South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-05-23
N e WIS OF THE DAY.

AHe past TOUT years tue spanish forces
IN Cuba have put 10 death 43, 500 Cuban
prisoners of war. ..JUDGE CHAsg's de-
cease leaves tut three of Dir. LINCOLN s
original Cabinet living-Messrs. CAMERON,
wELLEs aud BLAIR. ONLY ID per cent
Oh the land of Cuba is under tho pillow, vet
her aDnusl exports reach 500, 5000
The whole cost of our 60 900 miles of Rail-
road is about s3,437 ,638 ,749. THERE
are seventy female students in the Iowa
Agricultural College MICHIGAN has six
~ marderers IN her prison under life sem
fences - ARKANSAS has produced steer
that measures full Is hands high Aus
TIN, Texas, is now within four days of
/ New York THE SHAH of Persia will
soon arrive at Vienna. He is accompani.
ed by all the members OF his Cabinet and
three of his wives. l, Is estimated that
the expense of his European tour will be
i've millions Of pounds sterling. CAPT
MAURICE HICKoK. died at his residence
IN tincastle on the nth inst aged 10 years.
-. .SEvENTY-NINE new iron works were
started in different parts of Pennsylvauia
last year. :. GOVERNOR WALKER, of Vir-
ginia, Is said TO be the bandsomes man in
the United States. :. THEY manufacture
fuel from bay and straw by machinery in
I Western Iowa. LII is declared by the
laws Of. Iowa to be a misdemeanor for any
owner, lessee or agent, having control of
any laud 10 allow any Canada thistles to
| blossom or mature on it. THE receipts
from tolls of the Chesapeake and Ohio Ca
nal for the week ending May 10 were S.
! 943 OF. 49,. The women of the United
! States use more Plus and needles than those
of any other country A MORMON church
has been established in Florida HEN
RY OssIAN clipper, che son of a mulatto
bootmaker in Atlanta, Georgia, has obtain.
ed an appointment to a cadetship at West
Point. THE coal trade of London en-
plOys ), 800 people and is controlled by on
ly 70 men. AN explosion took place on
the 18th inst, in Drummond coliery, Pic.
ton county, Halifax, and seventy five men
persisted in the burning mine The Rich.
mond Why believes West Virginia to be
the richest district of the same erca on the
globe =. THERE are forty lawyers residing
IN Charleston, this State A FACTORY
for the manufacture of porcelain ware is a.
! bout to be established near Stanton, Va,
by Mr.. EAsToN, an English gentlemar.
- y CoQUETTE of Fond du Llc accept.
ed the matrimonial offers Of SIX simultane-
Gus SWANS, and then made them fight for
the preference, in order to show the neigh
bors how much she was ft for . The hens
Of this country do $50, 600 900 worth of
business year. GIRLS scarcely ten
years of age work in the Lawrence mills,
MISS from half post six in the morning
till ten o clock at night. - The pew Paint
Factory established at Harrisonburg, Va,
=, -. 4 Ii
specie shipments from New York on Sat-
utday last were 1929 ,020 -. THE troops
about the Lava Beds begin to be annoyed
by rattle snakes and scorpions, which give
them almost as much trouble as the Mo.
docs. THE Shenandoah Democrat says
The wheat crop in this county promises
to be good" =. AN ass in Hartford, Conn
by the name of ADAMS died recently and
left $40, 900 for the support CT lame hors-
es.- THE day is coming when the West
will make its own shoes, cotton and WOODEN
goods, and nearly all articles of manufac.
ture which are now sent there FROM New
Eng gland .CUDA contains 800 81 in.
habitants. OF these 1853 176 are whites,
239 927 free colored, 1868 ,2SS slaves, and
81 APO Asiatics. =. THE Australians ne.
yer sue for a divorce. When q husband
gets discouraged, he takes his wife to the
brow of q cliff to view the gorgeous sunset,
and over she goes. A PIECE of land
near Spring Valley, Mimi, has sunk four
feet below It's former level this spring.
DgLONG, our Minister to Japan, rose from
the ranks no was formerly hotel waiter
IA writer from the Vienna Exhibi-
ton says that the visitors are q greater
- IL l..
view of the fac. that some women in Mas.
sachusctts are praying the Legislature Of
tina. State TO IegaiiLe pOygimy, the women
of Arizona, who are few and far between,
are demanding law allowing a plurality
Of husbands. The balance in tue Viz
GINA State Treasury, Friday las', was 81.
lac, 56l TO-. THE best way to get just
the right tangle in he hair is to Gil il full
of cornmeal and let tho chickens scratch it
out The Ascension Church in Balti.
more, protestant Episcopal was destroy
ed by FIRE on Monday evening last--loss
$50, 900 The origin Of the FIRE has, after
much Investigation been discovered. The
sexton burned out nest of wasps over tho
orgau gallery near the rafters. IIowE' S
great London circus opened at Philsdel-
phia last Monday night. II i pronounced
tho finest show now before the American
public. "A WATERFALL 1000 feet high,
or more than twelve times the height Of
Niagarp, bas been discovered in British
Guiana. s. BLAST in Morblehe1d, Mass
threw one hundred pounds Of rock half a
I mile, ond itstruck aud killed a COW "A
Pennsylvania paper says: every village
and borough in the State is projecting The
erection Of factories Of various kinds. We
never knew period in the history Of Penn.
sylvanIa when 50 much money was put in
to manufacturing business a. is being 10
vested at present THE keeper Of an