South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-02-07
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nrmont I-'rgjnidn reports eight


Baltimore in 1872. - EUROPE consumes
200, 000 600 pounds Of tea annually .---
CuLoRAL, in the opinion Of the French
doctors, Is os sure a poison as strychniue
- The costs Judge HARRISON was re-
quirod 70 pay in the lato contest with
Judge LEWIS, were 1884. so. :. THERE
are twenty SIX bias, furnaces in Mary land
..-.S. Il. CoNovER, Republican, has
been chosen United States Senator from
Florida. SENATOR CAMERoN's head is
frosted with the snow Of seventy -four win
ters. Two incendiaries were hanged at
Arrow Il eek, Mo-, by y mob on Wednes-
day. ... Mr.. JACOB NoFsINGER, an old
citizen Of Bofctour', living near Fincastle
died on the 21th Mt, IN the 9lst year Of
his age. THE Kansas Legislature has
four female clcfks-two in each Of the
Houses. a RICH Turk recently gave
$50 600 for beautiful Crcassian girl
Tue public charities Of London amount TO
over S3J, 900 0O0, every GEAR But two
members cf the California Legislature
were born in the State Mrs. GEORGE
FRANCIS Train refused to bail her hus-
band out of Jail Her head Is round and
level. SEo knows him. some harden
cd thief stole the oil Competing from the NJ .
+ Church at Cherlcstown, last week
ONLY ono person in sixty-six is comforta-
bic in Engiaud Comfortable means 5000
a year. The trial Of Senator PoMERoY
on the charge Of attempting to bride mem
bcrs @; the Kansas Legislature has been
Pu' I'll until juno. He appeared before
the D.strict Court Of T,pcka on Friday
last, and gave bail in $4,000 for his ap.
pearnncr at the June term Of Tic Court.
GAIT v. HARRISON, formerly Of Win
chester and a soliier in the Confederate
army, ~. after the war engaged as clerk
10 tic house Of c. j Rouss, New York
was found murdered near Fort Adams, Il.
last week He was, at the time Of his
death, al enlisted soldier in the Fifth u.
5. Artillery, and when hc left the Fort, had
about So on his person Ma. SAMUEL
WARNER, near Narksviiic, in Page county,
lost, last week, four hogs aud one cow
from hydrophobia. They had been bitten
some weeks ago 10y mad dog running
through he ctuntIy- THE late census
give, the cash value Of farms in Psnnsyl-
wanna at over one hundred thousand mil.
lions q doilaTs.-..h CLINTON On. W
student found himself largely in debt q.
tho end NJ the term, so he packed his cloths
ia q barrel ami s-nt them as far as Utica
By caual bat. He then filed his trunk
with hay, and his creditors levied an oxe-
cnuon upon 1t at the depot. The student
looked on with grim satisfaction. :. john
JAMES INGALLS,, just elected United States
Senator from Kansas, in place Of PoMERoY,
IS native OF Massachusetts,. STRAININ0
honey is what they call it in New Iersey
when fellow hugs bis sweetheart. The
honey likes It, too. e. IGNORANCE and la
ziucSs did the husnes fur the collred ca
det, SAMUEL GIrHs, son Of the Secretary
OF State of Florida. \ few days ago, he
was sent away from West Point in disgrace
The French Merno sheep are said to
be much lsrgcr than American Merinoes
TIE htcsi question in natural history is
whether G.h can hear. SETH GREEN thinks
they cannot. A WOMAN iu Baltimore,
only nineteen, has been three times widow
cd within two gears. SIDNEY RIGpON,
said ~ be the author Of the Mormon bible,
IS dead THERE arc now at the Univer.
si'y Of Virginia $50 students against $50
the samo time last session The falling
of in the numbers has been principally
from Georgia and Kentucky. .NEBRAs-
IA has 5000 Indians too lazy to work
steal or die, and the authorities think Of
Offering some kind Of a reward for an cpl
demc that will sweep them off into the
happy hunting grounds . THE cultiva-
ton Of cotton IS exciting quite an interest
over the Safe &c California. IL has been
determined that 300 pounds to tho acre is
an average yield IA GERMAN prince in
\ dream, saw three rats-one fat, another
lean, aud q third blind lie sent FOR \
learned B.hcmipu Gipsey TO interpret the
dream. "The fat rat, she answered, "is
your prime munster, toe lean rat i your
people, md the hlini rat is yourself.
LOUISVILLE legal wisdom decided, tie o.
Their day, that the best way to settle case
tina; came into court was to give both par
ties hearing and multiply tho evidence
of ooch by Tho other. subtract the orin
ions cf The audience from tho whole and
divide the remainder by ,hs number Of
poac' warrants on tho docket. 80. Cor.
HrNGT Miller, an esteemed citizen Of
Rrck.rghru county Va, died on the 23rd
u.t... THE decision by 'he Court &C Ap
peei. of Maryland ja 'he c1se # DAVIS,
convicted in tic Washington County
Z. ur' Iralrly far tbo murder n ABRAHAM
bfEN 0ls t..u announced Tile ruling.
. 20 .ua ...-. below llye been sHfucd h7
ibo rur a' Appeals. and D,vis VII be
sent c,I '1 he executed ~ the approach
IUs Match term Of tbo Washington Coun-
" N.ur ...Tur Smallpox hos disap-
Pcrr.i from EaesuFbam unity. To.
TAO Tayw-uH t.e Treasury Department