South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-06-06
NE VS. OF THE DAY.

OF strange disease IN numbers, the
sexes arc very nearly equal in the United
States: males 10 .439 sos, females Is, 064,-
hundred THOUSAND new publications were
issued in Germany. THOMAS b. NEW
NAN, Buffalo miser, died in abject want
last week, leaving s250.000 .Ex.Gov-
ERNoR WISE, of Virginia, declines to run
for GOverDlr on either the republican or
conservative ticket. Poor New Orleans !
Ills cursed with almost as many plauges as
fell upon Egypt. KELLOGG, LONGsTREET
martial law, negro militia, and now cholera.
"A THREE year old colt was lately sold,
at Tlcouderoga, New York, for 81, 500.
A FARMER in the San Joaquin Valley,
California, has thiriy-eight thousand a
ores of wheat, AMI this, too, upon his own
land -. OF the women in the United
States, $50 are doctors, "A dentists, law
yers, and So preachers. a LADY nine
tysix years old, in New Hampshire, is
suffering from wbooping cough and teeth
ing at the same time :. A DIFFICULTY
occurred between MIKE G.. HARTMAN, son
Of Major john 4. HARTMAN, of Staunton,
and john CRIrzER, at Mount Sidney, Va,
on Saturday. HARTMAN shot CRlTzER in
The wrist and forehead, the latter shot
gIaucing. CRITzER is not seriously injur-
cd - AMONG the European cures, or roy
al roads to health, are the mud bath, the
whey cure, goats mix, the grape cure, and
mares milk. Mr. BEECHER's salary as
pastor Of Plymouth Church was 81 500 in
1917, and is $4,000 now. The member.
ship has increased in the same time from
Fl TO $500. TIE courts Of Missouri
have decided that debts contracted on Sun
day are legal. The number of volumes
OF law reports that have been printed in
New York since 1874 Is over 1000 which
is four times greater than the entire mum
Der which have been issued in Eoglaud
within a space of five hundred years. -.
WISCONSIN has a curiosity in female
hound which kills all her puppies by drown
ing them. She takes them down 10 the
water, coaxes them 10 beyond their strength
and then leaves them TO drown. In one
instance she was seen to hold one Of her pup
pies under water with her feet until dead
80. CINCINNATI runs q public park at an
expense of two thousand dollars a week,
summer and winter ALL the persons
charged with conspiracy in resisting the
Kellogg usurpation at S.. Martinsville,
Louisiana, have been found not guilty. =.
A FIRE at Baltimore on Sunday morning
last destroyed the chemical works of Frank
Siingluff& ca. Loss $50 900. Insurance
S42, 900. FORTY thousand passports have
been issued by the State Department so far
Pennsylvania have closed since the election
on the license question. - CARL SCHURZ 5
wife his come into possession Of legacy
Of $4,000 left her by an uncle 10 Ger.
many. JAMES Il. CLAY, grandson of
HENRY CLAY has forwarded to Regent
BOWMAN, for the museum at Ashland
Kentucky, the coat which the statesman
wore at the Treaty of Client, 10 18Th 1t
is elegantly wrought aud trimmed with silk
and braid IA New Orleans church had
baby show to raise money to pay the pas
tor MAN proposes. Fifteen years ago,
II is said, Kentucky man bought a coffin
for himself, considering it handy thing to
have in the house. Last week be was to-
tally consumed 10 lime kiln, ard the cof
fin IS dead loss, with tho interest OF the
origin ] cos, iucllled d. JOE WooDs, col
ored, brutHlIy outraged the person Of Mrs.
ELIZABETH HAMPTON, a wild wed white
woman, near Versailles, Rutherford coun-
ty, Tennessee, a day or two since, and af-
forwards crushed her skull with an axe
WooDs is in prison, and there are strong
threats Of lynching il the woman dies,
which j, highly probable. SENATOR BAY.
ARD, Of Delaware, will deliver the annual
GRAFTON ttbe University Of Virginia on The
2nd Of July. DALLAS, Texas, is gaining
IN poPuh'iop a. tho rate Of 900 per month.
..-.A GENTLEMAN 10 Alexandris, Virgin
"a, has lost over one hundred chickens this
season from The chicken cholera. TIE
potato bug has made IT, appearance in some
OF The g'rdenssrourd Hagerstowu. Where
no potatoes arc 70 be fousd it goes actively
% work Du tomato plauts. WINNIE REANt