South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-02-28
WIS OF THE DAY.


every month from the StsuntoD postofhce.
49,. Ir may be interesting to some people
TO know that our country has never had
but one tlack-eyed President-Gsn. HAIR.
RIsoN ELI Comfy, aged 73, SALLY
SMURR, aged So, and Mrs. BENNER. aged
%, all died near Shepherdstown, w Va,
last week. The Mirtinsbnrg Valley Far
ner says that Mr. McFARLAN, an em-
ployee of the Martinsburg and Potomac
Railroad, was killed on Sunday night, the
10th inst, by falling into a cellar at the
Shenandoah House and breaking his neck.
THE Costa Ricl coffee crop his year is
estimated a, 100000 pounds. TIN
and zinc mines have been discovered in
Pike county, Indiana. Gen. CuAs. NJ.
TuRUsroN, of cumberland died on The 18th
inst DURING 1872 tho products of the
Michigan copper districts reached Sl2, 000,-
600 THE new government of Spain
plainly inlimates that parting with Cuba is
not to be thought Of. =. GLASS barrels are
10 be used for transportation of petroleum
in order to save the heavy loss from evap-
grafton in ordinary packages. Ir is TO.
ported that another revolutionary expedi-
sion has arrived safely in Cuba. Tue
( eight woalthiest men in New Orleans are
I retired butchers. =. ELKs take the places
of draft horses in some portions of Nebras-
ka.--.A YOUNG but impecunious widow
in Lancaster, Pa makes no secret of her
| feeling towards a rich bachelor who owns
a large farm in the vicinity. She says she
loves the ground he walks on, and perfect
/ ly adores the house he lives in "A NM
BILE woman, 1877 years old, does house
work and runs crrands for living in Los
Nletos, California "A LADY i'll Jackson,
Me is said to have contracted small pox
7 from a muf which she had lent TO friend
GEO. DRIVER, of Chicago, who has just
been sentenced to be hanged for the muir
! der of his wife, was convicted on the evil
dence Of his two children-one fourteen, the
the other nine. :. THE approximate value
of the wool, wheat and gold produced in
( California last year was Sc, 500, 900. 49,
| DURING the past month five ten wheel
locomotives were built at the shops Of The
Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad Company in
Biltimore -. Ir is reported that some of
the great Powers of Europe will oppose
the establishment of a Federal Republic
in SpHin =. Mr. WIN l. REA, an old
merchant OF Wiuchesier, died on tho 18th
inst, IN that place - An enterpriaing
Floridian keeps boarding house, billiard
room, and court OF justice. THERE
are 50 600 post-ofIiccs in the United States.
Five hundred ere kept by women A
| CINCfSNATI editor asks, care we fire
proUi!' We h pps he is . There is Il pro-
position before Congress to connect the sew
efal departments of the government, in
Washington by telegraph. .-.THE Khe-
dive of Egypt expended 100000 for the
laccs of his daughters wedding troussoau.
IA BANGOR, Me, firm makes kind
liDgs of sawdust pressed with pitch. -.
FEMALE teachers are very scarce in Cali
fornia Matrimony is what ais them >.
President GRANTS residence, six miles
from St. Louis, was burned on Friday
last. No insurance. - DR.. w. +. WITH
ROW, Dentist, died at his residence in
Martiusburg, on the Goth inst. CON-
| MODoRE VANDERBUILT has given $4,000
to each of Mr.. GREELEY's daughters. :.
TIE ranking privilege now doomed to 60
out Of existence on the first day Of next
July, was born January 10, 1892, aud is
consequently in its eighty-second year.
ONO has ten acres for each inhabiiant :;
but each inhabitant doesn't get ten acres
- LABORERs get eleven cents per day
10 Brazil TIE "wick" eldest man in
} Congress Is the one who has shed the
most light on the rest. 49,. G GEORGETOWN
Colorado mildly calls the msm bers of its
| vigilance committee yelled knights Of
( justice. 49, PITTsBURGH man has inven-
ted new tombston e It's of iron, cast in
| the right shape wi,hgrooyes orrts's, for mar
BE tablets They can be manufactured ut
price that will give the poorest Of us two
or three changes Of tom bstonos apiece.
I TIE loss Of memory prevailing to such all
/ extent among Credit Mobilier Congress-
men is charged TO the exec ssive use of to-
bacco JEFFERSON county, Ohio, which
during the Grape excitement some years
ago went extensively into grape planting
along the Ohio river hills. shows 10 1872
a decrease Of IA acres, only 80 scros in
grapes remaining in the entire county
THE assessed wealth Of Missouri is $685.
l66, 500, according to the returns made to
the State Auditor. Or the sll0 900, 600
investodsin the coal business in The United
States, Pennsy ,vauiq's share is SCI, 000,-
. 600. LIN Cambria, IIill-dalc county,
Michigan, recently, a girl backed out Of
her marriage engagements az the nuptials,
when her sister jumped up and took her
place, and all went on just as mcrrily
A Greenock, on the west coast Of Scot
land, it rlined last year PIP days GU; Of
the 500. "A PLUCKY lady in Ti'usville,
Pa, seized a burglar by the beard in her
house, and so astonishod him that he fed
precipitataly And then she tainted
TIE supervisors Of Highland county have