South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-11-21
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pa"S'-Ao ~ tStiSFc thS pIeScu~ inoney etriu-
gency there MINNESOTA exports annuslly
about $50, 600 worth o! ginseng for the Chi
uess market. CHINESE labor on the
Louisiana sugar plantations is reported to
be uns,,isftclory :. PAPER barrels are now
made in Por; Byron, New York .JEssA-
MINE couaty, Kentucky, has a horse forty
three years old :. .Tas LINCOLN Monu-
ment a, London, Englsnd, will cost $685..
600 in gold THE Swiss are said to be
BEATING both The Freuch add Eoglish man.
n'ac'urers IN the silk ribbon trade A
WHITE deer, great novel y, was shot in
CURE county, Pennsylvania, recently. 1t
weighed leo pounds dressed THE trial
~ EDWARD ). Stokes, in New York, cost
that cry half million of dollars. and vet
he cheated the gailows IRELAND has
over a quarter of a million dogs. :. THE
General Missionary Committee of the Meth
odis' Episcopal Church, in session 10 New
York, have appropriated seven thousand
dollars for mission work in Baltimore.
VERMONT farmers are picking up 400 bush
els of potatoes 10 the acre. = WHEELING
had thirty-two deaths during the month of
October tr is said that more fine combs
are sold 10 Il;nois hln in any other State
in the Unioa. RUTH SALrRR, confined
in the Braxton county jail for insanity, set
herself on fire aud was burned to death before
any relief could begiven her THE small
pnx is prevailing - an alarming extent at
Rio do Jlneiro. ONE Of the "toughest
AID healthiest msn" 10 Sioux City, Iowa,
eats bu. one meal day, and that he cate
just before going to bed :. CONGRESS- Hall,
Saratogs; reoautly cooked $500 chickens
and 1000 eggs for breakfa t.. The dogs
killed and wounded eighteen sheep for p.
NJ. PIERCE, iu Clarke county, Virginia, re.
Gently. His loss is 800 THE reyolu-
ion In Paraguay has been suppressed
AN average of one Clubhouse per day is
burned IN Georgia by incendaries IT
costs Sll 900 per week to support the po-
lice force of Baltimore city. AN Iowa
paper tells OF maiden that made the &C.
qua:ntance of lover on the cars last week
and an hour after married him. She was
wealthy and we'll connected Mrs. MAR
GARET RILEY, of Garrett county, Mary
land, the past season, raised several heads
ofcabbage which averaged thrty-one pounds
each-- AN Iowa newspaper proclaims it.
self an "honest newspap per-" and 10 another
paragraph says, "When a man professos
honesty nowadays, keep your eye peeled
for thief "A LARGE number Of emf
grants from Illinois are arriving in Oregon.
--..THE people Of Omaha are various and
pleasantly alluded to by outsiders as Coma
hogs" "Omahosses," "Omaborribles," etc.
.--.THE Tailaha'see F2oridiam hears of
colored boy in the Centrevile ueiehborhood
being stung in the mouth by a bee last
week while eating sugar, and dying from
tina effects thereof in fifteen minutes
SENATOR SPRAGUE is said to have given
half million dollars to Mrs. SPRAGUE a.
the birth OF each of his children, two in
number. THE people of Iowa are called
upon 10 assist the unfortunate citizens Of
Osceola and Lyon counties, whose crops
were almost entirely destroyed by grasshop-
pers the past season =. "A BAR Of iron
worth 50 is worth, manufactured into horse
shoes, $40 80 table knives, $3.50; buttons
and buckles, 81 OBS springs of watches.
$3.50, 600 - The "Vigilantes" of Indiana
extend over four counties, and mum Der A.
bout . 900 members Their business is 10
hang men who don't behave Themselves.
They profess to do the work that tho courts
are too corrupt to do. A KENTUCKY pa.
per congra'ula'cs minister of the Gospel
on leaving village church with small
salary for lucrative federal Office worth
$4,000, to say nothing Of the picknys and
stealings. -. ROCKINGHAM county, Vr-
GINA, gaze the largest conservative msiori-
~ Of any county in the State at tho late O.
lection that is 2,214....A FRENcH vri.
ter has described young lady as croa-
tore that ceases to kiss gentlemen at
twelve and begins again at twenty. &C.,.
THE camphor tree perfumes the air, and It's
leaves yield the finest honey 1, often
reaches hundred feet in height, with
girth Of fly feet Tie precious gum is
found sometimes 10 layers az largo az
mans arm, but more frequently in email
fragments, extracted with sharp pointed in-