South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-10-03
N e W s OF he DAY.


er's more. NASHVILLE, Tennessee, has
club of REJECTED Lovers" from which
member was lately expelled for having Wis
tied again the lady who had once rejected
him .EDINBURG, Shenandoah county,
Virginia, has four churches, four Sunday
Schools, graded school, one subscription
school, one wooden factory, and phosphate
manufactory JEAN CHAcoRUAc, the dis
'inguished French astronomer is dead :.
The Chinese make their paper money from
the leaves of the mulberry tree. .GEoR-
GIA papers complain that the increase Of
suakes in that State seriously Injuries the
operation of farmers. One farmer confess
rs his inability to gather q luxuriaot crop
of field peas in consequence OF the snakes,
which are a mortal terror to the colored la
borers. The sale Of pews in the new
Jewish temple in New York netted sl40,-
600. SIXTY cars containing over 5000
passengers passed through Indianapolis on
the 25th ultimo over tho l. Il Il w. Rail.
road, bound for Kansas and Nebraska, by
the Quincy and Burlington route. THE
New York savings banks aver that they
have made money by the panic, as the scar
ed deposi,ors who withdrew their money
have lost their interest since July >. A
DISEASE has broken out among the COWS in
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, similar to
the horse disease Of last wiutcr. Some far
mers have lost half they had. -. A COR
RESPONDENT OF the Clarksburg Sun states
that Mr.. II. p. WILKINSON, drover of
Bridgeport, Harrison county, reports that
in coming home from Baltimore last week
he was robbed on the train, of IS 900. In
consequence of which he has failed fnan-
cislly. Mr. WILKINSON was an energetic,
business young man. WITHIN q few
weeks past eight or ten horses have been
stolen from the vicinity OF Hancock, Md
There is no clue to the thieves or horses as
yet, bu. the people there, the Cumberland
Ne'rs says, are beginning to think that 4
HOI eo-'"'Ci sapS CA'S's III 'neii ueIBuoOr-
hood, having connection with gangs 10
other places. -. Iowa has l0, 500, 900 acres
of land under cultivation. THE manu-
fscture of butter from fat is growing in
dustry in New York. -. CoLoRED chewing
gum has poisoned several school children
a. New Albsny, Indiana. - ENGLISH girls
are more slanRy than Americans. Hea-
ven help the English girls. A MAN in
Norfolk street in the city lately advertised {:
"Ono basement to let in dis house in der
third sthory.". THE Union Pacific Rail.
road is building . snow pillow to be driven
by FIVE locomotives. They expect it will
go through drift twenty feet deep.
THERE is a movement at Martinsburg to
erect new hotel by joint stock company.
-. BENNINGTON, Vermont, has nine knit
ting-miIls running night and day. One Of
them manufactures over 100000 ladies'
undergarments in one year. A WOMAN
dressed in silk was begging for bread in
Baltimore the other day. STATISTICS
show that over hundred persons do from
starvation 10 London every year. A LOT
of game cocks, imported from Kentucky y,
sold in Virginia City lately for $50 each.
80. THERE we're shipped from Augusta,
Georgia, this season, 239, 869 watermelons,
against 6S,222 last yesr. "A TERRIBLE
cyclone has swept over long tract Of ooun-
try in tho Western part Of Florids and 10
Georgia, being the most destructive ever
known in that region. The damage caus.
ed will amount TO hundreds Of thousands
of dollars. A large number Of houses have
been destroyed, and property Of almos. ev-
cry description has been carried from lis
foundation aud wrecked in the general tenn
peat. One Of General JACKsoN's corn
cob pipes is TO be seen at Nashville. Any
one who he's access TO . corn-crib can make
one Of these pipes, and il be is good at ~
ing he can exhibi, valuable relic. D.. THE
Fredericksburg "News" says n hundred
and thirty Elk persons left that town Thurs.
day morning to attend the circus 10 Rich.
moad Five drinks q day are allowed
by tie KeOGuk Uo.) Limited Liberty
Temperance Society IA LARGE metal
button on the dress Of woman at Portland
Me-, saved her life recently by turning the
ball FROM pistol which her affectionatC
husband fred at her. a FIRE 10 Brem.
hsm, Texas, on Sunday night Last, cousum-
ed two and half snnaras Of hnildinrs In