South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-11-07


CALIFORNIA pays 500, OO0, 900 q year
to Scotland for whea, bsgs. "A MAN in
Wisconsin recently rupiured bis lungs with
lung-tes.ipg machine, and died in few
hours. IA NEW Mormon tabernacle at
Logan, Utah, is to cost $50, 900. .THxRE
are 4,l77 Odd Fellows in ths State =.
MINNEsorA's population has increased AS
600 80 far this year. u. THE cotton planting
experiment 10 California produces thou
sand bales this year -. A roUR-YEAR. OLD
little boy recently complained that bis teeth
chad trod on his tongue" Poor boy Just
wait until they get to achiug-.hsn, you
can complain PUMPKIN pie sociables
are Minnesota Institution. :. THERE are
nine Chinese students in he,aiichigau Uni
versity. IA sLcEp potato rubbed over
an old painting oleanses it. ;. .THE n.tiou-
al founding hospital q. Moscow, Russia,
costs Ave millions q year, and has in its
care 10000 babies. AN old woman in
Opelousas, L., who has been robbed by
two masked men Of $1,000, and forced to
make some coffee for the thieves, droppsd'a
dose Of stryonins in their cups and got her
money back 1T is stated that twenty.
seven steamers are waiting at China to
bring Cinnamon to America TO the number
of 90 600. :. WHEN doctor takes poison
by installing the vial and kills himself as
Dr.. PEoK did in Westches.sr County, New
York, last week, il is high time for drug
gists aud ply siciaus, as we'll IS families, to
be moro cautious in the designation Of bot
ties and papers in which poisons are put up.
-. THE death Of KING JOHN of Saxony,
which occurred at the royal chateau at Pill.
mtg, near Dresden, on the 29th ult., ends
the career of q virtuous ruler and one of the
most accomplished literary men Of Europe.
Ia HURRICANE visited Florida, recent
ly and damaged Fort Jefferson to the ex-
tent of Sl00, 900. ;. IT is fact worthy Of
being noted that Government bonds are now
higher in the great European money mar
kets than they were before the late panic.
.-.CHrCAao is smelling and refining $780,
600 Of silver per month, and this she has
coined regularly and pays out for currency.
...CoM.VANDERBILT lost twenty millions
by tho late panic i'll stocks ALL the shos
factories of Utica, New York, have been
closed, with no immediate prospects Of their
recovering. :. The gold coinage at the mint
as Philadelphia in October amounted to
sll,0lO,0OO in double eagles. The gold
weighed 80 tons. "A PIN, swallowed
year ago by young lady in Franklin,
Kansas, lately came out through her left
eye, entirely; destroying the sight. "A
SOUTHERN editor says Of rival that be
was pulled before be was ripe. A PEACH
tree, 10 Missouri, on being transplan ed to
a new soil, is reported to have taken TO pro-
duciug white plums. Two old and we'll
known citizens Of Augusta county, Virgin.
ia, Colonel FRANKLIN MCCUE, sgad 7S,
and JOHN SHUEY, aged 73, died last week.
DURING the quarter ended Septe N Der
30, 1873, there arrived at the port Of New
York 68 ,5S8 immigrants, Of whom SO ,6l3
were males and &c, 975 females. "A MAN
10 Oswego was fined $3.50 for rubbing boil
ed potatoes in bis wife's hair. IT. MICH
oLAs DOYLE, Of Oneida, New York, became
jealous Of bis wife whilo at ST. Johns, New
Brunswick, few days ago, and by way Of
remedying matters, drew q pistol in the o.
pen street and shot her dead, and then him.
self. THERE arc l0S theological semina-
ries in the United States, with 1851 stu.
denn 10 attendance. .THs United States
mint at Carson, California, is coming about
81 100000 per month 10 gold AN OF
weighing 1, 500 pounds is on exhibition Of
the Georgia State Fair. He camo from
Tennessee. EMIGRATION commissioners
are to be expelled from Germany A
FOND father in Philadelpbis, believing bis
son to have an able intellect, resolved that
the JouDg man should make bis living With
books, aud left him ct bis death a S65. 900
library. The books have begun to yield
the noble youth 8 living already, for be
sold the lot the other day for s13, OOO....
Snow 10 portions Of Wisconsin is two feet
deep, and the sleighinR is fue. At Green
Bay the snow isl foo: deep and more, and
sleigbS are running lively. In Oshkosh
the snow in drifts is three feet deep. d. . AT
the recent election in Iowa, ten women
we're elected County Supsrintendents NJ