, who was bitten by a rabid |
cat about year ago, in Little Rock, Ar !
krnsas, was attacked with hydrophobia on
Wednesday might week, aud died Friday
morning -.S S. Nj. SMITH, Secretary Of the
Illinois State Farmers Association, says
that soven tenths Of the farms Of Illinois,
a:e mOrigaged -. PENNSYLVANIA tobsc-
co, next to that grown in Connecticut, is-
sail to be the best for smoking purposes
raised in the United States. Misc IGE
NATION is not encouraged in Indiana. NJ
CHoLAs KEIG Err, Of j, Jacksonville, has been
aeLteDccd by tho Clark county Criminal
Court to pay fine of 81 900 and suffer
one years imprisonment 10 tho penitentis-
ry for marrying white woman. "A wo-
MAN Of Mount Clare, Penusy lvanis, SO
years Old, lately walked seven miles 10 two
hours aud half. TIE Chinese laborers
IN Cuba object TO being paid in paper
They say it is too thin Mas. SARAH
JANE TODD advertises in an Indiana polls
paper that she Left her husband one year
ago, on discovering that he was part negro
THE Methodist church, the world over
claims an ggregate of IL, 900, 900 members.
a young man named Moses PELToN, living
near ilillsboro, Ohio, was on his way to be
married, when he was struck by lightning
and instantly killed. Two years ago his
brother was thrown from his horse and kill
ed while going to marry tho Same lady
1T Is said that New Hampshire farmer
has worn pair Of boots for twelve years.
lie wears them to circuses, but goes bare.
footed to church. .. Missouri boasts Of n
woman seventy -one years of age, who walks
SIX miles to market, carrying . dozen tur-
keys, twenty chickens, twenty -four dozen
eggs, and six pounds of butter, while her
daughter stays at homo and exercises the
! piano. MARY ELLEN BURNS, colored
woman, has commenced a civil suit in the
Scott County Circuit Court against BENJA.
MIN OSBORNE, for killing her husband.
laying damages at 100000 OSBORNE,
who is white man, is said to be very veal
hy He has been committed, without
bail, to answer the charge of murder.
ABOUT one half of all the carrige trim
mings, cutlery and edge tools, hardware,
plated ware, spectacles and eye glasses
made IN the United States are manufactur
! cd iniConnecticus. MARY HARsHEY WAS
awarded 50, 900 damages a. Mansfield, O.
hio, last week, by the jury of the common
! pleas court, on charge against JOHN Nor
DAN, Of assault with attempt to commit q
rape - y MICHIGAN man thinks he has
discovered how to so temper steel, and e.
ven cast iron that it will cut glass like
dismord There are 5000, coo of dwell
/ logs in the Uuited States. Admitting that
on the average they cost 81 900 each, which
Is very low estimate, we have IS, 600
OOOOoO invested in the dSellipgs of the
people. GOLDEN City Colorado, is re.
| Jol2ing over bar of black sand nine miles
long and one mile broad, which yields $500
gold to the ton. JONI j. SNYDER, aged
lOG years, who served in the British army
IN cur own war Of the Revolution, and was
subsequently, under BLUCuER in tho battle
I OF Waterloo, died recently in the poor house
at Stat-sville North Carolina ."PUT down
your umbrellas. You'll scare this engine
of tho track screamed the engineer Of
The Western North Carolina Read 10 a
crowd Of country people, who had gathered
to see the first train Of cara come 10. They
! were al. lowered at once. IT coats SO.
600 10 bore on oil well. So, unless it pro.
duces over half n million gallons, the own
or wishes be hadn't Six tons Of gold
coin brought by the treasury officials from
San Francisco TO Washington, have been
forwarded to lhe New York sub-treasurv
....I'aiian wit is highly dramatic, spon-
tanc'1', genial Among its proverbs arc !:
"Iho dog earned his living by waggiug bis
'a'I' "Hake yoUr-elf all honey, and the
lies will deyour it, The smiles Of
pretty woman are the tears Of the purse. 3"
ole who takes 40 eel by the tail, or wo.