South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-09-12
VS. OF THE DAY

As-~'~NA = SAS . II Nv fs.NDl oOhNeON Is INC
only surviving member Of General TAY-
LoR's cabinet lis Waco, Texas, good
ponies are selling al prices ranging from
$40 to S25. DAN RICE wants 10 be Gov
ernor Of PeDusy lvania .WINTERHALTER
the painter, left a fortune of $500, 900. %.
New Orleans minufac,ures nineteen mil
lion cigars every year. =. IowA's new cap
itol is to be built OF Minnesota granite, aud
to cost 81, 600 900. D.. .SlxrY thousand peo-
pie have settled 10 Texas from the North
aud Europein the past six mouths. There's
immigration for you. . . APPEARANCES are
that purple will be the prevailing color in
street costumes this season, Just as brown
was last spring aud rih,-grecn last winter.
AN Iowa man has just been arrested
for stealing honey twenty one years ago..
y PURE white vinegar can b, made, it is
said, from the juice OF watormelons. "A
LARGE quantity of "raz,r stone" has just
been discovered in Schoiaire county, New
York, said to be superior to the Turkish
hone for sharpening purposes. HORSES
and politicians are reported to rule at a
bout ten dollars a head in Texas. Who
says the purchasing power of money is de-
creasiGg ?. PuILETUs SAWYER, Congress
uan from Illinois, denies that hs commit.
ted suicide. lie is too lofty top-sawyer
for that. Would as soon think of return
ing his back pay. RECENT geological sur
veys of the new Territories of the Far West
have revealed the very important fact that
the known coal deposits of the Rocky Noun
tain region extend over an area of upward
of 250, 900 square miles, in strata varying
from five to thirty-fve feet in thickness
49,. AN Iowa railroad is said to own seven
Senators, though it pays no dividend on
ia en-. ONE Of the most curious features
of the Yellowstone region is to be found in
the hot3 springs. Ga the border Of the
Yellowstone Like are often to be seen ele-
waited mounds, which jut out from the
shore iuto the water Tuese contain pools
filed with heated water, so that it is posi-
bic for person stan ling on the mound to
catch trout in the lake with the help of
fishing rod, AMI to cook them in the boil
ing spring without taking them of the hook.
-. EDWARD MOORE, who was arrested at
Owasso, Michigan, on the 1lth ulrimo,
charged with poisoning his mother in law,
Mrs. WURTEMBURG, and causing her death,
committed suicide at tho county jail in
Coruna on Friday night last. i. . BAKER &
Co., of Winchester, have Just completed
and put in operation a steam hJuTing mill
of the capacity of one hundred barrels of
-four day. IAN old lady from the coun-
try, with six unmarried daughters, went
into Augusta, Georgia, the other day, hunt
ing for the Patrons of Husbandry. She
meant business. =. Miss SADIE CRAFT,
who was scalped by shaft in a mill at
Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, while ago, is
getting along nicely. The scalp has been
tanned "wiih the hair on" that it may be
used as q wig when she RECEIVERS. =. .CuAs.
! a. LAMONT, prominent member Of the
Board Of Brokers" Of n. Y fell from the 3rd
story Of lis residence in 9Th avenue, Satur-
day night last, and was killed 4. SIX
deaths from cholera n ST. Louis last week,
eight at Murfresboro', and Eve at Jonesbo-
ro'. II IS spreading through the low grounds
west Of the Illinois Central railroad near
the Mississippi river .CoTToN seed, which
formerly was waste and worthless to the
producer, now brings from nine to ten dol
lars per ton to make oil. The six cotton
factories at Columbus, Georgia, afford en-
plOymont and support to three thousand
persons. There was frost Sunday night
at number Of places throughout Illinois
and iowa, but so far as heard from not suf-
fcieot to do any material damage. - b.
SHOP Mounts, senior Bishop of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church in this country, is
said 20 be hopelessly III at his home in
Springfield, Ohio. TIE latest Utah sea-
saiiou is the discovery Of a lead mine,
where hey are taking out nuggets Of pure
lead WEIGHING FROM four to seven tors, with
in ci5ht feet Ct the surface TIE Japa.
ncsc Government is anxious to have for.
oigucrs residing in tho country made amen
able 10 Tie laws of Jspan. Although the
island empire has made some progress in
civilization, iis code is too barberous yet
for Western people. Grabbers have their